ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice and education globally in the post-colonial era. By analysing how countries in the so-called developing and developed world have navigated some of the inherited systems from the colonial era, it shows how they have used them to provide relevant social work methods which are also responsive to the needs of a postcolonial setting.
This is an analytical and reflexive handbook that brings together different scholars from various parts of the world – both North and South – so as to distill ideas from scholars relating to ways that can advance social work of the South and critique social work of the North in so far as it is used as a template for social work approaches in postcolonial settings. It determines whether and how approaches, knowledge-bases, and methods of social work have been indigenised and localised in the Global South in the postcolonial era.
This handbook provides the reader with multiple new theoretical approaches and empirical experiences and creates a space of action for the most marginalised communities worldwide. It will be of interest to researchers and practitioners, as well as those in social work education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction
part I|80 pages
Postcolonial social work
part II|72 pages
Postcolonial social work and social movements
chapter 7|8 pages
Conceptualising postcolonial social work and social movements
chapter 8|12 pages
Orientations from social movements
chapter 9|14 pages
Epistemic Decoloniality as a pedagogical movement
chapter 10|10 pages
Heterogeneity of social movements addressing the intersections of gender and race
chapter 12|13 pages
Social movements as pedagogical spaces
part III|98 pages
Indigenisation
chapter 15|12 pages
Liberation from mental colonisation
chapter 16|10 pages
Border thinking and social work – is it possible?
part IV|94 pages
Case studies and innovation from Africa