Stephen A. Webb

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'Social Work Futures: Politics, Technology and Environment'

Series editors, Professor Stephen A. Webb, Professor Heather Lynch and Dr Tina Wilson in association with Edward Elgar Publishers.

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This 2009 editor invited article caused quite a stir because it argued against prevailing postmodern trends in ethics
‘Against Difference and Diversity in Social Work: The Case of Human Rights’, Editors Invited Article, in International Journal of Social Welfare, Vol.18, No.2, pp.307-316.

The Empowerment of Informal Female Workers: A Case Study for Social Work Intervention in Tehran Province The aim of the present study is to understand the mechanisms that lead to deprivation and how formalisation can empower informal female workers. The study

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Might be interested? Written with Iranian colleagues.
'The empowerment of informal female workers: A case study for social work intervention in Tehran province' (2022) (with Fatemeh Jaafari & Sarah Aryaee), British Journal of Social Work, bcac029, doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...

Persons and Things | Paragraph The present article delineates how the Roman and Christian dispositif of the person has increasingly brought about a neat division between persons and things. This has had devastating effects for both...

Worth debating the political philosopher Roberto Esposito's argument that there is no such thing as a "person".
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He examines how Roman law, Christian theology, and modern philosophy have shaped our understanding of persons and things

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı

60 German universities leaving X incl. Dusseldorf Heinrich Heine University, Freie Universitat Berlin, Humboldt University, Heidelberg University, Muenster University, RWTH Aachen University, the German Sport University Cologne, & European University Viadrina Frankfurt
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Social Work in a Risk Society This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspiciou…

My first single authored 'Social Work in a Risk Society: Social and Political Perspectives' by Palgrave while working at Sussex in 2005. It draws on themes from Ulrich Beck, Giddens, Rose to explore the impact of risk society and neo liberalism on social work.
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One of my earliest publications in the British Journal of Social Work focusing on problems with the Kantian code of ethics adopted by the British Association of Social Workers.
‘A Political Critique of Kantian Ethics in Social Work’, (1989) in British Journal of Social Work, Vol.20, No.1.

Earlier paper making the argument for the distinctive ethical base of social work.
Webb, Stephen. (2015). Social Workers as ‘Strong Evaluators’: Rethinking Moral Sources and Professional Identity. International Journal of Social Science Studies. 3. 10.11114/ijsss.v3i6.1144.

New journal article
Does social work really want to dance with zombies?

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