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Can we remember differently? A case study of the new culture of memory in voluntary organisations
- Author:
- MOZINA Miran
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 11(4), October 2002, pp.310-320.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article analyses the positive contribution that Slovenian voluntary, non-governmental organisations, users' organisations and community-based services in the field of mental health have made to the 'new culture of memory' of helpers and users. The real challenge of the new culture of memory in the process of help to disabled people (in respect of individuals working through traumatic memories) is that the helper can bear and support the user on a daily basis. During the process of their relationship, the deep implicit relational memories of both become activated and influence the change within the user as well as the helper.
Civil society, memory and social work
- Author:
- ZAVIRSEK Darja
- Journal article citation:
- International Perspectives in Social Work, 1999, pp.65-73.
This article underlines the importance of political engagement in social work theory as well as in social work practice. The historical legacy of social work makes it difficult for social work practitioners, as well as social work scholars, to see social work as anything beyond individual-therapeutic work with individuals and groups. To show the importance of political engagement in social work, this article analyses the role of the social work profession in building civil society in Slovenia and looks at the history of the concept of civil society in European culture. In order to overcome the historical gap between the individualistic-therapeutic perspective and the political-mobilisational perspective in social work, suggests using memory as a tool for personal reflection as well as for political action would strengthen the rights and voices of those who use social work.