Editorial: Pandemic Social Work: Practice, Education, and Activism in the Time of COVID

Authors

  • Teresa Macías York University
  • Sobia Shaheen Shaikh Memorial University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48336/IJMELF4454

Keywords:

critical social work, COVID-19, neo-liberalism, pandemic, social work theory, social work praxis, social work analysis

Abstract

This editorial introduces the special issue Pandemic Social Work: Social Work Practice, Education, and Activism in the Time of COVID.

Author Biographies

Teresa Macías, York University

Teresa Macías is associate professor at the York University School of Social Work. She has a PhD from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE-University of Toronto. Her work deals with international human rights discourses, disappearances, torture, truth commissions, and compensation policies. Her research and teaching interests also include professional and research ethics, nation- and subject-making, and decolonial theories. She is the editor of Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences (Fernwood) and with Sobia Shaikh and Brenda François of Critical Social Work Praxis (Fernwood). She came to Canada as a political refugee and now lives in Ontario with her family.

Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, Memorial University

Dr. Sobia Shaheen Shaikh is a faculty member at the School of Social Work at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a social work educator, antiracist-feminist activist, researcher, mother and writer. As a community-engaged researcher, Sobia’s work focuses on supporting anti-racist and social justice praxes. Her scholarship spans across many different social concerns, including racism and racialization, violence against women, girls and non-binary folks, resettlement and relocation policy in coastal  Newfoundland and Labrador, transnational and global social and climate justice, disability-education policy and practice, and anti-racist and social justice praxes in advocacy and non-profit organizations

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Published

2021-12-12

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2021): Intersectionalities

Section

Introduction

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