Table of Contents

Setting the Scene - Nathalie Huegler, Karen Lyons and Manohar Pawar
Globalisation and Indigenisation - Lena Dominelli
Reconciling the Irreconcilible in Social Work?
Environment and Sustainability - Margaret Alston and Fred H. Besthorn
Human Rights - Joseph Wronka and Silvia Staub Bernasconi
Poverty, Development and Social Justice - Murli Desai and John Solas
Migration, Minorities and Citizenship - Uma Segal and Gerda Heck
Political and Organisational Contexts of Social Work Internationally - Malcolm Payne
Social Work Theories, Research/Methods and Practices: Critical Perspectives and New Challenges - Narda Razack
Social Work Values, Ethics and Professional Regulation - Richard Hugman and Wendy Bowles
Social Work Education: The International Dimension - Terry Hokenstad and Karen Lyons
Social Work Research - Joan Orme and Synnove Karvinen-Niinikoski
Social Work, Economic Conditions and Livelihood - Tatsuru Akimoto and Decha Sungkawan
Social Work and Health - Paul Bywaters and Cindy Davis
Social Work and Education - Marion Huxtable, Cynthia A. Sottie and Khuajin Ulziitungalag
Social Work, Social Justice and Protection: A Reflective Review - Michael Preston-Shoot and Staffan Höjer
Social Work and Changing Environments - Jennifer McKinnon and Raquel Sant′Ana
Social Work, Religion, Culture and Spirituality - Micheal L. Shier and John R. Graham
Disaster Management and Humanitarian Action - Golam M. Mathbor and Jennifer Bourassa
Social Work, Political Conflict and Displacement - Shulamit Ramon and Reima Ana Maglajlic
The Life-Course Perspective and Changing Context of Families - Murli Desai
Childhood and Youth in International Context: Life Course Perspectives - Letnie Rock, Jeff Karabanow and Kathleen Manion
Adulthood - Some Comparative and International Perspectives - Ruby Chau
Older Persons and Social Work: A Global Perspective - M. C. "Terry" Hokenstad, Jr., Ph.D. and Amy Restorick Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate
Social Work in Africa - Lengwe-K. Mwansa and Linda Kreitzer
Social Work in Southern and Eastern Asia - Manohar Pawar and Ming-sum Tsui
Social Work in Australasia - Liz Beddoe and Heather Fraser
Social Work in Europe - Sue Lawrence and Darja Zavirsek
The Middle East: Expanding Social Work to Address 21st Century Concerns - Sahar Al-Makhamreh and Kathryn Libal
Social Work in Latin America - Mahia Saracostti, Taly Reiniger and Henry Parada
Social Work in North America and the Caribbean - Julia Watkins and Jennifer Holden Dolly

About the Author

Manohar Pawar, BA, MASW and PhD, is Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Work and Arts, Charles Sturt University (New South Wales, Australia). He has made distinguished contributions to the field of international social work and social development. His books are translated in Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Khmer, and Korean languages and used for social work education, research and practice internationally.  

To advance social science research and publications on community and social development, Prof. Pawar conceptualised and established a new peer reviewed journal entitled the International Journal of Community and Social development, published by Sage. As its founding Editor-in-chief, he has enhanced the academic quality and status of the journal from nonindexed to Scopus indexed, achieving a SCImago ranked Q1 status for the journal in a short period.

In addition, he is President of the International Consortium for Social Development and Editor of Springer Series in Social Development. He has received several honours and awards, including an ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery grant; Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017, conferred by the National Association of Professional Social Workers in India; the invitation to deliver the Council on Social Work Education 2017 Hokenstad International Lecture, USA; the Australian Learning and Teaching Council’s Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, 2008; and Quality of Life Award 2001 from the Association of Commonwealth Universities.  

Prof. Pawar is on the editorial boards of International Social Work, the Indian Journal of Social Work, South Asian Journal of Participative Development, and Journal of Social Development Studies. He also reviews articles for many journals, including the British Journal of Social Work.

Prof.  Pawar′s research follows a mixed methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative research methods, including integrating teaching and practice. He has nearly 200 publications, which include over 20 books and monographs, published by leading international publishers (Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, SAGE, Springer). His research has focused on international social work, social development and social policy, social work and social policy practice, social consequences of climate change and water, social work education, informal care and ageing, NGOs and community development, and virtues and social work practice.

Prof. Pawar has been an invited keynote/panel speaker at many international professional conferences/seminars/workshops organised by universities/academic institutions/professional bodies in Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, and US.




Nathalie Huegler trained as a social worker in Germany and has since worked with young refugees in different settings, currently as a senior social worker supporting child torture survivors in a charity in London. After an M.A. in International Social Work and Refugee Studies from the University of East London (in 2004), she is now studying towards a PhD at London Metropolitan University, focussing on social work with separated children and human rights, from a cross-national comparative perspective. Other activities include editorial assistance work for the journal International Social Work, and part-time teaching at London Metropolitan University.

Reviews

′′Faced with stark global challenges - social, economic, health-related, demographic - social workers require culturally appropriate knowledge to respond sensitively to complex needs. This book brings together some of the foremost social work academics, who illuminate brightly the complexities and subtle nuances of that slippery concept international social work. It represents a real ′state-of-the-art′ excursus into social work: a diverse occupational group expressed in many forms across the world. I am sure that this volume will become a seminal work, turned to by academics and policy-makers throughout the world for many years to come. It′s reach is wide and the book fulfils it′s aim to be comprehensive. Dealing with concepts of space, time and power relations it focuses on diversity, challenges of intersecting experiences of power in a critical and analytic way. It is to be highly recommended for all social workers!′ -
Professor Jonathan Parker, Bournemouth University