Global social work: crossing borders, blurring boundaries: Recent submissions
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International social work education: the Canadian context
Published 2014-09-08In this chapter I analyse themes that emerge from scholarship on international social work education in the Canadian context. I focus on international student exchanges in my analysis through a centring of the multicultu ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social work education in Indonesia: challenges and reforms
Published 2014-09-08The social work profession in Indonesia has not yet become a desirable occupation that parents would like their children to take up, as opposed to a doctor or an engineer. This is partly because the profession is not widely ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Indigenism and Australian social work
Published 2014-09-08Indigenism is a concept that has emerged over the last 20 years as a result of the engagement of Indigenous academics with research. It is a way of claiming a space within research for Aboriginal knowledge systems and ways ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Economic crises, neoliberalism, and the US welfare state: trends, outcomes and political struggle
Published 2014-09-08The rise of neoliberalism in the US represents a response to the second economic crisis of the 20th century. Seeking to restore profits and economic growth, neoliberal proponents called for redistributing income upwards ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Contesting the neoliberal global agenda: lessons from activists
Published 2014-09-08With the ongoing failure of governments to protect their citizens from impacts of the neoliberal global agenda, civil society groups worldwide have moved into the breach. Social workers, as allies of these groups, are ...Open AccessBook chapter