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Introduction / Sonia Tascón and Jim Ife -- 1. Disrupting white epistemologies : de-binarising social work / Sonia Tascón -- 2. Whiteness from within / Jim Ife -- 3. Acknowledgements in Aboriginal social work research : how to counteract neo-colonial academic complacency / Bindi Bennett -- 4. Afrocentric ways of 'doing' social work / Kathomi Gatwiri -- 5. Decolonising social work through learning from experiences of older women and social policy makers in Uganda / Sharlotte Tusasiir We -- 6. To know is to exist : epistemic resistance ?Lobna Yassine -- 7. Supporting the development of Pacific social work across Oceania : critical reflections and lessons learnt towards disrupting whiteness in the region / Jioji Ravulo -- 8. Cake art as social work : creative, sensory and relational knowing / Tracie Mafile'o-- 9. Refractory interventions : the incubation of Rival epistemologies in the margins of Brazilian social work / Iris Silva Brito and Goetz Ottmann -- 10. Navigating intersectional being while doing community development / Siew Fang Law -- 11. Approaches to social work from a decolonialist and intersectional perspective : a Latin American and Caribbean view / Larry Alicea-Rodríguez -- 12. Decolonising social work vocabulary.

Focusing on the epistemic - the way in which knowledge is understood, constructed, transmitted and used - this book shows the way social work knowledge has been constructed from within a white western paradigm, and the need for a critique of whiteness within social work at this epistemic level. Social work, emerging from the western Enlightenment world, has privileged white western knowledge in ways that have been, until recently, largely unexamined within its professional discourse. This imposition of white western ways of knowing has led to a corresponding marginalisation of other forms of knowledge. Drawing on views from social workers from Asia, the Pacific region, Africa, Australia and Latin America, this book also includes a glossary of over 40 commonly used social work terms, which are listed with their epistemological assumptions identified. Opening up a debate about the received wisdom of much social work language as well as challenging the epistemological assumptions behind conventional social work practice, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work as well as practitioners seeking to develop genuinely decolonised forms of practice.

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