Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work

Focussing on the epistemic – the way in which knowledge is understood,

constructed,

transmitted and used – this book shows the way social work

knowledge has been constructed from within a white western paradigm, and

the need for a critique of whiteness within social work at this epistemic level.

Social work, emerging from the western Enlightenment world, has privileged

white western knowledge in ways that have been, until recently, largely unexamined

within its professional discourse. This imposit...