Global challenges, opportunities, and developing new social phenomena have always had an impact on and change the circumstances under which social work is practised. Whilst social work can take many ""local"" forms, it is also a global profession which strives to advance the causes of vulnerable and marginalised people with the aim of promoting human rights and social justice. In recent years, the increasing impact on social work of global processes, changes, and challenges has emerged. This has led to increased diversity of individual, community, and citizen identities, experiences, and needs but also plurality of all these factors. As a result, needs have diversified even further and pose more and serious challenges that social work needs to respond to.
The Routledge International Handbook of Glocal Social Work emphasises ""glocal"" social work, defined as the constant interplay between global issues and their local relevance, and between transnational topics and practice and their local application. Chapters highlight glocal social work as interwoven with an awareness of the impact of multiple structural transformations at a global level and highlight the structural mechanisms which reproduce global/local inequalities, and human rights and social justice aspects of sustainability. It also demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinarity in glocal social work as collective responsibility, with multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder engagement approaches.
This book is divided into four parts:
Foundations and perspectives Local responses to global phenomena Preparing social workers for global-local engagement Broader issues and future directions
The range of topics discussed in this volume will enrich our understanding of and capacities in exploring the contextualisation of global phenomena and the dissemination of local learning onto global thinking. This volume is a helpful reference to social work practitioners, professionals in social care and welfare services, social work students, academics, and researchers, in an attempt to continuously explore new ways to respond to the challenges that glocalisation is revealing.
0.Introduction. PART I: Foundations and Perspectives. 1.Human Rights, Social Justice and Transformation Practice. 2.Social work - the importance of social, economic, political analysis to develop frameworks for intervention. 3.INvisible GOvernors? INGOs and the identity of social work in Lebanon. 4.(Re)Connecting Communities and Social Work: The power of Arts-Based Practice in a glocalised world. PART II: Local Responses to Global Phenomena. 5.Humanitarian Partnerships in Crisis: Examining Social Care Worker-Refugee Collaboration for COVID-19 Mitigation in Rohingya Camps. 6.Food Insecurity and Alleviating Hunger. 7.Global social work for the promotion of sustainable urban housing. 8.Surviving in the Streets: Challenges and Solutions for Bangladeshi Street Children. 9.Street children’s well-being and rights: The role of social work organisations in Accra, Ghana. 10.Loss and grief in the context of (forced) migration: Implications for international social work practice. 11.Working with Forcibly Displaced Individuals and Listening to their Voices. 12.The End of ‘The War on Drugs?’: The Engagement of Social Work in Global Drug Reform. 13.‘Permanent Temporariness’ through the lens of Intersectional Microaggression: A Framework for Social Work for Afghan Male Refugee students in Universities in Delhi. PART III: Preparing social workers for Global-Local engagement. 14.Glocal Social Work Education: engaging with the Global Standards within local frameworks. 15.International social work placements: Mediating the local and the global. 16.Adapting Social Work Education to Respond to Local and Global Needs. 17.Imagined life of transnational Zimbabwe social workers in England. 18.Decolonising academic partnerships between the United Kingdom and East Africa – The Ubuntu partnership. 19.An Afrocentric parenting skills programme: A framework for a culturally responsive group work practice approach. 20.Decolonizing the “Well-being ” Concept & Social Work Practice through the Lens of Buddhism. 21.Applying transnational feminism to international social work: Decolonizing practices in social work education, research and practice. PART IV: Broader Issues and Future Directions. 22.Critical Race Theory and Decoloniality: Comparative Reflections of the Role of Race and Identity in Social Work Education and Society in The United States and South Africa. 23.Challenges and Opportunities to contemporary child protection system; key elements for child-centred systems. 24.Mental Health and International and National Politics. 25.The securitisation of the refugee crisis and attitudes towards refugees. 26.Harmonisation of Local Capacities and Global Standards in the Provision of Social Services – The Context of the Republic of Serbia. 27.Equitable and Sustainable Long Term Care Systems for Older People and Poverty Reduction in Sub Saharan Africa: A Social Work Response. 28.The struggle for knowledge: Human rights, education and community. 29.Ecosocial Challenges as an Opportunity to Rethink Social Work in a Critical Glocal Perspective.
Panagiotis Pentaris is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Thanatology in Thanatology Research Lab and the Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies, Goldsmiths University of London. Janet Walker is a Professor of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln.
