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Rethinking International Social Work

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Development, Poverty of Culture, and Social Policy

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This chapter1 is an exposé of contemporary professional culture that warrants rethinking of international social work as a liberatory praxis and a discipline of academic significance. Contemporary international social work tends to spatialize its objects of study. Since humankind’s well-being is intrinsically linked with science and social transformation, the vocabularies of change merit meaningful contextualization.

There is no madness except as the final instant of the work of art—the work endlessly drives madness to its limits; where there is work of art, there is no madness; and yet madness is contemporary with the work of art, since it inaugurates the time of its truth.

Michel Foucault ([1965] 1988:288–289)

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Mohan, B. (2011). Rethinking International Social Work. In: Development, Poverty of Culture, and Social Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117655_11

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