The past two decades have witnessed a vigorous challenge to social work. A growing global convergence between the market and the public sector means that private sector values, priorities, and forms of work organization increasingly permeate social and community services. As challenges facing people and communities become more layered and complex, our means of responding become more time-bound and reductionist.
This book is premised on the belief in the revitalizing power of arts-informed approaches to social justice work; it affirms and invites creative responses to personal, community, and political struggles and aspirations. The projects described in the book address themes of colonization, displacement and forced migration, sexual violence, ableism, and vicarious trauma. Each chapter shows how art can facilitate transformation: by supporting processes of conscientization and enabling re-storying of selves and identities; by contributing to community and cultural healing, sustainability and resilience; by helping us understand and challenge oppressive social relations; and by deepening experiences, images, and practices of care.
Social Work Artfully: Beyond Borders and Boundaries emerges from collaboration between researchers, educators, and practitioners in Canada and South Africa. It offers examples of arts-informed interventions that are attentive to diversity, attuned to various forms of personal and communal expression, and cognizant of contemporary economic and political conditions.
Edited by:
Christina Sinding,
Hazel Barnes
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9781771121224
ISBN 10: 177112122X
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 28 February 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Social Work Artfully: Beyond Borders and Boundaries, edited by Christina Sinding and Hazel Barnes Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Christina Sinding and Hazel Barnes 1. Where we've been and what we are up against: Social welfare and social work in Canada Donna Baines 2. Where we've been and what we are up against: Social welfare and social work in South Africa Edwell Kaseke 3. How art works: Hopes, claims, and possibilities for social justice Christina Sinding and Hazel Barnes Art for Conscientization and Re-Storying Selves 4. Art and storytelling with migrant children: Developing and thickening alternative storylines Edmarié Pretorius and Liebe Kellen 5. Art towards critical conscientization and social change during social work and human rights education, in the South African post-apartheid and post-colonial context Linda Harms Smith and Motlalepule Nathane-Taulela 6. When we are naked: An approach to cathartic experience and emotional autonomy within the post-apartheid South African landscape Khayelihle Dominique Gumede Art for Community and Cultural Healing, Sustainability, and Resilience 7. Excavating and representing community-embedded trauma and resilience: Suitcases, car trips, and the architecture of hope Patti McGillicuddy and Edmarié Pretorius 8. Performing understanding: Investigating and expressing difference and trauma Hazel Barnes 9. Towards an Indigenous narrative inquiry: The importance of composite, artful representations Randy Jackson, Corena Debassige, Renée Masching, and Wanda Whitebird Art for Transforming Social Relations 10. Emerging paradigms for managing conflicts through applied arts Kennedy C. Chinyowa 11. Corroding the comforts of social work knowing: Persons with intellectual disabilities claim the right of inspection over public photographic images Ann Fudge Schormans Art for Transforming Social Care Practice 12. Bringing relating to the forefront: Using the art of improvisation to actively perceive relational processes in social work Cathy Paton 13. Making meaning of our experiences of bearing witness to suffering: Employing A/R/Tography to surface co-remembrance and (dwelling) place Patti McGillicuddy, Nadine Cross, Gail Mitchell, Nancy Davis Halifax, and Carolyn Plummer Bibliography Contributors Index
Christina Sinding is an Associate Professor at McMaster University (School of Social Work and Department of Health, Aging and Society). Her research focuses on cancer and social marginalization; service user involvement; and arts-informed social science, especially in social work and social-justice contexts. She is the author, with Ross Gray, of Standing Ovation: Performing Social Science Research about Cancer. Hazel Barnes is a Senior Research Associate in Drama and Performance Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Chair of the Research Committee of Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand. She has published a number of papers on drama and theatre applied to interculturalism and post-traumatic stress in national and international journals, and has also recently edited three books on applied drama/theatre.
