Social Work in a Glocalised World

Mona Livholts · Lia Bryant

Apr 2017 · Routledge

About this ebook

This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. The volume brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa, the Philippines and Sweden. It proposes ‘glocalisation’ as a useful concept for re-framing conditions, methodologies and practices for social work in a world perspective.

Part I of the volume, 'The Glocalisation of Social Issues', deals with major environmental, social and cultural issues – migration and human rights, environmental problems and gendered violence. Part II, 'Methodological Re-Shaping and Spatial Transgression in Glocalised Social Work', develops an epistemology of situated knowledge and methodologies inspired by art, creative writing and cultural geography, focusing on physical, material and emotional spatial dimensions of relevance to social work. Part III, 'Responses from Social Work as a Glocalised Profession', examines how social work has responded to specific social problems, crises and vulnerabilities in a glocalised world.

About the author

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.