What is it about?
This chapter explores environmental degradation and social injustice as products of oppressive, conventional paradigms. An emancipating, post-conventional approach to gender, ecological justice and social justice is presented. This chapter describes the conceptual foundations for transcending modernism in social work and how the profession could move toward a more cohesive, ethical foundation for environmental social work practice.
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Why is it important?
Social work cannot rely on its conventional modernist foundations if it is to be a truly ethical profession focused on transformative change for gender equity and eco-social justice.
Perspectives
This chapter draws on the work of key post-structural feminist theory to develop a post-conventional foundational for contemporary social work theory and practice, including eco-social work. It argues for a paradigmatic shift in social work theory to ensure that the transformative aims of social work are founded on appropriate concepts, principles and values.
Dr Karen Bell
Charles Sturt University
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This page is a summary of: Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5518-5.
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