Implications of Decolonizing Social Work: Critical Reflections on Colonial Pasts, Post-Colonial Presents and Decolonial Futures

  • 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.

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Author:Robel Afeworki Abay, Tanja Kleibl, Sara Rodríguez Lugo, Anna-Lisa Klages
Parent Title (German):Decolonizing Social Work: From Theory to Transformative Practice
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of publication:2024
Release Date:2024/03/21
Institutes and faculty:Fakultäten / Fakultät Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften
Institute / Institut für Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften (IFAS)
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