ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the movements that share an ideological commitment to social citizenry and social justice and are able to accommodate a range of social identities and interests, even those that exist in contradiction to each other. It focuses on attention to the paradoxes of the argument by contending that the idea of creating new possibilities for social and cultural life is really a cover-up hiding more sinister exploitative socio-political relations defined by powerful elites creating new patterns of inequality and social divisions. The impact of globalisation and contemporary conceptualisations of the postmodern condition are having and an enormous impact on social work scholarship and practice. Connecting with new social movements in a proactive way is an important concept for reclaiming collective action more generally. The chapter argues that for the embracing of global collective action as a way of reorienting radical social work and provide some direction for the politics of hope that are much called for in die current literature.
