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International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict provides an important basis for readers to recognise and understand the unique and specialist role that social workers have played and continue to play in international contexts of political conflict.

This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. It will be of interest to scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including those in social work and social policy, sustainability, economics, agriculture and environmental studies.

This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. It enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens.

The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work and research develop in 'advanced' welfare states - countries where public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP.

This book contributes to the development of new knowledge in social work by bringing a critical realist perspective in a wide range of disciplinary fields.

In this book, social work educators and theorists from around East and Southeast Asia provide accounts of the social work programmes within the higher education systems of their respective countries and compare them to those of their neighbours.

This books fills a gap in the existing literature by providing analysis of international practice methods which can be used by developing countries to develop their own professional and educational infrastructures.

This book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be seen as influencing professional practices to promote personalisation, participation, empowerment, recovery and resilience.

This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. Interdisciplinary approaches bring together cutting edge scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa and Sweden.

This is the first book ever to be published on arts use in social work. Bringing together theoretical connections between arts and social work, and with practice examples of arts in micro and macro social work practice from around the world, the book aims to inspire the reader with new ideas.

This book contributes to the development of new knowledge in social work by bringing a critical realist perspective in a wide range of disciplinary fields. The chapters show how critical realism as a theory of science may contribute to a more useful and realistic approach to both research and practice in social work.

This book considers concepts of citizenship and social justice from a variety of contemporary perspectives, inviting readers to consider the complex relationships between love and justice, the battle for social equality and individual ways in which citizenship and social justice is perceived through culture, media and the arts.

Bringing intersectionality to the forefront of social work within a Black feminist framework this book is concerned with practice and action that transgresses boundaries of race, religion and citizenship, to invoke the idea of social work without borders. It offers a unique, sustained critical analysis of the psychological impact of oppressive social structures from diverse range of international standpoints and will appeal to all those concerned by inequality and injustice in social work as well as those with research interests gender studies, race and ethnicity and sociology.

This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. It enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. It is argued that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work.

The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work and research develop in `advanced¿ welfare states ¿ countries where public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP. While such countries have traditionally been associated with Scandinavian countries in particular, and North-Western Europe more generally, there are other countries where the public spend on welfare is relatively high.

This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. Interdisciplinary approaches bring together cutting edge scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa and Sweden. Major environmental, social and cultural issues are explored, developing an epistemology of situated knowledge and methodologies in order to examines how social work has responded to specific social problems, crises and vulnerabilities in a glocalised world. It proposes `glocalisation¿ as a useful concept for re-framing conditions and practices for social work in a world perspective.

This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and conceptual clarification as well as distinct reflections on its practical directions. The book will be of interest to scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including those in social work and social policy, sustainability, economics, agriculture and environmental studies.

This book endeavours to explore and depict the myriad shades of social work as conceptualised and practised in different parts of the world. It makes a modest attempt at examining and critically analysing some of the current social work issues and policy drivers.

This book challenges the idea of the nation state as a given entity and argues that globalization, new media as well as an increasing number of people crossing borders must have an impact on the theories and strategies of social work. With cases covering China, France, India, UK, Germany, Morocco, Malaysia, Israel and Turkey, it highlights the challenges as well as the opportunities this new perspective can open up for theories and strategies in social work. Intended for students, researchers and social workers interested in migration, social care, poverty and cultural competency in health and social care.

This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Containing an international selection of contributions, it is an important reference for all social work researchers with an interest in critical perspectives.