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The Routledge International Handbook of Radical Ethical Social Work
Author(s): Jeanette Schmid (Editor), Marina Morgenshtern
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 4 May 2026
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 476 pages
- ISBN-10: 1041030223
- ISBN-13: 9781041030225
Book Description
This volume offers an initial articulation of radical, ethical social work as a socially transformative response to societal divisions and polarisation.
The contributors conceptualise this interstitial space of the radical and ethical as acutely sensitive to power relations, systemic harms, and diverse epistemologies and ontologies while being relational, contextual, compassionate, and informed by oppositional consciousness and revolutionary hope. The 30 chapters are spread across three sections: Theorizing Radical, Ethical Social Work; Academic Contexts; and Practical Contexts. In disrupting assumed positions and orthodoxies and making visible tensions and contradictions in contemporary social work, this book suggests greater complexity, nuance, and possibility, whilst promoting novel, unique social work responses and dialogue.
Presenting a new politics of social work, this Handbook will motivate social work scholars, educators, practitioners, students, and policy makers towards complex, critical, relevant, transformative, socially just, decolonised, ethical social work engagement.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This volume on radical, ethical social work is most welcome. In these deeply divided times of hate‑imbued technology and politics, it is uplifting to know that social workers still cling to their ideals of human rights, social justice, and peaceful co‑existence.”
Mel Gray, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Newcastle, Australia, AU
“The Routledge International Handbook of Radical Ethical Social Work renews the moral and political purpose of social work for a polarized world. By bringing the radical and the ethical into a shared, evolving space, it illuminates new pathways for reflective, compassionate, inclusive, and transformative practice. This kaleidoscopic volume resists injustice while nurturing solidarity, reparation, and mutual accountability across diverse contexts. Grounded in humility, hope, and decolonial engagement, it redefines social work as a living practice of moral courage and relational responsibility―one that listens, stands alongside, and acts with dignity and care for people and the planet.”
Antoinette Lombard, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Social Work, University of Pretoria, ZA; President, International Association for Schools of Social Work (IASSW)
“This edited volume offers a thought‑provoking exploration of the complex intersections between the radical and ethical dimensions of social work.”
Nilan Yu, PhD, UniSA Justice & Society, University of South Australia, AU
About the Author
Jeanette Schmid is a research fellow for the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg and retired Social Work Professor at Vancouver Island University. She is a seasoned social work researcher, consultant, practitioner, and educator with a strong interdisciplinary focus.
Marina Morgenshtern is an Associate Professor and Dean at Trent University Durham-GTA. She is a former chair of the Department of Social Work at Trent University.
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