Decolonizing Social Work: From Theory to Transformative Practice: Tanja Kleibl: Bloomsbury Academic

Decolonizing Social Work

From Theory to Transformative Practice

Open Access

Decolonizing Social Work

From Theory to Transformative Practice

Open Access

Description

This open access edited collection provides a long-overdue examination of a practice that is continuously involved in managing, regulating, and subordinating individuals and communities.

While it is well established that neoliberal systems of population management are designed to target the “constructed other,” there is considerably less research examining how social work in particular interacts with the vestiges of colonialism to further this practice. Gathering social work scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection offers a geographically diverse array of ambitious and insightful theoretical, conceptual, and practical discussions of how social work can perpetuate the afterlives of colonialism and of how this can be reversed. In so doing, this book not only provides in-depth, empirically grounded critiques of – and antidotes to – various policies for managing people at the margins of society, it also makes a compelling case for always keeping the complexity of colonial continuity in conversation with neoliberal systems of governance. As these chapters show, it is only by keeping the full complexity of such confluences in mind that social inequality and institutional racism can be understood and that possibilities for change can emerge.

For its fundamental contributions to the literature on postcolonial social work, this is essential reading for social work researchers and postgraduates; and for its plainspoken tone and practical recommendations, it is a go-to source for social work practitioners eager to align their own everyday work with the demands of global justice.

Theebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Introduction: The Relevance of Decolonising Social Work: Critical Reflections on Colonial Pasts, Post-Colonial Presents and Decolonial Futures

Section 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Discussions

Chapter 1: Epistemic Violence and Epistemic and Civil Disobedience in Social Work - Mechtild Exo, University of Emden/Leer, Germany

Chapter 2: 'Indigenous Knowledge' is Pejorative After All!: A Blind Spot in Social Work? - Jacques Zan-nou, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany

Chapter 3: What Can We Learn by Considering the Historical and Ongoing Relationships Between Colonial Violence and Racialized Capitalism? - Franziska Baumbach, Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences, Germany

Chapter 4: Anthropocene and Posthumanism: A Challenge for Internationalized Social Work - Ronald Lutz, Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Chapter 5: Multiplicity of Story Telling - Cynthia Tobierre, Kimberley Caruth, Lara Bloom & Lake Gledhill

Chapter 6: Childhood and Adolescence Beyond Euro-centric Perspectives - Isabelle Ihring, Protestant University of Applied Science Ludwigsburg, Germany

Chapter 7: Epistemological Decolonisation: Transcending Epistemic Violence and Foregrounding Local Knowledges in Social Work - Linda Harms-Smith, University of Pretoria, South Africa, & Robel Afeworki Abay, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Chapter 8: Understanding Epistemic Violence: Possibilities for Decolonisation in German Academia - Anastasia Paschalidou & Chaitali Das, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Section 2: Social Work as a Transformative Discipline and Practice

Chapter 9: Academic Activism for Social Work: A Model for Emotional Reparation - Zoe Thomas, University of Bradford, UK

Chapter 10: Social Work and Its (Post)Colonial Heritage: A Historical Research Lab - Dayana Lau, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Germany

Chapter 11: Indigenous Commons and Ecological Justice in Social Work - Jason Leung, Benguet State University, Philippines, and Melinda Madew, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg, Germany

Chapter 12: Decolonisation and Ecological Justice in Social Work - Chaitali Das & Yari Or, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Chapter 13: Evidencing the Erasure: The Subaltern as a Writing Problem for Social Work. A Reading from the Peasant Women from Antioquia and Cundinamarca, Colombia - Ariel Camilo González Moreno & Laura Daniela Toncón Chaparro, Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca University, Colombia

Chapter 14: Transformative Practice and Social Work: Lessons from the Global Justice Movements - Christian Schröder, Saarland University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Chapter 15: Decolonising Social Work in the Post-Conflict-Ridden Democratic Republic of Congo through a Culturalist and Praxeological Approach - Murhula G. Kapalata, Mutama N. Kabesha, Kaganda P.Mulumeoderhwa, Agino C. Foussiakda & Balegamire J. Bazilashe, Université Evangelique UEA-Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Chapter 16: Decolonising Social Work from the Environmental Dimension - Claudia Usaquén Lanche-ros, Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca University, Colombia, Ana Patricia Quintana Ramírez, National University of Colombia and Nelida Ramírez Naranjo, Catholic University of Maule, Chile

Product details

Published	Sep 05 2024
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	224
ISBN	9781350366459
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Decolonizing the curriculum can become just a slogan but in this collection it is given life through a wide array of contributions from and for a radical transformative social work practice from a global perspective. Obligatory reading for professional social workers and social work activists alike.

Professor Ronaldo Munck, Dublin City University, Ireland