Post-Anthropocentric Social Work

Vivienne Bozalek is Emerita Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University, South Africa. Bob Pease is Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Social Change at the University of Tasmania and an Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University.

• 1. Towards Post-Anthropocentric Social Work. Part 1: Philosophical Foundations of Post-Anthropocentric Social Work. 2. What Comes After the Subject? Towards a Critical Posthumanist Social Work. 3. An Invitation into the Trouble with Humanism for Social Work. 4. Restorative and Regenerative Relational Praxis Must Include the Non-human. 5. A Philosophy of Social Work Beyond the Anthropocene. 6. Feeling the ‘Weight of the Body’: Posthumanism and De-liberalising Social Work. Part 2: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Doing Post-Anthropocentric Social Work. 7. Propositions for Slow Social Work. 8. Ecofeminism to Feminist Materialism: Implications for Anthropocene Feminist Social Work. 9. Fostering Non-Anthropocentric Vulnerability in Men: Challenging the Autonomous Masculine Subject in Social Work. 10. Return of the Posthuman: Developing Indigenist Perspectives for Social Work at a Time of Environmental Crisis. 11. More-Than-Human Community Work: The Affirmative Biopolitics of Life in a Glasgow Neighbourhood. 12. Posthumanism, Sexualities Education and the Production of Citizenship. Part 3: More-than-Human Sites of Practice in Post-Anthropocentric Social Work. 13. Animals as Domestic Violence Victims: A Challenge to Humanist Social Work. 14. Towards a Critical Posthumanist Social Work: Trans-Species Ethics of Ecological Justice, Nonviolence and Love. 15. Encountering Interspecies Homelessness: Resisting Anthroparchy in Social Work and the All-Too-Human Services. 16. Natureculture Dilemmas in Northern Finland: Guiding Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Through the Mire. 17. Hauntology, History and Heritage: Intergenerational Trauma in South African Displaced Families.