Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of tables Preface and acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction The postal worker always rings twice What is dissenting social work? Examining the conjuncture ‘Crashing through the limits’: Neoliberal capitalism The ‘burning planet’: Global warming Migration: The regulation of ‘flows’ The populist Right: The threat of neo-fascism The evolution of ‘Covidia’ Chapter map Note Chapter 2 Questioning the world of ‘appearances’: KARL MARX Introduction Marxism: The ‘spectre’ haunting the social work classroom Marxism as a resource for DSW Extending the Marxist analysis: ‘Productive’ work, ‘unproductive’ work, social reproduction, ‘ideological groups’ The contemporary ‘world of work’: Deteriorating conditions of work, precarious work, no work Conclusion Chapter 3 Neoliberalism, human capital and biopolitics: Michel Foucault and Wendy Brown Introduction A new ‘highway code’ for capitalism: German ordoliberals remaking the state Anarcho-capitalism: American neoliberalism and human capital Expanding the analysis of human capital theory: Wendy Brown Theory into practice? Sifting the population: Neoliberal-inflected biopower and pandemic reasoning Conclusion Note Chapter 4 Surveillance capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff  Introduction Explaining ‘surveillance capitalism’ Social work, welfare and crime Surveillance capitalism and COVID-19 Conclusion Notes Chapter 5 Equality NOW: Jacques Rancière  Introduction Breaking with Althusser and the emerging key intellectual themes Proletarian Nights: Contradicting elite expectations Shoemakers and philosophers: Rejecting hierarchical relations The ‘police order’: A place for everything and everything in its place Mainstream politics (the art of suppressing the political) and Rancièrian ‘politics’ Really Jacques?: Criticising Rancière Rancière and dissenting social work Conclusion Note Chapter 6 Critical scholarship and neoliberal penality: Loïc Wacquant Introduction Critical themes Criticising Wacquant Wacquant and dissenting social work Conclusion Chapter 7 Dissenting with the arch-contrarian: Hannah Arendt Introduction Seven dimensions of dissent The ‘private’, the ‘public’ and the ‘social’ A conceptual architecture unaligned with dissenting social work Eliding the cause of capitalist ‘crises’ and racialising a fear of the ‘mob’ Conclusion Notes Chapter 8 Remembering that African, Asian and Palestinian lives matter: Emmanuel Levinas Introduction Levinas and his introduction to a social work audience Signature themes: ‘Other’, ‘face’, ‘third’ Levinas and the state: Politics, charity and welfare Dancing beyond Europe: Eurocentrism The ‘noble adventure’: Ethnic nationalism Conclusion Notes Chapter 9 It is becoming ‘impossible to breathe’: Frantz Fanon Introduction ‘Walled in’ by reductive and racist categorisation: Black Skin, White Masks Countering colonialism and creating a revolutionary culture: Studies in a Dying Colonialism Defending armed struggle and castigating the duplicity of the post-colonial bourgeoisie: The Wretched of the Earth Dismantling obstacles to democracy in both the hospital and the wider society: Alienation and Freedom Fanon and dissenting social work Conclusion Notes Chapter 10 Social work’s Chinese future?: Antonio Gramsci Introduction ‘Passive revolution’: the restoration of capitalism in the PRC A new hegemonic project: Assembling the ‘harmonious society’ Eliminating dissent and (re)creating social work in a ‘harmonious society’ Conclusion Note Chapter 11 Conclusion Why the footballer must be permitted to kick the football This is the ‘age of dissent’ Notes on the future(s) of dissenting social work Ending at the new beginning … References Index