Family and gendered violence and conflict pan-continent reach Ruchi Sinha, Pekham Basu, editors

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinha, Ruchi, editor.

Basu, Pekham, editor.

Series:

Social work (Springer (Firm)) 2946-5060

Social work 2946-5060

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family violence.

Victims of family violence--Services for.

Victims of family violence.

Social service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer [2024]

Summary:

This reference work collates academic discourses and practices around family, gender, and violence in social work. A huge body of discourse is available that categorizes and labels acts of violence, and correspondingly practices that pin blame/responsibility for the violence. These have led to evolution of intervention strategies to resolve or address the violence. Some explanations foreground systemic causes; others look at person-centric causes. The two views bring forth the fundamental ontological divide of structuralism and individualism. The question for social workers to debate is what to factor in while working with families experiencing violence and conflict. What amongst the person, the agency, or the structure needs to be addressed to understand the experience of families in conflict and violence? Are these positions supplementary, complementary, or to be understood reflexively? With the inclusion of new families, the parochial understanding of families has long been dislodged and given way to newer, radical, and contextual understanding of families. Similarly, different people, agencies, and states understand violence and conflict differently. Gender, too, has moved from the binaries of male and female to the gender-diverse LGBTQIA+ identities. The book positions the ontological premise on which the epistemological practise is located. Simply put, the person-centric ontology on families and violence epistemologically finds understanding in agency-based approaches in individual agency, whereas the structure-based approaches find the experience of families and violence in society, state, and the world order. The contributors locate their work around identification, definition, an intervention or empirical study, policy analysis, historical evolution of concepts, and ontological and paradigmatic debates to position their individual chapters. Family and Gendered Violence and Conflict: Pan-Continent Reach provides a paradigmatic prism for practice for social workers who are equipped to interpret context differently. The differing and competing paradigmatic lenses cannot be mediated, resolved, or addressed, but they definitely can be understood and debated to provide a 360-degree lens on the issues of families in violence in the gendered context. The reference work is a useful resource for social work practitioners, educators, academicians, researchers, and other development professionals

Notes:

Includes index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 4, 2024)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version Sinha, Ruchi Family and Gendered Violence and Conflict

ISBN:

9783031603839

3031603834

3031426029

9783031426025

OCLC:

1474967266

Publisher Number:

CIPO000161362

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license