What is it about?
Injustice is at odds with social work's mandate to promote social justice, human rights and ethical responsibility. In nations like the UK, Australia and the USA, ideologies of the far right exert strong influences on social policy. In this paper we talk about shifts from welfare states to privatization, the return of the deserving and undeserving as "strivers" and "shrivers", "lifters" and "leaners", and policies that violate the human rights of refugees and other disenfranchised groups and how this has activated moral outrage within the social work profession. A new form of online activism has emerged.
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Why is it important?
The world is changing rapidly. These changes are privileging the advantaged in society while marginalized people suffer injustice and oppression. Our changing world also offers a new way via the internet and social media to express moral outrage and counter simplistic rhetoric. This paper is timely.
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This page is a summary of: Moral outrage: social workers in the Third Space, Ethics and Social Welfare, March 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2016.1151908.
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