TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja ED - Oxenknecht-Witzsch, R. ED - Fornet-Betancourt, R. T1 - Globale Ziele und lokale Realitäten. Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte zur Unterstützung räumlicher Gerechtigkeit T2 - Symposium Gerechtigkeit und Verantwortung in der globalen Gesellschaft. Schriften zur vergleichenden Sozialarbeitswissenschaft und zur interkulturellen/internationalen Sozialarbeit Y1 - 2020 PB - Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Verärgerte Geister und Götter? Naturkatastrophen, Krisen, Hexerei und religiöse Attacken in Mosambik JF - Afrika Süd Y1 - 2019 VL - 48 IS - 6 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Munck, R. T1 - Zivilgesellschaft in Mosambik: NRO, Religion, Politik und Zauberei T1 - A Sociedade Civil em Mocambique: ONGs, Religião, Política and Feitiçaria T2 - Spannungen und sozialen Konflikten auf dem Lande T2 - Tensoes e Conflitos Sociais no Campo Y1 - 2019 PB - Schulverlag ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - Civil society in Mozambique: NGOs, religion, politics and witchcraft JF - Third World Quarterly N2 - Our aim is to problematise the dominant discourses and practices around civil society from a Southern perspective. We first examine critically, from a broadly Gramscian perspective, the way in which the concept of civil society has been deployed in development discourse. This highlights its highly normative and North-centric epistemology and perspectives. We also find it to be highly restrictive in a post-colonial Southern context insofar as it reads out much of the grassroots social interaction, deemed ‘uncivil’ and thus not part of duly recognised civil society. This is followed by a brief overview of some recent debates around civil society in Africa which emphasise the complexity of civil society and turn our attention to some of the broader issues surrounding state-society relations, democracy and representation in a Third World context, exemplified through our case study research in Mozambique, Inhassunge district (Zambézia Province). The privileging of Western-type Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as drivers of democracy and participatory development in Mozambique have considerable implications for current debates around good governance, civil society strengthening and social accountability programmes and strategies. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1217738 VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 203 EP - 218 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Kolbe, Simon A1 - Bartosch, Ulrich ED - Ceylan, Rauf ED - Kiefer, Michael T1 - Interkonfessionelle Zusammenarbeit als Möglichkeit und als Notwendigkeit T2 - Ökonomisierung und Säkularisierung N2 - Der Caritasverband der Diözese Eichstätt e. V. verfügt über 37 Einrichtungen und beschäftigt etwa 2.400 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter. Etwa 27.500 Mitglieder tragen den Verband. In seiner fast hundertjährigen Geschichte (Gründung 1918) engagiert sich der älteste bayerische Diözesanverband in unterschiedlichen sozialen, medizinischen und pädagogischen Arbeitsfeldern. Die Eichstätter Caritas leistet heute auch umfassend Asylberatung und Arbeit für geflüchtete Menschen. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-658-15255-0 SN - 978-3-658-15256-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15256-7_21 SP - 407 EP - 427 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - InselbewohnerInnen droht Vertreibung wegen Rohstoffabbau: VerliererInnen der Globalisierung JF - Mosambik-Rundbrief, Koordinationskreis Mosambik Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Material, Gaudêncio A1 - Matinada, Rude A1 - Piletiche, José A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - Sociedade civil, uma construção contextualizada na sociedade e situação politica: O caso de Moçambique JF - O Papel da Universidade no Processo de Pacificação, Reconciliação, Democratização e Desenvolvimento da Sociedade. Revista Electrónica de Investigação e Desenvolvimento (REID) da UCM JF - Die Rolle der Universität im Prozess der Befriedung, Versöhnung, Demokratisierung und Entwicklung der Gesellschaft. Elektronische Zeitschrift für Forschung und Entwicklung (REID) der UCM T2 - Die Zivilgesellschaft, eine Konstruktion im Kontext der Gesellschaft und der politischen Situation: Der Fall Mosambik Y1 - 2015 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - Interrogating Civil Society: A View from Mozambique JF - Development Studies Association Ireland (DSAI) (Discussion Paper) N2 - This paper seeks to problematize the dominant discourse and practice around civil society from a Southern perspective. We first critically examine the way in which the concept of civil society has been deployed in development discourse. This highlights its highly normative and North-centric epistemology and perspectives. We also find it to be highly restrictive in a Southern context insofar as it reads out much of the grassroots social interaction deemed ‘uncivil’ and thus not part of civil society. Subsequent sections introduce a historical analysis of civil society development and a preliminary mapping of current civil society in Mozambique which begins to set out a more complex understanding of civil society, a concept sometimes reduced to the world of the NGO’s. This is followed by a report on a recent roundtable discussion with civil society actors in Mozambique that sparked our interest in this theme. This discussion also articulates a more complex and conflictual understanding of civil society than that held by many international NGO’s for example. Finally, we discuss some of the matters arising from our movement from the abstract (the deconstruction of the concept of civil society) to the concrete (our conversations with a range of civil society actors). This work is the start of a broad longer term project with partners in Mozambique seeking to map and thus better understand the complexity of civil society in a country widely seen as test case for development strategies. Y1 - 2014 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanja-Kleibl-3/publication/281209634_Interrogating_Civil_Society_A_View_from_Mozambique/links/55db818808aec156b9afecc3/Interrogating-Civil-Society-A-View-from-Mozambique.pdf VL - 2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Good Governance, Globalisierung und Partizipation: Eine Debatte um Funktion der Zivilgesellschaft und Wirkung von NGOs JF - Blickpunkt Zukunft Y1 - 2014 PB - Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler e.V. (VDW) ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - The governance agenda and civil society space: A critical reflection from an NGO perspective T2 - DSAI Governance Debate Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Demonstrating solidarity and supporting protection: The roles and responsibilities of INGOs in enabling civil society space JF - INTRAC newsletter ONTRAC Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja ED - Hayes, Lucy ED - Pereira, Javier T1 - Eurodad, Turning the tables aid and accountability under the Paris Framework JF - Syntheses Report Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Soeftestad, Lars T. A1 - Alinon, Koffi A1 - Dié, Lakhsara Mint A1 - Flyman, Michael Vosa T1 - Language, culture and communication in development cooperation. On the role of ICTs in networking online communities of practice JF - CBNRM Net Papers N2 - Globalization results in the exclusion and marginalization of diverse categories of stakeholders at the local level in developing countries, while decentralization leads to integration and participation of some of these stakeholders. In this evolving process, increasingly facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the role of language and literacy, and their relationship with culture, have been given scant attention. ICTs facilitate language marginalization and homogenization, while it is an open question whether they contribute to language growth and survival. Within the context of development cooperation and natural resource management, the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net), which serves the global CBNRM community of practice, uses ICTs to communicate with its global membership. CBNRM Net is concerned with how globalization and decentralization is influencing traditional and modern CBNRM practices. This includes how the present massive use of ICTs to facilitate communication, relying largely on English, is affecting literacy and language in the area of traditional knowledge on CBNRM. The paper presents a framework for analyzing use of language, and impacts on culture, in online communication and networking. Y1 - 2004 UR - https://www.academia.edu/7929983/Language_Culture_and_Communication_in_Development_Cooperation_On_the_Role_of_ICTs_in_Networking_Online_Communities_of_Practice IS - 6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Die Wodaabe in Niger Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Sevenich, L. ED - Wagner, L. ED - Lutz, Ronald ED - Rehklau, Ch. ED - Ross, F. T1 - Development, post-development and the alternative beyond-aid debates: A critical international development worker perspective T2 - Handbuch Internationale Soziale Arbeit – Dimensionen – Konflikte – Positionen Y1 - 2018 PB - Beltz Verlag ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders N2 - The dramatic pictures of violence on the Polish - Belorussian border are just the latest manifestation of the dehumanization, securitization and externalization of the EU migration management policies. A trend that can be traced to early 2000s has achieved a new level in recent years after a brief opening of EU borders in 2015. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified these dynamics in different ways and deepened inequalities of the transnational mobility (Lee 2020; Sumba 2021; Afeworki Abay, Kassaye & Kleibl 2022; Matela & Maaza 2022). In addition to physical violence by state and non-state actors along the EU external border, EU migration management employs strategies that condone prolonged exposure of mobile people to death and to a host of human rights violations (Mbembe 2003, 2019; Mayblin & Turner 2020; Mayblin 2016, 2019; Abuya, Krause & Mayblin 2021; Sadeghi 2019). At the same time, civil society members, media representatives and those who attempt to assist mobile people are also increasingly criminalized, exposed to right-extremist violence and targeted by excessive legal, financial and bureaucratic burdens that make their work difficult, if not impossible. Externalization as a central characteristic of EU border management refers to the propounding mechanisms of moving the border forward (Andrews 2021; Getachew 2019; Gutiérrez Rodríguez 2018a, 2018b; Mayblin, 2017; Mayblin, Wake & Kazemi 2019). Outside of the EU, externalization policies construct EU border controls in so-called countries of origin and transit. In this process, EU migration management is fused with foreign policy, international development and international trade mechanisms. These incursions disrupt socioeconomic dynamics and local mobility patterns as far as Iran-Turkey borderlands, West African ECOWAS region or the border between Ethiopia and the Sudan. The internal and external EU migration management developments are inseparable and materialized legacies of colonialism, enduring gender inequalities, politics of citizenship and racialized economies (Andrews 2021; Getachew 2019). This book therefore aims to critically analyze how Social Work and EU migration management regimes co-constitute each other. The here presented book will offer theoretical discussions and practical experiences around the following questions: In which way is Social Work complicit in the EU migration management regime? Where do Social Workers find opportunities to build solidarities, become subversive of the hegemonic structures and work for empowerment? How do Social Workers deal with the increasingly restrictive political, legal and economic environment, in which they engage with mobile people? How can Social Work become more apt to working with people who are at times highly mobile and at times immobilized in remote camps, forests or desert outposts? Moreover, this book espouses the broadest definition of Social Work as a human rights profession and an academic discipline but also as an indigenous way of social assistance and social change (Staub-Bernasconi 2012, 2016; Healy & Link 2011; Kleibl, Lutz & Noyoo 2020). By paying attention to the temporal and spatial aspects of Social Work with mobile people, we explicitly refuse the apolitical, decontextualized view of Social Work as neutral „helping“, instead we plea for critical reflection on the entanglements of Social Work in complex, intersecting power dynamics. Hence, this book seeks to critically analyze how Social Work becomes entangled in categorization of people to make them „legible“ and „visible“ to EU migration management and how Social Work itself is categorized in order to be disciplined as a „helping“ profession and an instrument of the state/EU migration management. We ask how Social Work could be transformed to work in a multiscalar, transnational scale, truly living up to the ambition to employ „glocal“ approach. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358676111_Transnational_Mobility_and_Externalization_of_EU_Borders PB - Lexington Books ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Rodríguez Lugo, Sara A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - The Relevance of Decolonizing Social Work: Critical Reflections on Colonial Pasts, Post-Colonial Presents and Decolonial Futures T2 - Decolonizing Social Work: From Theory to Transformative Practice N2 - The multiple and simultaneous realities of Social Work practice have always been more complex than its theories suggested. The knowledges, desires and perspectives of its addressees are much more nuanced than standardized empirical qualitative and quantitative research methodologies (that inform theorization) could possibly grasp. In consequence, many assumingly universal and evidence-based methods and instruments in Social Work do not lead towards anticipated outcomes that aim to support the social, political, ecological and economic needs of the addressees. Social Work theories in turn often lack the consideration of, under others, race, class and gender subordination and domination effects, which form integral parts of power dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressors at play in the 21st century. This leads to downplaying the need to theorize and support solidarity from below, as well as to strengthen relational accountability between those that want to advance social justice. In addition, structural elements “from above” such as political and welfare systems and development economies do not receive significant attention either. In consequence, many theories do not lead to concepts, approaches and praxis that sufficiently grasp the historical and contemporary situatedness in which Social Work operates. Y1 - 2024 PB - Bloomsbury Publishing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Rodríguez Lugo, Sara A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa T1 - Implications of Decolonizing Social Work: Critical Reflections on Colonial Pasts, Post-Colonial Presents and Decolonial Futures T2 - Decolonizing Social Work: From Theory to Transformative Practice N2 - While there is an evident need for establishing thorough processes of decolonizing Social Work in education, research and practice, there is only a limited number of literature available on the complex decolonization project. It includes the co-edited volume Decolonizing Social Work by Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird and Tiani Hetherington (2013), Trabajo Social y Descolonialidad, by María Eugenia Hermida and Paula Meschini (2017) or the Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work, by Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz, Ndangwa Noyoo, Benjamin Bunk, Annika Dittmann and Boitumelo Seepamore (2020). These foundational works contribute immensely to the much-needed discussion on the diversification of Social Work theories and methods, yet their foci cannot possibly attempt to address a full scope to the decolonization of all Social Work dimensions in greater detail. Furthermore, most publications (e.g., Tascón and Ife, 2020; Fortier and Hon-Sing Wong, 2018) focus on theoretical reflections, leaving the important gap regarding the necessary knowledge transfer into practice, research and education still broadly opened. Y1 - 2024 PB - Bloomsbury Publishing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Rodríguez Lugo, Sara A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel T1 - Introduction to Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work: Transcending Eurocentrism and Foregrounding Pluriversalism T2 - Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work: Foregrounding Pluriversalism in Teaching and Research N2 - Since the publication of Linda Tuhiwai Smith's book (1999), Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, researchers in various disciplines in social and health sciences have increasingly become aware of the importance of adopting decolonial research methodologies. However, the transnational project of decolonization might be challenging and complex to implement in research projects and teaching formats in Social Work. The chapter contributions in this co-edited volume give insight from a broader geopolitical perspective into how established Eurocentric concepts, perceptions, practices, and paradigms in Social Work have been continuously re-assessed and re-nuanced within the last two decades (Tamburro, 2013; Noyoo, 2020; Kleibl et al., 2020; Castro Varela and Mohamed, 2021; Gray et al., 2023; Harms-Smith and Rasool, 2020). Within the broader project of Western academia, one effect of decolonization is challenging the allegedly objective “scientific knowledge, in view of its rigor and instrumental potential, [as] radically different from other ways of knowing, be they lay, popular, practical, commonsensical, intuitive, or religious” (de Sousa Santos, 2018b: 5). Moreover, decolonial concepts such as “epistemic de-linking” (Mignolo, 2007: 450) and “epistemic disobedience” (Mignolo, 2009: 8) are indispensable in unpacking the colonial roots of epistemic violence and foregrounding ‘Epistemologies of the South’ (de Sousa Santos, 2014) in Social Work research in order to establish “a time of epistemological imagination aimed at refounding the political imagination (…) to strengthen the social struggles against domination” (de Sousa Santos, 2018a: 126-127). The continuous problematization of Eurocentric knowledge production (e.g., methodological nationalism, culturalization, westernization) is therefore important for establishing critical dialogues in Social Work. Most importantly, decolonizing university education (Rodríguez, 2018; Mbembe, 2016; Mignolo, 2013; de Sousa Santos, 2017) in general is the first step in order to disrupt the colonial continuity of knowledge production that “operates as an invisible power matrix that is shaping and sustaining asymmetrical power relations between the Global North and the Global South” (Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2014: 181). In moving beyond theoretical discussions and reflections, this co-edited volume addresses the essential questions regarding the implementation of decolonial approaches in research methodologies and teaching formats in Social Work. This co-edited volume is therefore an important contribution for critically minded Social Work educators and students who seek to understand the complex structures of the colonial past, the contemporary postcolonial moment as well as to decolonize their teaching, researching, and visions of decolonialized Social Work. Y1 - 2024 PB - Bloomsbury Publishing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Rodríguez Lugo, Sara A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa T1 - Methodological and Pedagogical Implications of Decolonizing Social Work T2 - Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work: Foregrounding Pluriversalism in Teaching and Research N2 - The fact that the coloniality of power and knowledge (Quijano; 2000; Mignolo, 2007, 2011; Grosfoguel, 2013) has only been addressed poorly in Social Work contributes to what Paulo Freire (1970: 12) referred to as “a culture of silence”. A culture of silence exists where those who are oppressed are not heard in society, and where a lack of knowledge about their contexts creates a high risk for the perpetuation of racism, discrimination, and the violent process of ‘blaming the victim’. Research methodologies and teaching formats in Social Work have always been embedded in the colonial archives of Eurocentric knowledge (Quijano; 2000; Mbembe, 2016; Grosfoguel, 2013). As Freire (1970: 5) argues that “The social worker, as much as the educator, is not a neutral agent, either in practice or in action”. In the last decade, Social Work education and research methodologies have been continuously criticized for being complicit in downplaying and silencing the brutality of the colonial project (Harms-Smith and Rasool, 2020; Kleibl et al., 2020; Tamburro, 2013). This includes but not only limited to the ignorance of the social, political, ecological and economic implications of colonial legacies as well as post and neocolonial continuities in the 21st century. In addition, the development of Western political and welfare systems ‘from above’ do not result in significant social change and transformative justice. In consequence, many theories do not lead to concepts, approaches and praxis that sufficiently grasp the historical and contemporary situatedness of coloniality of knowledge and power in which Social Work keeps operating (Afeworki Abay, 2023; Daňková et al., 2024; Kleibl et al., 2024). In response to the continuities of colonial epistemologies and methodologies in Social Work, the chapter contributions in this co-edited volume show the relevance of Pluriversality as one of the various decolonial strategies to unsettle the coloniality of Eurocentric knowledge production (Quijano; 2000; Mignolo, 2007, 2017; Grosfoguel, 2013). One of strategies of decolonizing research methodologies and teaching formats is to universalize and normalize ways of knowing and knowledge production that Eurocentric systems of knowledge portray as ‘not valuable’ or ‘not objective enough’ (Tuck and Yang, 2012; Tlostanova and Mignolo. 2012; Afeworki Abay, 2023). Likewise, an important analytic strategy for decolonizing research methodologies is to draw upon marginalized and Indigenous knowledge systems (Smith, 1999; Tamburro, 2013; Zavala, 2016) that have been to taken-for-granted in the social, political, economic, and environmental discourses in Social Work. Y1 - 2024 PB - Bloomsbury Publishing ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Rodríguez Lugo, Sara T1 - Decolonizing Social Work N2 - Over the last three decades, “decolonization” has become an increasingly emergent framework in tracing and addressing the complex mechanisms of coloniality of knowledge and power (Mignolo, 2011; Quijano, 2000). Surprisingly enough, decolonial perspectives have hardly been considered in Social Work education, research and practice (e.g. Harms-Smith & Rasool, 2020; Kleibl et al., 2020; Gray et al., 2016; Tamburro, 2013; Lutz, Sachau, & Stauß, 2017). Even though, there is a growing body of literature that addresses the need for decolonization of Social Work with indigenous people (e.g. Tanemura et al., 2016; Ives & Thaweiakenrat Loft, 2016) or individuals and communities in and from the Global South (e.g. Noyoo, 2020; Kreitzer, 2016; Freire, 1970), many Social Workers in the Global North (both in academia and practice) argue that the need for decolonization does not apply to their work. This is particularly true in countries of the Global North that claim to have had little engagement with colonialism (e.g. Ranta-Tyrkkö, 2011). Historically, much of Social Work theory and practice was developed in the Global North and exported across the globe as a byproduct of colonization and – in the postcolonial era – in form of development aid (Schirilla, 2018). Within the hegemonic discourses, knowledges produced at the peripheries and in the context of social struggles has been delegitimized and rendered invisible. Therefore, Social Work remains dominated by Euro-American perspectives, which oftentimes reproduce epistemic violence (Spivak, 1988). This acknowledgment, then, calls for a critical analysis of Social Work education, research and practice as well. Recent emerging discussions on implementing decolonial approaches in Social Work (Harms-Smith & Rasool, 2020; Tamburro, 2013; Lutz, Kleibl & Neureither, 2021) have drawn the attention to the possibilities of “epistemic disobedience” (Mignolo, 2009: 8). They brought forward Afrocentric approaches to pedagogy (van Wyk 2014; Watson-Vandiver & Wiggan, 2021), pedagogies that centralize the oppressed (Freire, 1970; Kohan, 2021), non-extractivist research approaches and methods that focus on embodied knowledge and corporeal emancipation (de Sousa-Santos, 2018), as well as creating South-South links (Rivera, 2012). Y1 - 2024 PB - Bloomsbury Publishing ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Rodríguez Lugo, Sara A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work: Foregrounding Pluriversalism in Teaching and Research N2 - While decolonial perspectives have continuously been discussed in contemporary academic discourse in Social Work in the last two decades, yet, the complex legacies of colonialism are often left unreflected within methodological and pedagogical conceptualizations in Social Work (Harms-Smith and Rasool, 2020; Tamburro, 2013; Kleibl et al., 2020; Harms-Smith and Afeworki Abay, 2024). With this understanding in mind, it is imperative to critically engage with the growing interest of mainstream discourse on decolonizing research and education in Social Work and as well as to understand the broader project of decolonization as a way of “epistemic de-linking“ (Mignolo, 2007: 450) from colonial thoughts and practices. Decolonial perspectives in Social Work’s knowledge production require a deep look into the core concept of Pluriversality in foregrounding theories, epistemologies and methodologies of the South. According to Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2018), decolonizing theories, epistemologies and methodologies is an asymmetrical and long-term process that requires deep analysis and reflection both in formerly colonized and colonizing regions. As there are only insufficient methodological reflections on these complex topics of “decolonization” in Social Work (see among others: Kleibl et al., 2024), the aim of this book is to go one-step further and put a spotlight on the increasing number of critical teaching formats as well as research projects in Social Work that aim to challenge the current status-quo of coloniality of power, knowledge and being (Quijano, 2007). This co-edited volume provides discussions and experiences with decolonial approaches in research and education of Social Work. It centres methodologies developed in the Global South (de Sousa Santos, 2014; Connell, 2014) in an attempt to decolonize Eurocentrism, as the knowledge produced by subaltern communities and scholars of the global South have been rendered invisible. Y1 - 2024 PB - Bloomsbury Publishing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Pandemic - Measures and Consequences: Increased Global Inequality and Violations of Human Rights T2 - Family Dynamics, Gender and Social Inequality During COVID-19 N2 - This chapter explores the enduring impact of the global pandemic and its far-reaching consequences. The pandemic disrupted the world, exposing inequalities inherent in globalization and the privileged lifestyles of the Global North. Global inequality, rooted in colonialism and capitalism, persisted, with the pandemic exacerbating disparities. The crisis not only affected health but also strained families and exacerbated gender inequalities. In the Global South, vulnerable populations faced economic hardship and inadequate healthcare. The pandemic intensified the global education crisis, disproportionately impacting girls. Moreover, human rights violations became apparent as states and institutions failed to meet their obligations. Structural inequalities and unequal access to healthcare underscored the need for a more comprehensive human rights approach in social work. Social work must address structural inequalities, prioritize community-based solutions, and advocate for international solidarity and new legal mechanisms to protect human rights in crises. It must also confront its colonial past and decolonize curricula. As we navigate ongoing crises, social work must take on a transformative role, working alongside marginalized communities to advocate for a more just and equitable society. KW - Pandemic consequences KW - Global inequality KW - Social work KW - Globalization KW - Decolonization Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51237-7_2 SP - 17 EP - 26 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Abay Aferwoki, R. A1 - Daňková, P. A1 - Xypolitas, N. A1 - Kleibl, Tanja ED - Daňková, P. ED - Xypolitas, N. ED - Kleibl, Tanja ED - Abay Afeworki, R. T1 - Introduction T2 - Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance. Y1 - 2024 PB - Lexington Press ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald ED - Steckelberg, C. ED - Thiessen, B. T1 - Globale Ungleichheiten - Herausforderungen für eine internationale Soziale Arbeit T2 - Wandel der Arbeitsgesellschaft: Soziale Arbeit in Zeiten von Globalisierung, Digitalisierung und Prekarisierung N2 - Das Corona Virus bzw. die Krankheit Covid-19 ist zu einer Pandemie geworden, die sich über die ganze Welt ausbreitet und diese an den Rand eines völligen ökonomischen und politischen Kollaps führen kann. In nahezu allen Ländern ist es inzwischen angekommen. Es trifft zwar alle, doch darin offenbaren sich Unterschiede. Die Krankheit wird zum einen die sozialen Probleme in den reichen Gesellschaften des Nordens verändern und auch vergrößern, doch insbesondere in den Ländern des Globalen Südens kann der Ausbruch in seine ökonomischen und sozialen Folgen verheerend sein. Kann der Globale Norden noch eindämmende und die Folgen abfedernde Maßnahmen etablieren, so schlagen die Auswirkungen im Globalen Süden voll durch. In diese Gesellschaften sind verheerende Folgen zu erwarten, die Armut, Elend, Hunger und Migrationsbewegungen intensivieren werden. Dadurch wird aber auch die Globale Ungleichheit zwischen den Nationen größer. In dieser Krise wäre Solidarität über nationale Grenzen hinweg gefragt; doch genau diese ist kaum erkennbar. Gleichzeitig ist auch Internationale Soziale Arbeit aufgefordert, ihre Ausrichtung neu zu definieren. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10h9fcs.7 SP - 51 EP - 66 PB - Verlag Barbara Budrich ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves, Maria A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - Migration and social transformation: engaged perspectives Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370220695_Migration_and_Social_Transformation_Engaged_Perspectives SN - 978-1-908689-43-6 PB - Machdohnil Ltd CY - Dublin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos T1 - Oppression or liberation? The function of social work in migration management N2 - Drawing on the work of Antonio Gramsci and liberation scholars from Latin America, this article examines the role of social work, as both an academic discipline and a practice, in the context of the recent refugee crisis. This role mirrors the historical development of social work and is further highlighted by recent empirical studies of refugee experiences on Greek islands. The authors call for an active political coalition between social work practitioners and refugees, with the aim of empowering the latter in their quest for liberation from the regime of European refugee management. N2 - Auf der Grundlage der Arbeiten von Antonio Gramsci und lateinamerikanischen Befreiungstheoretiker:innen untersucht der Artikel die Rolle der Sozialen Arbeit, sowohl als akademische Disziplin als auch als Praxis, im Zusammenhang mit der jüngsten Flüchtlingskrise. Diese Rolle spiegelt die historische Entwicklung der Sozialen Arbeit wider und wird anhand der jüngsten empirischen Erfahrungen mit Geflüchteten auf den griechischen Inseln weiter verdeutlicht. Die Autor:innen rufen zu einer aktiven politischen Koalition zwischen Sozialarbeiter:innen und Geflüchteten auf, mit dem Ziel, letztere in ihrem Streben nach Befreiung vom Regime des europäischen Flüchtlingsmanagements zu stärken. Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:863-opus-56389 UR - https://regener-online.de/journalcco/2022_2/pdf/kleibl-xypolytas2022.pdf N1 - © 2022 by verlag irena regener berlin VL - 21 IS - 2 PB - Regener ER - TY - BOOK A1 - do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves, Maria A1 - Gutwald, Rebecca A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Noyoo, Ndangwa A1 - Twikirize, Janestic T1 - The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development: Global Perspectives N2 - This book is a novel contribution to academic discourses on the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis and how it has impacted societies globally. It proffers an overview on the social development and political measures, from both the Global North and Global South, to prevent COVID-19's spread. It illuminates major social, political and economic challenges that already existed in different contexts and which are also currently being amplified by COVID-19. Curiously, this global pandemic has opened spaces for different actors, across the globe, to begin to fundamentally question and challenge the hegemony of the Global North, which sometimes is evident in social work. Linked to the foregoing and while reflecting beyond the pandemic and into the future, the book proposes that social work must become more political at all levels, and strive to transform societies, global social development efforts, and economic and health systems. This contributed volume of 38 chapters discusses and analyses ethical, social, sociological, social work and social development issues that complement and enrich available literature in the socio-political, economics, public health, medical ethics and political science. It provides various case studies which should enable readers to gain insights into how countries have responded to the pandemic and learn how COVID-19 negatively impacted countries in different parts of the world. This book also provides a platform for the articulation of neglected and marginalized voices, such as those of indigenous populations, the poor, or oppressed. The chapters are grouped according to three main themes as they relate to research on the COVID-19 pandemic and social work in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America: - Analysis: Social Issues and the COVID-19 Pandemic - Strategies and Responses in Social Work: Globally and Locally - Outlook: Looking Ahead Beyond the Pandemic Intended to engage a global, diverse and interdisciplinary audience, The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development is a timely and relevant resource for academics, students and researchers in inter alia Social Work, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Development Studies. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-030-84678-7 SN - 978-3-030-84677-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84678-7 PB - Springer Cham CY - Wiesbaden ET - 1. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Noyoo, Ndangwa A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Madew, Melinda A1 - Matela, Minenhle A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Boryczko, Marcin T1 - Will the Welcome ever Run Dry? Interrogating the Hierarchy of Human Categories - The Case of Ukrainian Refugees in Europe JF - Quarterly on Refugee Problems N2 - This review summarises and chronicles inputs from several speakers who attended a conference titled: Will the Welcome ever Run Dry?: Interrogating the Hierarchy of Human Categories – The Case of Ukrainian Refugees in Europe. The conference interrogated the refugee crisis which had been precipitated by Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. It was organised by Tanja Kleibl, Melinda Madew, Minenhle Matela, Ronald Lutz and Ndangwa Noyoo and held at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt on 17 March 2022. The conference participants were social work academics, practitioners, students and activists, and it was delivered in a blended mode. Crucially, it was meant to be a call to action to the social work profession around the world, especially in Europe. Also, the organisers wanted to cast a sharp light on the refugee crisis from a social work perspective and highlight the discrimination which was associated with this phenomenon. Indeed, media reports and other accounts had identified this disturbing trend, whereby African and non-European students from developing countries, who were equally fleeing the war zone with Ukrainians, were ill-treated and discriminated against by Ukrainian and Polish security forces. These officials allegedly allowed only Ukrainians and European-looking people to cross the border (Chebil, 2022; Pronczuk et al., 2022). Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.57947/qrp.v61i1.19 VL - 61 IS - 1 SP - 93 EP - 100 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Neureither, F. T1 - Soziale Arbeit des Südens JF - Socialnet Lexikon N2 - Im Globalen Süden stellen sich immer wieder neue und andere Themen und soziale Problemlagen als im Globalen Norden. Aufgrund postkolonialer Entwicklungen ergeben sich Fragestellungen, die zum einen zur Anerkennung von Differenz und zum anderen zum Grenzdenken einladen. Innerhalb dieser Dynamik stellen sich insbesondere in Europa immer wieder neue ethische Fragestellungen zum Umgang mit Kolonialismus und Neokolonialismus und der Externalisierung von Folgen des westlichen, industrialisierten Entwicklungsmodels. In den Diskursen einer Sozialarbeit des Südens spielen folgende Kontexte eine essenzielle Rolle: - die Sichtbarmachung der kolonialen Folgen sowie der Konflikte und Widersprüche, der Ausbeutung und der Ausgrenzung in den nachkolonialen Gesellschaften, die auf ihre Ursprünge zurückgeführt werden - der genuin politische Anspruch zur Veränderbarkeit der Welt durch Akteur*innen, seien dies Bewegungen, Organisationen, Regierungen oder Menschen in ihren sozialen Beziehungen - die Bestrebungen der Sozialen Arbeit im Süden über Prozesse der Indigenisierung und Authentisierung Eigenständigkeit zu erlangen, um sich aus der kolonialen Umklammerung des Nordens zu lösen. Darin gewinnt die Debatte um indigenes, lokales und „pluriversales“ Wissen, als einem von den Prinzipen rationaler Vernunft unterschiedenem Wissenssystem, das gleichwohl auf Erfahrung und Diversität basiert, eine zentrale Bedeutung. Die Sozialarbeit des Südens beinhaltet und fokussiert immer auch einen politischen Anspruch und verfügt über eigene Methoden. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.socialnet.de/lexikon/Soziale-Arbeit-des-Suedens PB - socialnet CY - Bonn ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Jaji, Rose ED - Kleibl, Tanja ED - Lutz, Ronald ED - Noyoo, Ndangwa ED - Bunk, Benjamin ED - Dittmann, Annika ED - Seepamore, Boitumelo T1 - Women's empowerment: unravelling the cultural incompatibility myth in Zimbabwe T2 - The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work N2 - 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. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-0-429-46872-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468728 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Internationale Soziale Arbeit neu denken: Zur Verschärfung Globaler Ungleichheit durch COVID-19 JF - Sozial Extra N2 - Covid-19 hat sich über die ganze Welt ausbreitet und kann sie an den Rand eines ökonomischen und politischen Kollapses führen. Das Virus trifft zwar alle, doch mit Unterschieden. Die Krankheit wird zum einen die sozialen Probleme in den reichen Gesellschaften des Nordens verändern und auch vergrößern, doch insbesondere in den Ländern des Globalen Südens kann der Ausbruch in seinen ökonomischen und sozialen Folgen verheerend sein. Kann der Globale Norden noch eindämmende und die Folgen abfedernde Maßnahmen etablieren, so schlagen die Auswirkungen im Globalen Süden voll durch. In diesen Gesellschaften sind verheerende Folgen zu erwarten, die Armut, Elend, Hunger und Migrationsbewegungen intensivieren werden. Dadurch wird aber auch die Globale Ungleichheit zwischen den Nationen größer. In dieser Krise wäre Solidarität über nationale Grenzen hinweg gefragt; doch genau diese ist kaum erkennbar. Die Internationale Soziale Arbeit ist aufgefordert, ihre Ausrichtung neu zu definieren. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12054-020-00289-0 VL - 44 IS - 4 SP - 247 EP - 251 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Schellhammer, Barbara T1 - Sozialer Wandel als Gegenstand des Dialogs zwischen Interkultureller Philosophie und Kritischer Entwicklungstheorie T2 - Polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren N2 - Debates about globalization and development underline global interconnectedness, although from mainly linear modernist economic perspectives. They divide the world into »developed« and »underdeveloped« regions, subordinating social change to economic progress. Social change is absorbed as something natural, ignoring the historic conditions under which »development« takes place. Concurrently, the dissolution of cultural self-conceptions plays an increasingly important role in intercultural philosophy. It claims that social change has always something to do with the threatening experiences of alienation as well as power interests and inequalities driving it. Critical development theories show the alienation of »development« from the radical social changes needed to transform the postcolonial conditions of globalization. Both intercultural philosophy and critical development theory confront this situation with their own disciplinary positionality, initiating the notion of border thinking. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.polylog.net/suche-nach-beitraegen/ VL - 44 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Khoo, S.-M. ED - Pfaff, T. ED - Schramkowski, B. ED - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Globaler Klimanotstand und Menschenrechte „von unten“. Ein Blick aus der Pädagogik der Entwicklungsethik und der Internationalen Sozialen Arbeit T2 - Klimakrise, sozialökologischer Kollaps und Klimagerechtigkeit Y1 - 2022 SP - 351 EP - 369 PB - Beltz Juventa CY - Weinheim ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald ED - Marquardsen, K. T1 - Globale Ungleichheit als Herausforderung T2 - Armutsforschung – Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis Y1 - 2021 SP - 505 EP - 521 PB - Nomos ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel T1 - Migration and social transformation: from theory to engaged practice T2 - Migration and social transformation: southern perspectives N2 - Globalisation has made geo-politics not an isolated issue but it must be seen as part of wider transformative processes. New emerging forms of global governance, in particular migration governance, although still discussed as a central national policy instrument in the wider normative political dialogues, have been further developed as forms of control over people which, through externalization processes, go far beyond national borders or continental patterns. Its divisive dynamics have strengthened new forms of unilateralism, stronger nationalism, populism and xenophobia, especially in Europe and North America, affecting countries in the Global South through so called “containment politics”. At the same time, economic mega-projects, extractive industries and land grabbing, as well as increasingly internal – often resource related – postcolonial conflicts, have led to more and more forced displaced people on the African continent. Examples thereof would be the new conflict in Northern Mozambique, which led to about 800.000 internally displaced people (IDPs) since 2017 or the so-called Anglophone Crises in Cameroon, which resulted so far in about half a million IDPs. Extractivism and exploitation of environmental resources without considering its environmental impact has also contributed to the worsening of the self-sustainability conditions of entire communities, forcing them to migrate. Xenophobia, resulting from continued racism as well as from the negative consequences of neoliberal policies for large parts of the populations, has taken on dangerous proportions in what has come to be known as xenophobic violent attacks in South Africa. These violent attacks, perpetrated by South Africans, against fellow Africans from other parts of Africa, have resulted in deaths, injuries and destruction of property. Unfortunately, at the receiving end of such attacks are mostly poor, vulnerable and marginalised groups such as refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants from the continent. Violent xenophobic attacks have contributed to the further displacement of sub-Saharan Africans in South Africa. What is worrying is that these attacks are becoming more and more frequent. Despite these narrowing and inward-looking tendencies, globalisation and related social, economic and cultural transformations are accelerating at a fast pace, making the world even more embedded and interconnected, a process in which digitalization plays a key part. In all these global upheavals, human development and social work should remain at the centre, given their mandate of advocating with and on behalf of the most marginalised (“option for the poor”). Thus, social justice, human rights and social inclusion across the world remain social work’s main mission and a very important task for the profession in terms of education, research and practice. Given this backdrop, it is imperative that social workers not only take critical note of the major shifts taking place momentarily and the various challenges and social ills that have global implications. Rather, they need to insert themselves into this global discourse by offering their unique social justice orientated paradigm and frameworks. This international winter/summer school, taking place in South Africa, aims to support and enhance North-South as well as South-South exchanges of academics, students and organizations working in the field of social work and (forced) migration. Of critical importance, young people, especially social work students, from both the Global South and North, need to be equipped with appropriate and relevant analytical skills to be able to navigate these turbulent times and be better prepared for the numerous complex challenges faced by social work and community practitioners, migrants and refugees in the field. In addition, they need to be exposed to progressive worldviews as well as new innovative research and practices. Academics from the fields of social work and migration need to invest in arriving at context relevant curricula and decolonizing teaching and research methodologies that tackle the issues mentioned above while practitioners need to make themselves familiar with current research trends and innovative practice approaches by learning from other parts of the “interconnected” world. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360768574_Migration_and_Social_Transformation_From_Theory_to_Engaged_Practice ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Stubbs, Paul A1 - Noyoo, Ndangwa T1 - Challenging colonial continuities and racism within contemporary EU migration regimes: postcolonial perspectives in social work T2 - Social work – a hinge of practical utopia N2 - The history of Social Work and the modern Western university paradoxically represents both the high point and low point of human progress. Conceived in an epoch of immense human discovery, it is important to understand this period as characterised by white Western Imperialist and Colonial projects and the rise of capitalist accumulation. In combination, these processes, not confined to the geo-political points of origin, continue to have devastating impacts across the world, characterised by the exploitation, displacement, and destruction of human beings as well as natural ecosystems. Hegemonic colonial structures and practices created and reproduced global racialised hierarchies with the dominance of the Global North and the 'Othering' of knowledge forms and ways of life emerging from the Global South. Struggles for decolonisation and anti-racism come from an ongoing refusal by the victims of capitalism and imperialism to accept defeat and to continue to struggle for life, liberty and dignity. In the current moment, especially following the brutal public execution of George Floyd in the US and the Black Lives Matter movement, especially amongst youth, we have witnessed a global response, incorporating gestures of solidarity, through the ‘taking of the knee’ through to direct action to remove statues and monuments celebrating various characters associated with Empire, slavery and colonial exploitation. Again, the current discriminatory practices against non-European and non-White refugees from Ukraine highlights the coloniality of human rights. As Social Work scientific community and practitioners, we stand united with all people of good will working for peace and justice across national borders. In times where many forces try to divide and polarize this world, as Social Workers we seek to overcome ”Oppression Olympics“ (Walby et al., 2012: 234) and to foster solidarity as a collective strategy of resistance. In this regard, this panel contribution focusses specifically on the relevance of postcolonial perspectives to challenge contemporary EU migration regimes and developing anticolonial approaches in Social Work. In trying to sketch out how Social Work research, education and practice are often entangled in (re)producing hegemonic discourse, the panel will critically discuss the inherent ambivalences and ambiguities of decolonisation processes in the face of a vast range of epistemic violence, which is also referred to as Epistemicide (de Sousa-Santos, 2014; Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2018). Some concluding remarks will be made by highlighting the relevance of epistemic disobedience in challenging coloniality of knowledge in Social Work. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361909494_Challenging_Colonial_Continuities_and_Racism_within_Contemporary_EU_Migration_Regimes_Postcolonial_Perspectives_in_Social_Work ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Noyoo, Ndangwa A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Matela, Minenhle A1 - Madew, Melinda A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Boryczko, Marcin T1 - Conference Reviews: Will the Welcome ever Run Dry? Interrogating the Hierarchy of Human Categories - The Case of Ukrainian Refugees in Europe JF - Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin N2 - This review summarises and chronicles inputs from several speakers who attended a conference titled: Will the Welcome ever Run Dry?: Interrogating the Hierarchy of Human Categories – The Case of Ukrainian Refugees in Europe. The conference interrogated the refugee crisis which had been precipitated by Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. It was organised by Tanja Kleibl, Melinda Madew, Minenhle Matela, Ronald Lutz and Ndangwa Noyoo and held at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt on 17 March 2022. The conference participants were social work academics, practitioners, students and activists, and it was delivered in a blended mode. Crucially, it was meant to be a call to action to the social work profession around the world, especially in Europe. Also, the organisers wanted to cast a sharp light on the refugee crisis from a social work perspective and highlight the discrimination which was associated with this phenomenon. Indeed, media reports and other accounts had identified this disturbing trend, whereby African and non-European students from developing countries, who were equally fleeing the war zone with Ukrainians, were ill-treated and discriminated against by Ukrainian and Polish security forces. These officials allegedly allowed only Ukrainians and European- looking people to cross the border (Chebil, 2022; Pronczuk et al., 2022). KW - Human categories KW - people on the move KW - social work KW - Ukraine KW - discrimination Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.57947/qrp.v61i1.19 SN - 2750-7882 VL - 61 IS - 1 SP - 93 EP - 100 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Ritter, Monique A1 - Ihring, Isabelle A1 - Mouissi, Jasmin T1 - Dekolonialisierung des Wissens in Forschung, Lehre und Praxis Sozialer Arbeit T2 - Geteiltes Wissen – Wissensentwicklung in Disziplin und Profession Sozialer Arbeit N2 - Das geplante Panel beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie durch die hegemoniale Wissensproduktion der Sozialen Arbeit koloniale Deutungs- und Handlungsmuster und kulturalisierende Zuschreibenden sowie damit einhergehende subtilere Mechanismen des Othering (re-)produziert werden (Said, 1978). Eine dekoloniale Forschungspraxis kann sich hier als besonders geeignet erweisen, um solchen diskursiven und wissenschaftlichen Praktiken entgegenzuwirken und danach zu fragen: ,,Who and when, why and where is knowledge generated?” (Mignolo, 2009, S. 2). Mit diesem Panel möchten wir zudem kritische Anregungen für den weiteren Forschungsbedarf zur Dekolonialisierung der Forschung Sozialer Arbeit im Sinne des ,,epistemic disobedience‘‘ (Mignolo, 2009, S. 8) anstoßen. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357993063_Dekolonialisierung_des_Wissens_in_Forschung_Lehre_und_Praxis_Sozialer_Arbeit ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kolbe, Simon Wilhelm A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Surzykiewicz, Janusz T1 - Soziale Arbeit in der Post-Migrationsgesellschaft: Die Rückbesinnung auf Religion und Spiritualität in der Begleitung von älteren Migranten*innen mit Fluchterfahrungen JF - Sozialer Fortschritt N2 - Unterschiedliche Forschungserkenntnisse belegen, dass Religion und Spiritualität zu den wichtigsten psychosozialen Ressourcen von älteren Menschen zählen. Gleichzeitig werden sie jedoch nicht immer sachkundig in sozialen Dienstleistungen berücksichtigt. Während Herkunftskulturen, Migrationserfahrungen und Adaptationsanforderungen im Fall von älteren Migranten*innen mit Fluchterfahrungen zusätzlich zu den üblichen altersbedingten und soziokulturellen Aspekten beobachtet werden, können überdies spirituell-religiöse Bewältigungsstrategien eine bedeutende Rolle spielen. Die Berücksichtigung dieser psychosozialen Ressourcen stellt eine wichtige Qualifikations- bzw. Kompetenzanforderung in der Sozialen Arbeit dar, um die Resilienz und Lebenszufriedenheit dieser älteren Menschen zu stärken und folglich auch deren soziale Einbindung in der gesamten Gesellschaft zu gewährleisten. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.71.5.343 VL - 71 IS - 5 SP - 343 EP - 357 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Noyoo, Ndangwa A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Kinship care, responsibility and self-determination: exploring african individual and community rights in decolonized social work T2 - Decolonized approaches to human rights and social work N2 - This chapter explores how the notion of human rights and the practice of social care could further be embedded in an African way of life. Even though there appears to be a broad acceptance of social work as a human rights profession in many African societies, social work seems to be in dissonance with the deeply rooted cultural practice of kinship care and collective responsibility on the continent. It is noteworthy that cultural practices in kinship care and community responsibility in Africa are congruent to social work principles; however, there still remains a yawning gap between this reality in regard to social work education and practice. This chapter calls for the decolonization of human rights and social work discourses in Africa. We argue that wide-ranging culturally embedded values and collective practices should find expression in human rights and social work endeavors in Africa. This will lend itself to a deeper understanding of non-Western-oriented notions of human rights and social work, which are underpinned by community responsibility, and the principle of self-determination as a collective right. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33030-8_5 SP - 77 EP - 9 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Introduction to externalization of EU borders T2 - Transnational mobility and externalization of EU borders: social work, migration management and resistance N2 - The dramatic pictures of violence on the Polish - Belorussian border, preventable shipwrecks off the coast of Italy and Greece or the killing of people attempting to cross the border into the Spanish exclave of Melilla are just the latest manifestation of the dehumanization, securitization and externalization of the EU migration management policies. A trend that can be traced to early 2000s has achieved a new level in recent years after a brief opening of EU borders around 2015. The Covid-19 pandemic has amplified these dynamics in important ways and deepened inequalities of transnational mobility (Lee 2020; Sumba 2021; Afeworki Abay, Kassaye and Kleibl 2022; Matela and Maaza 2022). The flight of people from Ukraine into the EU after the Russian invasion has highlighted the differential treatment of refugees based on intersecting hierarchies of racialization, gender and citizenship. Y1 - 2023 PB - Lexington Books ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Munck, Ronaldo A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - NGOs and the political economy of international development and development education: an irish perspective JF - Policy & Practice: A Development education review N2 - 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. Y1 - 2019 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337937421_NGOS_AND_THE_POLITICAL_ECONOMY_OF_INTERNATIONAL_DEVELOPMENT_AND_DEVELOPMENT_EDUCATION_AN_IRISH_PERSPECTIVE?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InByb2ZpbGUiLCJwYWdlIjoicHJvZmlsZSJ9fQ SP - 31 EP - 53 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Neureither, Franziska A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Internationalisation of Social Work JF - Pedagogika Społeczna Nova N2 - The article explores the internationalisation of social work from a historical point of view to Indigenous approaches and discusses the concepts of indigenisation, authentication and reconceptualisation. It demonstrates the importance of shifting away from the dominant western perspective on knowledge as well as away from the idea of a universal Social Work and focuses on philosophies and approaches of the Global South. Dialogue as praxis, enablement, and empowerment as well as translation and an ethnological view as methods of internationalisation of Social Work are emphasised. Subsequently, perspectives of Radical as well as Green Social Work and postcolonial feminist approaches within the profession are presented, which can contribute to a desired interwoven, mutually supporting Social Work. The outlook shows the importance of international and cross-cultural exchange between social workers. It emphasizes on sharing of and learning about local methods and practices from other parts of the world, to develop common ideas. In this context self-reflection of the profession and social work- ers is crucially value. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14746/psn.2023.3.6.11 VL - 3 IS - 6 SP - 175 EP - 195 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos T1 - ¿Opresión o liberación? - La Función del trabajo social en la gestión de la migración T2 - Migración y transformación social: Perspectivas comprometidas N2 - Este volumen cuestiona las formas tradicionales de crear conocimiento en la investigación sobre migración y se propone a descentralizar el sesgo eurocéntrico del país receptor y explorar los procesos de migración Sur-Sur proporcionando perspectivas del país de origen sobre la migración. El libro está dividido en secciones sobre Perspectivas, Experiencias e Intervenciones para buscar activamente posibilidades para como moldear procesos sociales vitales conectados con la migración. Con este fin, en la sección final hay la tradición del trabajo social como disciplina académica y práctica profesional enfocada en la transformación social, más que como una práctica a nivel micro de “control” o “educación” de personas y familias que se consideran fuera de la sociedad “normal”. Este volumen persigue el objetivo de reivindicar la misión política del trabajo social como fuerza activa de transformación social y mostrar cómo el trabajo social puede ser una fuerza para diseñar políticas activamente, en lugar de ser solo una herramienta de control de la migración. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.61301/isbn.978-65-85775-03-8.2023.v24.p322-248 SP - 322 EP - 348 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Khoo, Su-ming A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Addressing the Global Emergencies of Climate and Human Rights from Below: A View from the Pedagogy of Development Ethics and International Social Work JF - Irish Studies in International Affairs N2 - Acknowledging that the climate emergency is a transdisciplinary challenge that changes everything, this paper offers reflections on teaching and research, attending to the public and students' demands, witnessed at a global climate protest- ‘to not remain as bystanders, but join in action!‘ It asks, what could we begin to do to teach, research and write for climate action, and for solidarity? We offer a joint reflection on the experience of a collaborative Erasmus+ Disciplinary Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Assessment (Erasmus DELTA) training exchange and consider the challenges and benefits for engaged scholarship, subject specific curriculum enhancement and creative pedagogy. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.2020.0001 VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 27 EP - 42 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos T1 - Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Social Work, Social Policy and Beyond T2 - Decoloniality, Social Policy and Social Work N2 - The history of social work and the modern Western university paradoxically represents both the high point and low point of human progress. Conceived in an epoch of immense human discovery, it is important to understand this period as characterised by white Western Imperialist and Colonial projects and the rise of capitalist accumulation. In combination, these processes, not confined to the geo-political points of origin, continue to have devastating impacts across the world, characterised by the exploitation, displacement, and destruction of human beings as well as natural ecosystems. Hegemonic colonial structures and practices created and reproduced global racialised hierarchies with the dominance of the Global North and the 'Othering' of knowledge forms and ways of life emerging from the Global South. Struggles for decolonisation and anti-racism come from an ongoing refusal by the victims of capitalism and imperialism to accept defeat and to continue to struggle for life, liberty and dignity. In the current moment, especially following the brutal public execution of George Floyd in the US and the Black Lives Matter movement, especially amongst youth, we have witnessed a global response, incorporating gestures of solidarity, through the ‘taking of the knee’ through to direct action to remove statues and monuments celebrating various characters associated with Empire, slavery and colonial exploitation. Decolonial perspectives are often neglected in the Global North. At the same time, activist intellectuals such as Freire, Fanon, and also Gandhi remain important sources for social work practice otherwise. Decolnialism refers both to a specific global conjuncture and to a broad range of theoretical analyses and political dispositions, borne out of the struggle of countries in the Global South to escape from colonial rule and from neo-colonial global power relations. In parallel, post-colonial thought critiques the Northern and Western-centrism of what passes for global knowledge, distrusting particularistic knowledge forms that pretend to a universal understanding and reach and, instead, seek to bring back pluriversal thinking. Crucially, an anti-colonialist paradigm focuses on dismantling global structures of domination – in thought, language, action, suggesting that political and conceptual work is needed, constantly, to challenge the powerful legacies of the colonial past. This bias is as present in social work as it is in other disciplines and practices, eroding the memory and relevance of alternative traditions and practices. Alongside geo-political colonisation there were parallel processes of the colonisation of madness, childhood, sexuality, poverty, gender, disability and old age. In all of these examples, the dominant powers use the same, or similar, patterns of subordinating, even erasing, ‘The Other’, through disciplines of care and control that involve oppression and exploitation. Crucially, the planet, and its finite resources, are being colonised for profit through unfettered extractivist productivism. Social work's emergence as a profession was deeply implicated in social Darwinism and eugenics, trends that have re-emerged in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding global inequality as a phenomenon deriving from colonialism, imperialism and capitalism, this course seeks to address the prosepcts for a decolnial social work, a social work otherise, a social work of the South and the ways these can and should be reflected in social work education, training and rpactice. How can international documents (conventions, treaties etc.) be used to combat the colonialist paradigm? What kinds of alternative understandings of the relationship between people and nature exist and how can these be used as part of the anti-colonial struggle? What are some of the colonising and de-colonising effects of international efforts in social work? How can indigenous wisdom, local and hidden intelligence and skills, be preserved and built upon? How can patriarchal values be turned off and around, providing the openings for values of care, solidarity and kindness? Can minor subversions of social work contribute to major changes? Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354735732_Anti-Colonial_Perspectives_in_Social_Work_Social_Policy_and_Beyond ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Neureither, Franziska A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Ethical Considerations for Social Work Education and Research in Africa: COVID-19, White Privilege, Structural Inequalities and its Implications for European Social Work T2 - Innovation and Resilience: Preparedness of Social Work Education in Uncertain Times N2 - The current pandemic forces parts of Social Work practice, research and education to reinvent itself. Alongside new online formats and blended-learning models, new ethical questions and dilemmas arise. These include issues of resources, control and power, access, accessibility, mobility and rising inequalities, positionality of researchers, data protection and the duty of care in social scientific research and education with migrants and other ,vulnerable’ populations. While individual-oriented models which have arguably been a hallmark of the European Social Work practice, come to its limits during the pandemic, communal practices and local self-organized support systems come to the forefront. How can the Global North learn from approaches of the Global South? The symposium draws on this notion of joint learning and raises important questions about the (im)possibility of equal research partnership during times of worsening structural inequalities. This symposium draws on Social Work related research projects in cooperation with partners in Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia. The situatedness of the research projects has implicit and explicit ethical implications that pointed out the need for postcolonial reflections. The first perspective focuses on critical whiteness in research practice and pandemic-related challenges regarding field access and exchange opportunities. The second part of the discussion calls for situated ethics based in transnational multi-site research with migrating persons. Drawing on the theory of Social Work as a human rights profession in a global context, the final part of the discussion then moves to emphasize the mandate of Social Work researchers, practitioners and education to consider the perspectives of those unheard and unseen in the current discourse. The range of papers point towards the dilemma of a predominantly white Northern perspectives of Social Work profession that is only slowly reflecting upon and researching its own role in upholding and reproducing the colonial matrix of power. This symposium concludes by making some suggestions how to work towards an ethical space of engagement in which power imbalances are recognized and an in-between space, in which one can in fact only stumble forward together, created. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349773193_Ethical_Considerations_for_Social_Work_Education_and_Research_in_Africa_COVID-19_White_Privilege_Structural_Inequalities_and_its_Implications_for_European_Social_Work ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa T1 - Beyond the Single Story of "Migration Management": Creating Space for "Epistemic Disobedience" in Engaging with Migration in Social Work T2 - The 21st International Conference of Migration "Border Thinking" N2 - In recent years, Mignolo’s concept of “border thinking” became an increasingly relevant critical framework to analyze the complexity of migration processes to postcolonial Europe (Lutz, Sachau, & Stauß, 2017; Zannou, & Pfaffenstaller, 2020). It differentiates between external and internal borders; whereby the latter refers to the modern/colonial world system and its epistemological conceptualizations in the postcolonial era that continue to be dominated by the hegemonic order of Eurocentric discourses - here on migration (Mignolo, 2000). Within a reductionist approach to the complexity of migration processes (Mayblin, 2016), motives of migration are often analyzed within a single-story framework that considers solely the perspectives of European-destination countries – disregarding the external border that considers the perspectives of the subaltern (Zannou & Pfaffenstaller, 2020). In addition, the applied framework constructs Europe as in need to protect its welfare systems from overload and exploitation, and its societies from infiltration (Mayblin, 2016). The so-called “root causes” for migration are sought in “underdevelopment” and inter- and intraregional conflicts for land/resources and power. Its close and complex relations to colonial legacies however, are often left unconsidered (Zannou, & Pfaffenstaller, 2020; Lutz, Sachau, & Stauß, 2017). Yet, the imprints of colonial rule on former colonized states continue to impact social, political and economic structures on both sides, thereby shaping knowledge production (Mignolo, 2013). In our presentation, we critically discuss the dominant Eurocentric discourse on “migration management” and its universality claims. Focusing specifically on social work, we sketch out how the production of research and the (self) understanding of the social work profession within the welfare state are often entangled in (re)producing hegemonic discourse. With Mignolo, we reflect on the possibilities of “epistemic disobedience” (Mignolo, 2009; 2013) and its demands for universality in social work education, research and practice. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349693595_Beyond_the_Single_Story_of_Migration_Management_Creating_Space_for_Epistemic_Disobedience_in_Engaging_with_Migration_in_Social_Work ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Neureither, Franziska A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Daňková, Petra T1 - Projects and Teaching Formats of Social Work in the context of Postcolonial Perspectives T2 - Projects and Teaching Formats of Social Work in the context of Postcolonial Perspectives N2 - Social Work curricula in many areas have a Eurocentric orientation, which obscures historical-colonial structures of inequality and power imbalances between and within regions. This leads to the development of dynamics between social groups and diverse identities and, connected to this, social inclusion and exclusion processes, which are often not sufficiently taken into account or reflected in the research, teaching and practice of Social Work. The postcolonial situation continues to profoundly influence knowledge production within the profession as well as the transfer of knowledge within teaching and practice in the Global South and North. Since postcolonial theories and practice approaches focus on global power relations and social inequalities, different forms of racism, discrimination and stigmatization processes, they are of particular importance for International Social Work. On November 12, 2021, the Expert Groups "International Social Work" and "Flight, Migration, Racism and Anti-Semitism Criticism" of the German Association of Social Work (DGSA) will hold a joint symposium-if possible in attendance at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS). Within the framework of the event, focused projects and teaching formats in the context of postcolonial Social Work will be presented, tried out in workshops, discussed and jointly developed further. The conference will therefore focus on the following questions: How can postcolonial perspectives be anchored in the teaching and practice of Social Work? Which formats are particularly suitable for this? What creative possibilities are there for communicating aspects of postcolonial Social Work to students in a reflective and participatory way? What challenges can be identified? These are the questions we want to address during the conference. The aim is to learn from existing approaches, to take up new ideas, to develop them further and to network. The conference is interdisciplinary and open for actors from science and practice who want to bring in different postcolonial perspectives relevant for Social Work (e.g. sociology, ethnology, economics, political science, theology, literature and history, etc...). The goal is to set out together in order to strengthen postcolonial perspectives and decolonial approaches within Social Work theory and practice. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348741813_Projects_and_Teaching_Formats_of_Social_Work_in_the_context_of_Postcolonial_Perspectives ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Kolbe, Simon Wilhelm T1 - Soziale Arbeit neu denken - eine katholische Perspektive T2 - Kultur- und religionssensible Wohlfahrtspflege - Herausforderungen und zivilgesellschaftliche Perspektiven in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32181.19687 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Neureither, Franziska A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Daňková, Petra T1 - Projekte und Lehrformate Sozialer Arbeit im Kontext postkolonialer Perspektiven T2 - Projekte und Lehrformate Sozialer Arbeit im Kontext postkolonialer Perspektiven N2 - Curricula der Sozialen Arbeit besitzen in vielen Bereichen eine eurozentrische Ausrichtung, welche historisch-kolonial gewachsene Strukturen der Ungleichheit und Machtgefälle zwischen und innerhalb Regionen verdecken. Daraus entwickeln sich Dynamiken zwischen sozialen Gruppen und diversen Identitäten und damit verbunden, gesellschaftliche Inklusions-und Exklusionsprozesse, welche in der Forschung, Lehre und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt bzw. reflektiert werden. Die postkoloniale Situation beeinflusst weiterhin tiefgreifend die Wissensproduktion innerhalb der Profession sowie den Transfer von Wissen innerhalb der Lehre und Praxis im Globalen Süden und Norden. Da postkoloniale Theorien und Praxisansätze globale Machtverhältnisse und soziale Ungleichheiten, Rassismen, Diskriminierungs- und Stigmatisierungsprozesse in den Blick nehmen, sind sie von besonderer Bedeutung für die Internationale Soziale Arbeit. Am 12. November 2021 werden die Fachgruppen Internationale Soziale Arbeit (ISA) und Flucht, Migration, Rassismus- und Antisemitismuskritik (Migraas) der DGSA eine gemeinsame Fachtagung, falls möglich in Präsenzform, an der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS) abhalten. Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung sollen fokussiert Projekte und Lehrformate im Kontext postkolonialer Sozialen Arbeit vorgestellt, in Workshops ausprobiert, diskutiert und gemeinsam weiterentwickelt werden. Die Tagung wird deshalb partizipativ folgende Fragestellungen ins Zentrum rücken: Wie können postkoloniale Perspektiven in der Lehre und Praxis Sozialer Arbeit verankert werden? Welche Formate sind dafür besonders geeignet? Welche kreativen Möglichkeiten gibt es, Studierenden Aspekte postkolonialer Sozialer Arbeit partizipativ zu vermitteln? Welche Herausforderungen lassen sich dabei erkennen? Diesen Fragen wollen wir uns im Rahmen der Tagung stellen. Dabei geht es auch darum von bereits bestehenden Ansätzen zu lernen, vorhandene Ideen aufzugreifen, sie weiter zu entwickeln und uns dabei zu vernetzen. Die Tagung ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und offen für Akteur*innen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, welche unterschiedliche, für die Soziale Arbeit relevante, postkoloniale Perspektiven einbringen wollen (z.B. Soziologie, Ethnologie, Ökonomie, Politikwissenschaft, Theologie, Literatur-und Geschichtswissenschaften, etc…). Das Ziel ist gemeinsam auf den Weg zu gehen, um postkoloniale Perspektiven und dekoloniale Ansätze innerhalb der Theorie und der Praxis Sozialer Arbeit zu stärken. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348705439_Projekte_und_Lehrformate_Sozialer_Arbeit_im_Kontext_postkolonialer_Perspektiven ER -