@book{KleiblLutzNoyooetal., author = {Kleibl, Tanja and Lutz, Ronald and Noyoo, Ndangwa and Seepamore, Boitumelo and Bunk, Benjamin and Dittmann, Annika}, title = {The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work}, edition = {1.}, publisher = {Routledge}, pages = {376}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} } @article{KleiblLutz, author = {Kleibl, Tanja and Lutz, Ronald}, title = {Ver{\"a}rgerte Geister und G{\"o}tter? Naturkatastrophen, Krisen, Hexerei und religi{\"o}se Attacken in Mosambik}, series = {Afrika S{\"u}d}, volume = {48}, journal = {Afrika S{\"u}d}, number = {6}, language = {de} } @incollection{KleiblMunck, author = {Kleibl, Tanja and Munck, R.}, title = {Zivilgesellschaft in Mosambik: NRO, Religion, Politik und Zauberei}, series = {Spannungen und sozialen Konflikten auf dem Lande}, booktitle = {Spannungen und sozialen Konflikten auf dem Lande}, publisher = {Schulverlag}, language = {de} } @incollection{KleiblJaji, author = {Kleibl, Tanja and Jaji, Rose}, title = {Women's empowerment: unravelling the cultural incompatibility myth in Zimbabwe}, series = {The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work}, booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work}, editor = {Kleibl, Tanja and Lutz, Ronald and Noyoo, Ndangwa and Bunk, Benjamin and Dittmann, Annika and Seepamore, Boitumelo}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-429-46872-8}, doi = {10.4324/9780429468728}, abstract = {The wider concept of development continues to be tied to ideas of generation of wealth and establishment of a global social order premised on Western thought. Within this framework, women's empowerment, informed by modernisation theory, depicts mostly traditional cultures in the Global South as incompatible with development. As such, many women's empowerment initiatives assume that women living in the Global South are inherently powerless. Notwithstanding criticism, this narrative and the transformative agenda of modernisation theory persist. Current empowerment initiatives still take a Eurocentric approach in which power needs to be brought from outside the context of the people targeted for empowerment. Drawing from the paradoxes of women's empowerment initiatives in Zimbabwe, this chapter argues that extracting women from their cultural context and community often produces outcomes that are contrary to those intended by empowerment initiatives. The chapter also discusses the resistance that emanates from targeting women and excluding men from empowerment programmes in a context where women's and men's lives are intertwined, and men are as disempowered as their female counterparts. It concludes that Northern non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and social development approaches need to rethink their mission and women's empowerment frameworks, making space for cultural and political negotiations based on local social organisation.}, language = {en} } @article{MunckKleibl, author = {Munck, Ronaldo and Kleibl, Tanja}, title = {NGOs and the political economy of international development and development education: an irish perspective}, series = {Policy \& Practice: A Development education review}, journal = {Policy \& Practice: A Development education review}, pages = {31 -- 53}, abstract = {In Ireland the role of development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is rarely interrogated. There is, rather, a shared discourse across the government, NGO and academic sectors which does not really encourage critical enquiry. One of the reasons is, arguably, the reduction of support for development education that would have kept that critical lens more active. In light of the recent Oxfam and Goal scandals, we must ask if development NGOs are now 'part of the problem' rather than 'part of the solution' to use a 1960s phrase. After a brief context-setting section "Why Now?" which discusses recent events around the NGOs, we start our enquiry with a set of Deconstructions of relevant terms such as 'development', 'civil society', 'human rights' and the term 'NGO' itself, too often referred to in reverential or uncritical ways in the NGO literature and more widely. We then move on to consider whether it is a case of Irish exceptionalism which explains why the political economy of development and NGOs debate in Ireland seems so insulated from international debates. Finally, we open up a Discussion which tries to pose some of the main matters arising from our enquiry. We understand our discussion might seem challenging to some, but we hope to spark an open debate on whether NGOs are part of the solution or, rather, part of the problem. This debate is too important to be left to the NGOs alone and requires the critical engagement of development education we would argue.}, language = {en} }