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Decolonising Disaster Social Work: Environmental Justice and Community Participation
Human behaviour, particularly the neo-liberal economic system that values unlimited growth and unsustainable extraction of natural resources, is contributing to climate volatility and exacerbating disaster risk. As such, social workers are increasingly called to work in disaster settings across the globe and collaborate with many actors, such as faith-based humanitarian organisations. Unfortunately, disaster interventions may perpetuate the values and practices of neo-liberalism, colonialism and oppression without careful consideration and action. In this article, the author discusses the environmental causes and consequences of disasters in relation to risk and vulnerability, offering a brief case study of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. This is followed by a discussion of the importance of community participation for sustainable disaster recovery. The author concludes with some specific recommendations for decolonising disaster social work practice.
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Forest Family
Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest1 After years of walking the gauntlet to become a tenured full professor at a university, I was at a new crossroads. Tree stumps surround the blazing metal stove and I scan for a tall stump to sit on that will give my long legs some breathing room. On the day I have come to call \"the cold day,\" the morning temperature is somewhere in the 20s (Fahrenheit), with wind advisories and fire bans. In my sit spot in the woods, wrapped in a wool blanket, my back leaning against my mother tree, the focus of the morning's meditation
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US systemic violence amid the COVID-19 disaster: a conceptual critical disaster model for social workers
The COVID-19 pandemic is a community and global health disaster marked not only by illness, death and trauma, but also by historically structured economic, social and cultural causes, conditions and consequences. COVID-19 reveals, perpetuates and produces structural violence and disaster capitalism. To introduce social workers to a new way of thinking about disasters, we offer a critical conceptual model depicting the historic and systemic progression of what disaster scholars and practitioners refer to as ‘risk and vulnerability’ in the US context. We reflect on ‘returning to normal’, arguing that pre-COVID-19 existence was, in fact, abnormal and deadly. We call on social workers to radically re-imagine the future in solidarity with transformation efforts taking root, turning this disaster into an opportunity to build a healthier, more caring and more equitable world.
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Holistic engagement : transformative social work education in the 21st century
Holistic Engagement invites educators to engage with the whole person (body, mind, heart, culture and spirit) and reveals how participatory pedagogies strengthen presence, attunement, empathy, self-care and integrative capabilities of professionals globally. Through an empirically-grounded model and first person accounts, Holistic Engagement calls new and seasoned educators to transformative action.
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Neoliberalism, INGO practices and sustainable disaster recovery: a post-Katrina case study
This case study of a post-Katrina community-based action research project conducted in partnership with an international nongovernmental organization (INGO) sought to understand the extent to which practices facilitated sustainable recovery from disaster. Findings include three major problem areas: (i) participation; (ii) capacity building and (iii) race/racism. The author posits that the neoliberal climate in which INGOs operate enables practices that perpetuate injustice and argues for different directions for sustainable disaster recovery and social justice.
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Participatory action research
Conventional textbooks present PAR from a distanced perspective and with the assumption that beginners will gain practical PAR knowledge on their own. This book provides real world examples--first-hand accounts by the researchers who designed and implemented these PAR innovations. Shared recommendations and lessons learned provided in the final chapter are a unique contribution to students and early career researchers.
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Discourses of post-Katrina reconstruction
This article uses a framing perspective, an approach to social movement studies concerned with the social construction of values and beliefs that support the actions of social movement actors, to assess the narratives of community practitioners working in post-Katrina New Orleans on a variety of disaster recovery issues. The 25 practitioners worked for 25 different organizations that were focused on neighbourhood revitalization, community development, health/environment, housing, and civil rights. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the interviews, three main types of frames were identified: Restoration, Reform, and Radical Social Change. These discourses are analysed in relationship to the perceptions of success by practitioners of their post-Katrina community re-building work.
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