Austerity and social work in Europe: listening to the voices of resistance

Ioakimidis, Vasilios; Martinez-Herrero, Ines; Yanardağ, Umut; Bennett, Colette Farrugia; Teloni, Dora

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“…The idea of resistance developed by social workers around the world also provides a crucial approach to understanding, from a critical perspective, the role that social workers can perform in the Chilean context. Chilean social work can learn not only from its history, but also from the current struggles of other social workers around the world (see, e.g., Calhoun et al, 2014; Cuskelly, 2013; Ioakimidis et al, 2013; Sewpaul, 2013, among others). A counter-hegemonic idea of citizenship can be exercised by social workers through the interpretation, revision and adaptation of social policies in practice, challenging the orientation of such policies through methodological innovations, including the knowledge of service users, expressing dissent or keeping silent, among many other subtle yet radical forms of resistance.…”

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Critical social work and the promotion of citizenship in Chile

Arce

2016

International Social Work

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Drawing upon the findings of my doctoral research, this article examines social workers’ understanding and interventions related to the promotion of citizenship in Chile. The study involved documentary analysis and 26 semi-structured interviews with social workers who, employed by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), implemented state policy for addressing poverty and social exclusion. The findings indicate that social workers understood citizenship as the exercise of individual rights mainly. At the same time, strategies employed by some social workers to oppose resistance to such neoliberal reworking of citizenship were identified. Suggestions are made with respect to the development of Chilean social work from a critical perspective.

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Critical social work and the promotion of citizenship in Chile

Arce

2016

International Social Work

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“…No se problematiza la posibilidad de resistencia desde orgánicas profesionales/gremiales ni se mencionan la posibilidad de crear alianzas con las/ os usuarios de los programas o con otros colectivos ante las múltiples tensiones que enfrentan. Esto es especialmente llamativo en las tensiones que tienen una raíz estructural (como la inexistencia de garantías para el cumplimiento de derechos de las/os usuarios, precarización laboral e insuficiencia de recursos materiales para implementar los programas) que, en otros contextos (Ioakimidis et al, 2013;Baines et al, 2012) han sido identificadas como motores para la emergencia de resistencias explícitas y colectivas.…”

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‘Oponerse sin perder el puesto’: tensiones y resistencias profesionales en la implementación de programas sociales en Chile

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Villalobos

Reininger

2022

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En este artículo se analizan las tensiones que enfrentan y las resistencias que ejercen las/os profesionales de primera línea en la implementación de programas sociales en Chile. Se discute conceptualmente la noción de resistencia profesional propuesta en la literatura, y a partir de los hallazgos de la primera fase de un estudio mixto secuencial –informado por 69 entrevistas cualitativas-, se identifican las principales prácticas de resistencia en el contexto chileno, las que operan principalmente en el dominio de la micropolítica. A partir de estos hallazgos, se problematizan los vínculos entre resistencia y precariedad, y desde una perspectiva histórico-contextual, se discuten las configuraciones de las resistencias profesionales en un país con alta penetración del neoliberalismo como Chile.

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“…It should also be noted that community social work has always made a major contribution to activism and policy change by addressing structural disadvantage at the grassroots. Radical social work practice in a range of fields is alive and well in many countries offering a valid response to injustice, breaches of rights and inequalities (Calhoun, Wilson and Whitmore 2014;Ioakimidis et al 2013;Lam and Tse, 2013;Moth, Greener, and Stoll, 2015;Smith, 2015). Ferguson and Lavalette (2007, p.58, 63) provide examples of social work resistance that joins with consumers -namely 'new social welfare movements' such as disability and mental health service user organisations in the U.K., and movements that act against neoliberal globalisation and the state of contemporary social work that is constrained by market-based welfare and 'moral authoritarianism'.…”

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Moral outrage: social workers in the Third Space

Fronek

Chester

2016

Ethics and Social Welfare

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Injustice is at odds with social work's mandate to promote social justice, human rights and ethical responsibility. In nations such as the UK, Australia and the US, ideologies of the far right exert strong influences on social policy. In this critical commentary, we argue that shifts from welfare states to privatisation, the return of the deserving and undeserving as 'strivers' and 'shrivers', 'lifters' and 'leaners', and policies that violate the human rights of refugees and other disenfranchised groups have activated moral outrage within the social work profession. Moral distress, ethical responsibilities and, for some, fears of complicity when unjust policies become practice, suggest that a moral response is required. A new form of online activism in a Third Space has emerged that juxtaposes traditional social work activism in ways that are responsive to social work's moral imperatives, and is a panacea for moral outrage within a global context. Such actions pose ethical complexities and are not without risk. Stéphane Hessel offers a framework to understand how peaceful civil disobedience and radical approaches are legitimate expressions of moral outrage that transcend indifference and despair. We explore the new social work activism emerging in the Third Space drawing from Hessel's philosophies.

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Austerity and social work in Europe: listening to the voices of resistance

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Critical social work and the promotion of citizenship in Chile

Critical social work and the promotion of citizenship in Chile

‘Oponerse sin perder el puesto’: tensiones y resistencias profesionales en la implementación de programas sociales en Chile

Moral outrage: social workers in the Third Space

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