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Environmentalism in Social Work

Environmentalism in Social Work I am designing an elective on environmentalism in social work; there are numerous directions that the course could take. In the social work literature, an emerging theme is the depiction of Indigenous peoples as the original environmentalists, best situated to mentor the profession. However, I argue that this bypasses the ways that ideologies of nature operate in political spaces. Indigenous social movements around land and resources face resistance and we must engage with interdisciplinary critiques of the dangers of simplistic conceptualizations of the environment to see the intense political struggles taking place. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Environmentalism in Social Work

Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 29 (4): 7 – Nov 1, 2014

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2014
ISSN
0886-1099
eISSN
1552-3020
DOI
10.1177/0886109914533697
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Abstract

I am designing an elective on environmentalism in social work; there are numerous directions that the course could take. In the social work literature, an emerging theme is the depiction of Indigenous peoples as the original environmentalists, best situated to mentor the profession. However, I argue that this bypasses the ways that ideologies of nature operate in political spaces. Indigenous social movements around land and resources face resistance and we must engage with interdisciplinary critiques of the dangers of simplistic conceptualizations of the environment to see the intense political struggles taking place.

Journal

Affilia: Journal of Women and Social WorkSAGE

Published: Nov 1, 2014

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