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Alain Touraine : the politics of collective action

- Ottmann, Goetz, Noble, Carolyn

  • Authors: Ottmann, Goetz , Noble, Carolyn
  • Date: 2020
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work p. 465-476
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  • Description: This chapter takes as its starting point Touraine’s work on new social movements that explains how social change occurs. Touraine’s work focuses on how people come together to challenge and alter cultural and socio-political boundaries of a social, institutional or political system deemed to be discriminatory or oppressive. Becoming involved in social action against social disadvantage and injustice, and struggling for changes in law, public policy and the political culture can empower people to take control of their lives. Linking community development and social action with social movements theory and practice is, we argue, the most effective and salient method for the advancement of a more progressive social work practice. How this analysis influences the teaching and practice of community development and social action to advance a more progressive, transformative social work practice is explored. © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett, Carolyn Noble, and Stephen Cowden.

Right-wing nationalist populism and social work : some definitions and features

- Noble, Carolyn, Ottmann, Goetz

  • Authors: Noble, Carolyn , Ottmann, Goetz
  • Date: 2020
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: The Challenge of Right-wing Nationalist Populism for Social Work : a Human Rights Approach p. 1-14
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  • Description: The rise of right-wing nationalist populism in our increasingly uncertain world poses serious threats to already marginalised groups such as women, migrants, asylum seekers, Indigenous people, and members of ethnic and minority communities. This chapter explores some definitions of right-wing nationalist populism and describes many of its features. We argue that the rise of right-wing populism poses a major challenge to social work’s practice foundations and professional stake in promoting human and democratic rights for all. If unaddressed, populist nationalism has the potential to erode even further the humanist fabric of our societies, making welfare contingent upon ethnicity, social status and level of economic ‘activation’. The challenge for social work is to oppose right-wing populist policies and practices wherever they manifest, and to promote effective, non-violent alternatives that can capture the popular political imaginary. While the threat to human rights-based social work is serious, it also harbours the possibility that the ensuing confrontations will renew and strengthen the profession’s commitment to non-violent, inclusive, socially just practice.

Nationalist Populism and Social Work

- Noble, Carolyn, Ottmann, Goetz

  • Authors: Noble, Carolyn , Ottmann, Goetz
  • Date: 2018
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Human Rights and Social Work Vol. 3, no. 3 (2018), p. 112-120
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  • Description: This article outlines how the current rise in right-wing populism poses a threat to social work’s humanist positioning within western democracy and what strategies are needed to restore faith in the liberal democratic institutions that are committed to human rights and a polity that provides for all its citizens despite their diversity and often opposing interests. Using the example of the rise of ethnic-nationalist populism in the twentieth century in Europe, we forget at our peril how easily human rights can be both compromised and undermined. Today’s social works can learn from social work’s role in supporting the ethnic practices of Nazi Germany and be forewarned. The article highlights how a culture of hyper-productivity, anti-humanist populism, and authoritarian welfare can erode the human rights framework underpinning social work. By focussing on contemporary social work’s more progressive stance with its commitment to anti-oppressive practice, its linkages with civil society and community activism, and its commitment to carve out a prominent political space for advancing a human rights agenda, we hope to learn lessons from the past and act collectively to protect and return confidence to a universal human rights agenda for a progressive social work practice. © 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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