 | The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work: Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition Subjects: Geography; Health and Social Care; Language & Literature; Social Sciences; Human Geography; Social Work and Social Policy; Sociology & Social Policy; Literature; Social Work Research; Social Work Theory; Creative Writing; Gender Studies; Race & Ethnic Studies; This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards glocalization, where human and non-human embodiments and agencies are entangled in glocal environ mental worlds. 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. The book constitutes key literature for researchers, educators, practitioners, and activists in 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. Mona B. Livholts is Professor of Social Work in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Secretary and Executive Board Member in The European Association of Social Work, EASSW; Founder of the Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies, RAW (2008-2017). Livholts works with glocal-, post-anthropocentric, feminist- and postcolonial power analysis for social and environmental justice in the intersection of social work, creative writing and art-based research. She has invented new forms for creative life writing, such as the thinking writing subject, post/academic writing and the untimely academic novella by uses of literary fiction, memory work, diaries, letters, poetry and photography. Research themes include media narratives on rape, sexual harassment, gender, space and memory, monuments and narrative inequality, environmental exhaustion, and the body politics of social work. Livholts has published monographs, co-edited and edited volumes in Swedish and English, including Social Work in a Glocalised World (with Bryant 2017), Situated Writing as Theory and Method. The Untimely Academic Novella (2019) and The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work. Essays in the Post-Anthropocentric Condition (2022). |
