SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic Globalization, Transphobia, Ableism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 302
• Professor: Janet Balfour

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What is social policy & how is it developed. Who can change it: typical actors include, pm of canada, cabinet members, politicians all three levels of government with acts/legislation (ex. Colonization: reading helps us to begin acknowledge the interconnectedness of colonization & social policy development, no policy w/o acknowledgment of colonization. Indigenous-settler relations in canada are one of colonial, unequal relations of power; colonial inheritance: not merely a historical reality, but found in ongoing practices & policies affecting indigenous. Peoples on a day-to-day basis: economic/capitalist roots interconnected in colonization land ownership & occupation resource extraction/ development, genocide/cultural genocide. How does this economic history relate to now: globalization extends this shift in policy & restricts nation state of sovereign power, ex. Social policy ideas: ofte(cid:374) de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds (cid:858)sol(cid:448)i(cid:374)g(cid:859) a (cid:272)luster of pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s, ex. Issues related to islamophobia, transphobia; privacy, identity theft: social movements develop over time and reflect desire to re-establish reciprocity, redistribution.