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  • 9 - Diversity, power and knowledge

  • Christine Morley, Queensland University of Technology, Phillip Ablett, Queensland University of Technology, Selma Macfarlane, Deakin University, Victoria
  • Book:
    Engaging with Social Work
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 266-305

  • Summary

    In this chapter we explore concepts and practices related to diversity. This is a complex terrain to navigate as we are all ‘diverse.’ However, diversity (or our differences) have personal, social and political effects; many of which involve power and engender various forms of inequality, privilege and oppression. Critical social workers have been considering the ‘dilemma of difference’ for decades. In 1985, for example, Martha Minow observed that, rather than avoiding this dilemma, we should ‘immerse ourselves in it’, not necessarily to seek a final resolution, but to engage in a ‘more productive struggle’ for equitable processes and outcomes’. Challenging privilege and oppression is at the heart of critical social work and our journey is both personal and professional as we grapple with how to respectfully listen, learn and engage in mutual consciousness-raising across difference, while advocating for social and systemic change to address inequality.