Abolition & Social Work
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GSSW doctoral candidate and faculty members contribute to new anthology exploring abolition and social work
Three University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work faculty members and a doctoral candidate are contributors to the forthcoming book Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care (Haymarket Books, 2024).
Edited by Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen and Durrell M. Washington, the book explores the debates, conundrums and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.
- Assistant Professor Autumn Asher BlackDeer coauthored the chapter “Abolition: The Missing Link in Historical Efforts to Address Racism and Colonialism Within the Profession of Social Work.”
- Assistant Professor Sophia Sarantakos authored a chapter on “Reaching for the Abolitionist Horizon Within White Professionalized Social-Change Work.”
- Associate Professor Ramona Beltrán and doctoral candidate Annie Zean Dunbar coauthored “Indigenist Abolition: Strategies for Decolonization, Healing, and Imagination in Social Work Practice.”
You can preorder a copy from Haymarket Books, which has raised more than $30 million for local bookstores and is offering a 40%-off promotion for books on the struggle for Black liberation. Faculty interested in adopting Haymarket titles for their courses can request exam and desk copies.
