Selma Macfarlane, PhD has been involved in social work education for 20 years, primarily
as a Lecturer at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria. She has publications in the areas of …

During the past ten years the terms public sociology, civil society, and governance have
been used with increasing frequency to describe a wide array of political and social …

Some argue that postcolonial theory has reached a dead end and it is time to move> beyond
postcolonial theory=(See Hardt and Negri; San Juan). Robert Fraser provides more nuance …

Social work is a contested tradition, torn between the demands of social governance and
autonomy. Today, this struggle is reflected in the division between the dominant, neoliberal …

The question of education for democratic 'empowerment and liberation', and how this might
guide pedagogic practice is seldom raised and extremely challenging for social work …

Cette Contribution à une économie politique de l'émancipation a pour objet d'étude les
institutions de trois projets émancipateurs: le projet d'autonomie de Cornélius Castoriadis, le …

It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to
repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of …

This article examines the vexed question of the state, civil society and emancipation. After
criticising the Liberal perspective on state and civil society, it outlines and considers the two …

The objective of this thesis is to provide a theoretical analysis and conceptual history of the
most significant instances of convergence between'anarchist'and'Marxist'political ideas and …

In advancing the political project of autonomy, Castoriadis raises the fundamental question:
what ought we to think? Following an interpretation of his elucidation of the connections …