ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on responses from social work as a glocalised profession related to emergent social problems, crises and social vulnerability. It elaborates on topics related to spatial dimensions of relevance to social work including physical, material and emotional spaces. The book illustrates major structural political, economic, social and cultural issues for social work such as migration, human rights and humanitarianism and gendered violence to self and others. It examines the multiscalar dimensions of social issues, the globalising trends and practices that set in train multiscalar concerns, the responses to and development of social issues by nation states and how bodies affectively experience the issues in question. The book also focuses on the practice of social work as discipline and profession across geopolitical spaces.
