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Introduction Introduction
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Setting the context: Palestine, ‘Nahad’ and the establishment of a settler-colonial state Setting the context: Palestine, ‘Nahad’ and the establishment of a settler-colonial state
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Resistance, welfare and popular social work Resistance, welfare and popular social work
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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10 The radical roots of popular social work in Palestine
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Published:June 2023
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Abstract
This chapter looks at the roots of what we might term an ‘organic’ Palestinian popular social work. There is a growing interest in social work within the Palestinian Authority, but too often this focuses on the introduction and implementation of formal international standards of social work practice, at the expense of a focus on specifically Palestinian traditions of collective, community welfare provision. To put this in context, professional interpretations (and many academic histories) of social work often ignore the contested nature of the social work project. They suggest a unified profession which has developed and grown over time, reflecting a common origin, set of practices and methods and a shared value base. The chapters brought together in this collection immediately throw this conceptualisation into question. Social work is divided by competing interpretations and traditions of what it can and should be. These are important, and different, perspectives within professional social work and speak to different values and political standpoints on the social work project. But they remain different approaches within the institutions of the profession, a social work primarily organised ‘from above’ to meet the demands of service providers, institutions and states. One could usefully consider social work as having ‘two souls’: one the official ‘soul’ of professional social work and another developing out of the alternative cultures, practices and struggles of oppressed, marginalised and class based networks within capitalist society.
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