A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and
social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and AJ Withers explore …

The consolidation of the social work profession in Canada was critical to the settler colonial
project. Parallel to the rise of the modern police force, the accounting bureaucracy, and the …

Although social justice is a central professional value of social work articulated in ethics
codes, clinical social workers have been long criticized for not clearly incorporating this …

Gerontological Social Work in Action introduces" anti-oppression gerontology"(AOG), a
critical approach to social work with older adults, their families, and communities. AOG …

Positivist epistemologies have been argued to advance learning and interventions to
improve the health of multiply marginalized and colonized people; however, these long …

There are significant inherent challenges in teaching students about structural racism
resulting from white supremacist systems but overcoming these challenges leads to better …

Using a poly-vocal approach, this piece calls for the interruption and interrogation of
narrative therapy's colonial associations (White & Epston, 1990), and the cooption of …

The article argues for an inclusion of Indigenous knowledges, anticolonial and
contemplative frameworks in social work research, education, and practice through the …

Abstract The Council on Social Work Education made significant changes in 2022 to
integrate anti-racist practices in social work education. However, this change in the social …

This article elucidates how social work is not only constituted by cross-border processes but
also constitutes the transnational processes of bordering within the territorial boundary of the …