Intersectionality in Social Work

Activism and Practice in Context
Herausgeber: Nayak, Suryia; Robbins, Rachel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing intersectionality to the forefront of social work within a Black feminist framework this book is concerned with practice and action that transgresses boundaries of race, religion and citizenship, to invoke the idea of social work without borders. It offers a unique, sustained critical analysis of the psychological impact of oppressive social structures from diverse range of international standpoints and will appeal to all those concerned by inequality and injustice in social work as well as those with research interests gender studies, race and ethnicity and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138628168
• ISBN-10: 1138628166
• Artikelnr.: 53772039

Autorenporträt

Suryia Nayak is a Senior Lecturer in social work at the University of Salford, UK. Suryia has been working with intersectionality for over 30 years for social justice in ending violence against women and girls, primarily within the Rape Crisis Movement. Suryia has set up services dedicated to BAMER women and girls. Suryia applies models of education as liberation and the activism of Black feminism to raise consciousness about the psychological and political impact of oppressive social constructions. Rachel Robbins is a Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire. She researches in the areas of domestic violence, adult social care and social justice. In particular she has an interest in feminist theory and intersectionality. Rachel is research active in the area of social work and social policy and is a member of the Connect Centre for International Research on New Approaches to Prevent Violence and Harm. Prior to entering the academy, Rachel worked in a range of social work and social policy settings.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction
(Suryia Nayak and Rachel Robbins); Part 1: Understandings of
Intersectionality; Chapter 1: Textual Practice as Intersectional Practice:
Situated Caste and Gender Knowledge in India (Suryia Nayak and Rekha
Sethi); Chapter 2: Returning Home: Intersectionality, Social Work and
Violence against BME Women and Girls in the UK (Hannana Siddiqui and Ravi
K. Thiara); Chapter 3: The Detachment of Intersectionality from its Black
Feminist Roots: A Critical Analysis of Social Service Provision Training
Material Based in Ontario (Edward Hon-Sing Wong); Chapter 4: The politics
of intersectionality as location (Andrew Hollingworth); Chapter 5: Gendered
Islamophobia- intersectionality, religion and space for British South Asian
Muslim women (Rashida Bibi); Chapter 6: State Building in Kosova: An
intersectional analysis (Kaltrina Kusari); Chapter 7: Reflections on the
theory and practice of intersectionality: immigration and health provision
services in Brazil (Ilana Mountian and Elena Calvo-Gonzalez); Part 2:
Realizations of the activism of Intersectionality; Chapter 8: revolutionary
spaces? [re]imagining and transforming work to end violence against black
women and girls (Dorett Jones and Marai Larasi); Chapter 9: Understanding
the Macroaggressions Underscoring the Invisibility of Black Female Victims
of Police Violence within Black Lives Matter Protests (Kamaria Muntu);
Chapter 10: "They like you to pretend to be something you are not": An
exploration of working with the intersections of gender, sexuality, 'race',
religion and 'refugeeness', through the experience of Lesbian Immigration
Support Group (LISG) members and volunteers (Nina Held and Karen McCarthy
); Chapter 11: Indian women on the margins of nation and feminism (Sonia
Soans); Chapter 12: Fault Lines: Black Feminist Intersectional Practice
Working to End Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) (Camille Kumar);
Chapter 13: The impossibility of adulthood with a learning disability and
the possibilities of digital activism (Rachel Robbins); Chapter 14: The
Activism of Intersectionality: A Tool for feminist Political Articulations,
Possibilities, Tensions and Challenges (Itziar Gandarias Goikoetxea);
Chapter 15: Breaking the Silence: Women, Intersectionality, Community Radio
and Empowerment (Annette Rimmer); Conclusion: Contextual Intersectionality:
A Conversation (Suryia Nayak, Marisela Montenegro, and Joan Pujol); Index