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This book analyses the role of war and violence (in both its physical and symbolic forms) for social work in a time of neoliberal globalisation from a social justice perspective. It argues that the consequences of wars, in both their old and new forms, and the exercise of symbolic violence for the practices of social work at national and global levels have been ignored. This work explores the relationship between recent neoliberal and global transformations and their consequences for intensifying ’new wars’ and conflicts in non-Western countries on the one hand, and the increasing symbolic violence against marginalised people with immigrant and non-Western background in many Western countries, on the other. The analytical approach of the book, based on the theories of multiple modernities and symbolic violence, is unique since no other work has applied such theoretical perspectives for analysing inequalities in relation to the condition of lives of non-Western people living in Western and non-Western countries. This is a necessary contribution for social work education and research since the discipline needs new theoretical perspectives to be able to meet the new challenges raised by recent global transformations and neoliberal globalisation.

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Through masterful critical scholarship Masoud Kamali brings together discourses on war, violence, racism, xenophobia, geopolitics, multiple modernities, neoliberalism and biopolitical policing. Post-colonial theorizations are deftly interwoven to evidence unequal power relations, socio-economic disparities, the human costs of war, and powerful dynamics of othering, and the implications of these for critical and radical social work pedagogy, research and practice. Persuasive reading! - Vishanthie Sewpaul, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa A broad, insightful and provocative exploration of a series of contemporary issues that have hitherto been neglected in existing social work literature. Kamali's book challenges us to consider how war, in our current iteration of society, is as inevitable as it is deleterious for some and profitable for others... this is a significant and, most importantly, a timely addition to the literature on these issues. - David McKendrick, Glasgow Caledonian University,Scotland, Critical Social Policy

'Through masterful critical scholarship Masoud Kamali brings together discourses on war, violence, racism, xenophobia, geopolitics, multiple modernities, neoliberalism and biopolitical policing. Post-colonial theorizations are deftly interwoven to evidence unequal power relations, socio-economic disparities, the human costs of war, and powerful dynamics of othering, and the implications of these for critical and radical social work pedagogy, research and practice. Persuasive reading!' Vishanthie Sewpaul, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

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Masoud Kamali is Professor of Social Work and Sociology at Mid Sweden University. He is the author of Racial Discrimination: Institutional Patterns and Politics (2008); Multiple Modernities: The Case of Iran and Turkey (2006); and Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process (1998).

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