Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work

Robel Afeworki Abay is a sociologist and guest professor of participatory approaches in social and health sciences at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany. Anna-Lisa Klages, social worker and art therapist, is a post-doctoral researcher at the Research and Transfer Center for Sustainability (ForTraNN) of The Technical University Ingolstadt of Applied Sciences, Germany.Sara Rodríguez Lugo is a social worker and holds a Master of Arts in International Social Work with Refugees and Migrants from the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany.Tanja Kleibl is Professor for Social Work, Migration and Diversity at Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany. She is also the author of Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique (Zed Books, 2021).

• Introduction. Methodological and Pedagogical Implications of Decolonizing Social Work Research and Education - Anna-Lisa Klages, Sara Rodríguez Lugo, Tanja Kleibl, and Robel Afeworki AbaySection 1. Decolonizing Social Work Research1. A Counter-history of Social Work: Tracing Epistemic Violence in Social Work - Verena Grill2. Decolonial Research Methodologies and Practice Methods in South Africa’s Post-Colonial Social Work - Poppy Masinga and Karin Sauer3. Power Relations within International Co-operations and Transnational Social Work - Nicolette Roman, Catherina Schenck, and Beatrix Schwarzer4. Evidencing the Erasure: The Subaltern as a Writing Problem for Social Work, A Reading from the Peasant Women of Antioquia and Cundinamarca, Colombia - Ariel Camilo González Moreno and Laura Daniela Toncón Chaparro5. Regenerative Practice in Social Work -Yari Or6. The Ethnomethodology of Postcolonial Perspectives - Galina Gostrer7. Intelligence, Coloniality, and Anti-colonial Social Work - Gurnam SinghSection 2. Decolonizing Social Work Education8. Favouring Indigenous Languages in Social Work Education - Thembelihle Brenda Makhanya9. How do we address the colonial past, post-colonial present, and decolonial futures of the world in social work education and practice in Nigeria? - Nwafor Nneka Francisca, Ngozi Eucharia Chukwu, and Uzoma Odera Okoye10. Epistemologies of the South and Teaching in Higher Education: Learning from the Chilean Uprising and Paulo Freire - Ramiro Lobatón11. Decolonizing Social Work Study Programs: Alumni Experiences from Ghana and Germany; A Transnational Research Project - Theodora Elorm Amlado, Jasmin Goldhausen, Inusah Karim, Lara Lehmann, and Franziska Neureither12. Decolonizing Social Work Curricula in Higher Education: A Continuous Journey - Neil Bilotta, Theresa Palmer, Allison De Marco, Laurie Selz-Campbell, Travis Albritton, and JP Przewoznik13. Exploring the ‘Decolonial Mindset’ as a Teaching Premise: Students’ and Lecturers’ Experiences from a Research-based Seminar - Sandra Holtgreve, Lisa Mends, and Nina Westerholt14. To Do or to Be: Problem-posing as Decolonization in the Social Work Classroom - Vincent Wijeysingha15. Postcolonial Perspectives as a Necessary Part of a Professional Self-understanding of Social Workers: Suggestions for Curricular Adjustments - Philipp Seitz