Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work

The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice and education globally in the post-colonial era. By analysing how countries in the so-called developing and developed world have navigated some of the inherited systems from the colonial era, it shows how they have used them to provide relevant social work methods which are also responsive to the needs of a postcolonial setting.

This is an analytical and reflexive handbook that brings together different scholars from various parts of the world - both North and South - so as to distill ideas from scholars relating to ways that can advance social work of the South and critique social work of the North in so far as it is used as a template for social work approaches in postcolonial settings. It determines whether and how approaches, knowledge-bases, and methods of social work have been indigenised and localised in the Global South in the postcolonial era.

This handbook provides the reader with multiple new theoretical approaches and empirical experiences and creates a space of action for the most marginalised communities worldwide. It will be of interest to researchers and practitioners, as well as those in social work education.

List of 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 conditio

About the author

Tanja Kleibl is Professor of Social Work, Migration and Diversity at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS). Her research interest is in the area of political sociology, in particular postcolonial civil society, social movements, mobility, and international development. She has worked for various local and international NGOs and government agencies in Africa and beyond. She brings together 15 years of extensive practice and research experience in development cooperation and migration.

Ronald Lutz, Sociologist and Anthropologist, is Professor at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences since 1993. His fields of interest are in poverty, social politics, social development, and international relations.

Ndangwa Noyoo is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town. His research interests are in social policy, comparative social policy in Africa, social development, public policy, and Indigenous knowledge systems. He has published widely in the areas of social policy, social development, and related fields, especially, in the context of Africa and Southern Africa.
Benjamin Bunk holds a PhD in educational science (Jena). After extensive field research in Brazil (PUCRS), conducted as Junior Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Erfurt), he recently shifted to a postdoctoral position in pedagogical youth studies (University of Gießen). Besides social movements and social theory, he is dedicated to the philosophy of education and concepts of global citizenship education.
Annika Dittmann holds a Bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the University of Bamberg and a Master's degree in International Social Work from the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt. Currently she is working with female underage refugees.

Boitumelo Seepamore is a lecturer in the discipline of social work at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She teaches community work and draws her experience from the community work projects she has undertaken in her work with the communities of Soweto in Johannesburg, and KwaZulu-Natal.

Summary

The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice and education globally in the post-colonial era.

Report

'This collection on post-colonial social work from a Southern perspective is an original work on a most important topic. It is a volume that contributes greatly to global transformation in an era when critical thinking is discouraged. It is a must read for social work professionals and students as well as the wider audience engaged with critical development theory and practice. Highly recommended.' - Ronaldo Muck, Professor of Political Sociology, Dublin City University
'This book is timely and a precious gift to all who cherish dignified social and human development. It contains a powerful integrative elucidation of northern and southern philosophies ideas that creates a synthesis supportive of the dialogue of social development in the world. This book should be celebrated by all; students, practitioners, academicians, policy makers and especially the oppressed of the world as it carries a message of hope tinged with the realism that supports the creation of a brave new world for all.' - Lengwe-Katembula J Mwansa (PhD), Professor, University of Botswana, Department of Social work, Gaborone, Botswana
 

Product details

• Authors: Tanja Lutz Kleibl
• Assisted by: Benjamin Bunk (Editor), Annika Dittmann (Editor), Tanja Kleibl (Editor), Ronald Lutz (Editor), Ndangwa Noyoo (Editor), Noyoo Ndangwa (Editor), Boitumelo Seepamore (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367783785
• ISBN: 978-0-367-78378-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social Work, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies