Essays about: "anti-racist social work"

Found 5 essays containing the words anti-racist social work.

1. 1. “If we don’t, then who will?” : A qualitative study about Black Afro-Swedish women’s embodied identity experiences in working life

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Leila Axelsson; Emma Rangdal; [2022]
   Keywords : Afro-Swedish women; embodied identity; identity work; intersectionality; Black feminism; embodied research; collective identity;

   Abstract : Sweden has been celebrated in public discourse for being a major proponent of social justice and anti-racist policies, but the country’s ambiguous history with racism has been replaced by colour-evasive discourses permeating contemporary organisations today. Management and organisation studies have focused on the individual identity work of employees, without further attention to the intersecting social positionings of Black Afro-Swedish women. READ MORE

3. 2. The Intersections of Race and Class-Based Social Movements under Fordism: Rediscovering a Neglected Form of Critical Social Analysis

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Jonas Grahn; [2020]
   Keywords : Race and class; Johnson-Forest tendency; Hegelian Marxism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : When critical scholars coming from different academic disciplines, such as sociology, gender studies, or Black studies, meet and discuss today, discussions sometimes take the form of whether recognition of particular identities or redistribution of material resources is of most importance. In this thesis, my aim is to explore resources that could contribute to moving beyond this framing of the question, which inevitably implies that one always would need to step back in order for the other to move forward. READ MORE

4. 3. Understanding racism in Finland : A qualitative study on social workers’  interpretations of racism

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

   Author : Maura Nurmi; [2019]
   Keywords : institutional racism; racialization; anti-racist social work; intersectionality; culture; culturalization; privilege.;

   Abstract : Abstract The thesis examines Finnish social workers’ understandings of racism. The research task is to view how professionals understand racism as a phenomenon, how they perceive social work’s role in relation to racialization and racism and how they understand the complex relationship between race and gender in the Nordic context. READ MORE

5. 4. The involuntary racist : A study on white racism evasiveness amongst social movements activists in Madrid, Spain

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Sandra Johansson; [2017]
   Keywords : social movements; whiteness; racism; white sincere fictions; racism evasiveness; critical whiteness studies;

   Abstract : This study explores how white social movement activists in Madrid, Spain, relate to race and racism, a previously unexamined issue in the Spanish context. The study is based upon qualitative semi-structured interviews and analytically framed within critical whiteness studies. READ MORE

6. 5. Working for change: experiences of Danish and Swedish diversity consultants

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Ronja Mannov Olesen; [2015]
   Keywords : gender studies; feminist organization studies; Workplace diversity; diversity consultant; Denmark; Sweden; critical diversity studies; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The six participants, two in Sweden and four in Denmark, interviewed for this thesis are all organizational outsiders: they consult organizations on how to create diverse workplaces. The empirical, qualitative material is analyzed within an interdisciplinary framework consisting of feminist, queer, anti-racist, affect and critical diversity theories. READ MORE