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A Violent History of Benevolence

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

A Violent History of Benevolence

By Chris Chapman, A.J. Withers

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A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that contemporary social workers can know many details about social work's violences, without ever imagining that they may also be complicit in these violences. Framings of social work history actively create present-day political and ethical irresponsibil...Show more

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9781442628861

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University of Toronto Press

Published year

2019

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