Social work practice and education have been significantly impacted by neoliberal
governmentality, which can greatly undermine the espoused social justice mission of social …

Selma Macfarlane, PhD has been involved in social work education for 20 years, primarily
as a Lecturer at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria. She has publications in the areas of …

Child protection systems within Anglophone countries have been increasingly dominated by
neoliberal managerial, risk-dominant paradigms over the past three decades. Assumed to …

In the current context of the neoliberal subordination of social work education and practice to
market demands and public austerity, this chapter argues that there is an urgent need for …

We enter this climate crisis amidst great uncertainty, the contemporary rise of
authoritarianism, the resurgence of fascism, and the mobilisation of xenophobic views that …

Reflecting on an article authored by Hodge and Turner (2023) that ranks the “top” 100 social
work scholars, this article presents a multi-layered critique of the tradition of using …

This chapter offers a view on the need to find a more democratic approach to the social
services system. We start from the premise that the current social services system …

This article argues that though decolonization is an ongoing struggle globally, neoliberalism
blunts the impacts of state and institutional decolonization projects. Drawing on the literature …

The implementation of social work is strongly influenced by the contexts in which it operates.
In the last thirty to forty years, the key context has been the neoliberalisation of society. The …

Postcolonial Europe is wracked by internal conflicts and the wake of xenophobia, modern
racism, and authoritarianism that threatens democracy. The resurgence of right-wing …