Social work in Africa
Decolonizing methodologies and approaches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9974366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aissetu Barry Ibrahima (0000-0002-2809-2846, Northeastern Illinois University, corresponding author), Mark A Mattaini (0000-0003-4796-2605, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 799-813 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020872817742702 |
| OpenAlex | W2781860262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 45 |
Decolonizing social work requires becoming genuine, returning to one’s cultural roots for direction. Decolonization entails resistance to social work’s ‘West to the Rest’ movement, which seeks to ‘internationalize’ and ‘standardize’ the profession. For social work to be useful in Africa, reorientation of its methods toward facilitating holistic and indigenous intervention is mandatory. This conceptual article analyzes literature on decolonization, indigenous methodology, and social work in Africa, stressing that decolonization of social work requires challenging dominant models of practice and research, while integrating traditional values and practices that have withstood centuries of oppression into culturally consonant forms of service and inquiry
Decolonization · Indigenous · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Jirsong
Social Exclusion and Marginalisation of Homeless People
Transforming Social Work
Leveraging emerging technologies for curriculum design and delivery in rural universities
The (im)possibility of doing research in a low-income country
Listening holistically
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa
Contextualized Social Work Education
Applying decolonial thought to the study of racial microaggressions
Exploring African-centred social work education
A case study of the emerging social work sector in Guinea, West Africa
Social work education as foreign policy
Empathy, context, and preparedness
Deconstructing Social Work in Africa
Decolonial Pathways in Social Work Education
Indigenous social work with older persons
Reimagining Indigenised social work in Uganda
Developmental social work training programmes in the Global South
A review of Indigenous social work around the world
Learning from Ikibiri and Ubuntu to Decolonise Social Work Research in Higher Education
The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development
A Systematic Literature Review With Racially Minoritised People Using Family Group Conferencing in England
Challenging Anti-Black Racism across the Curriculum
Toward culturally relevant practice
(Re)producing wilderness tourism discourses in Algonquin Provincial Park
Enacting a critical decolonizing ethnographic approach in occupation-based research
Mapping social work education in the West Africa region
Exploring Maternal Health in Ethiopia Using Indigenous Approaches
Investing in People and Communities for Social Change
Engaged Scholarship through Community Social Labs
Social drivers and differentiated effects of deagrarianisation
Social innovations in rural communities in Africa's Great Lakes region. A social work perspective
Pigs as a shortcut to money? Social traps in smallholder pig production in northern Uganda
N’KaNa-my dream
Decolonizing Social Work Practice
Embedding Cultural Knowledge in Social Work Education
Being Visible in the Policy Process
Developing the Child Protection Workforce
A reinterrogation of South African child welfare discourse
Indigenous methods and knowledge
Behavioral community psychology in the Amazon rainforest
A Critique of Colonialism and Modern Aid in Africa
The Cash Dividend
Understanding health and illness
Introduction
Community participation in development
A Cultural Perspective of Africa
Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice
Culturally Safe Nursing Research
The Journey Between Western and Indigenous Research Paradigms
An Afrocentric Approach to Building Cultural Relevance in Social Work Research
Yarning” as a Method for Community-Based Health Research With Indigenous Women
Does Aid Availability Affect Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty? A Review Article
Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods
The Enduring Relevance of Indigenisation in African Social Work
Mixed Methods in Indigenous Research
Social work in South Africa at the dawn of the new millennium
Research and Indigenous participation
Anti‐Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice
Resisting dominant discourses
Adapting Western Research Methods to Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Social Work Education, Training and Employment in Africa
Indigenous People and the Social Work Profession
The Gay Affirmative Practice Scale (GAP)
Indigenization’ and knowledge development
Globalization and culturally relevant social work
Challenges facing social work education in Africa
Future of indigenous knowledge research in development
Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa
Effects of donor proliferation in development aid for health on health program performance
Climate change, rainfall, and social conflict in Africa
Authenticating Strategic Essentialisms
From poverty to poor health
Destabilizing the Settler Academy
Indigenous Methodologies
Decolonizing Methodologies
Quest for Methodological Alternatives
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |