RT Article
T1 The subjection and spectacle of social work: deconstructing and reckoning with social work’s power of policing
JF Social work, white supremacy, and racial justice
SP 521
OP 535
A1 Rangel, Michael
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/192525710X
AB Social work has been an integral part of the carceral state in utilizing power, control, and discipline in service to others. The societal problems social work so diligently works to end persist, because there has been no investigation to interrogate and transform the field from within. Recently, social workers have been prompted to collaborate with—or even replace—police, but social workers’ engagement in punitive and disciplinary practices has only deepened the relationship between the two. This chapter argues that American professional social work has complicitly created, sustained, and expanded the carceral state. Incorporating critical theory, cultural studies, and feminist methodologies, this chapter promotes an engagement beyond current understanding of knowledge production and philosophies of care, sociality, and carcerality. Social work must build, imagine, and actualize the abolishment of the carceral state to then root the profession in a fabrication of an entirely different social work/ing.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 535
SN 9780197641422
K1 deconstruct
K1 Subjection
K1 spectacle
K1 Power
K1 Social Work
K1 White Supremacy
K1 Alternatives
K1 Policing