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Decolonizing Social Work

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Decolonizing Social Work

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Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major analytical and activist paradigm among many of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, including educators, tribal leaders, activists, scholars, politicians, and citizens at the grassroots level. Decolonization seeks to weaken the effects of colonialism and create opportunities to promote traditional practices in contemporary settings. Establishing language and cultural programs; honouring land claims, teaching Indigenous history, science, and ways of knowing; self-esteem programs, celebrating ceremonies, restoring traditional parenting approaches, tribal rites of passage, traditional foods, and helping and healing using tribal approaches are central to decolonization. These insights are brought to the arena of international social work still dominated by western-based approaches. Decolonization draws attention to the effects of globalization and the universalization of education, methods of practice, and international ’development’ that fail to embrace and recognize local knowledges and methods. In this volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous social work scholars examine local cultures, beliefs, values, and practices as central to decolonization. Supported by a growing interest in spirituality and ecological awareness in international social work, they interrogate trends, issues, and debates in Indigenous social work theory, practice methods, and education models including a section on Indigenous research approaches. The diversity of perspectives, decolonizing methodologies, and the shared struggle to provide effective professional social work interventions is reflected in the international nature of the subject matter and in the mix of contributors who write from their contexts in different countries and cultures, including Australia, Canada, Cuba, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA.

Author Biography:

Mel Gray is Professor of Social Work in the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW) at The University of Newcastle, Australia. John Coates is Professor of Social Work at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Michael Yellow Bird is Professor of Social Work at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA and is the Founder and previous Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples' Critical and Intuitive Thinking at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. Dr. Tiani Hetherington is Lecturer in Social Work at Griffith University, Australia. Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird, Tiani Hetherington, Vidya Rao, Ann Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa, Lourdes de Urrutia Barroso, David Strug, Flavio Francisco Marsiglia, Noreen Mokuau, Peter J. Mataira, Sahar Al-Makhamreh, Mary Pat Sullivan, Linda Kreitzer, Paula T. Tanemura Morelli, C. Malina Kaulukukui, Samantha Wehbi, Nicole G. Ives, Michael Thaweiakenrat Loft, Anaru Eketone, Shayne Walker, Jon K. Matsuoka, Hamilton McCubbin, Shawn Wilson.
Release date NZ
June 12th, 2013
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by John Coates
  • Edited by Mel Gray
  • Edited by Michael Yellow Bird
  • Edited by Tiani Hetherington
Pages
380
ISBN-13
9781409426318
Product ID
21037460

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