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- 1. CRITICAL SOCIAL WORK SOCW4002 Direct Methods of Practice 2010 Linda Smith
- 2. CRITICAL SOCIAL WORK SEMINAR 2: CONTENTS CRITICAL THEORY CRITICAL SOCIAL WORK OPPRESSION AND POLITICS OF IDENTITY POST-COLONIAL THOUGHT
- 7. FOUR SUPPOSITIONS OF THE CRITICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE PARADIGM: Macro-social structures shape social relations at every level of life The world is divided between ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ and the interests of these groups are opposed and irreconcilable The oppressed are complicit in their oppression Its emphasis is on empowering oppressed people to act, collectively, to achieve social change
- 9. Reflexive-therapeutic view (therapeutic helping) Individualist-reformist Socialist-collectivist (maintenance or social order) (emancipatory/transformational)
- 27. “ Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult of principled position which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take.” (Said, 1994:74)
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- Born in French Martinique, poet, anti-colonialist, founder of “negritude” movement Discourse on colonialism (first published 1955) key text in anti-colonial literature describes the material and spiritual havoc caused by colonialism Works with three propositions: Negritude “resistance to the politics of assimilation” and “a struggle against alienation” (interview with Cesaire, 1967); celebration of black culture and forms of expression Surrealism “ a permanent readiness for the marvelous” Extension/revision of Marxism complete and total overthrow of racist, colonialist system that would open the way to imagine a whole new world (Kelly, 1999) Describes process of “Thingification” the deliberate destruction of the past of the colonised and turning “the other” into a barbarian
- Paulo Freire born 1921 Recife in Brazil; theorist liberatory education; socialist Some of his important ideas include: Pedagogy of the oppressed (also his well known book) radical transformation and humanisation no education is neutral; either liberating or domesticating Critical conscientisation ongoing process of moving toward critical consciousness heart of liberatory education awareness of oppression, being "object" in world where only "subjects" have power identifying contradictions in experience through dialogue Praxis reflection upon and action on the world to transform it Transformation negates ethics of neoliberalism and economic globalization – critical, liberating, hopeful theory - utopia of a more just and human society (Nita Freire, 2007)
- Born in Martinique, psychiatrist, revolutionary; liberation of Algeria from France Two of his most well known books are Black skins white masks (1952); Wretched of the earth (1961) – these are key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism – he brings psychology and politics together Some key ideas about the psychology of colonisation include: Racist objectification - race is the essential determining quality of identity Colonising the mind – in the colonial position, cultural values are not one’s own; life occurs in a hostile environment; the message is consistently “de-value me and my culture” Cultural dissonance - dissonance between ego and culture, self and society Internalisation - external socio-historical reality assimilated into subjective reality intrapsychic violence
- Born Kingwilliamstown; Anti-apartheid activist; founder blackconsciousness movement; political leader, writer Key set of writings found in book: “I write what I like” Founder of “Black consciousness” – which attempts to replace negative self-image with affirming positive identity and solidarity – to operate as a group to rid themselves of shackles bind to perpetual servitude Liberation politics - Psychological and physical liberation “ the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” – Importance of destruction of subjective black oppression Conscientisation - strategy of resistance to develop heightened awareness of oppressive conditions profound cultural awareness of damage caused by colonial project
- So, critical discourse in our context of postcolonialsm and neoliberalism, requires courage – I want to end with a statement by Edward Said, a founding contributor to postcolonial thought: “ Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult of principled position which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take.” (Said, 1994:74)