Human rights & social work : towards rights-based practice / Jim Ife, Karen Soldatić, Linda Briskman.

Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession and inform their practice. This book examines the three generations of human rights and the systems of oppression that prevent citizen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ife, Jim, 1946- (Author)
Soldatic, Karen (Author)
Briskman, Linda (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Social service > Moral and ethical aspects.
Social workers > Professional ethics.
Human rights.
Physical Description:xi, 281 pages ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Human rights and social work
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Human rights in a globalised world
  • Introduction
  • The Enlightenment tradition of human rights
  • Social work
  • A discursive and constructivist approach to human rights
  • Globalisation
  • Rights-based practice
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 2 Human rights: beyond traditional formulations
  • Introduction
  • The three generations of human rights
  • The dominance of first-generation views of human rights
  • The potential of the three-generation perspective
  • The three generations as a framework for practice
  • Beyond the three generations
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 3 Public and private human rights
  • Introduction
  • The oppression of women, the contribution of feminism and constructions of gender
  • Children, dependency and competing claims for rights
  • Older people
  • People with disabilities
  • Other issues
  • Non-state abusers of human rights
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 4 Culture and human rights
  • Introduction
  • The Western domination of human rights discourse
  • Individualism
  • Patriarchy
  • Colonialism, racism and progress
  • Rationality
  • Assumptions about the human
  • Culturalism, diversity and change
  • Universalism and relativism: beyond the simple binary
  • Global citizenship
  • Global practice
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 5 Human rights and human needs
  • Introduction
  • The problem of needs
  • Needs and rights
  • Giving priority to different needs and rights
  • Hierarchies of needs and rights
  • Needs as contextualised rights
  • Needs and rights, means and ends
  • Who defines needs and rights?
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 6 Human rights and obligations
  • Introduction
  • The erosion of the state
  • The protection of human rights
  • The realisation of human rights
  • Citizenship obligations
  • Respecting the rights of others
  • Exercising one's rights
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 7 Ethics and human rights
  • Introduction
  • Rights and ethics
  • Ethics as a conservative individualist discourse
  • Ethics as modernist
  • Ethics and human rights
  • Practising ethically
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 8 Participation in the human rights discourse
  • Introduction
  • The global discourse of human rights
  • Participatory democracy
  • The local discourse of human rights
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 9 Constructing human rights for social work practice
  • Introduction
  • Deductive approaches to human rights practice
  • Inductive approaches to human rights practice
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 10 Achieving human rights through social work practice
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical foundations
  • Empowerment
  • Contextual/universal issues
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 11 Respecting human rights in social work practice
  • Introduction
  • The language of social work
  • The processes of social work
  • The structures of social work
  • The education of social workers
  • Conclusion
  • ch. 12 Conclusion: prospects for human rights practice
  • Introduction
  • Post-Enlightenment social work.