Description
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.
Part I of the volume, 'The Glocalisation of Social Issues', deals with major environmental, social and cultural issues – migration and human rights, environmental problems and gendered violence. Part II, 'Methodological Re-Shaping and Spatial Transgression in Glocalised Social Work', develops an epistemology of situated knowledge and methodologies inspired by art, creative writing and cultural geography, focusing on physical, material and emotional spatial dimensions of relevance to social work. Part III, '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.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Social Work in a Glocalised World
Mona Livholts and Lia Bryant
Part I: The Glocalisation of Social Issues
Chapter 2: Glocal Terrains of Farmer Distress and Suicide
Lia Bryant and Bridget Garnham
Chapter 3: Gendered Globalisation and Violence
Jeff Hearn, Kopano Ratele and Tamara Shefer
Chapter 4: Globalisation and Glocalised Policies for Asylum Seekers: A Comparative Analysis of Australia and the UK
Shepard Masocha
Chapter 5: ‘The Humanitarian Gaze’, Human Rights Films and Glocalised Social Work
Sonia Tascon
Part II: Methodological Re-Shaping and Spatial Transgressions in Glocalised Social Work
Chapter 6: ‘What we learn how to see’: A Politics of Location and Situated Writing in Glocalised Social Work
Mona Livholts
Chapter 7: Geographies of Anger and Fear: Exploring the Affective Atmospheres of Men’s ‘Domestic’ Violence
Lucas Gottzén
Chapter 8: Loss and Grief in Global Social Work: Autoethnographic Explorations of the Case of the Tsunami Catastrophe in Northeastern Japan March 2011
Els-Marie Anbäcken
Chapter 9: Writing from the Self and the Liberatory Process of Reformulating Identities that Extends to and Beyond the Migratory Experience
Sindi Gordon
Chapter 10: Social Sculpture through Dreams and Conversations: Creating Spaces for Participatory and Situation Specific Art Based Methods
Lott Alfreds and Charlotte Åberg
Part III: Responses from Social Work as a Glocalised Profession
Chapter 11: Community Work as a Socio-Spatial Response to the Challenge of Glocal Segregation and Vulnerability
Päivi Turunen
Chapter 12: Protecting the Rights of Overseas Filipino Workers: Social Work Beyond National Borders
Nilan Yu and Mary Lou Alcid
Chapter 13: International Migration and National Welfare Institutions: Doulas as Border Workers in Obstetric Care in Sweden
Sabine Gruber
Chapter 14: Undoing Privilege in Transnational Social Work: Implications for Critical Practices in the Local and Global Context
Bob Pease
Chapter 15: Conclusion: Glocality and Social Work: Methodological Responsiveness to Moments of Rupture
Lia Bryant and Mona Livholts
Index
