Dissenting Social Work

Abstract

First coined by Garrett (2021), dissenting social work (DSW) is an approach that draws on critical social theory and interrogates dominant ways of understanding the social world within the discipline and practice. It might, therefore, be interpreted as a leftist form of neo-social work, adding to those efforts aiming to push back against moves to limit the field of possibilities for educators and practitioners within social work. DSW contests the idea that those within social work ought to serve as merely the functional auxiliaries of capitalism and the institutional orders that it requires.

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