Canonical critiques and geopolitical shifts: Addressing the neoliberalism/collective dichotomy in social work
This article problematizes the disciplinary ‘black-boxing’ of the concept of neoliberalism, and the concomitant idealization of community as antidote, within social work scholarship. Our central claim is that an oppressive neoliberalism/authentic community dichotomy cannot adequately represent the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Social Work & Society
2023-10-01
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Series: | Social Work and Society |
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Online Access: | https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/837 |
Summary: | This article problematizes the disciplinary ‘black-boxing’ of the concept of neoliberalism, and the concomitant idealization of community as antidote, within social work scholarship. Our central claim is that an oppressive neoliberalism/authentic community dichotomy cannot adequately represent the major problems and solutions facing state-sponsored social work today. We argue that the thought behind ‘neoliberalism’ is much more complex and nuanced than is widely assumed, and that making this complexity visible provides a means of developing forms of critique crucial to addressing the contemporary problems of increasingly illiberal societies.
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ISSN: | 1613-8953 |