Social work in a glocalised world / edited by Mona Livholts and Lia Bryant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Livholts, Mona, editor.

Bryant, Lia, editor.

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Series:

Routledge advances in social work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xv, 244 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction: social work in a glocalised world / Mona Livholts and Lia Bryant

The glocalisation of social issues

Glocal terrains of farmer distress and suicide / Lia Bryant and Bridget Garnham

Gendered globalisation and violence / Jeff Hearn, Kopano Ratele and Tamara Shefer

Globalisation and glocalised policies for asylum seekers : a comparative analysis of australia and the UK / Shepard Masocha

"The humanitarian gaze", human rights films and glocalised social work / Sonia Tascon

Methodological re-shaping and spatial transgressions in glocalised social work

"What we learn how to see" : a politics of location and situated writing in glocalised social work / Mona Livholts

Geographies of anger and fear : exploring the affective atmospheres of men's "domestic" violence / Lucas Gottzén

Loss and grief in global social work : autoethnographic explorations of the case of the tsunami catastrophe in northeastern Japan March 2011 / Els-Marie Anbäcken

Writing from the self and the liberatory process of reformulating identities that extends to and beyond the migratory experience / Sindi Gordon

Social sculpture through dreams and conversations : creating spaces for participatory and situation specific art based methods / Lott Alfreds and Charlotte Åberg

Responses from social work as a glocalised profession

Community work as a socio-spatial response to the challenge of glocal segregation and vulnerability / Päivi Turunen

Protecting the rights of overseas Filipino workers : social work beyond national borders / Nilan Yu and Mary Lou Alcid

International migration and national welfare institutions : doulas as border workers in obstetric care in Sweden / Sabine Gruber

Undoing privilege in transnational social work : implications for critical practices in the local and global context / Bob Pease

Conclusion: glocality and social work : methodological responsiveness to moments of rupture / Lia Bryant and Mona Livholts

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781138644991

1138644994

OCLC:

968212241