Subversive Action

Nilan Yu is a lecturer in social work at the University of South Australia. His research interests include critical practice, work in organizations, disability, labour migration, and human rights. One of his most recent works is a critical interrogation of Australian immigration policy.Deena Mandell teaches MSW and Ph.D. students as well as new field instructors in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. She also works to support the success and inclusion of students previously educated outside of North America. Her second book, Revisiting the Use of Self: Questioning Professional Identities, focuses on reflexivity as a key to just practices.

• Subversive Action: Extralegal Practices for Social Justice, edited by Nilan Yu and Deena MandellAcknowdgementsIntroduction: Introduction and Salt Making Nilan Yu and Deena MandellChapter 1: Social Justice and Social Work: Convergence and Divergence in the Wake of the Toronto G20 Deena Mandell and Alex HundertChapter 2: Challenging State Aggression against Indigenous Australians John TomlinsonChapter 3: Politicizing Welfare and Humanizing Politics: Social Workers Opposing Apartheid South Africa's Policies Thérèse Sacco and Jeanette SchmidChapter 4: Social Workers, Resistance and Martial Law in the Philippines: A View from Below Mary Lou AlcidChapter 5: Medha Patkar's Environmental Activism and Professional Social Work: Mass Legitimacy and Myopic Structures Manohar Pawar and Venkat PullaChapter 6: Challenging State's Authority and Reclaiming Citizenship: Challenging the Eviction and Deportation of Pavement Dwellers in Bombay, India Purnima George and Ferzana ChazeChapter 7: Nonviolent Resistance: The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil Wilder RoblesChapter 8: Subversive Education: Turning Coercive Encounters into Transformative Possibilities Martha Kuwee KumsaConclusion: Rights, Justice, the Law, and Extralegal Action Nilan YuAbout the ContributorsIndex