Mona B. Livholts (Finland University of Helsinki)

The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work

Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards glocalization, where human and non-human embodiments and agencies are entangled in glocal environmental worlds.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Social Work
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781032045221
• ISBN-10: 1032045221
• Artikelnr.: 65911834

Autorenporträt

Mona B. Livholts is Professor of Social Work in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Secretary and Executive Board Member in The European Association of Social Work, EASSW; Founder of the Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies, RAW (2008-2017). Livholts works with glocal-, post-anthropocentric, feminist- and postcolonial power analysis for social and environmental justice in the intersection of social work, creative writing, and art-based research. She has invented new forms for creative life writing, such as the thinking writing subject, post/academic writing, and the untimely academic novella by uses of literary fiction, memory work, diaries, letters, poetry, and photography. Research themes include media narratives on rape, sexual harassment, gender, space and memory, monuments and narrative inequality, environmental exhaustion, and the body politics of social work. Livholts has published monographs, and co-edited and edited volumes in Swedish and English, including Social Work in a Glocalised World (with Bryant 2017), Situated Writing as Theory and Method. The Untimely Academic Novella (2019), and The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work. Essays in the Post-Anthropocentric Condition (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
A Book of Eight Essayistic Spaces: Glocal Embodiment in the
Post-Anthropocene
An Invitation to Diffractive and Slow Reading
1. Re-Wor(l)dling Social Work: This Essay is offered as an Invitation to
Post-Anthropocentric Thinking, Practice, and Writing
2. Mapping the Glocal: This Essay is Offered as a Triptych Paradigm
3. Exhibiting the Glocal: This Essay is Offered as an Eco-Social Sculpture
4. Exhausting the Glocal: This Essay is Offered as a Drifting Mo(ve)ment
5. Decolonising the Glocal: This essay is Offered as a Diffractive Practice
6. Spatialising the Glocal: This essay is Offered as a Counter-Monument
7. Writing the Glocal: This Essay is Offered as a Space for
Post-Anthropocentric Writers
8. Glocality and Body Politics: This Essay is Offered as a Vision and
Practice for Slow Science in Social Work