Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work

<p>Focussing on the epistemic – the way in which knowledge is understood,</p><p></p><p>constructed,</p><p></p><p>transmitted and used – this book shows the way social work</p><p></p><p>knowledge has been constructed from within a white western paradigm, and</p><p></p><p>the need for a critique of whiteness within social work at this epistemic level.</p><p></p><p>Social work, emerging from the western Enlightenment world, has privileged</p><p></p><p>white western knowledge in ways that have been, until recently, largely unexamined</p><p></p><p>within its professional discourse. This imposition of white western</p><p></p><p>ways of knowing has led to a corresponding marginalisation of other forms</p><p></p><p>of knowledge. Drawing on views from social workers from Asia, the Pacific</p><p></p><p>region, Africa, Australia and Latin America, this book also includes a glossary</p><p></p><p>of over 40 commonly used social work terms, which are listed with their epistemological</p><p></p><p>assumptions identified. Opening up a debate about the received</p><p></p><p>wisdom of much social work language as well as challenging the epistemological</p><p></p><p>assumptions behind conventional social work practice, this book will be</p><p></p><p>of interest to all scholars and students of social work as well as practitioners</p><p></p><p>seeking</p><p></p><p>to develop genuinely decolonised forms of practice.</p> <p>PART 1<br><br>Introduction: Sonia Tascón and Jim Ife<br><br>Chapter 1: Critical Whiteness: Communicating Social Work: Sonia Tascón<br><br>Chapter 2: Whiteness from Within: Jim Ife<br><br><br><br>PART 2<br><br>Chapter 3: The white saviour complex: The danger of the “single story” about Africa & Africans in Social work Practice: Kathomi Gatwiri<br><br>Chapter 4: Straddling the Gap: Australian Social Work and First People: Sue Green<br><br>Chapter 5: Decolonising Social work in Uganda by Starting from the Community: Sharlotte Tusasiirwe<br><br>Chapter 6: Refractory inventions: The incubation of Rival Epistemologies on the Margins of Brazilian Social Work: Iris Silva Brito, Goetz Ottmann<br><br>Chapter 7: Mutuality and creativity: Knowing and Being as a Pasifika social work scholar: Tracie Mafile’o<br><br>Chapter 8: Supporting the development of Pacific Social Work across Oceania – critical reflections and lessons learnt towards disrupting whiteness in the region: Jioji Ravulo<br><br>Chapter 9: Una aproximación al trabajo social desde la decolonialidad y la interseccionalidades: Larry Alicea Rodríguez <br><br>Chapter 10: Islamic and Local Knowledge on Social Work in Malaysia: Zulkarnain A. Hatta, Isahaque Ali, Mohd Haizzan Yahaya, Mat Saad<br><br><br><br>PART 3<br><br>Decolonising the Language of Social Work</p>