{"product_id":"decolonial-methodologies-in-social-work-9781350419223","title":"Decolonial Methodologies in Social Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecolonizing research and education means loosening the grip of Western academic requirements upon scholars and students. It means embracing cosmologies and ontologies of non-Western cultures in order to open new spaces for pedagogies and methodologies independent of Western notions of measurable academic achievement. In a word, it means embracing pluriversalism, an anti-concept that resounds throughout many decolonial methodologies and pedagogies. Yet despite its prominence in other fields, this notion has never been foregrounded in any full-length study of social work.   This co-edited volume does just that, and in so doing, it reveals a thriving subcurrent of othered ways of researching and teaching social work. This in turn opens new spaces for teaching and talking about social work in a manner that is more just, culturally sensitive, and attuned to structural power relations. Furthermore, it calls new attention to structural power relations still at play in many of the best-intent","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187311501655,"sku":"9781350419223","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decolonial-methodologies-in-social-work-9781350419223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}