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Communovirus: ethical community for social work in a ‘post’-COVID world
Get PDFThe chapter explores the prospects of a radically revitalised ethics of community for social work from a communitarian perspective, drawing on the influential writings of Jean Luc Nancy. It focuses on how community - in its making and renewal - as ‘being-in-common’ can offer more meaningful engagement with service users if social work attends to and extends care, inclusion and prevention from an ethical standpoint. It asks how we can appeal to an ethics that is not always gestural but can have significant impacts at a national and international level. The chapter offers a critique of prevailing liberal conceptions of social work ethics considering COVID-19 and calls for a ‘great reset’ by our international professional organisations, such as IFSW and IASSW.</p
“They live like animals”: migrants, Roma and national populism
No full textHow do social workers negotiate the difficult terrain of an emergent nationalist populism and how do they unravel the ethical and often deeply politicised dilemmas this poses in the face of insurgent far-right movements? The tensions and dilemmas are particularly acute when case working with migrants, refugees and Roma people. Here social workers are often involved in “bordering practices” and as gatekeepers faced with stark ethical dilemmas and politically nuanced tensions. Immigration raises cultural and security concerns as well as fears of economic displacement, and it weakens the legitimacy of transnational institutions This chapter shows how much of the populist hatred and violence towards Roma and migrants - a dehumanising strategy - is conveyed through visceral representations of disgust, filth and dirt. Moreover, social work as a form of negative protection is increasingly securitised and entangled with populist drives for ‘useful’ and ‘economically active’ citizenship which is prejudicially juxtaposed against images of dirty and lazy people
Cidadania mediada: processos de democratização da política municipal no Brasil
Get PDFO artigo discute a noção de que a persistência de práticas políticas "tradicionais" enfraquece a democracia no Brasil. Com base em estudos de caso realizados em três municípios administrados pelo PT entre 2001 e 2004 - São Paulo, Porto Alegre e Itabuna (BA) -, o autor examina o espaço entre o "tradicional" e o "moderno" e argumenta que um processo de democratização bem-sucedido não erradica práticas como o clientelismo e a patronagem, mas tende a incorporá-las e a edificar-se a partir delas. Sustenta ainda que a democratização da política municipal em países como o Brasil está inextricavelmente ligada à redução da pobreza e à implantação de uma efetiva rede pública de assistência social.This article discusses the notion that the persistence of "traditional" political practices weakens Brazil's democracy. Drawing on the cases of three Brazilian municipalities administered by the Workers' Party (PT), the author examines the space between "traditional" and "modern" and argues that successful democratization does not eradicate practices such as clientelism and patronage, but it tends to incorporate and build on these traditional political elements. Moreover, the article maintains that the democratization of municipal politics is inextricably bound up with the eradication of poverty and the construction of a responsive, state-based social safety net
Citizenship, populism and social work in the Finnish welfare state
No full textThis chapter ties together discussions of citizenship and social work practice in the context of growing populist and neoliberal political trends in Finland. These political trends are manifested in populist right-wing nationalist movements on the one hand, and in the neoliberal dismantling of the welfare state on the other. Both political trends – right-wing nationalist populism and neoliberalism – tend to separate people into two groups: those who are ‘deserving’ and those who are ‘undeserving’. Simultaneously, the dynamics of globalisation have radically changed nation states and their traditional concepts of citizenship and related social rights. There is thus a need to redefine the understanding of an emancipatory idea of citizenship as connected to human rights, because nation states are dividing their residents into various groups that are not offered equal social rights; their human rights as determined by international conventions are therefore not protected. Emancipatory citizenship efforts face resistance from contemporary populist political movements. This situation is paradoxical as right-wing nationalist populist political movements also base their political mandate on an underprivileged group of people, namely those living in fragile life situations within the nation state. Social work practice has conventionally been determined by national contexts due to differences in social work traditions, social systems, social problems and cultures. Social work practice must now also be seen in relation to the current political climate, and the authors argue that the social work profession must become a human rights profession and adopt the ethics of social workers.peerReviewe
"They live like animals": migrants, Roma and nationalist populism
Get PDFHow do social workers negotiate the difficult terrain of an emergent right-wing nationalist populism and how do they unravel the ethical and often deeply politicised dilemmas this poses in the face of insurgent far-right movements? The tensions and dilemmas are particularly acute when case working with migrants, refugees and Roma people. Here social workers are often involved in ‘bordering practices’ and as gatekeepers faced with stark ethical dilemmas and politically nuanced tensions. Immigration raises cultural and security concerns as well as fears of economic displacement, and it weakens the legitimacy of transnational institutions This chapter shows how much of the populist hatred and violence towards Roma and migrants – a dehumanising strategy – is conveyed through visceral representations of disgust, filth and dirt. Moreover, social work as a form of negative protection is increasingly securitised and entangled with populist drives for ‘useful’ and ‘economically active’ citizenship which is prejudicially juxtaposed against images of dirty and lazy people
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Post-pandemic social work and the death of neoliberalism
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic in conjunction with ecological, financial and political crises foregrounds the inadequacies and failures of neoliberal modes of governance that have become the bedrock of polities around the globe. The pandemic highlighted that most governments were not able to protect the health and wellbeing of their citizens bringing into full public view an astonishing discrepancy between governmental claims and experienced events. As a result, political leaders were scrambling to re-define the role of the state as guarantor of social welfare, to re-create a sense of humanitarian solidarity, and to re-invent the commons amidst threadbare, marketised health and social care. Ultimately, a sizeable segment of vulnerable ‘consumers’ was left without a protective safety net. And while communities rallied, providing much-needed social support to vulnerable citizens, national governments appeared to be ‘missing in action’. This chapter traces the tension between the neoliberal administration of health and welfare and the social imaginary of safety that underpins public opinion outlining socio-political currents that are transforming neoliberalism. The chapter argues that this tension translates into a new challenge for social work to ‘re-cognise’ that the neoliberal dogma, albeit incrementally changing, still permeates current human services approaches and our own thinking and to become aware of new possibilities. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble; individual chapters, the contributors
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