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  • Hope during and Post-Disasters: Social Work’s Role in Creating and Nurturing Emancipatory Hope

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    Author(s)
    Boddy, Jennifer
    O’Leary, Patrick
    Panagiotaros, Chris Victor
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    Boddy, Jennifer
    O'Leary, Patrick J.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    Disasters pose fundamental tests to human resilience not only for physical survival but also on socio-political civility. Internationally, armed conflict remains a significant problem for human security causing humanitarian crises, such as forced migration and food shortages. Globally, there is an increasing recognition that disasters have moved from random events of nature to an increased consciousness that human activity has escalated the frequency and severity of climate catastrophes such as wildfires, famines, storms and rising sea levels. Alongside communities, social work has a critical role to play in preparing and ...
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    Disasters pose fundamental tests to human resilience not only for physical survival but also on socio-political civility. Internationally, armed conflict remains a significant problem for human security causing humanitarian crises, such as forced migration and food shortages. Globally, there is an increasing recognition that disasters have moved from random events of nature to an increased consciousness that human activity has escalated the frequency and severity of climate catastrophes such as wildfires, famines, storms and rising sea levels. Alongside communities, social work has a critical role to play in preparing and responding to disasters and working with people to rebuild, maintain and achieve their hopes. This article broadens social work’s orientation to hope beyond the therapeutic ‘installation of hope’ by including emancipatory hope in the context of disasters and recovery. Drawing from Braithwaite’s work, this article describes a framework for practice, which advocates for the strategic integration of cognitive change (aligned with Snyder’s view of hope) and structural change (aligned with emancipatory hope) that social workers could mobilise before, during and after disasters. We argue that whilst social workers must build individual psychological hope, this cannot be done without structural change and advocacy to enable viable pathways for achieving hopes.
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    Journal Title
    The British Journal of Social Work
    Volume
    51
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab140
    Copyright Statement
    © 2021 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Hope during and Post-Disasters: Social Work’s Role in Creating and Nurturing Emancipatory Hope, British Journal of Social Work, 2021, 51 (5), pp. 1917-1934 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab140.
    Subject
    Social work
    Sociology
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/406816
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