Use of Critical Consciousness in Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice: Disentangling Power Dynamics at Personal and Structural Levels

Abstract

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Immediate Response: Addressing Anti-Native and Anti-Black Racism in Child Welfare

“…In the new millenium some child welfare agencies in Ontario have developed or are in the process of developing anti-oppression policies (Child Welfare Anti-Oppression Roundtable, 2009). Like anti-racism, anti-oppression is an approach to social work practice that is informed by an array of critical perspectives including anti-racism, feminism, Marxism, structuralism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism (McLaughlin, 2005;Sakamoto & Pitner, 2005). Anti-oppression perspectives advocate the critique and eradication of systemic forms of privilege, power, and oppression as generated by such social differences as class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and dis/ability (Carniol, 2010).…”

“…Power-sharing entails creating egalitarian relationships with clients, that is, taking a "one-down" position when working with service users and treating them as experts on their own life situation (Dumbrill, 2003;Sakamoto & Pitner, 2005). The notion of power-sharing encompasses further the idea of creating democratic agencies and organizations where service users play a key role in programming and making administrative decisions (Dumbrill, 2003;Strier & Binyamin, 2010).…”

“…Finally, a central tenet of anti-oppression entails analysis of the ways in which different identities intersect and interlock in people's lives to produce marginalization as well as privilege (Sakamoto & Pitner, 2005). Unlike anti-racism which uses race as a central analytic lens when analyzing interlocking systems of oppression, anti-oppression perspectives do not privilege any one identity or social status.…”

“…Antioppression scholars and practitioners therefore consider the multiple and varied ways in which different identities intersect within the lives of individuals to shape their lived experiences and life chances. According to anti-oppression proponents, this poststructuralist emphasis on intersectionality enables anti-oppression perspectives to be more inclusive by targeting multiple oppressions while avoiding the racial emphasis frequently attributed to anti-racism (McLaughlin, 2005;Sakamoto & Pitner, 2005).…”

Image Construction as a Strategy of Resistance by Progressive Community Organizations

“…Many authors argue that these changes experienced within the social service sector is causing further marginalization of service users (Sakamoto and Pitner, 2005 ;Bischoff and Reisch, 2000) and is disempowering workers (Baines, 2004). This context has been deemed disempowering to already oppressed groups leaving the structural conditions that maintain inequities even more difficult to challenge and thus in need of further activism and advocacy (Abramovitz, 1998 ;Baines, 1996Baines, , 2004Razack, 2002).…”