Book chapter
Towards a Critical Posthumanist Social Work: Trans-Species Ethics of Ecological Justice, Nonviolence and Love
Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives, pp.175-186
Routledge
2021
Abstract
This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise that challenge human exceptionalism.
Social work is at heart a liberal humanist project informed by a strong human rights framework. This edited collection draws on the literature on affect, feminist new materialism and critical posthumanism to critique the liberal framework, which includes human rights. Disrupting the anthropocentrism in social work which positions humans as an elite species at the centre of world history, this book develops an ethical sensibility that values entanglements of humans, non-human life and the natural environment.
The book provides new insights into environmental destruction, human-animal relations, gender inequality and male dominance, as well as indigenous and settler/colonial issues and critical and green social work. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work, community development, social policy and development studies more broadly. [Book Synopsis]
Details
- Title
- Towards a Critical Posthumanist Social Work: Trans-Species Ethics of Ecological Justice, Nonviolence and Love
- Authors
- Dyann Ross (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - LegacyBindi Bennett (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - LegacyNatalie Menyweather (Author)
- Contributors
- Vivienne Bozalek (Editor) - University of the Western CapeBob Pease (Editor) - University of Tasmania
- Publication details
- Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives, pp.175-186
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780429329982
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99489404902621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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