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Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work
Despite committed effort to integrate postcolonial theory and decolonizing practices in human rights education in social work, there is scant literature offering a more balanced global perspective. This book addresses that need. Included here are discursive voices contributed by social work colleagues whose work is impacted by postcolonial realities. The task of decolonizing social work as a human rights profession calls for the inclusion of contesting perspectives from social work activists, human rights advocates and educators whose critical standpoints are drawn from the historical context of Global North-South relations. This book is essential given the many manifestations of global inju...
The Coloniality of Humanity
By synthesizing empirical research and theoretical insights from sociology, critical migration studies, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and more, this edited collection offers a comprehensive critique of human hierarchies and the dehumanization they produce.
Family Dynamics, Gender and Social Inequality During COVID-19
This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender developments, and the evolution of social inequality structures. The Corona pandemic, with its unprecedented restrictions on contact, has meant that families have been challenged in their functioning in a very special way. International studies show that socioeconomic factors such as education, income, but also the geographic center of life of families and women in particular, had an important influence on the management of the pandemic. Despite all negative side effects of the Corona pandemic, there were nevertheless also innovative impulses, especially i...
Civil Society in the Global South
In recent years civil society has been seen as a key route for democracy promotion and solving development ‘problems’ in low-income countries. However, the very concept of civil society is deeply rooted in European traditions and values. In pursuing civil society reform in non-Western countries, many scholars along with well-meaning international agencies and donor organisations fail to account for non-Western values and historical experiences. Civil Society in the Global South seeks to redress this balance by offering diverse accounts of civil society from the global South, authored by scholars and researchers who are reflecting on their observations of civil society in their own countr...
Extremisms in Africa Volume 2
Over the past two decades, the rapid emergence and spread of both local and transnational extremist organisations has become a primary source of insecurity in Africa. Extremist organisations represent the fluid and variable nature of conflict systems today and are at the heart of some of Africa's most enduring conflicts. Moreover, the inability of African states to contain the threat of extremism, or of heavy-handed security responses, has led to the loss of thousands of lives, displaced millions, and deeply impacted the continent's democratisation and development goals. This is the second anthology published by Good Governance Africa (GGA) on the topic of extremism and political violence in...
Law, Religion and Leadership in Africa
In Africa, some heads of state sometimes prefer to take their oath on the Bible or the Quran rather than on an ancestral law or a fearsome fetish capable of causing misery in the event of a violation. Thus, in order to build credible institutions that can guarantee socio-political and economic stability, it is desirable to resort to certain ancestral practices, in particular strict respect for customs. At this level of our reflection, it seems useless for Africans to reinvent the wheel; rather, we must look in the rearview mirror in order to exalt the pre-colonial instruments capable of unravelling the invisible mystery of these societies. In this same dynamic, the ancestral law, because of ...
Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique
By demonstrating that Western conceptions of 'civil society' have provided the framework for interpreting societies in the Global South, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique argues that it is only through a critical deconstruction of these concepts that we can start to re-balance global power relationships, both in academic discourse and in development practices. Examining the exclusionary discourses framing the support for Western-type NGOs in the development discourse - often to the exclusion of local social actors - this book dissects mainstream contemporary ideas about 'civil society', and finds a new means by which to identify local forms of social action, often based in traditional structures and spiritual discourses. Outlining new conceptual ideas for an alternative framing of Mozambique's 'civil society', Kleibl proposes a series of fresh theoretical issues and questions alongside empirical research, moving towards a series of new policy and practice arguments for rethinking and decolonizing civil society in the Global South.
Decolonizing Social Work
"Decolonizing Social Work provides such a long-overdue examination. Gathering social work scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection offers a geographically diverse array ambitious and insightful theoretical, conceptual, and practical discussions of how social work can perpetuate the afterlives of colonialism and of how this can be reversed. In so doing, this book not only provides in-depth, empirically grounded critiques of and antidotes to various policies for managing people at the margins of society, it also makes a compelling case for always keeping the complexity of colonial continuity in conversation with neoliberal systems of governance"--
Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work
Decolonizing research and education means loosening the grip of Western academic requirements upon scholars and students. It means embracing cosmologies and ontologies of non-Western cultures in order to open new spaces for pedagogies and methodologies independent of Western notions of measurable academic achievement. In a word, it means embracing pluriversalism, an anti-concept that resounds throughout many decolonial methodologies and pedagogies. Yet despite its prominence in other fields, this notion has never been foregrounded in any full-length study of social work. This co-edited volume does just that, and in so doing, it reveals a thriving subcurrent of othered ways of researching and...
