Transdisciplinary Approaches in Social Work

Melinda Madew is Professor of International Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg. Mark Lusk is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Texas at El Paso. Jason Leung chairs the Department of Environmental Science at the Benguet State University. Annette Franke is Professor of Social Work and Health at the Rein Main University. Jens Müller is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Social Management at the Protestant University of Applied Science.

• Foreword - Linda Harms SmithPreface1. The Rise of a New Authoritarianism: A Challenge to Social Work - Mark Lusk2. Critical Social Work Revisits Anarchism and Utopian Imagination - Nina Victoria Leistner3. Social Work in Palestine: Between Professional Practice and Anti-Colonial Liberation - Raed Naim Amira4. The Movement of Reconceptualization: Decolonial Paths in Nicaraguan Social Work - Jessica Eckhardt and Jaika Maem Gradiz Arce5. Social Work between Algorithms and Cultural Rootedness – Decolonial Intersections in Catalonian Identity and Technology - Judit Castellví-Majó 6. Narratives on the Cosmology of Land Belonging - Jason Leung and Melinda Madew7. Who Owns Sustainability? Decolonial and Ecosocial Work in the Haritha Kerala Mission - M.K. Joseph and Abshana Jamal8. Reimagining Indian Knowledge Systems for Holistic Health and Environmental Sustainability: A Decolonized and Transdisciplinary Framework - Nycil Romis Thomas, Kiran Thampi and Lija Mary Mathew9. Searching for the Politics of Care - Henk O. Vandaele10. A Future Without Future? Post- and Decolonial Reflections on Social Work - Fabian Kessl