The End of Justice and the Last Brand

Abstract

Social work has begun to lose its handle on justice for two reasons: first, the profession has claimed its self-protective place among knowledge workers and second, because it has emptied the term “justice” of meaning. These developments find their parallel counterpart in the culture at large where justice has become trivialized within a liquid modernity found in the marketplace of television, the Internet, and the social.

Key Words:

• Knowledge workers
• postmodern
• commodification
• claimsmaking
• ludic