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Visual Communication for Social Work Practice - Power, Culture, Analysis (Paperback)
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Visual Communication for Social Work Practice - Power, Culture, Analysis (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
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How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and
representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice,
research and education? Social workers are increasingly using still
and moving images to illustrate their work, to create new
knowledge, and to further specific groups' interests. As a
profession in which communication is central, visual practices are
becoming ever more significant as they seek to carry out their work
with, and for, the marginalised and disenfranchised. It is time for
the profession to gain more critical, analytical, and practical
knowledge of visual culture and communication, in order to use and
create images in accordance with its central principle of social
justice. That requires an understanding of them beyond
representation. As important as this is, it is also where the
profession's scholarly work in this area has remained and halted,
and thus understanding of the work of images in our practices is
limited. In order to more fully understand images and their effects
- both ideologically and experientially - social workers need to
bring to bear other areas of study such as reception studies,
visual phenomenology, and the gaze. These other analytical frames
enable a consideration not only of images per se, but also of their
effect on the viewer, the human spectators, and the subjects at the
heart of Social Work. By bringing understandings and experiences in
Film, Media, and Communications, Visual Communication for Social
Work Practice provides the reader with a wide range of critically
analytical frames for practitioners, activists, educators, and
researchers as they use and create images. This invites a deeper
knowledge and familiarity with the power dimensions of the image,
thus aligning with the social justice dimension of Social Work.
Examples are provided from cinema, popular media, but more
importantly from Social Work practitioners themselves to
demonstrate what has already been made possible as they create and
use images to further the interpersonal, communal, and justice
dimensions of their work. This book will be of interest to
scholars, students, and social workers, particularly those with an
interest in critical and creative methodologies.
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