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Global challenges, opportunities and developing and new social phenomena have always had an impact on and change the circumstances under which social work is practised.
List of contents
0.Introduction.
PART I: Foundations and Perspectives. 1.Human Rights, Social Justice and Transformation Practice. 2.Social work - the importance of social, economic, political analysis to develop frameworks for intervention. 3.INvisible GOvernors? INGOs and the identity of social work in Lebanon. 4.(Re)Connecting Communities and Social Work: The power of Arts-Based Practice in a glocalised world.
PART II: Local Responses to Global Phenomena. 5.Humanitarian Partnerships in Crisis: Examining Social Care Worker-Refugee Collaboration for COVID-19 Mitigation in Rohingya Camps. 6.Food Insecurity and Alleviating Hunger. 7.Global social work for the promotion of sustainable urban housing. 8.Surviving in the Streets: Challenges and Solutions for Bangladeshi Street Children. 9.Street children's well-being and rights: The role of social work organisations in Accra, Ghana. 10.Loss and grief in the context of (forced) migration: Implications for international social work practice. 11.Working with Forcibly Displaced Individuals and Listening to their Voices. 12.The End of 'The War on Drugs?': The Engagement of Social Work in Global Drug Reform. 13.'Permanent Temporariness' through the lens of Intersectional Microaggression: A Framework for Social Work for Afghan Male Refugee students in Universities in Delhi.
PART III: Preparing social workers for Global-Local engagement. 14.Glocal Social Work Education: engaging with the Global Standards within local frameworks. 15.International social work placements: Mediating the local and the global. 16.Adapting Social Work Education to Respond to Local and Global Needs. 17.Imagined life of transnational Zimbabwe social workers in England. 18.Decolonising academic partnerships between the United Kingdom and East Africa - The Ubuntu partnership. 19.An Afrocentric parenting skills programme: A framework for a culturally responsive group work practice approach. 20.Decolonizing the "Well-being " Concept & Social Work Practice through the Lens of Buddhism. 21.Applying transnational feminism to international social work: Decolonizing practices in social work education, research and practice.
PART IV: Broader Issues and Future Directions. 22.Critical Race Theory and Decoloniality: Comparative Reflections of the Role of Race and Identity in Social Work Education and Society in The United States and South Africa. 23.Challenges and Opportunities to contemporary child protection system; key elements for child-centred systems. 24.Mental Health and International and National Politics. 25.The securitisation of the refugee crisis and attitudes towards refugees. 26.Harmonisation of Local Capacities and Global Standards in the Provision of Social Services - The Context of the Republic of Serbia. 27.Equitable and Sustainable Long Term Care Systems for Older People and Poverty Reduction in Sub Saharan Africa: A Social Work Response. 28.The struggle for knowledge: Human rights, education and community. 29.Ecosocial Challenges as an Opportunity to Rethink Social Work in a Critical Glocal Perspective.
About the author
Panagiotis Pentaris, Associate Professor of Social Work and Thanatology, Thanatology Research Lab & Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies, Goldsmiths University of London
Janet Walker, Professor of Social Work, School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln
