Full Description
This book, sourced from the experience of the social work researchers, educators and practitioners, offers, for the first time from the Indian context, a reflexively situated and insightful pathways to social work research and theorising practice that underlines the importance of 'methodologies in fields of practice'- epistemologies, locationalities and positionalities embedded at varied sites of practices. This understanding is built on the observation that research capturing specific 'Fields of subjectivities' (rural tribal communities, women, children and youth, and persons with disabilities) located in the Indian contexts responds to social issues in complex and diverse situations - a relational ontology. It underscores the scope and new possibilities of research in the Social Work discipline, and its function in contextualizing 'fields of practice'. The strength of the book lies in capturing and visibilizing these varied sites of practices through 'research-practice continuum' approach while demonstrating the primacy of 'methodologies of practice' in building a social work knowledge i.e. democratic, emancipatory and locally empowering.
Accordingly, the book suggests that strengthening of social work research and theorising practice would entail recognition of 'methodologies in fields of practice' in the context. In doing so, the book underlines the need to take a decolonial approach and intends to strengthen practice-based knowledge for an immediate reference point for social work scholars, researchers, educators, practitioners, administrators and policymakers.
Contents
Acknowledgements.- List of Tables, Figures and Maps.- List of Abbreviations.- 1. Introduction - The Frame of Reference.- Part I: Social Work Research and Theorising Practice.- 2. Methodological Foundations for Social Work Research.- 3. Trends and Scope of Social Work Research for Practice: The Indian Experience.- 4. Research Methodology for Critical Social Work: A Review.- Part II: Negotiating with Methods and Fields.- 5. Non-Passive Field and the (attempt to) Reflexive Ethnography: Learnings from Ethnographic Exploration at Indo (Naga)-Myanmar Borderland.- 6. Why Do I Do What I Do? Home, Being and the Paradigm.- 7. Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Identity: An Ethnomusicological Exploration of Irulas in Attappady, Kerala.- 8. Reading 'Methodologies' in Tribes and Community Development Practice: Insights from the Peripheral/Endangered Tribe of Tripura.- 9. Methodological Insights from Studying Governing Commons: Towards Indigenous and Situated Methodologies.- Part III: Strengthening Community Development Research and Practice.- 10. Development as a Tool towards Epistemic Justice: Where Narratives Define Development.- 11. Pastoralism and Livelihood Resilience in Himalayan Region: Evidence from Changpa Community of Korzok Village, Leh Ladakh.- Part IV: Framing Child and Youth Practice and Research.- 12. Adolescent Well-being and Practice: Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy of Nalanda Way Foundation.- 13. Hlamzuih (Infant Death) Practice in Mizoram: A Case for Cultural-Human Rights-Based Social Work.- Part V: Contextualising Feminist Research and Practice.- 14. Shadows within Shadows: Domestic Violence Interventions in the Context of Conflict in Kashmir through Special Cell for Women Approach.- 15. Unravelling Lived Realities of Dalit Single Women of Beed, Maharashtra: Towards Dalit Feminist Research and Praxis.- 16. Towards Indigenous Feminist Research Approach in Northeast India: A Self-Reflective Engagement with Yelhou Nuramlon.- 17. Enhancing Support for Women in Prison: Social Justice and Care in Social Work Methods.- 18. Women's Experiences with Jail at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh: A Case for Feminist Research.- Part VI: Deepening Disability Studies and Practice.- 19. Breaking Barriers: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Women's Sexuality in Sri Lanka with a Focus on Women with Disabilities.- 20. A Rapid Review of Social Stigma Among Persons with Learning Disability: Towards a Framework for Disability Research in Global South.- Part VII: Situating Trans-gender Identities Research and Practice.- 21. Examining Queer Intimacies Using Queer-Feminist Standpoint in Social Research.- 22. Building the Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) Curriculum: An Exercise in Self-Disclosure, Positionality and Reflexivity.- Concluding Analysis.
