Pub Date : 2020-06-30DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1787767
David Wagner
Note as of August 1, 2020, the number of cases and deaths from the Cornoavirus, despite the so-called “surge” and daily headlines scaring people has remained well below many prior flu epidemics suc...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-23DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1784078
Madeline Burghardt, J. Clayton, H. Dougall, C. Ford
ABSTRACT We are three institutional survivors who lived at one of Ontario's large, government-run institutions for people labeled with an intellectual disability. In 2018 we organized and led three workshops in Toronto, Ontario, to teach helping professionals how they can best support survivors. These workshops were called Listen to My Story. In this paper, we have written down our ideas about what people need to do to support people who lived in institutions. The paper starts with a preface that was written by our supporting author, followed by our ideas on things like the importance of telling our story, power and control, healing, and relationships.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1762295
Linda Harms Smith, Shahana Rasool
ABSTRACT This article describes thematic outcomes of a process of engagement around deep transformation toward Decoloniality in a university social work education program. Given the gravity of working toward Decoloniality for social work education in South Africa, it was critical to theorize about this process. Current South African realities evidence ongoing structures of Coloniality and Apartheid which permeate all spheres, not least the domains of knowledge, power, and relationships in higher education. However, a narrow interpretation of Decoloniality relating only to ‘curriculum’ or ‘indigeneity’ as potential for change, is problematic. Ignoring material realities of ongoing Coloniality perpetuates the very oppressive structures it seeks to overcome and so depth transformation which engages with all levels of a social work education program is required. This article engages with thematic areas that emerged and which shaped work toward Decoloniality, among social work educators at one higher education department. These included domains for engagement with Decoloniality (theorists; pedagogy; educators; learners; content; research and discourse; context) and principles for such work (Afrika as the center; attention to power dynamics; race, class, and gender; acknowledgment of structural issues; critical conscientization and voice; Ubuntu). These thematic areas now form the basis of the new social work program at the University.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1732270
Z. Zimba
ABSTRACT The global agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides social workers an opportunity to redefine their contributions pertaining to socioeconomic development, human rights and the environment. This is specifically so for social workers in South Africa, whose contributions have been narrowed. Therefore, this paper identifies potential contributions by social workers in relation to the SDGs using cultural complexity thinking in a diverse country. The paper also points out difficulties faced by social workers on their contribution in the SDGs in a culturally diverse South Africa. The paper concludes that social workers must stand alongside their service users as partners in contributing to justice and equality by achieving the SDGs.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-30DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1760416
Otrude Nontobeko Moyo, T. Nomngcoyiya
This “Southern African” region special issue is an attempt by guest editors to connect localglobal perspectives in social work. The word “encouraging” is used strategically to connect two ideas: 1) nurture the voice of those who are writing Southern African and have been historically been marginalized 2) provide a forum for mutual exchange of ideas that connect local-global perspectives in social work as a quest to for global justice. The guest editors of this special issue on “Southern Africa” are Prof. Otrude N. Moyo (University of Michigan – Flint, USA) and Dr. Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya (University of Fort Hare, South Africa). While the call was extended to the Southern African region, our presumed local context, manuscripts received came mainly from South Africa, due to the fact that the call for paper was widely shared with scholars and members from the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI). Further, this special issue is realized as part of the scholarly partnership between Prof. Moyo and Dr. Nomngcoyiya extended through the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program – IIE, whose partnership focus was South Africa. Therefore, as guest editors we are encouraged by the responses and desire of social work scholars to engage critical dialogs about global issues experienced within local contexts. We realize that the African continent is vast, our efforts are open to all but, given our own positionalities, this special issue represent a small part of the continent. The African continent continues to be disproportionately impacted in global injustices, it is for this reason that the Journal of Progressive Human Services (JPHS) in the Special Issue on Southern Africa continues to provide a platform for scholars located in the global south to continue to contribute and share their visions on the theme “Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local and Global Perspectives in Social Work”. This is our second special issue and we are encouraged by JPHS’s scope of covering professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective and by stimulating ideas and debates about global social issues experienced locally, serves as a platform to develop analytical tools needed for building a caring and just society. The reader must know that our scholarship presented here is emerging, in attempts to situate the historical experiences of global political economic context for example, the article titled: Quzzing the “social” in social work by Mbazima S. Mathebane engages the “social” in social work in Africa as a system of colonial social control, highlighting the continued experience of coloniality today. Through the critical interrogation of the “social”, the article demonstrates how western social work as a colonial instrument in the form of a helping profession institutionalized the subjection of Africans through the systematic destruction of indigenous ways of solving problems and their replacement with alien an
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1759756
Lulama Moyo Hawkes
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Pub Date : 2020-03-12DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1732273
M. S. Mathebane
ABSTRACT Social work is generally presumed as an embodiment of social justice and human dignity as well as a solution to the many social ills unraveling modern societies. However, a dialectical-historical investigation of forces and events that shaped social work in Africa reveals how the profession was produced within the dynamics of the modern capitalist system as a direct response to social challenges of the modern era with a prime object of maintaining social order and sustaining coloniality. Through critical interrogation of the question of the social, the article demonstrates how western social work as a colonial instrument in the form of a helping profession institutionalized the subjection of Africans through the systematic destruction of indigenous ways of solving problems and their replacement with alien and vaunted Euro-North American systems of psychosocial care. The article uncovers the underlying ethical indictment of western social work linked to its historic failure to embody and address the inherent and prevailing challenges of social and cognitive justice within itself. Thus, the article reaffirms the need to ‘work and research back’ to the African roots as a way of stemming the tide and addressing the coloniality embedded in social work and the devastating effects of coloniality on the African social fabric and its inherent systems of psychosocial support.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2019.1703246
Jennifer Maree Stanley
ABSTRACT Positivist epistemologies have been argued to advance learning and interventions to improve the health of multiply marginalized and colonized people; however, these long-standing approaches have not served social and health equity. An intersectionality health equity lens understands differences in health to be impacted by the social position of multiply marginalized and colonized people embedded in systems of oppression. Bringing forward the sociohistorical contexts of whiteness and respectability in US social work provides necessary insight into how white supremacy can produce and replicate itself through policy and practice. Whiteness and respectability politics reinforce settler colonialism in the US and provide a foundation for neoliberal, sociopolitical economic policy that monitors, controls, and shapes the lives of multiply marginalized and colonized communities. Critical knowledge development engaging intersectionality is needed for US social workers to participate in structural change without perpetuating inequity and dispossession. Eradicating the violence of capitalism for future generations necessitates a radical relational praxis to deepen the sociopolitical economic analysis of economies of health inequity.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-27DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1734426
Ceema Samimi, Chaz DeHerrera
ABSTRACT In the Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC) is the contemporary manifestation of social service provision in the United States. The question of how activists persist in their work despite the structural barriers the NPIC imposes on social justice organizations has yet to be given a full examination. This grounded theory study relies on interviews with people working in social justice nonprofits and presents themes of survival and critique when working within this structure. The findings indicate that belief in change, personal experiences with social justice, and a non-traditional view of self-care contribute to navigating social justice work in the nonprofit sector.
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