Social Work in a Glocalised World

Mona Livholts is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies at Linköping University, Sweden, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Change, University of South Australia, and Founder and Coordinator of R.A.W., The Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies.Lia Bryant is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia and is Director of the Centre for Social Change. She is Associate Professor in Social Work and Sociology.

'Mona Livholts and Lia Bryant’s Social Work in a Glocalized World is a wonderful and timely book. A glocalised perspective is a whole way of framing social work, which we can no longer ignore. This volume walks the reader through the many ways in which the global and the local come together in forms of knowledge, practice and research methodology, drawing from diverse geopolitical regions, and weaving legal, economic, policy and discursive arguments together. The volume has a strong feminist voice. It expands social work views to include chapters on writing, participatory arts, and on film-making. I learned a lot from it, and I highly recommend it for teachers, students, practitioners, policy-makers and post-disciplinary learners.' Adrienne Chambon, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work ‘Social Work in a Glocalised World makes an important contribution to global discourse and the dialogues that flow from it. Too often social work’s involvement in global issues winds up masking or reproducing the very concerns that motivated its involvement. In large part, this is due to the application of traditional analyses and understandings and the absence of innovative critical approaches. In contrast, this book challenges such ways of thinking and the knowledge it produces and proposes alternative approaches to knowledge generation such as through new forms of writing and the arts. In doing so, the authors of this book make an important contribution to our understanding of global issues and open a space where new and more relevant responses to these issues can be developed.’Stanley L. Witkin, Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA and President, Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Social Work in a Glocalised World Mona Livholts and Lia Bryant Part I: The Glocalisation of Social Issues Chapter 2: Glocal Terrains of Farmer Distress and Suicide Lia Bryant and Bridget Garnham Chapter 3: Gendered Globalisation and Violence Jeff Hearn, Kopano Ratele and Tamara SheferChapter 4: Globalisation and Glocalised Policies for Asylum Seekers: A Comparative Analysis of Australia and the UK Shepard Masocha Chapter 5: ‘The Humanitarian Gaze’, Human Rights Films and Glocalised Social Work Sonia TasconPart II: Methodological Re-Shaping and Spatial Transgression in Glocalised Social WorkChapter 6: ‘What We learn How to See’: A Politics of Location and Situated Writing in Glocalised Social Work Mona LivholtsChapter 7: Geographies of Anger and Fear: Exploring the Affective Atmospheres of Men’s ‘Domestic’ ViolenceLucas GottzénChapter 8: Loss and Grief in Global Social Work: Autoethnographic Explorations of the Case of the Tsunami Catastrophe in Northeastern Japan, March 11, 2011 Els-Marie Anbäcken Chapter 9: Writing from the Self and the Liberatory Process of Reformulating Identities that Extends to and Beyond the Migratory Experience Sindi F. GordonChapter 10: Social Sculpture Through Dreams and Conversations: Creating Spaces for Participatory and Situation-Specific Art Based Methods Lott Alfreds and Charlotte ÅbergPart III: Responses from Social Work as a Glocalised Profession Chapter 11: Community Work as a Socio-Spatial Response to the Challenge of Glocal Segregation and Vulnerability Päivi TurunenChapter 12: Protecting the Rights of Overseas Filipino Workers: Social Work Beyond National Borders Nilan Yu and Mary Lou AlcidChapter 13: International Migration and National Welfare Institutions: Doulas as Border Workers in Obstetric Care in Sweden Sabine GruberChapter 14: Undoing Privilege in Transnational Social Work: Implications for Critical Practices in the Local and Global Context Bob PeaseChapter 15: Glocality and Social Work: Methodological Responsiveness to Moments of RuptureLia Bryant and Mona Livholts