Body Politics of Glocal Social Work

<p>This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write, and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards glocalisation, where human and non-human embodiments and agencies are entangled in glocal environ<i>mental </i>worlds.</p><p>It critically and creatively examines how social work can be theorised, practised, and written in renewed ways through dialogical and transdisciplinary practices. This book is composed of eight essayistic spaces, envisioning social work through embodied, glocal, and earthly entanglements. By drawing on research-based knowledge, autobiographical notes, stories, poetry, photographs, and an art exhibition in social work education, these essays provide readers with analysis and strategies that are useful for research, education, and practice as well as life-long learning.</p><p>The book constitutes key literature for researchers, educators, practitioners, and activists in social work, sociology, architecture, art and creative writing, feminist and postcolonial studies, human geography, and post-anthropocentric philosophy. It offers the readers sustainable ways to re-think and re-write social work towards a glocal- and post-anthropocentric more-than-human worldview.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>A Book of Eight Essayistic Spaces: Glocal Embodiment in the Post-Anthropocene</p><p>An Invitation to Diffractive and Slow Reading </p><p>1. Re-Wor(l)dling Social Work: This Essay is offered as an Invitation to Post-Anthropocentric Thinking, Practice, and Writing</p><p>2. Mapping the Glocal: This Essay is Offered as a Triptych Paradigm</p><p>3. Exhibiting the Glocal: This Essay is Offered as an Eco-Social Sculpture</p><p>4. Exhausting the Glocal: This Essay is Offered as a Drifting Mo(ve)ment</p><p>5. Decolonising the Glocal: This essay is Offered as a Diffractive Practice </p><p>6. Spatialising the Glocal: This essay is Offered as a Counter-Monument </p><p>7. Writing the Glocal: This Essay is Offered as a Space for Post-Anthropocentric Writers </p><p>8. Glocality and Body Politics: This Essay is Offered as a Vision and Practice for Slow Science in Social Work</p>