Community Work, Social Work
Green and Postmodern
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10896153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maggie Lane (The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-341 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjsw.a011216 |
| OpenAlex | W2012359448 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Opening with a story about community work, this paper explores developments and challenges in social and political theory and the implications for social work, particularly for collective practices. Feminism, postmodernism and green political theory are of particular interest. The paper argues for an interpretive approach to practice which emphasizes the local and specific, yet aspires to broader political action in the pursuit of social and ecocentric justice. Feminism has much to contribute to this exercise, challenging, as it does, a modern/postmodern divide. The emerging discourse of ecofeminism offers a synthesis of social and ecocentric purposes and values as a basis for tackling inequalities, whilst postmodern feminists enlighten our understanding of difference and encourage us to renounce certainty and last proofs
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feminism · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Postmodernism in Literature and Education · Social Work Education and Practice
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |