A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working

by Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers

Book Overview

A Violent History of Benevolence

traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that contemporary social workers can know many details about social work's violences, without ever imagining that they may also be complicit in these violences. Framings of social work history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442628863
• ISBN13: 9781442628861
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"