In social work in times of neoliberalism - a postmodern discourse,
the authors use the methodology of critical discourse analysis to
discern the way in which three discourses - that of professional
social work, and those of managerialism and the market - interact
in a specific microcontext, that is, welfare in post-apartheid
South Africa. Tracing the social, political, economic and
ideological factors that have impacted the development of social
work from both a global and a local perspective, the authors
identify the historical and contemporary conflicting and competing
strands and epistemological positions in social work. Of particular
relevance is the unpacking of the influence of these on the
self-conceptualisation of social work. They conclude with arguments
for developing local resistance to the effects of globalisation and
propose alternative postmodernist emancipatory discourses for
social welfare and social work.
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