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Martínez Herrero, María Inés

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    Reconceptualizing social work in times of crisis: An examination of the cases of Greece, Spain and Portugal
    (SAGE Journals, 2014-07-01) Ioakimidis, Vasilios; Cruz Santos, Clara; Martínez Herrero, María Inés
    What started as a peripheral banking crisis in 2008 within five years triggered the deepest recession Europe has seen in decades, escalating to manifold socio-political crises. Under these circumstances, many social workers find themselves in a situation of extreme pressure and insecurity. Traditional theories and orthodox practices are now challenged by frontline social workers. This article explores such a ‘reconceptualization’ process, evaluating recent developments and changes in Spanish, Portuguese and Greek social work. We argue that the current crisis has generated a profound (re)politicization of social workers which leads to the redefinition of the core values and principles of social work.
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    El Trabajo Social en Inglaterra: ¿el principio y el fin de una profesión para la justicia social?
    (Ediciones Complutense, 2017-05-26) Martínez Herrero, María Inés
    Este artículo ofrece una discusión sobre el trabajo social en Inglaterra, país que se encuentra a la vanguardia del neoliberalismo, tanto a nivel de la estructura económica nacional como de la incorporación de nociones y prácticas neoliberales en el Trabajo Social. Para ello, se analizan en primer lugar los conceptos de “neoliberalismo” e “ideología neoliberal” y se explica a continuación en qué consiste y cómo se ha desarrollado en Inglaterra el “trabajo social neoliberal”. Por último, el artículo ofrece una breve discusión sobre algunas de las iniciativas y propuestas para la resistencia al neoliberalismo que se están desarrollando en el país y algunas conclusiones sobre la temática, destacando la importancia de tratar de evitar en otros países algunas de las circunstancias han llevado al trabajo social en Inglaterra a convertirse, en gran medida, en una profesión de control social al servicio de los intereses de los gobiernos “neoliberales” que se han sucedido desde los años 80 en este país.
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    Austerity and social work in Europe: listening to the voices of resistance
    (Policy Press, 2013-11-01) Ioakimidis, Vasilios; Martínez Herrero, María Inés; Yanardağ, Umut; Farrugia Bennett, Colette; Teloni, Dora
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    Human rights and social justice in social work education: a critical realist comparative study of England and Spain
    (Taylor & Francis, 2018-11-03) Martínez Herrero, María Inés; Charnley, Helen
    The history of social work as a profession and academic discipline is inextricably linked with principles of human rights (HR) and social justice (SJ). The Global Standards for social work education promote HR and SJ as unifying themes, yet there is little understanding of how these themes are embedded in social work education in specific national contexts. This article, based on empirical research in England and Spain, explores social work educators’ understandings of, and strategies used in learning and teaching about, HR and SJ. Using a critical realist framework, a web survey was followed by qualitative interviews with educators in each country to identify opportunities and challenges in stimulating students’ theoretical understanding of HR and SJ, and their application in practice. Findings show that prevailing neoliberal ideology has pervaded social work in both countries (more strongly in England) placing pressure on social work educators to convey narrow understandings of HR and SJ and to adopt increasingly bureaucratic and distant relationships with students. Identifying a range of factors informing educators’ understandings of HR and SJ, the research identifies spaces for strengthening the focus on HR and SJ in social work education. The article argues that while university-based social work education remains a fertile site for the deconstruction of neoliberal ideology that threatens the HR and SJ foundations of social work globally, social work and social work education require the development of a distinct, alternative, HR and SJ-based ideology.
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    Beyond Legalism in Turbulent Times: Re-grounding UK Social Work in a Richer International Human Rights Perspective
    (Springer, 2017-08-22) Martínez Herrero, María Inés; Nicholls, Jack
    Human rights have always been intrinsically woven into social work, but in the UK, often in a way that is either vague or wholly legalistic. In this article, we make a case for embedding a broader and richer concept of human rights in UK social work practice and education. We contrast the international social work perspective on human rights with that of UK professional codes and suggest that the narrow and uninterrogated conceptualisation of human rights in the UK may be acting as a barrier to UK social workers fully understanding and engaging with broader human rights agendas of the sort found in international practice. We argue for the merits of regrounding UK social work in this broader human rights concept, in which radical and emancipatory approaches can be underpinned by a common and unifying rights-orientated perspective. We make this argument, initially, in the context of the Human Rights Act 1998 remaining in UK law, which we see as entirely necessary for the protection of human rights in social work in the country, but insufficient for a broader, richer concept. We also, however, consider a scenario in which the Act is replaced by a British Bill of Rights and argue that such a development would present a further urgent need for embedding a broader human rights concept in UK social work. We close by setting out some of what such a concept might involve.