ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the metaphorical expression 'what we learn how to see' as a point of departure to think and re-think, shape and re-shape, locate and re-locate ourselves and our knowledge base for glocalised social work. It argues that the glocalisation of social issues and the responses from social work call for a politics of location in social work research, education and professional practice. The chapter suggests that a politics of location in glocalised social work is geopolitically and historically grounded and contextualised in (post)colonial relations of power. It also suggests that a glocalised methodology makes use of intersectional analysis to bring into focus the 'unseen', the tensions and dynamics between oppression and privilege. The chapter discusses how a politics of location and the epistemological practice of situating and re-situating in glocalised social work is enriched by making use of postcolonial and situated intersectional theoretical lenses to better understand diversity and inequality, self/other relationships and tensions between privilege and subordination.
