SWRK 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: European Colonialism, Sharia, History Revisited
11 Apr 2017
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They simply could not survive without help: colonialism was (and still is) the site of false distinctions/categories which create colonizers and colonized, superior and inferior, civilized and uncivilized, along the lines of racialization and race. Orientalism: the study of the east that we do in the west, the west cannot be the west without the east (needs an other/ needs an opposite) Public assistance was made to be cruel and demeaning, in order to motivate lazy people to get back to work (undeserving). Why are categories so important: the history of social work begins with the power to categorize poor people as deserving/unde- serving. Child services (who is a bad parent? who is a good parent?) Poor laws revisited: canada"s current social welfare system was developed and is rooted in poor law principles, public relief should be residual, in order to discourage pauperism.
