Degrowth for transformational alternatives as radical social work practice
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Meredith C.F. Powers, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Historically, and in modern times, social workers have been culpable in perpetuating the very systems of oppression that we seek to eliminate. This happens as we are part of cultures and economies that operate out of the growth ideology. Acting in accordance with the growth ideology does not lead to the outcomes that we strive for as professional social workers. Rather, the growth ideology results in growing social inequalities and increasing ecological injustices around the world. Social work can, instead, embrace an ecosocial lens and promote degrowth approaches for transformational alternatives. Rather than reinforcing the existing systems of injustice and oppression, radical social work can take an activist role and bring about urgent and radical changes to promote ecological justice through social and ecological well-being. Examples from radical social work in local and international communities demonstrate the possibility of degrowth for transformational alternatives as radical social work practice.
Degrowth for transformational alternatives as radical social work practice
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Critical and Radical Social Work, 7(3), 417-433
- Language: English
- Date: 2019
- Keywords
- degrowth, ecological justice, ecosocial, ecosocial work, transformation