ABSTRACT

This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. The volume brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa, the Philippines and Sweden. It proposes ‘glocalisation’ as a useful concept for re-framing conditions, methodologies and practices for social work in a world perspective.

Part I of the volume, 'The Glocalisation of Social Issues', deals with major environmental, social and cultural issues – migration and human rights, environmental problems and gendered violence. Part II, 'Methodological Re-Shaping and Spatial Transgression in Glocalised Social Work', develops an epistemology of situated knowledge and methodologies inspired by art, creative writing and cultural geography, focusing on physical, material and emotional spatial dimensions of relevance to social work. Part III, 'Responses from Social Work as a Glocalised Profession', examines how social work has responded to specific social problems, crises and vulnerabilities in a glocalised world.

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

Social Work in a Glocalised World

part I|64 pages

The Glocalisation of Social Issues

part II|80 pages

Methodological Re-Shaping and Spatial Transgression in Glocalised Social Work

chapter 6|17 pages

‘What We Learn How to See’

chapter 7|13 pages

Geographies of Anger and Fear

Exploring the Affective Atmospheres of Men’s ‘Domestic’ Violence

chapter 8|18 pages

Loss and Grief in Global 
Social Work

Autoethnographic Explorations of the Case of the Tsunami Catastrophe in Northeastern Japan, March 11, 2011

chapter 10|11 pages

Social Sculpture Through Dreams and Conversations

Creating Spaces for Participatory and Situation-Specific Art-Based Methods

part III|72 pages

Responses from Social Work as a Glocalised Profession

chapter 12|14 pages

Protecting the Rights of Overseas Filipino Workers

Social Work Beyond National Borders

chapter 13|16 pages

Migration: National 
Welfare Institutions

Doulas as Border Workers in Obstetric Care in Sweden

chapter 14|12 pages

Undoing Privilege in 
Social Work

Implications for Critical Practices in the Local and Global Context

chapter 15|11 pages

Glocality and Social Work

Methodological Responsiveness to Moments of Rupture