This informative resource responds to recent developments in social work practices in North America and abroad through its exploration of anti-oppression practice. This groundbreaking collection demonstrates the transformative potential of inclusive practices, such as in Indigenous practice principles, through concrete examples of anti-oppression work with marginalized populations. Contributors also reveal how anti-oppression approaches more strongly combat a diversity of social issues, including anti-Black sanism, normative constructions of grief, discrimination against queer populations, and children and youth injustices.

Accessible and engaging, Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice will appeal to industry professionals and undergraduate students interested in examining original research on social work practitioners’ experiences with anti-oppression practices.

Features

• offers in-depth insights based on wisdom from practitioners, educators, and students
• features uniquely Canadian examples while also considering issues and populations that are relevant within international contexts
• perfect for upper-level students looking to build their understanding of antioppression

Samantha Wehbi is a professor, School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research and artistic-practice interests have focused on international issues and grassroots community activism and organizing in Canada and abroad, including Lebanon, her country of origin. Her work has explored the complexities of urban landscapes and issues of displacement, postcolonialism, translocality and social change. Her scholarship explores interdisciplinary intersections of art, community practice and pedagogy. Dr. Wehbi is the co-editor of Re-imagining Anti-oppression Social Work: Reflecting on Research and Re-imagining Anti-oppression Social Work: Reflecting on Practice.

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“This volume has creatively advanced the knowledge base of anti-oppressive social work through detailed applications to individual, community, organizational, and educational emancipatory practices. Wehbi and Parada have respectfully responded to the practice critique of AOP through a concise illustration of applied engagement with practice. They have brought together an expertise of creatively applied AOP across the terrain of social work. Social work students, practitioners, and educators must read, reflect, and engage with this volume.” — “Judy E. MacDonald, PhD, MSW, School of Social Work, Dalhousie University

“This edited volume by Wehbi and Parada is a must-read for those social workers and educators who are keenly interested in anti-oppressive social work and how it is practiced in Canada…. Each chapter provides insightful and innovative examples of the implementation of anti-oppressive practice or strong recommendations related to how this practice framework could be applied. The contributors under the leadership of the editorial team have addressed a major void in the Canadian literature on anti-oppressive social work. With this volume, social workers are well-positioned to continue the struggle to ensure a more equitable Canadian society.”— “David Este, PhD, MSW, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary