The Routledge handbook of postcolonial social work. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz, Ndangwa Noyoo, Benjamin Bunk, Annika Dittmann, Boitumelo Seepamore.
• Other Names: Kleibl, Tanja; Lutz, Ronald, 1951-; Noyoo, Ndangwa, 1968-; Benjamin, Bunk; Annika, Dittmann; Boitumelo, Seepamore
• Contents: Introduction: setting the scene for critical new social work approaches in the neoliberal postcolonial era (Tanja Kleibl & Ndangwa Noyoo); Section I; Postcolonial Social Work: Perspectives and Approaches; Introduction: Postcolonial Social Work. Perspectives and Approaches (Tanja Kleibl); 1. Colonisation as collective trauma: fundamental perspectives for social work (Francine Masson and Linda Smith); 2 . The relevance of Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire for a postcolonial education politics (Peter Mayo); 3. Colonialism and the colonisation of childhood in the light of postcolonial theory (Manfred Liebel); 4. Social work co-option and colonial borders (Linda Briskman); 5. Development. A postcolonial approach (Ronald Lutz); 6. Towards a decolonial feminist approach to social work education and practice (Roxane Caron and Edward Ou Jin Lee); Section II; Postcolonial social work and social movements; Introduction: Postcolonial social work and social movements; (Benjamin Bunk); 7. Conceptualizing the relation of postcolonial social work and social movements: subaltern answers from within exclusion and the theoretical ambivalence between postcolonial critique and social work practice (Benjamin Bunk); 8. Orientations from social movements: a postcolonial feminist perspective on human trafficking and social work (Anne C. Deepak); 9. Epistemic decoloniality as a pedagogical movement: a turn to anticolonial theorists such as Fanon, Biko and Freire (Linda Harms Smith); 10. Heterogenity within social movements: a reflection on pre, post, anti, and decolonial feminisms and womanisms emerging from Africa (Shahana Rasool); 11. Collective learning in and from social movements: the Bhopal Disaster survivors (Eurig Scandrett); 12. Social movements as pedagogical spaces: „Só lixo – just waste". The transformation of normative orientations under conditions of change between biographical plausibility and social evidence in Brazilian recycling cooperatives; (Benjamin Bunk); Section III; Indigenisation; Introduction: Indigenisation (Ronald Lutz); 13. Latin American social work as part of the struggles against professional imperialism (Gianinna Muñoz Arce); 14. We are beauty and we walk in it: Native American women in leadership roles (Hilary Weaver); 15. Liberation from mental colonisation: a case study of the indigenous people of Palestine (Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Amani I. Amro); 16. Border thinking and social work in practice – is it possible? A deconstructive perspective of a case example (Anna Pfaffenstaller and Jacques Love Babatoundé Zannou); 17. Whose society, whose work? Seeking decolonised social work in Nepal (Mel Gray and Raj Kumar Yadav); 18. The relevance and purpose of social work in Aboriginal Australia – post- or decolonisation (Dawn Bessarab and Michael Wright); 19. Women’s empowerment: unravelling the cultural incompatibility myth in Zimbabwe (Rose Jaji and Tanja Kleibel); 20. Pushing for autonomous African development (Ndangwa Noyoo); Section IV; Case studies and innovation from Africa; Introduction: Postcolonial social work in Africa (Ndangwa Noyoo); 21. Decolonising social work practice and social work education in postcolonial Africa (Ndangwa Noyoo); 22. Social work with communities in Uganda: indigenous and innovative approaches (Janestic M. Twikirize); 23. Social work in Southern Africa in the postcolonial era: rekindling debate on the quest for relevance (Rodreck Mupedziswa); 24. Postcolonial dimensions of social work in Central African Republic and its impact on the life of hunter-gatherer children and youth – a critical perspective (Urszula Markowska-Manista); 25. A collaborative partnership as an effective model of foster care – a case from Alexandra Township in South Africa (Boitumelo Khothatso Seepamore and N. Seepamore); 26. Complementary and indigenous practices for advancing social work with vulnerable communities in South Africa (Yasmin Turton ); 27. Decolonisation of community development in South Africa (Kefilwe Johanna Ditlhake); 28. The search for relevance: social work supervision in a social development approach in South Africa (Mpumelelo Ncube and Ndangwa Noyoo); Conclusions; Problems, challenges and the way forward in accepting and thinking postcolonial within social work systems ( Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz, Ndangwa Noyoo, Boitumelo Seepamore, Annika Dittmann and Benjamin Bunk); Index
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (377 pages)
• Subjects: 361.309172/4; Social service -- Practice -- Developing countries; Social service -- Practice -- Cross-cultural studies; Postcolonialism -- Developing countries; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work; Postcolonialism; Social service -- Practice; Developing countries; Electronic books; Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429888625; 0429888627; 9780429468728; 0429468725; 9780429888618; 0429888619; 9780429888601; 0429888600
• Related ISBNs: 1138604070; 9781138604070
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 04, 2019).
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