Overview
- Presents insights from a range of leading contributors that are uniquely positioned at the intersection of social work and urban studies
- Provokes debate about how the profession of social work is adapting to major transformations in the city
- Shows both the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century city
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Making Sense of the City
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Social Issues and the City: New Directions in Practice
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Back Matter
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About this book
Drawing on multiple disciplines, this groundbreaking work shows that these familiar features of the twenty-first century can be counteracted by the positive aspects of the city: its innovation, creativity and serendipity. It has a redistributive, caring and cohesive potential. The city can provide new opportunities and resources for social work to influence, to collaborate, to foster participation and involvement, and to extend its social justice mandate. The book shows that the city represents a critical arena in terms of the future of social work intervention and social work identity. In doing so, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of social work, social policy, community work and urban studies.
Reviews
“Williams’ book “Social Work and the City” is an exciting and very relevant read for researchers as well as social work students. It manages to couple some of the most pressing issues relating to the consequences of urbanization with the historical roots of social work in the city. It covers relevant introductory chapters as well as a range of cutting edge issues for social work to cope with now and in the future.” (Mia Arp Fallov, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University)
“The increasing global trends towards urbanization have placed greater emphasis on the need for scholars and practitioners to focus on these geographic settings. It also is highly desirable to have a book devoted to urban social work because the profession was born in cities. This book promises to bring renewed attention to how the profession can play an influential role in shaping practice and scholarship with an urban focus.” (Melvin Delgado, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work, Boston University School of Social Work)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Work and the City
Book Subtitle: Urban Themes in 21st-Century Social Work
Editors: Charlotte Williams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51623-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51622-0Published: 03 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51623-7Published: 18 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 299
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Work and Community Development, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Human Geography, Sociology of Work, Social Work