Sara Ashencaen Crabtree, Jonathan Parker
The Public and the Private, an Exploration of Zakāt and the Islamic Tradition for Contemporary Social Work Values and Practice
Číslo: 1/2022
Periodikum: Sociální práce
Klíčová slova: zakāt, Welfare State, austerity, values
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Anotace:
OBJECTIVES: The aims of the paper are to subject the ontologies of social welfare in Britain
to critical scrutiny, in respect of examining political ideologies of neoliberalism and austerity; and
the impact of these upon the value-driven role and remit of professional social work, which has
developed as an essential arm of the post-War, British Welfare State. THEORETICAL BASE:
Although the erosion of the Welfare State has been subject to a number of social policy critiques,
here the authors offer an alternative understanding of social welfare, as inspired by the Islamic
principle of zakāt. METHODS: This paper offers a conceptual, discursive analysis. OUTCOME:
Operating as a socio-religio-political concept, zakāt provides a sharply contrasting alternative
understanding to social weald, capitalism and the State, serving to reframe prevailing political
rationalisations and policy measures as that which are fundamentally harmful to social cohesion
in generating rising social need. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: Growing social need, artificially inflated through political ideology, carries ruinous implications for social work provision
in terms of State (un)accountability for social welfare and overtly politicised social work mandates.
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to critical scrutiny, in respect of examining political ideologies of neoliberalism and austerity; and
the impact of these upon the value-driven role and remit of professional social work, which has
developed as an essential arm of the post-War, British Welfare State. THEORETICAL BASE:
Although the erosion of the Welfare State has been subject to a number of social policy critiques,
here the authors offer an alternative understanding of social welfare, as inspired by the Islamic
principle of zakāt. METHODS: This paper offers a conceptual, discursive analysis. OUTCOME:
Operating as a socio-religio-political concept, zakāt provides a sharply contrasting alternative
understanding to social weald, capitalism and the State, serving to reframe prevailing political
rationalisations and policy measures as that which are fundamentally harmful to social cohesion
in generating rising social need. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: Growing social need, artificially inflated through political ideology, carries ruinous implications for social work provision
in terms of State (un)accountability for social welfare and overtly politicised social work mandates.