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Disability and social work: applications from poststructuralism, postmodernism and feminism
- Author:
- FAWCETT Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 28(2), April 1998, pp.263-277.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Argues that poststructural and postmodern perspectives have something useful to offer social work, provided these orientations are informed by the 'social critical power of feminism'. A case study is used to consider the utility of applying feminist poststructural and postmodern perspectives. It is contended that these orientations not only serve to link practice to theory in a different way and to open up new avenues for exploration, but can also be seen to make a contribution to the current debate about the current constitution of social work.
Researching others: epistemology, experience, standpoints and participation
- Authors:
- FAWCETT Barbara, HEARN Jeff
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 7(3), July 2004, pp.201-218.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article examines the possibility and challenges of carrying out research, especially qualitative and ethnographically-orientated research, into areas such as gender, disability, ethnicity and racialization, without the researcher having direct experience of those specific social divisions and oppressions. Discussion of these questions is framed by four differential understandings of the concept of 'otherness' and linked with debates in the areas of research methodology, epistemology, ontology and research practices. Issues of experience, 'standpoint' and participation are specifically focused on. The resulting discussion leads to the conclusion that in 'researching others' attention has to be paid to historical context and to the maintenance of a critical relation to the research topic. A sustaining focus on the self-reflexivity of the researcher as author and the continual interrogation of the social bases of knowledge, together with a detail understanding of political agendas, are also important. In paying attention to these aspects of research, materialism and critical discourse analysis are to be seen as part of the same broad socio-political project rather than as opposing and mutually exclusive perspectives.
Practice and research in social work: postmodern feminist perspectives
- Editors:
- FAWCETT Barbara, et al
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 212p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: postmodernity and postmodern feminism; disability; a postmodern perspective on professional ethics; deconstructing and reconstructing professional expertise; mothers' violence; profeminist men's narratives; and representations of families.