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URBAN THEMES IN 21 -CENTURY ST SOCIAL WORK CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS Social Work and the City Charlotte W illiams Editor Social Work and the City Urban Themes in 21st-Century Social Work Editor Charlotte Williams School of Global, Urban and Social Studies RMIT University Melbourne , Victoria , Australia ISBN 978-1-137-51622-0 ISBN 978-1-137-51623-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51623-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016940593 © Th e Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th e Author(s) 2016 Th e author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identifi ed as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Th is work is subject to copyright. 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London Contents Part I Making Sense of the City 1 Charlotte Williams 1 Social Work and Th e Urban Age 15 Charlotte Williams 2 Beyond the Soup Kitchen 43 Charlotte Williams 3 Reconstructing Urban Social Work 71 Charlotte Williams 4 Social Work Research and the City 97 Charlotte Williams v vi Contents Part II Social Issues and the City: New Directions in Practice 121 Charlotte Williams 5 Superdiversity and the City 127 Dirk Geldof 6 Ageing in Urban Environments: Challenges and Opportunities for a Critical Social Work Practice 151 Chris Phillipson and Mo Ray 7 Disabling Cities and Repositioning Social Work 173 Michael J. Prince 8 Care, Austerity and Resistance 193 Donna Baines 9 Homelessness in Western Cities 215 Carole Zuff erey 10 Living on the Edge: New Forms of Poverty and Disadvantage on the Urban Fringe 235 Sonia Martin and Robin Goodman 11 Educating for Urban Social Work 259 Susie Costello and Julian Raxworthy Conclusion: Urban Themes in Twenty-First Century Social Work 281 Charlotte Williams Index 289 Notes on Contributors Editor’s Biography Charlotte Williams, OBE i s Professor and Deputy Dean Social Work at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a qualifi ed social worker and has over 25 years of experience in social work education. Her research is underpinned by an interdisciplinary body of theory drawing largely on comparative social policy, critical race theory, social geogra- phy, social development, and theories of migration and multiculturalism. She has extensively theorised issues of place, locality and nationhood as they impact on welfare practices, particularly in relation to the racialisa- tion or exclusion of minoritised groups. Her most recent publications include: S ocial Work in a Diverse Society: Transformatory Practice with Ethnic Minority Individuals and Communities (with M. Graham) (Policy Press, 2016); the Special Issue of the B ritish Journal of Social Work entitled ‘A World on the Move’: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work (2014) (co-edited with M. Graham); and Race and Ethnicity in a Welfare Society (2010) (with M. Johnson), Open University Press. vii viii Notes on Contributors Contributors’ Biographies Donna Baines is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Professor Baines has published extensively on man- agerialism and restructuring social service work under neo-liberalism, and now under austerity. She also publishes in the area of anti-oppressive and critical approaches to social work practice. Professor Baines has published recently on care work in the Journal of Social Work , C ritical Social Policy and the J ournal of Industrial Relations, and is working on the third edition of her best-selling (in Canada) edited collection Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice, Social Justice Social Work (Fernwood, 2017). Susie C ostello is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Global Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice background was in family social work in child protection, family support, disability and psychiatry in health and institutional set- tings. Her last role as a social work practitioner was with the City of Yarra in Victoria, where alongside where responding to the welfare needs of families, council social workers contributed to the planning and infra- structure of the city, for example, participating in the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Action Plan to upgrade streets and services across the city and advocating for safety for vulnerable residents as part of the city’s Community Safety Strategy. Susie’s publication and research interests include violence against women, indigenous homelessness, cross-cultural education and international social work. She leads RMIT’s initiatives in contributing to urban planning in cities in Myanmar. Dirk Geldof is Professor at the Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp (Belgium), lecturer and researcher at the Higher Institute for Family Sciences (Odisee University College, Brussels) and lecturer in Social Work at the Karel de Grote-University College (Antwerp). He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Antwerp. In 2013, he published S uperdiversiteit. Hoe migra- tie onze samenleving verandert (Acco, 5th edn, 2015). Th e English edition Superdiversity in the Heart of Europe: Th e Belgian Case will be published in January 2016 (Acco). Notes on Contributors ix Robin Goodman is Professor of Sustainability and Urban Planning and Deputy Dean in the School of Global Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Robin holds a BA (Hons) from La Trobe University, and a Masters of Urban Planning and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She was the Director of RMIT’s Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Research Centre for three years from 2010, and subsequently the inaugural Director of the Centre for Urban Research. Robin has published widely on issues around planning, public policy, sustainability and housing. She is co-author of a forthcoming book entitled G rowing Pains: Planning Melbourne in the 21 st Century . Sonia Martin i s a Lecturer and Programme Manager in Social Work at RMIT University, where she teaches in the fi elds of social policy and social research. Sonia has previously worked at the Universities of South Australia, Adelaide and Melbourne and the Brotherhood of St Laurence in the Research and Policy Centre. Her work on a large three-year ARC Linkage grant at the University of Melbourne contributed to the award- winning publication H alf a Citizen: Life on Welfare in Australia . G rounded in the discipline of sociology, her research interests include quantitative and qualitative analyses of poverty, inequality and social exclusion; theoretical issues to do with agency, structure and ‘choice’, and contemporary social policy arrangements and welfare reform. Chris Phillipson is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing (MICRA), based at the University of Manchester, UK. Before moving to Manchester, Phillipson held a variety of posts at Keele University, including Dean of Research for the Social Sciences and Director of the Social Science Research Institutes. He was also a Pro-Vice Chancellor for the University and founded (in 1987) the Centre for Social Gerontology. He has pub- lished extensively on a range of topics in the fi eld of ageing, including work in the fi eld of family and community studies, transnational migra- tion, social inclusion/exclusion, urban sociology and social theory. He is the co-author of the Sage Handbook of Social Gerontology (Sage Books, 2010), Work, Health and Wellbeing (co-authored, Policy Press, 2012), and
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