Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780367587604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Timo Harrikari; Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala

Opis

Using strong theoretical discourse, alongside new empirical research within a Scandinavian context, this cutting-edge book calls for a new theoretical paradigm to enable us to better understand the shape of the world we inhabit and to translate this understanding into the domain of social work.

Spis treści

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: ‘There is an individual person in a situation’

Chapter 3: Modernity and social transformation revisited

Chapter 4: Social Work: Pioneers, theories, mandates

Chapter 5: Towards compressed modernity?

Chapter 6: Global and local: sketching conceptualisations of the ‘glocal’

Chapter 7: Glocal Social Work: new emphasis, new directions?

Index

O autorze

Timo Harrikari is Professor of Social Work at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is current President of the Finnish National University Network for Social Work (Sosnet) and a member of several national boards related to social work discipline, teaching and practice.

Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala is Adjunct Professor and Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has been a member of several international research groups, and co-author of many books based on comparative empirical analyses.