This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland with a diversity of voices but also explores decolonial caring futurities.
The editors approach the topic by critically unpacking colonial views of care and wellbeing. In this book, the authors represent practitioners, scholars, activists, community members and healers whose unique contribution and whose voices provide not only insights and critiques, but innovative social work epistemologies that envision and imagine decolonial outcomes that cross borders.
Introduction – Kris Clarke, Leece Lee-Oliver and Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö Part 1: Exploring Coloniality in the Finnish Social Work Field 1. Between a Rock and Hard Place: Discussing Sámi Issues in Contemporary Finland: A Conversation With Ánneristen Juuso – Ánneristen Juuso (Anni-Kristiina Juuso) 2. Welfare State Nationalism, Family Reunification and Forced Migrants’ Strategies To Surpass Structural Violence – Camilla Nordberg, Joa Hiitola, Hanna Kara and Maija Jäppinen 3. Contesting Universalism in Finnish Health and Social Services: Experiences of Migrant Parents With a Disabled Child – Eveliina Heino, Hanna Kara and Annika Lillrank 4. Homonationalism and Talking Back in Finnish Social Work with Non-Heterosexual People with Refugee Background – Inka Söderström, 5. Social workers’ perceptions on structural challenges for minorities’ social care – Kati Turtiainen and Merja Anis 6. Deconstructing racialised and cultural otherisation with young people through pluralistic arts-based social work - Enni Mikkonen Part 2: Naming and Confronting Epistemic and Structural Injustice 7. Silence So Loud It Hurts: Racialisation, Erasure, and Future-Building in Finnish Social Work - Koko Hubara 8. Transcultural Mental Health As the Colonisation of Racialised Bodies: A Personal Insight – Fadumo Dayib and Kris Clarke 9. Emergent Healing Spaces: Decolonising Healing and Wellness in Finland – Wambui Njuguna 10. Intersectional Knowledge Practices in Academia From Marginal Positions: Testimonios From Researchers of Colour in Finland – Smarika KC, Priscilla Osei and Kris Clarke Part 3: Reimaging Caring and Social Work Futurities 11. Counter Archiving as a Decolonial Pedagogy of Collective Care – Lena Sawyer, Kris Clarke and Nana Osei-Kofi 12. Post-professional social work? Decolonising social work professionalism through the engagement of community health workers -Saana Raittila-Salo 13. Decolonising Mindfulness, Mindful Decolonisation, and Social Work Futurities – Michael Yellow Bird, and Holly Hatton-Bowers Conclusion - Kris Clarke, Leece Lee-Oliver and Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö
Kris Clarke is Professor of Social Work at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Leece Lee Oliver is a Native American scholar, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of American Indian Studies at California State University, Fresno, USA. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö is a University Lecturer in the discipline of social work in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
