On Your Marx…? A World to Win or the Dismantlement of a Profession? On Why We Need a Reckoning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18009448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joe Whelan (0000-0001-6793-5722, University College Cork, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1168-1181 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-17 |
| 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/bcab132 |
| OpenAlex | W3177400184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 24 |
This essay adds to the debate started by Chris Maylea, who called for ‘an end to social work’, and subsequently joined by Paul Michael Garrett, who offered a riposte to Maylea’s call, whilst also illustrating the possibility of ‘dissenting social work’. Whilst not constructed as a direct response to either, this essay does engage with each and enters similar territory in the hope of extending the debate. The main thrust of what is presented here then suggests that rather than dismantling the profession and before imagining a new social work paradigm, we would do well to examine how social work is currently defined and whether or not this definition is reflective of contemporary social work practice, particularly in the liberal welfare states of the anglosphere. Effectively, I argue that it is not and that this is evident through what I term ‘the unfulfilled promise of social justice’. On this basis, I want to argue for a more expansive understanding of social work as an act of reclamation that challenges how social work has become ensconced within repressive state apparatuses. In doing so, I suggest that we should move to ‘reclaim’ our radical roots by turning to ‘ideas lying around’
Aesthetics · Dissenting opinion · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Expansive · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Work (physics) · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Philosophy · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Parity of participation
Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty
‘Two sides of the one coin’
National Registration for Social Workers
The utilization of the concept of profession to understand social problems
Clown-based Social Work as Dissent in Child Protection Practice
In Search of Social justice-informed Services
Imagining the End of Official Social Work
Listen Very Carefully, We Will Say This Only Once (Again)’ Dead Ends to Politicisation in Social Work
A Sociological Reading of Statutory Social Work and Irish Corporate Governmentality
Neurodiversity, Social Work, and Social Justice
The Politics of Social Work
Radical social work in practice
Social Work Practices
Social Work Practice Under Capitalism
Reclaiming Social Work
A World to Win’
Covid-19
The end of social work
The definition of social work in the United Kingdom, 2000–2010
Social Work Theories and Methods
New Probation
Disruptive Social Work
Poverty-Aware Social Work
The end of social work
Notes on the Form of Knowledge in Social Work
Response to Greene 2001, Redefining Social Work
Redefining Social Work for the New Millennium
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |