The Challenge of Right-wing Nationalist Populism for Social Work: A Human Rights Approach

by Carolyn Noble (Editor), Goetz Ottmann (Editor)

Overview

Right-wing nationalist populism poses direct attacks on social tolerance, human rights discourse, political debates, the survival of the welfare state and its universal services, impacting on the roles of social work. This book demonstrates how right-wing nationalist populism can and must be countered.

Using case studies from around the world, this book shows how a revitalised radical social work where community organisation, building alliances, trade union commitment and social action can be used as political forces to speak up against discrimination and hate in accordance with human rights, social justice, and social work values. The rise of national populism signals that now is the time for social work to forge and reforge such networks and create links with civil society and challenge right-wing populist policies wherever they manifest themselves.

It will be of interest to all social work students, practitioners and academics, particularly those working on critical and radical social work, green social work, anti-oppressive practice and community development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367174019
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/15/2020
Series:	Routledge Advances in Social Work
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carolyn Noble is Former Associate Dean and Foundation Professor of Social Work at ACAP in Sydney and Emertia Professor of Social Work at Victoria University, Melbourne. She is author and co-author of several books and many chapters and peer-reviewed articles. Her research interests include social work theory, philosophy and ethics, work-based learning, professional supervision and gender justice. She is editor-in-chief of open access social issues magazine for IASSW. www.socialdialogue.online.

Goetz Ottmann is Associate Professor of Social Work at the Australian College of Applied Psychology in Sydney. He has published extensively on a range of topic including the construction of citizenship in countries within the context of under-developed welfare states and the impact of participatory budgeting and policy making on the development of effective welfare services. He has published three books and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Table of Contents

1. Right-wing nationalist populism and social work. 2. Social Work, Modernity and Right-wing Nationalist Populism. 3. White Fragility, Populism, Xenophobia and Late Neoliberalism. 4. A radical tradition of community development responses to right-wing populism. 5. The Rise of Angry White Men: Resisting Populist Masculinity and the Backlash Against Gender Equality. 6. Right-wing populism and a feminist social work response. 7. The multifaceted challenges of new right-wing populism to social work: the profession’s swansong or the re-birth of activism? 8. ‘A roar of defiance against the elites’: Brexit, populism and social work. 9. Integration in the age of populism: Highlighting key terms in the context of refugee resettlement in the United States. 10. Citizenship, populism and social work in the Finnish welfare state. 11. Surveillance, Sanctions, and Behaviour-Modification in the name of Far-Right Nationalism: The Rise of Authoritarian ‘Welfare’ in Australia. 12. Is welfare chauvinism evident in Australia? Examining right-wing populist views towards Muslim refugees and Indigenous Australians. 13. Resisting the rise of right-wing populism: European Social Work Examples. 14. Social workers partnering with populism. 15. "They live like Animals": Migrants, Roma and Nationalist Populism. 16. Ga Ngaandu Gimubi-li Yalagiirrma (To whom it may concern…).