Soft Cops or Social Justice Activists
Social Work’s Relationship to the state in the context of BLM and Neoliberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10897204 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna Baines (0000-0003-3569-0083, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 2984-3002 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcab200 |
| OpenAlex | W3207408626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 37 |
In the current dual context of Black Lives Matter/defund the police and calls for accountability to those whom social work has harmed as part of the state machinery, this article returns to the debate on state theory. The article explores three state-linked forms of care, coercion and control: stealth coercion/control (in aged-care); population-linked coercion/control, and police and carceral-linked coercion/control. The article analyses what is missing in state theory in a neoliberal world and argues that social work needs models of practice and theory that are themselves a form of resistance and relative autonomy from the state in that they challenge the oppressive state machinery while making demands on the state for equity and fairness. This model permits social work to be humble in the face of lived experience and grounded in the priorities of the community, rather than uncritically legitimising state-linked oppression and securing the ground for profit and accumulation. The article concludes that while this social justice-engaged model will be essential for those moving into the new practice contexts resulting from defunding the police, it is also a model that will serve to strengthen the relevance and integrity of all social work practice
Autonomy · Coercion (linguistics) · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Social Work Education and Practice
Moments of epistemic friction
From rhetoric to action
Recentring anti-racist practice in social work education and training in England
Parity of participation
How Covid-19 and Racial Justice Protests Influenced Social Workers’ Perceptions of Policy and Political Participation
Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and Indigenous knowledges informing the future of social work
Le travail social face à l’État carcéral
Ten-Year Development of Collaborative Social Work with Families in Complex Problem Situations in Slovenia
Between othering and recognition
The gendered effects of neoliberal management regimes
Imagining the End of Official Social Work
Job Demands, Resources and Reactions in Spanish Social Workers
Reimagining leadership in social work
Transgender and nonbinary activism among social work students in the US
The politics of community services
The Fiscal Crisis of the State
The State in Capitalist Society
The Indigenous Child Removal System in Canada
Strengthening critical allyship in social work education
Transforming social work’s potential in the field
The Will to Empower
A World to Win’
Carceral protectionism and the perpetually (in)vulnerable
The power of silence
Borrowed Time and Solidarity
The Braid That Binds Us
Moral projects and compromise resistance
Democratizing The State
Regulating Hospital Social Workers and Nurses
Social Love
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities
Making Sense of Social Work’s Troubled Past
Surveillance or Reflection
The end of social work
The Fragmentation of Social Work and Social Care
Globalization and culturally relevant social work
Centering at the Margins
The Price of Carceral Citizenship
What Is Carceral Feminism
In Search of Ordinary People
Criminologies of the Global South
Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States
The Carceral Creep
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |