Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action (Advancing Social Work Education) - Hardcover

From the back cover: Katherine van Wormer's Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice examines the twin forces of oppression and injustice and how social policies, cultural institutions, and prevailing ideologies promote or sustain them. Using an internationally informed perspective, she unpacks concepts such as internalization of oppression, injustice, restorative justice, social exclusion, empowerment, and critical consciousness. From this framework, she describes the skills of critical analysis needed to confront oppression and injustice, providing examples of human services programs that successfully deploy strategies of empowerment and engage forces of oppression and injustice.

Written for frontline human services practitioners, students, and educators, Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice comes at an auspicious time when narrowing global distances breed both corporate political might and worldwide coalition building for social justice.

Features:
· Offers comprehensive coverage of the impact of oppressive practices in the including racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ageism, etc.
· Places societal oppression and injustice in the context of global economic forces.
· Expands the definition of social justice and injustice to go beyond economic considerations of distribution into the arena of social control.
· Offers a radical framework for policy evaluation and analysis that includes international and environmental considerations.
· Provides illustrations of successful legislative advocacy that resulted in program change at state and local levels.
· Forges a conceptual link between the oppression/injustice configuration and strategies of empowerment.
· Includes chapters on human rights and restorative justice.
· Offers an analysis of ethical dilemmas for social workers in encountering oppressive practices.
· Satisfies CSWE standards for the inclusion of content on oppression in the social work curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels.