The Politics of Representation: Social Work Lessons From the Advocacy

The regime of Representation Social Work Lessons From the Advocacy Planning Movement In urban plannings new political awareness, representation became a hearty certificate of indebtedness issue. This new understanding of politics and cordial responsibility in urban planning may have brought boundary interaction between planners and opposite professions, such as societal work IntroductionIn his 1995 article, Andrew Abbott explores his evolving desire of the genial work profession. As we approach the new millennium, Abbotts conception becomes strikingly relevant. In brief review, Abbotts first nonion posits that social work is a profession of interstitiality. In this context, social workers translate and mediate between collogues in highly technical professions and their own social work clients. Abbott refers to this relationship as a social work of boundaries (Abbott, 1995). As the boundaries between other professions change, the social work interstitiality changes as wel l - coined by Abbott the boundaries of social work. Abbott writes the function of social work, like those of other professions, emerged from a continuous conflict and change (Abbott, 1995, p. 552). As examples, Abbott related aspects of conflicts in which social work gained or lost sub-fields to live professions. Abbotts third conception admits that both of his previous notions fail to address the communication channel of the modern social work profession. In his subsequent exploration of social work origins, Abbott suggests that other professions solidified before social work did, creating the boundaries from which social work emerged (Abbott, 1995). Abbotts three conceptions share the theme that social work does not stand alone as a professi... ...e and the Urban Crisis. naked as a jaybird York Pantheon Books.Piven, F. F. & Cloward, R. A. (1971). rule the Poor Functions of Public Welfare. New York Pantheon Books.Piven, F. F., Cloward, R. A. (1988). Why Americans Dont Vote. Ne w York Pantheon Books.Planners mesh. (1999). What is planners network? Planners Network Online. http//www.plannersnetwork.org/.Planning 58 (3). (March 1992). APA News, 36-38.Reiner, J. S., Reimer, E., & Reiner, T. A. (1963). Client analysis and the planning of public programs. journal of the American Institute of Planning 29 (4), 270-282.Wachs, M., ed. (1985). Ethics in Planning. New Brunswick, NJ Center for Urban Policy. Webber, M. M. (1973). Comprehensive planning and social responsibility Toward an AIP consensus on the professions roles and purposes. Journal of the American Institute of Planning, 232-241.