Published In
Critical and Radical Social Work
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
12-1-2025
Subjects
Social work -- disobedience
Abstract
The abstract is translated in Arabic below. Social work cannot meaningfully claim a commitment to justice, human dignity, and the worth of people while simultaneously remaining committed to colonial logics. Recognizing and resisting collusion with settler colonialism demands structural shifts in knowledge production, curriculum, practice, and institutional alignment. This article speaks to organized social work’s collusion with the zionist project of Palestinian erasure amid the ongoing Nakba and genocide. Since Palestinian social workers are living and surviving genocide as they practice social work, worn binaries, such as provider–client, are unsettled in ways that make a Palestinian feminist praxis of social work visible. This article begins with a nod to the overwhelming global social work collusion with the ongoing Nakba and accelerated genocide in Palestine. This article offers an initial articulation of a Palestinian feminist praxis of social work as epistemic disobedience, refusal to be disappeared, and Palestinian insistence on life.
Rights
© Author 2025 Published by Policy Press
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DOI
10.1332/20498608Y2025D000000099
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/44463
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Citation Details
Published as: Wahab, S. (2025). Social work in times of genocide: a Palestinian feminist praxis of social work. Critical and Radical Social Work, 13(4), 635–655. https://doi.org/10.1332/20498608y2025d000000099
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Post print: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published as: Social work in times of genocide: a Palestinian feminist praxis of social work. Critical and Radical Social Work, 13(4), 635–655.