A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and
promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and
within impacted communities.
Within social
work--a profession that has been intimately tied to and often
complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral
state--abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis
are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have
helped to name and examine the realities of carceral social work as a
form of "soft policing." For radical social work, abolition
moves beyond critique to the politics of possibility.
Featuring a foreword
by Mariame Kaba, Abolition and Social Work offers an
orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores
the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in
social work--a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse
regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this
work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and
collective care.
Contributors include
Autumn Asher BlackDeer, Ramona Beltran, Danica Brown, Charlene A.
Caruthers, Angela Y. Davis, Alan Dettlaff, Tanisha "Wakumi"
Douglas, Annie Zean Dunbar, Angela Fernandez, Kassandra Frederique,
María Gandarilla Ocampo, Claudette L. Grinnell-Davis, Sam Harrell,
Justin S. Harty, Shira Hassan, Leah A. Jacobs, Nev Jones, Joyce
McMillan, Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work, Dorothy
Roberts, Sophia Sarantakos, Katie Schultz, and Stéphanie Wahab.
