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A violent history of benevolence : interlocking oppression in the moral economies of social working
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"A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative ...
"A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that contemporary social workers can know many details about social work's violences, without ever imagining that they may also be complicit in these violences. Framings of social work history actively create present-day political and ethical irresponsibility, even among those who imagine themselves to be anti-oppressive, liberal, or radical."-- Provided by publisher.
"The authors document many histories usually left out of social work discourse, including communities of Black social workers (who, among other things, never removed children from their homes involuntarily), the role of early social workers in advancing eugenics and mass confinement, and the resonant emergence of colonial education, psychiatry, and the penitentiary in the same decade. Ultimately, A Violent History of Benevolence aims to invite contemporary social workers and others to reflect on the complex nature of contemporary social work, and specifically on the present-day structural violences that social work enacts in the name of benevolence."-- Provided by publisher.
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- Chris Chapman, A.J. Withers
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- English
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- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019
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- 1 online resource
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- 9781442625082, 1442625082, 9781442637313, 1442637315, 9781442628861, 1442628863, 9781442637313
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- on1089195574
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover; Page i; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Social Working, Interlocking Oppression, and Moral Economies; A Brief Discussion of Some Indigenous Social Workings on This Land; Organization and Structure of A Violent History of Benevolence; Part One: Deconstructing Social Work and Social Work History; 1 Troubling the Standard Account of Social Work; The Standard Account; The Pull of the Other Side of the River; Charity Organization Societies: Beyond Friendly Visiting to the Poor; Settlement Houses and Jane Addams; The New "Social Work."
- What the Established Riverbanks ObscureContemporary Charity Organization and the Continued Polarity of the Riverbanks; "Mingling" as Continued Solution to Structural Violence; Conclusion; 2 White Supremacy and the Erasure of Racialized Social Workers; Social Work History as White Social Work History; Black Churches: Bestowing Charity and Organizing for Change; "Separate Spheres" and Women's Clubs; The Great Migration: Migrant Assistance and the Shift towards Black Incarceration; Black Settlement Houses; Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Anti-Lynching; Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- White Social Work and Anti-LynchingMaggie L. Walker and the Independent Order of St Luke; The Social Work Profession, Social Science, and Education; Black Social Work in Canada; Settlements in Canada; Anti-Slavery Societies and Black Immigrant Assistance; Social Services; Class Stratification and How It Interlocked with Racism and Social Work; Early Women Social Workers and Gender Roles; Subjugated Community-Based Social Workings Beyond Black and White; Conclusion; 3 Social Work as Displacement, Denigration, Cisheteropatriarchalization
- Professional Social Work as the Delegitimization of Local Practices and PeopleCentring Imperialist Displacement; Decentring Ruling Class White Exceptionality; Cisheteropatriarchalization as an Advancing White Ruling Class Moral Economy; Early Professional Social Work and Cisheteropatriarchy; The Ethic of the Healing Power of Domination and Imagined Moral Superiority; An Initial Shift in the Ethic of Relating Across Difference: The Knights Hospitaller; Claims of Relative Innocence, Part One: Progressive and Secular Dividing Practices
- Claims of Relative Innocence, Part Two: Knowing It Was WrongConclusion; Part Two: Interlocking Genealogies of the Ethic of the Healing Power of Domination and Imagined Moral Superiority; 4 Knowing Better: Liberalism, Instrumental Violence, and Making New Humans; What We Like to Say; What We Actually Do; Claims of Relative Innocence, Part Three: Interpreting Others' Motivations; Further Standardizing Instrumental Violence: The Theresian Criminal Constitution; Kant's Enlightened Morality: Rational Self-Assurance and the Birth of the "New Man."