Social Work Artfully

Christina Sinding is an Associate Professor at McMaster University (School of Social Work and Department of Health, Aging and Society). Her research focuses on cancer and social marginalization; service user involvement; and arts-informed social science, especially in social work and social-justice contexts. She is the author, with Ross Gray, of Standing Ovation: Performing Social Science Research about Cancer.Hazel Barnes is a Senior Research Associate in Drama and Performance Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Chair of the Research Committee of Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand. She has published a number of papers on drama and theatre applied to interculturalism and post-traumatic stress in national and international journals, and has also recently edited three books on applied drama/theatre.

• Social Work Artfully: Beyond Borders and Boundaries, edited by Christina Sinding and Hazel BarnesPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction Christina Sinding and Hazel Barnes1. Where we've been and what we are up against: Social welfare and social work in Canada Donna Baines2. Where we've been and what we are up against: Social welfare and social work in South Africa Edwell Kaseke3. How art works: Hopes, claims, and possibilities for social justice Christina Sinding and Hazel BarnesArt for Conscientization and Re-Storying Selves4. Art and storytelling with migrant children: Developing and thickening alternative storylines Edmarié Pretorius and Liebe Kellen5. Art towards critical conscientization and social change during social work and human rights education, in the South African post-apartheid and post-colonial context Linda Harms Smith and Motlalepule Nathane-Taulela6. When we are naked: An approach to cathartic experience and emotional autonomy within the post-apartheid South African landscape Khayelihle Dominique GumedeArt for Community and Cultural Healing, Sustainability, and Resilience7. Excavating and representing community-embedded trauma and resilience: Suitcases, car trips, and the architecture of hope Patti McGillicuddy and Edmarié Pretorius8. Performing understanding: Investigating and expressing difference and trauma Hazel Barnes9. Towards an Indigenous narrative inquiry: The importance of composite, artful representations Randy Jackson, Corena Debassige, Renée Masching, and Wanda WhitebirdArt for Transforming Social Relations10. Emerging paradigms for managing conflicts through applied arts Kennedy C. Chinyowa11. Corroding the comforts of social work knowing: Persons with intellectual disabilities claim the right of inspection over public photographic images Ann Fudge SchormansArt for Transforming Social Care Practice12. Bringing relating to the forefront: Using the art of improvisation to actively perceive relational processes in social work Cathy Paton13. Making meaning of our experiences of bearing witness to suffering: Employing A/R/Tography to surface co-remembrance and (dwelling) place Patti McGillicuddy, Nadine Cross, Gail Mitchell, Nancy Davis Halifax, and Carolyn PlummerBibliographyContributorsIndex