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Decolonising social work in Finland : racialisation and practices of care / edited by Kris Clarke, Leece Lee-Oliver and Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--Finland.
- Social service.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland, a small nation with a history enmeshed in social relations as both coloniser and colonised.<br><i>Decolonising Social Work in Finland</i> interrogates coloniality, racialisation and diversity in the context of Finnish social work and social care. Bringing together racialised and mainstream White Finnish researchers, activists and community members to challenge relations of epistemic violence on racialised populations in Finland, it critically unpacks colonial views of care and wellbeing.<br>It will be essential reading for international scholars and students in the fields of social work, sociology, indigenous studies, health sciences, social sciences and education.<br> The Introduction and Chapter 10 are available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Decolonising Social Work in Finland: Racialisation and Practices of Care
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Starting points
- Why decolonise, why now, why in Finland?
- Hegemonic Whiteness in the Finnish context
- Pluriversalising knowledge production
- Decolonising social work in context
- Why futures matter
- The structure of the book
- Part I: 'Exploring coloniality in the Finnish social work field'
- Part II: 'Naming and confronting epistemic and structural injustice'
- Part III: 'Reimagining caring and social work futurities'
- Note
- References
- PART I Exploring coloniality in the Finnish social work field
- 1 Between a rock and hard place: discussing Sámi issues in contemporary Finland - a conversation with Ánneristen Juuso
- 2 Welfare state nationalism, family reunification and forced migrants' strategies to surpass structural violence
- Transformation of the welfare state and tightening family migration policies
- Data and methods
- Administrative obstacles in the early family reunification application process
- Family reunification as a proceeding process
- A prolonged hope for family reunification
- Concluding remarks
- 3 Contesting universalism in Finnish health and social services: experiences of migrant parents with a disabled child
- Approaches to universalism
- Results
- Monolingual practices
- Standardised services
- Asymmetrical relationships between parents and practitioners
- Conclusion
- 4 Homonationalism and talking back in Finnish social work with non-heterosexual people with refugee backgrounds
- Homonationalism and social work
- Methods.
- Narrating homonationalism with single stories
- The single story of Finland as a gay haven
- The single story of the countries of origin as villains
- Constructing the Bubble of Oppression
- Talking back to single stories
- The many stories of Finland
- The many stories of countries of origin
- Fracturing the Bubble of Oppression
- Conclusion: imagining less colonial social work
- Notes
- 5 Social workers' perceptions on structural challenges for minorities' social care
- Previous research
- Social connection model for building justice
- Data and method
- Identifying structural injustices
- Cultural and lingual barriers and normalising suffering
- Treatment principles and organisational instructions
- The law and its interpretation
- Relational practices to improve clients' situation against structural injustices
- Empowering clients to become agents of their own situation
- Advocating for migrants in the multi-professional cooperation
- Social workers' relations to legislation
- Summary and discussion
- 6 Deconstructing racialised and cultural otherisation with young people through pluralistic arts-based social work
- Theoretical framework: deconstructing hegemonies of social work research through arts-based methods
- Engaging arts-based methods
- Interdisciplinary arts-based case study with young people
- Understanding the findings through movement, horizontality and transformation for epistemological pluralism
- Movement
- Horizontality
- Transformation
- Discussion on arts-based entry points for deconstructing cultural and racialised otherisation with young people
- Epilogue
- PART II Naming and confronting epistemic and structural injustice.
- 7 Silence so loud it hurts: racialisation, erasure and future-building in Finnish social work
- Beginnings and consciousness
- Finland: the best, most racist country
- The story of arrival
- Phenomenologies of institutional oppression
- The relationship between race and social work
- Futures
- 8 Transcultural mental health as the colonisation of racialised bodies: a personal insight
- The historical context of transcultural mental health and ethnopsychiatry
- The monetisation of mental distress: how the non-profit industrial complex operates in Finland
- The clinic
- The policing of racialised patients: how epistemic violence manifests
- 9 Emergent healing spaces: decolonising healing and wellness in Finland
- Who is allowed to declare Finnish identity?
- Situating BIPOC-centred emergent healing spaces
- 10 Intersectional knowledge practices in academia from marginal positions: testimonios from researchers of colour in Finland
- Epistemic injustice in the university and testimonios
- The complexity of intersectionality in Finnish discussions
- Testimonios as a method of challenging epistemic injustice: our stories
- Setting the context (Kris)
- Studying racialised older people with a migrant background in Finland (Smarika)
- Studying African mothers in the Helsinki metropolitan region (Priscilla)
- PART III Reimagining caring and social work futurities
- 11 Counter-archiving as a decolonial pedagogy of collective care
- Theoretical inspirations for a decolonial walking pedagogy of counter-archiving
- Lena and Nana's work on 'The Iron Well' statue in Gothenburg
- Counter-archiving 'The Iron Well'
- City walking as a decolonial macro social work pedagogy
- Placing Chinatown in Fresno.
- City walks as macro social work practice
- Walking Chinatown
- Conclusion: walking, listening, talking as decolonial pedagogy
- Questions for readers
- 12 Post-professional social work? Decolonising social work professionalism through the engagement of community health workers
- Community health work in Mozambique
- Popular social work and the downside of professionalism
- Post-professional social work
- Methodology: an ethnographic case study of an NGO-led project
- Results: foundations for decolonising Nordic social work
- Reconsidering professionalism
- Closeness
- Reciprocity
- Recognition
- Social interventions: examples from the Chamanculo neighbourhoods
- Finding support from the family
- Helping structures in shared living environments
- Lessons from Mozambique: unravelling skills hierarchies of social service professions
- Conclusion: towards post-professionalisation
- 13 Decolonising mindfulness, mindful decolonisation and social work futurities
- What is mindfulness?
- Decolonising mindfulness
- Mindful decolonisation and social work futurities
- Begin today to prepare for tomorrow
- A. Observing and confronting colonisation practices
- Reflection
- B. Fierce loving-kindness practices
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-7146-1
- 1-4473-7143-7
- 1-4473-7145-3
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