Critical Reflexivity and Moral Regulation. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Badwall, Harjeet
• Is Part Of: Journal of progressive human services. Volume 27:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 20
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Colonialism -- racialized social workers -- reflexivity -- whiteness; Social service -- United States -- Periodicals; Radicalism -- United States -- Periodicals; 361.97305
• DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2016.1108169
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1042-8232

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Critical reflexivity is a dominant practice framework in social work. It is designed to address the operation of power relations between social workers and their clients. However, I intend to shed light on a different set of concerns related to this practice. I examine the ways in which critical reflexivity can operate to re-inscribe colonial notions of moral superiority, and re-center whiteness within social work education and practice settings. Drawing on research I conducted with racialized social workers in Toronto, Canada, this article examines the ways in which critical reflexivity can operate as a governing technology to silence the operation of racism.