Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work: Foregrounding Pluriversalism in Teaching and Research

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Robel Afeworki Abay (Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany) Anna-Lisa Klages (Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt)

Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work

Foregrounding Pluriversalism in Teaching and Research

Robel Afeworki Abay (Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany), Anna-Lisa Klages (Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt), Sara Rodríguez Lugo (Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt) , Tanja Kleibl (University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany)

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Bloomsbury Academic
15 May 2025

Research methods: general; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; History of ideas; Social work

This open access book offers an original exploration of how the notion of pluriversalism, an anti-colonial concept that resounds throughout many decolonial methodologies and pedagogies, underlies many current attempts to develop more just and equitable approaches to social work teaching and research.

Despite its prominence in other fields, pluriversalism has never been foregrounded in any full-length study of social work. This co-edited volume does just that, and in so doing, it codifies a thriving, but otherwise diffuse, subcurrent of alternative, othered ways of researching and teaching social work. It foregrounds local knowledges while maintaining a global scope and empirically grounded perspective, and in so doing it shows how pluriversal approaches open new spaces around the world for teaching and talking about social work in a manner that is more just, culturally sensitive, and attuned to structural power relations. In that same self-critical spirit, the chapters gathered here also engage critically with the risks of cultural appropriation endemic to pluriversal approaches, themselves, appropriations that would ultimately reproduce the exploitation mechanisms they aim to resist. This is a must-read for social work students, researchers, and practitioners interested in development studies, decolonial studies, and Indigenous studies.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Edited by: Robel Afeworki Abay (Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin Germany), Anna-Lisa Klages (Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt), Sara Rodríguez Lugo (Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt), Tanja Kleibl (University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781350419223
ISBN 10: 1350419222
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 15 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robel Afeworki Abay is a sociologist and guest professor of participatory approaches in social and health sciences at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany. Anna-Lisa Klages, social worker and art therapist, is a post-doctoral researcher at the Research and Transfer Center for Sustainability (ForTraNN) of The Technical University Ingolstadt of Applied Sciences, Germany. Sara Rodríguez Lugo is a social worker and holds a Master of Arts in International Social Work with Refugees and Migrants from the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany. Tanja Kleibl is Professor for Social Work, Migration and Diversity at Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany. She is also the author of Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique (Zed Books, 2021).