Challenging Oppression and Confronting Privilege: A Critical Approach to Anti-Oppressive and Anti-Privilege Theory and Practice

Challenging Oppression and Confronting Privilege is the definitive guide to anti-oppressive and anti-privilege social work, which is a prominent part of social work theory and practice today. Bob Mullaly and Juliana West examine the many forms that oppression and privilege can take at the personal, cultural, and structural levels. They outline the necessary practices and approaches that social work must adopt to fight against oppression and privilege, and to assist those who have been oppressed.

This much-anticipated new edition has been fully updated and revised to include a thorough discussion of privilege. The authors explore the practical implications of anti-oppression and anti-privilege - and share their own encounters with these concepts - in Case Example and Personal Experience boxes. Discussion questions encourage students to look at issues through a critical lens.


Author: Bob Mullaly, Juliana West
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/02/2018
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780199022328
ISBN10: 0199022321
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Work

About the Author

Bob Mullaly is emeritus professor in the Faculty of Social Work at University of Manitoba. Previously, he taught in the Department of Social Work at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, and in the social work program that he founded at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is also the author of The New Structural Social Work (OUP Canada, 2007).
Juliana West is assistant professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at Thompson Rivers University. Her work has appeared in publications from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives and the FORUM on Corrections Research. She is a three-time recipient of the University of Manitoba Teaching Services' Teaching Excellence Award (2008, 2011, 2012). Prior to completing her Ph.D, she acted as a policy advisor for both Alberta Mental Health and Correctional Services Canada, and is the former director of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary.