Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work

by Michal Krumer-Nevo

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with and for people in poverty. The author defines the core components of the Poverty-Aware Paradigm, explicates its embeddedness in key theories in poverty, critical social work and psychoanalysis, and links it to diverse facets of social work practice. Providing a revolutionary new way to think about how social work can address poverty, she draws on the extensive application of the paradigm by social workers in Israel and across diverse poverty contexts to provide evidence for the practical advantages of integrating the Poverty-Aware Paradigm into social work practices across the globe.

274 pages, Paperback

Published July 20, 2020

Reviews

[Bettina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book teaches a radical approach to poverty as a human rights violation and the need to relate to people living in poverty not from a position of power and judgment but one of recognition, which includes listening to what they have to say and what they know. The author manages not to preach, while demanding change from the established social-work/ helping apparatus.
Fascinating read! (also for persons who are not social workers, like myself, but interested in ways to make society more just...)
a befitting first book for this year!