Poverty, wealth and no revolution in sight: Social work, community development and promoting the art of dissent as insurrection during the neoliberal era
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Kenkel, David
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2023-09-26
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Journal Article
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Aotearoa
New Zealand
community development
social welfare policy
wealth inequality
poverty
inequality
neoliberalism
political activism
New Zealand
community development
social welfare policy
wealth inequality
poverty
inequality
neoliberalism
political activism
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Kenkel, D. (2023).Poverty, wealth and no revolution in sight: Social work, community development and promoting the art of dissent as insurrection during the neoliberal era. Whanake: The Pacific journal of community development, 8(1), 17-34. ISSN 2423-009X. https://doi.org/10.34074/whan.008103
Abstract
This article explores the impact of neoliberalism on the linked areas of social work and community development practice, and makes the contention that practice is often poverty driven rather than poverty informed. Using notions of dissensus and insurrection, the argument is made that the authority of the neoliberal discourse on the social structures of Aotearoa New Zealand creates conditions in which revolutionary reform is difficult, leaving the better option of continuous, variously situated, insurrections and dissents against the neoliberal story that responsibility for fault is seated within individual families and communities rather than being a function of deliberately created policies that serve the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
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ePress, Unitec | Te Pūkenga
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https://doi.org/10.34074/whan.008103
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