Social Work in a Glocalised World
This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. The volume brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa, the Philippines and Sweden. It proposes glocalisation as a useful concept for re-framing conditions, methodologies and practices for social work in a world perspective.
, Responses from Social Work as a Glocalised Profession, examines how social work has responded to specific social problems, crises and vulnerabilities in a glocalised world.
Mona Livholts is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies at Linkping University, Sweden, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Change, University of South Australia, and Founder and Coordinator of R.A.W., The Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies.
Lia Bryant is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia and is Director of the Centre for Social Change. She is Associate Professor in Social Work and Sociology.
Mona Livholts and Lia Bryants Social Work in a Glocalized World is a wonderful and timely book. A glocalised perspective is a whole way of framing social work, which we can no longer ignore. This volume walks the reader through the many ways in which the global and the local come together in forms of knowledge, practice and research methodology, drawing from diverse geopolitical regions, and weaving legal, economic, policy and discursive arguments together. The volume has a strong feminist voice. It expands social work views to include chapters on writing, participatory arts, and on film-making. I learned a lot from it, and I highly recommend it for teachers, students, practitioners, policy-makers and post-disciplinary learners.
Adrienne Chambon, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Social Work in a Glocalised World makes an important contribution to global discourse and the dialogues that flow from it. Too often social works involvement in global issues winds up masking or reproducing the very concerns that motivated its involvement. In large part, this is due to the application of traditional analyses and understandings and the absence of innovative critical approaches. In contrast, this book challenges such ways of thinking and the knowledge it produces and proposes alternative approaches to knowledge generation such as through new forms of writing and the arts. In doing so, the authors of this book make an important contribution to our understanding of global issues and open a space where new and more relevant responses to these issues can be developed.
Stanley L. Witkin, Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA and President, Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work.
Routledge Advances in Social Work
New Titles
Social Work in a Global Context
Issues and Challenges
Edited by George Palattiyil, Dina Sidhva and Mono Chakrabarti
Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice
Edited by Nicole Moulding and Sarah Wendt
Domestic Violence Perpetrators
Evidence-Informed Responses
John Devaney and Anne Lazenbatt
Transnational Social Work and Social Welfare
Challenges for the Social Work Profession
Edited by Beatrix Schwarzer, Ursula Kmmerer-Rtten, Alexandra Schleyer-Lindemann and Yafang Wang
The Ecosocial Transition of Societies
The Contribution of Social Work and Social Policy
Edited by Aila-Leena Matthies and Kati Nrhi
Responsibilization at the Margins of Welfare Services
Edited by Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari and Christopher Hall
Forthcoming Titles
Homelessness and Social Work
An Intersectional Approach
Carole Zufferey
Supporting Care Leavers Educational Transitions
Jennifer Driscoll
Social Work in a Glocalised World
Edited by Mona Livholts and Lia Bryant
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For students and teachers in the course Global and Transnational Social Work at Linkping University, Sweden, with great affection.
For Zeffie Summerton, for tirelessly working for social justice.
Contents
MONA LIVHOLTS AND LIA BRYANT
LIA BRYANT AND BRIDGET GARNHAM
JEF HEARN, KOPANO RATELE AND TAMARA SHEFER
SHEPARD MASOCHA
SONIA TASCN
MONA LIVHOLTS
LUCAS GOTZN
ELS-MARIE ANBCKEN
SINDI F. GORDON
LOT ALFREDS AND CHARLOTE BERG
PIVI TURUNEN
NILAN YU AND MARY LOU ALCID
SABINE GRUBER
BOB PEASE
LIA BRYANT AND MONA LIVHOLTS
Editors
Mona Livholts is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies at Linkping University, Sweden, Coordinator of R.A.W., The Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Change, University of South Australia. She has published monographs and co-edited and edited volumes in Swedish and English, including: Women, Welfare, Textual Politics and Critique: An Invitation to a ThinkingWriting Methodology in the Study of Welfare (2011, Lambert Academic Publishing); Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies (2012 (ed), Routledge); and Discourse and Narrative Methods: Theoretical Departures, Analytical Strategies and Situated Writing (2015, co-authored with M. Tamboukou, Sage); and a trilogy of untimely academic novellas: The Professors Chair , The Snow Angel and Other Imprints and Writing Water .
