Kris Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3865434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kris Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kris |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6157-4241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
LGBTQI+ inclusion in Finnish social work education
This article explores how homogenising views of equality and the lack of academic research on LGBTQI+ issues in Finnish social work contributes to the invisibility of gender and sexuality topics in social work education. It discusses the Finnish historical context of LGBTQI+ legislation and the struggle for legal equality. The article considers Finnish social work research on LGBTQI+ issues highlighting the shortcomings of social work practice kn…
Black Joy as Resistance
Forward
If I Count Everything That Is against Me. It Is My Colour. It Is That I Am a Woman’
Critical race scholars in social work have underlined the importance of race. However, research in social work with older people have often bypassed analysis of the significance of race and racialisation as barriers that marginalised groups encounter due to their complex identities. The lived experiences of older racialised women in Finland are not sufficiently explored to understand how racialisation has an impact in their ageing. This article a…
Local Memory, City Walking, and Exploring Walking Social Work Pedagogies in Fresno, California and Gothenburg, Sweden
A Scoping Review on Ageing Migrants in Finland Through the Lens of Intersectionality and Vulnerability
Finland is one of the most rapidly ageing countries in the world while concomitantly becoming a more diverse society through increased migration in recent decades. Concepts of ageing have often been constructed on a normative basis embedded in the narratives of Finland as a homogeneous society with universal services. These constructions render the needs of ageing migrants with diverse backgrounds invisible. This scoping review aims to identify a…
Reimagining Social Work Ancestry
Contextualizing disciplinary histories through the personal stories of forerunners creates compelling narratives of the craft of evolving professions. By looking to our intellectual and practitioner ancestors, we participate in a dialogue with a history that shapes our contemporary professional identities and aspirations for the future. Grounded in a decolonizing approach to social work, this article examines how the discipline shapes its profess…
Grounding modern social work
This chapter explores how being, knowing, and acting have been historically and theoretically situated in Western social science to advance the canon of settler colonialism. Premodern European societies had deep roots in the complex and multicultural ancient world, but the emergence of modern colonial European societies brought new ways of understanding subjectivity, knowledge, and practice. The context of how ideas and practices of social work h…
Quiet and contemplation
This chapter examines the role of quiet and contemplation in healing. The complexity of noise is explored through environmental health and cultural perspectives. The notion of mindfulness is introduced and examined in its contemporary context from diverse viewpoints. Ancient and Indigenous cultures around the world have contemplative traditions that have served to heal people through connection to the past. There are deep traditions throughout th…
Creative expression
This chapter examines the role of creative expression in healing. Creative expression is an ancient affective language of humans, animals, and many other forms of life. Creative expression is the process of engaging with innovative, unconscious, and fresh thoughts and emotions, experimenting with sound and reconnecting with the ancient while thinking and exploring feelings through tactile methods of fabricating or making. The chapter examines two…
Movement
This chapter examines the role of movement in healing. Our bodies are made to move and express themselves physically and emotionally in a variety of diverse ways. We experience, interpret, and feel the world through our physical bodies. Yet we live in societies that are constructed for normatively able-bodied people, societies which often actively create barriers to those with different abilities. Movement is not just a matter of getting from one…
Epilogue
The epilogue concludes the book by calling for new ways of envisioning a decolonized social work future, particularly in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the work of Black Quantum Futurism, the authors argue that the future of healing and social justice must be grounded in lessons of the past through memory work but also requires new imaginaries and ways of dreaming an alternative future.
Water
This chapter examines the role of water in healing. Starting with a story about water and Indigeneity, the chapter unpacks how humans’ relationship with water has become out of balance. Decolonizing our relationship with water begins with reimagining social work theory, which continues to be constructed along anthropocentric settler colonial binaries, to be more inclusive of sacred landscapes and elements. The belief in settler dominion over natu…
Discussion guide
This guide provides a brief list of discussion topics and tasks intended to broaden the conversation about decolonizing social work.
Postcolonial trauma and memory work
This chapter examines the impact of postcolonial trauma and the role of memory as the basis of decolonizing social work. The confluence of the nation-state, modern systems of knowledge, and the extractive economy homogenized strategies and techniques of domination over diverse peoples across the globe. Settler colonialism is not only an ideological structure but also has a material power base in extractive capitalism. Historical trauma has been d…
Mother Earth
This chapter examines the role of Mother Earth in healing. Social work now has to be practiced under the existential threat of extinction, a menace driven by human activities. The world is fragmented and wounded because of the impact of vast inequalities and disparities in vulnerabilities. Environmental disaster is the end result of extractive capitalism and settler colonial ideologies. Settler colonialism is based on a binary understanding of th…
Fellow creatures
This chapter examines the role of fellow creatures in healing. Settler colonial ideologies brought a deeply rooted binary between human and nature that expressed itself in relation to animals through domination, settlement, and commodification. Based on Cartesian dualism, which divided all sentient beings between those seen as able to think and analyze and those that simply exist, settler colonialism created a hierarchy of being that ranked fello…
Confronting professional imperialism and moving towards integrative healing
This chapter introduces the concepts of professionalism imperialism, Indigenous ways of healing, decolonizing, and integrative healing in social work. Decolonization is a major academic framework in Native American/American Indian and Indigenous Peoples studies. It refers to understanding, undoing, and overcoming the myriad negative and disabling effects of colonialism. Colonial systems have shaped social work’s professional identity, practices, …
Holistic healing
Holistic Healing: Theories, Practices, and Social Change is a welcome addition to the burgeoning field of integrative approaches to wellbeing.By bringing together a multiplicity of voices discussing diverse forms of healing, such as bodywork, contemplation and the expressive arts, Holistic Healing opens up the complexity of the process of healing and is rooted in various historical and cultural contexts.Firmly grounded in a critique of colonizing…
Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work
Taking a new and innovative angle on social work, this book seeks to remedy the lack of holistic perspectives currently used in Western social work practice by exploring Indigenous and other culturally diverse understandings and experiences of healing. This book examines six core areas of healing through a holistic lens that is grounded in a decolonizing perspective. Situating integrative healing within social work education and theory, the book …
The case of a needle exchange policy debate in Fresno, California
Needle exchange is one of the most effective public health interventions to prevent the transmission of infectious disease by injecting drug users. Despite the preponderance of scientific evidence, US federal funding for needle exchange programmes has been banned since 1988. This prohibition has resulted in the lack of a centralised policy on needle exchange and has given birth to a patchwork of diverse practices and regulations throughout the na…
And Then All of the Sudden, You're Still Here with Bad Finnish”
The enormous growth in the number of international female migrants reflects a tectonic shift in women's diverse positions in family structures and as wage earners. This qualitative study examines how sixteen American women narrate their cultural adjustment to Finnish society as longterm residents. It focuses on how individual women have dealt with the complexity of gendered and privileged migrant identities in an increasingly globalized Finland. …
The Significance of Social Memory in 1.5-Generation Hmong-Americans
Approaches to working with culturally diverse populations require sensitivity to and knowledge of the context, historical experience, and evolving identity of various socio-cultural and ethnic groups. This exploratory qualitative study examines how the 1.5 generation of Hmong in higher education make meaning of the trauma of the Secret War in Laos as a part of their identity and current lives in the United States. The Secret War trauma and subseq…
Migrants and the Emerging HIV Epidemic in Finland in the 1980s and the 1990s
This article examines how migrants were narrated in the emerging HIV epidemic in Finland. The article argues that the stigma of HIV and foreignness/ otherness in Finnish society intersected in complex ways to exclude migrants in many areas of public and private life during the first decades of the epidemic, though the situation has improved today. The article explores how HIV infection is embedded in existing criminal law and public health polici…
Critical, multicultural education for remembering and reconciliation
In the autumn of 2004, an interdisciplinary social science course entitled Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiveness: Justice and Reconciliation from the National to the International was offered to undergraduate students at the University of Tampere, Finland. The course had 49 students from 10 different countries on three continents. A large portion of the students were on international exchange through the European Community Action Scheme for the…
Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work
Taking a new and innovative angle on social work, this book seeks to remedy the lack of holistic perspectives currently used in Western social work practice by exploring Indigenous and other culturally diverse understandings and experiences of healing. This book examines six core areas of healing through a holistic lens that is grounded in a decolonizing perspective. Situating integrative healing within social work education and theory, the book …
Reimagining Social Work Ancestry
Contextualizing disciplinary histories through the personal stories of forerunners creates compelling narratives of the craft of evolving professions. By looking to our intellectual and practitioner ancestors, we participate in a dialogue with a history that shapes our contemporary professional identities and aspirations for the future. Grounded in a decolonizing approach to social work, this article examines how the discipline shapes its profess…
If I Count Everything That Is against Me. It Is My Colour. It Is That I Am a Woman’
Critical race scholars in social work have underlined the importance of race. However, research in social work with older people have often bypassed analysis of the significance of race and racialisation as barriers that marginalised groups encounter due to their complex identities. The lived experiences of older racialised women in Finland are not sufficiently explored to understand how racialisation has an impact in their ageing. This article a…
Local Memory, City Walking, and Exploring Walking Social Work Pedagogies in Fresno, California and Gothenburg, Sweden
The case of a needle exchange policy debate in Fresno, California
Needle exchange is one of the most effective public health interventions to prevent the transmission of infectious disease by injecting drug users. Despite the preponderance of scientific evidence, US federal funding for needle exchange programmes has been banned since 1988. This prohibition has resulted in the lack of a centralised policy on needle exchange and has given birth to a patchwork of diverse practices and regulations throughout the na…
And Then All of the Sudden, You're Still Here with Bad Finnish”
The enormous growth in the number of international female migrants reflects a tectonic shift in women's diverse positions in family structures and as wage earners. This qualitative study examines how sixteen American women narrate their cultural adjustment to Finnish society as longterm residents. It focuses on how individual women have dealt with the complexity of gendered and privileged migrant identities in an increasingly globalized Finland. …
Critical, multicultural education for remembering and reconciliation
In the autumn of 2004, an interdisciplinary social science course entitled Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiveness: Justice and Reconciliation from the National to the International was offered to undergraduate students at the University of Tampere, Finland. The course had 49 students from 10 different countries on three continents. A large portion of the students were on international exchange through the European Community Action Scheme for the…
Critical, multicultural education for remembering and reconciliation
In the autumn of 2004, an interdisciplinary social science course entitled Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiveness: Justice and Reconciliation from the National to the International was offered to undergraduate students at the University of Tampere, Finland. The course had 49 students from 10 different countries on three continents. A large portion of the students were on international exchange through the European Community Action Scheme for the…
Migrants and the Emerging HIV Epidemic in Finland in the 1980s and the 1990s
This article examines how migrants were narrated in the emerging HIV epidemic in Finland. The article argues that the stigma of HIV and foreignness/ otherness in Finnish society intersected in complex ways to exclude migrants in many areas of public and private life during the first decades of the epidemic, though the situation has improved today. The article explores how HIV infection is embedded in existing criminal law and public health polici…
The Significance of Social Memory in 1.5-Generation Hmong-Americans
Approaches to working with culturally diverse populations require sensitivity to and knowledge of the context, historical experience, and evolving identity of various socio-cultural and ethnic groups. This exploratory qualitative study examines how the 1.5 generation of Hmong in higher education make meaning of the trauma of the Secret War in Laos as a part of their identity and current lives in the United States. The Secret War trauma and subseq…
And Then All of the Sudden, You're Still Here with Bad Finnish”
The enormous growth in the number of international female migrants reflects a tectonic shift in women's diverse positions in family structures and as wage earners. This qualitative study examines how sixteen American women narrate their cultural adjustment to Finnish society as longterm residents. It focuses on how individual women have dealt with the complexity of gendered and privileged migrant identities in an increasingly globalized Finland. …
The case of a needle exchange policy debate in Fresno, California
Needle exchange is one of the most effective public health interventions to prevent the transmission of infectious disease by injecting drug users. Despite the preponderance of scientific evidence, US federal funding for needle exchange programmes has been banned since 1988. This prohibition has resulted in the lack of a centralised policy on needle exchange and has given birth to a patchwork of diverse practices and regulations throughout the na…
Grounding modern social work
This chapter explores how being, knowing, and acting have been historically and theoretically situated in Western social science to advance the canon of settler colonialism. Premodern European societies had deep roots in the complex and multicultural ancient world, but the emergence of modern colonial European societies brought new ways of understanding subjectivity, knowledge, and practice. The context of how ideas and practices of social work h…
Quiet and contemplation
This chapter examines the role of quiet and contemplation in healing. The complexity of noise is explored through environmental health and cultural perspectives. The notion of mindfulness is introduced and examined in its contemporary context from diverse viewpoints. Ancient and Indigenous cultures around the world have contemplative traditions that have served to heal people through connection to the past. There are deep traditions throughout th…
Creative expression
This chapter examines the role of creative expression in healing. Creative expression is an ancient affective language of humans, animals, and many other forms of life. Creative expression is the process of engaging with innovative, unconscious, and fresh thoughts and emotions, experimenting with sound and reconnecting with the ancient while thinking and exploring feelings through tactile methods of fabricating or making. The chapter examines two…
Movement
This chapter examines the role of movement in healing. Our bodies are made to move and express themselves physically and emotionally in a variety of diverse ways. We experience, interpret, and feel the world through our physical bodies. Yet we live in societies that are constructed for normatively able-bodied people, societies which often actively create barriers to those with different abilities. Movement is not just a matter of getting from one…
Epilogue
The epilogue concludes the book by calling for new ways of envisioning a decolonized social work future, particularly in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the work of Black Quantum Futurism, the authors argue that the future of healing and social justice must be grounded in lessons of the past through memory work but also requires new imaginaries and ways of dreaming an alternative future.
Water
This chapter examines the role of water in healing. Starting with a story about water and Indigeneity, the chapter unpacks how humans’ relationship with water has become out of balance. Decolonizing our relationship with water begins with reimagining social work theory, which continues to be constructed along anthropocentric settler colonial binaries, to be more inclusive of sacred landscapes and elements. The belief in settler dominion over natu…
Discussion guide
This guide provides a brief list of discussion topics and tasks intended to broaden the conversation about decolonizing social work.
Postcolonial trauma and memory work
This chapter examines the impact of postcolonial trauma and the role of memory as the basis of decolonizing social work. The confluence of the nation-state, modern systems of knowledge, and the extractive economy homogenized strategies and techniques of domination over diverse peoples across the globe. Settler colonialism is not only an ideological structure but also has a material power base in extractive capitalism. Historical trauma has been d…
Mother Earth
This chapter examines the role of Mother Earth in healing. Social work now has to be practiced under the existential threat of extinction, a menace driven by human activities. The world is fragmented and wounded because of the impact of vast inequalities and disparities in vulnerabilities. Environmental disaster is the end result of extractive capitalism and settler colonial ideologies. Settler colonialism is based on a binary understanding of th…
Fellow creatures
This chapter examines the role of fellow creatures in healing. Settler colonial ideologies brought a deeply rooted binary between human and nature that expressed itself in relation to animals through domination, settlement, and commodification. Based on Cartesian dualism, which divided all sentient beings between those seen as able to think and analyze and those that simply exist, settler colonialism created a hierarchy of being that ranked fello…
Confronting professional imperialism and moving towards integrative healing
This chapter introduces the concepts of professionalism imperialism, Indigenous ways of healing, decolonizing, and integrative healing in social work. Decolonization is a major academic framework in Native American/American Indian and Indigenous Peoples studies. It refers to understanding, undoing, and overcoming the myriad negative and disabling effects of colonialism. Colonial systems have shaped social work’s professional identity, practices, …
Holistic healing
Holistic Healing: Theories, Practices, and Social Change is a welcome addition to the burgeoning field of integrative approaches to wellbeing.By bringing together a multiplicity of voices discussing diverse forms of healing, such as bodywork, contemplation and the expressive arts, Holistic Healing opens up the complexity of the process of healing and is rooted in various historical and cultural contexts.Firmly grounded in a critique of colonizing…
Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work
Taking a new and innovative angle on social work, this book seeks to remedy the lack of holistic perspectives currently used in Western social work practice by exploring Indigenous and other culturally diverse understandings and experiences of healing. This book examines six core areas of healing through a holistic lens that is grounded in a decolonizing perspective. Situating integrative healing within social work education and theory, the book …
Reimagining Social Work Ancestry
Contextualizing disciplinary histories through the personal stories of forerunners creates compelling narratives of the craft of evolving professions. By looking to our intellectual and practitioner ancestors, we participate in a dialogue with a history that shapes our contemporary professional identities and aspirations for the future. Grounded in a decolonizing approach to social work, this article examines how the discipline shapes its profess…
A Scoping Review on Ageing Migrants in Finland Through the Lens of Intersectionality and Vulnerability
Finland is one of the most rapidly ageing countries in the world while concomitantly becoming a more diverse society through increased migration in recent decades. Concepts of ageing have often been constructed on a normative basis embedded in the narratives of Finland as a homogeneous society with universal services. These constructions render the needs of ageing migrants with diverse backgrounds invisible. This scoping review aims to identify a…
Forward
If I Count Everything That Is against Me. It Is My Colour. It Is That I Am a Woman’
Critical race scholars in social work have underlined the importance of race. However, research in social work with older people have often bypassed analysis of the significance of race and racialisation as barriers that marginalised groups encounter due to their complex identities. The lived experiences of older racialised women in Finland are not sufficiently explored to understand how racialisation has an impact in their ageing. This article a…
Local Memory, City Walking, and Exploring Walking Social Work Pedagogies in Fresno, California and Gothenburg, Sweden
Black Joy as Resistance
LGBTQI+ inclusion in Finnish social work education
This article explores how homogenising views of equality and the lack of academic research on LGBTQI+ issues in Finnish social work contributes to the invisibility of gender and sexuality topics in social work education. It discusses the Finnish historical context of LGBTQI+ legislation and the struggle for legal equality. The article considers Finnish social work research on LGBTQI+ issues highlighting the shortcomings of social work practice kn…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Physics (4 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)