RSW 2015-2025
Imagination is a promising concept – it suggests the infinite, an absence of boundaries, something new. A future we haven’t yet experienced, or a newly imagined past. To reimagine acknowledges the need for growth in our imagination, for change. Judith Butler (amongst others) talks about counter-imagining – the act of opposing the harmful and misinformed imaginations of others (Who’s Afraid of Gender?, 2024).
The RSW collective blog began 10 years ago with this intent – to oppose a poorly imagined, uninformed government restructure of Oranga Tamariki (then Child Youth and Family). The blog offered a platform for resistance and dissent; a space to reimagine the future of contemporary social work in Aotearoa and to offer radical and critical analysis during times of increasingly conservative political narratives.