ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Mel Gray and Jan Fook, based at the Universities of Newcastle (Australia) and Vermont (USA) respectively, unpack the quest for a ‘universal’ social work. In doing so, they analyse recent trends towards universalism and globalism in social work, setting these alongside parallel trends of localism, multiculturalism and indigenisation. One of the many strengths of the paper lies in the authors’ care to draw on different examples and perspectives, only some of which we have been able to share here.
