Social Work Insights: An Interview with Chris Mann on Working with Youth, Elderly and Trans & Gender Diverse Communities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Diverse Communities

scholarly journals Epistemic Injustice: Towards Uncovering Knowledge of Bisexual Realities in Social Work Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 563-582
Author(s):  
Gio Iacono
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
And Gender

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals experience health risks, with bisexuals experiencing higher levels of health risk compared to heterosexuals, gays and lesbians. These disparities are often attributed to stressors related to minority status. While similarities among LGBTQ experiences exist, it is plausible that bisexuals experience unique forms of marginalization, which may help explain the documented health disparities. Bostwick and Hequembourg highlight unique forms of marginalization that bisexuals experience vis-a`-vis microagressions, falling within the realm of the epistemic. Fricker’s work on epistemic injustice emphasizes marginalization particularly as it is related to knowledge and experience. Drawing on this scholarship, this paper provides a review of existing literature on the bisexual experience, and a discussion to provide a critical lens on bisexual marginalization in society and the minimal attention received in social work research. Approaches to increase bisexual visibility and attention in social work research will be discussed. Some approaches include: developing a queer theoretical perspective in practice and research to allow for greater problematization of social categories; and making a concerted effort to promote research that is inclusive of minority populations within the sexual and gender minority population group. This might include groups with intersecting points of marginalization, such as racialized and gender diverse individuals.

From conversion toward affirmation: Psychology, civil rights, and experiences of gender-diverse communities in Memphis.

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 882-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy N. Hipp ◽  
Kayla R. Gore ◽  
Amanda C. Toumayan ◽  
Mollie B. Anderson ◽  
Idia B. Thurston
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Diverse Communities

Expanding Strengths-Based Urban Social Work: Distinctive Approaches to Serving Diverse Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Carl Mazza ◽  
Brenda Williams-Gray ◽  
Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi ◽  
Dana Burdnell Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Diverse Communities

scholarly journals At Cross roads: White Social Work in Australia and the discourse on Australian multiculturalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Devaki Monani
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Multicultural Communities ◽  
Social Work Policy

The profession of social work intervenes in the lives of the vulnerable and marginalised. In the majority, social work policy and practice in Australia has been founded on a western practice paradigm. Recent and rapid developments in the migratory trends of migrants and refugees places additional demands on social workers to practice with and for diverse communities. This article argues that the profession of social work is reluctant to embrace the multicultural face of Australia and lacks the intellectual apparatus to respond to diversity. The article underpins Professor Andrew Jakubowicz's analysis to multiculturalism as a powerful platform for social work academics and students to critically engage with by challenge existing racism and discriminatory trends towards multicultural communities that may possibly arise in social work practice.

scholarly journals Social work as revolutionary praxis? The contribution to critical practice of Cornelius Castoriadis’s political philosophy

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-348
Author(s):  
Phillip Ablett ◽  
Christine Morley
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Critical Social Work ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Cornelius Castoriadis ◽  
Revolutionary Praxis ◽  
Radical Transformation ◽  
Critical Social

Social work is a contested tradition, torn between the demands of social governance and autonomy. Today, this struggle is reflected in the division between the dominant, neoliberal agenda of service provision and the resistance offered by various critical perspectives employed by disparate groups of practitioners serving diverse communities. Critical social work challenges oppressive conditions and discourses, in addition to addressing their consequences in individuals’ lives. However, very few recent critical theorists informing critical social work have advocated revolution. A challenging exception can be found in the work of Cornelius Castoriadis (1922‐97), whose explication of ontological underdetermination and creation evades the pitfalls of both structural determinism and post-structural relativism, enabling an understanding of society as the contested creation of collective imaginaries in action and a politics of radical transformation. On this basis, we argue that Castoriadis’s radical-democratic revisioning of revolutionary praxis can help in reimagining critical social work’s emancipatory potential.

Whose Club Is It Anyway?: The Problematic of Trans Representation in Mainstream Films––“Rayon” and Dallas Buyers Club

Screen Bodies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akkadia Ford
Keyword(s):  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Long Line ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
Fallen Women ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Fictitious Character

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) offers a stereotypical representation of trans themes and images that do not fit contemporary gender-diverse communities, creating negative images and damaging connotations that could last for years. This article explores the stereotypical characterization and clichéd narrative devices deployed to create the fictitious character of Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club and examines the ongoing problematic of trans representation within mainstream cinematic texts by comparing Dallas Buyers Club with The Crying Game (1992), Boys Don’t Cry (1999), and Transamerica (2005). To contextualize the ongoing issues raised by the film and its screenplay, this article reads Rayon as one example in a long line of socially proscribed Hollywood “fallen women,” here, with the narrative displaced onto the transgender body.

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