Fakultät für Human- und Sozialwissenschaften

Publikationshinweis: Social Work & Society Vol. 21 No. 1 (2023)

13.10.2023|10:21 Uhr

Social Work Future(s) — What social work does the world need now?

Aus dem Editorial: 

The present seems to become endless: Multiple crises, not at least the climate crisis, seem to question the possibility of any a human future. More than that: Apocalyptic scenarios obscure the possibility of future in general. This present constellation goes hand in hand with the neoliberal way of life: The “citizen as consumer” (Nikolas Rose) is supposed to ignore the fact that each consuming act is changing the conditions for the future: the provision of cheap products often conveys the working conditions of people as well as the financialisation and privatisation of housing exacerbate the everyday life of families. So, the citizen consumer should live only in the present without reflecting the possibilities of a human future, following the neoliberal doctrine of present capitalism.

On the background of such an analysis of the present, the question of ‘the future’ is of main relevance for the humanity in general and for all societal aspects in specific – not at least in the fields of education and care: How to deal with a present, which has become endless? How to re-develop hope and action for a human future?

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