Social Work and Common Sense

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Endorsements
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
	Social work, ‘received ideas’, ‘uncommon sense’
	Social work common sense in the neoliberal institutionalised order
	Concerns underpinning the book
	Introducing Gramsci
	Chapter map
	Reflection and Talk Box 1
2 Theorising common sense
	Introduction
	A potted history of common sense
	Common sense as a bulwark against ideology, evil and stupidity: Hannah Arendt
	Common sense, doxa , doxosophers: Pierre Bourdieu
	Common sense, good sense, hegemony and intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci
	Conclusion
	Reflection and Talk Box 2
3 History, common sense and the ‘unmarried mother’ in Ireland
	Introduction
	The emergence of the ‘social problem’ of the unmarried mother
	Conservative and patriarchal hegemony in the Irish Free State
	Constructing and organising common sense: the role of Richard S. Devane
	The Commission on the Relief of the Sick and Destitute Poor (1927): shaping dominant perceptions on the unmarried mother
	Conclusion
	Reflection and Talk Box 3
4 Bowlbyism, common sense and child attachment theory
	Introduction
	‘Plunging in’: Bowlby, the ‘social doctor’ and ‘permanent persuader’
	‘Design by nature’: the ‘turn’ to animal-based research
	The ‘most skilled job in the world’: crafting common sense on mothering and maternal deprivation
	Excavating Bowlby’s contemporary critics
	A ‘safari’ to Kampala and the babies in a Baltimore lab: Mary Ainsworth
	Assessing Bowlbyism: attachment and capitalist social reproduction
	Conclusion
	Reflection and Talk Box 4
5 Common sense creativity
	Introduction
	Thinking about the word ‘creativity’: a keywords approach
	Making contemporary ‘creativity talk’
	Creativity and contemporary common sense
	Conclusion
	Reflection and Talk Box 5
6 Social work, common sense and anti-anger ideology
	Introduction
	Against anger
	Against the ‘garden variety’ of anger and ‘payback’: Martha Nussbaum and ‘transitional anger’
	Problems with Nussbaum on anger
	Creating anger: annihilating, ignoring, silencing and muting
	Defending ‘knowing resistant anger’
	Conclusion
	Reflection and Talk Box 6
7 Common sense social work and the ambivalent allure of human rights
	Introduction
	The bogus idea that the law is socially ‘neutral’
	Marx and rights
	The ‘story’ of human rights
	Human rights as a distracting ‘screen discourse’
	Critiques of human rights from the global south
	Gramsci’s ‘war of position’ and the case for human rights plus (hr+)
	Conclusion
	Reflection and Talk Box 7
8 Colonial common sense and ‘decolonising’ social work
	Introduction
	Decolonisation
	Decolonising the university
	Eurocentrism
	Is Marxism ‘Eurocentric’?
	Coloniality and decoloniality
	Challenges facing ‘decolonising’ efforts
	Conclusion
	Reflection and Talk Box 8
9 Latin American challenges to the common sense of the global north
	Introduction
	Progressive pedagogy, ‘revolutionary futurity’ and the significance of the ‘thematic universe’: Paulo Freire
	The ‘coloniality of power’: Anibal Quijano
	An ‘entangled power structure’ and the ‘colonial/modern gender system’: Ramón Grosfoguel and María Lugones
	The philosophy of liberation: Enrico Dussel
	Postmodernists opening fire: Santiago Castro Gomez and Ofelia Schutte
	Decolonial de-linking, border thinking and gnosis: Walter Mignolo
	Cultural studies imports, state discourses on the indigenous and shallow multiculturalism: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
	Conclusion
	Reflection and Talk Box 9
10 Conclusion – towards a new common sense for social work?
	Introduction
	Looking backwards
	Returning to Gramsci
	Why common sense matters in social work
	The continuing struggle to shape common sense in contemporary social work education
References
Index