Re-imagining Social Work: Towards Creative Practice - Softcover

Ife, Jim

 
9781108436885: Re-imagining Social Work: Towards Creative Practice

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Re-imagining Social Work provides a unique perspective on how social work can evolve for the future.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

'Jim Ife has been active in social work education since the 1970s. He has been Professor of Social Work at The University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Western Sydney University, and was also Handa Professor of Human Rights Education at Curtin, where he is now Emeritus Professor. His main interests have been community development and human rights, and he has published books in both fields. He has also been active in community engagement, and was President of Amnesty International Australia in the 1990s, as well as Secretary of the Human Rights Commission of the International Federation. of Social Workers. His best-known books are Community Development and Human Rights and Social Work (both in multiple editions with Cambridge University Press). He is now retired.'

Rimple Mehta is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. She has previously worked at the School of Social Work, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai and School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research and field engagements broadly focus on women in prison, refugee women, and human trafficking. She engages with questions of borders, citizenship and criminology of mobility. She has worked with women in prisons/detention in Mumbai, Kolkata, Sydney and The Netherlands. Her paper titled 'So Many Ways to Love You/Self: Negotiating Love in a Prison' won the 2013 Enloe Award and was published in the International Journal of Feminist Politics. Her monograph titled 'Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border' was published by Routledge in 2018. Her latest co-edited volumes are titled 'Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India' and 'Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings'.

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