Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local & Global Perspectives in Social Work

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK
Otrude Nontobeko Moyo, T. Nomngcoyiya
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This “Southern African” region special issue is an attempt by guest editors to connect localglobal perspectives in social work. The word “encouraging” is used strategically to connect two ideas: 1) nurture the voice of those who are writing Southern African and have been historically been marginalized 2) provide a forum for mutual exchange of ideas that connect local-global perspectives in social work as a quest to for global justice. The guest editors of this special issue on “Southern Africa” are Prof. Otrude N. Moyo (University of Michigan – Flint, USA) and Dr. Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya (University of Fort Hare, South Africa). While the call was extended to the Southern African region, our presumed local context, manuscripts received came mainly from South Africa, due to the fact that the call for paper was widely shared with scholars and members from the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI). Further, this special issue is realized as part of the scholarly partnership between Prof. Moyo and Dr. Nomngcoyiya extended through the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program – IIE, whose partnership focus was South Africa. Therefore, as guest editors we are encouraged by the responses and desire of social work scholars to engage critical dialogs about global issues experienced within local contexts. We realize that the African continent is vast, our efforts are open to all but, given our own positionalities, this special issue represent a small part of the continent. The African continent continues to be disproportionately impacted in global injustices, it is for this reason that the Journal of Progressive Human Services (JPHS) in the Special Issue on Southern Africa continues to provide a platform for scholars located in the global south to continue to contribute and share their visions on the theme “Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local and Global Perspectives in Social Work”. This is our second special issue and we are encouraged by JPHS’s scope of covering professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective and by stimulating ideas and debates about global social issues experienced locally, serves as a platform to develop analytical tools needed for building a caring and just society. The reader must know that our scholarship presented here is emerging, in attempts to situate the historical experiences of global political economic context for example, the article titled: Quzzing the “social” in social work by Mbazima S. Mathebane engages the “social” in social work in Africa as a system of colonial social control, highlighting the continued experience of coloniality today. Through the critical interrogation of the “social”, the article demonstrates how western social work as a colonial instrument in the form of a helping profession institutionalized the subjection of Africans through the systematic destruction of indigenous ways of solving problems and their replacement with alien and vaunted Euro-North American systems of psychosocial care. Dr. Zibonele Zimba the cultural complexity thinking by social workers in their address of Sustainable Development Goals in a culturally diverse South Africa. The author believes that the global agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides social workers an opportunity to redefine their contributions pertaining to socioeconomic development, human rights and the environment. This is specifically so for social workers in South Africa, whose contributions have been narrowed to focus only in child protective services. This paper, therefore, identifies potential contributions by social workers in relation to the SDGs using JOURNAL OF PROGRESSIVE HUMAN SERVICES 2020, VOL. 31, NO. 2, 75–76 https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1760416
鼓励全球正义:将地方和全球视角纳入社会工作
这期“南部非洲”地区特刊是客座编辑在社会工作中连接当地全球视角的一次尝试。“鼓励”一词在战略上被用来连接两种想法:1)培养那些正在写《南部非洲》并在历史上被边缘化的人的声音2)提供一个相互交流思想的论坛,将社会工作中的地方全球观点联系起来,以寻求全球正义。本期“南部非洲”特刊的客座编辑是Otrude N.Moyo教授(美国密歇根大学-弗林特分校)和Thanduxolo Nomingcoiya博士(南非哈雷堡大学)。虽然这一呼吁被扩展到了南部非洲地区,即我们假定的当地背景,但收到的手稿主要来自南非,因为对论文的呼吁被南非社会工作教育机构协会(ASASWEI)的学者和成员广泛分享。此外,这一特刊是Moyo教授和Nomingcoyiya博士通过卡内基非洲侨民研究金计划(IIE)建立的学术伙伴关系的一部分,该计划的合作重点是南非。因此,作为客座编辑,我们对社会工作学者的反应和愿望感到鼓舞,他们希望在当地背景下就全球问题进行批判性对话。我们意识到,非洲大陆幅员辽阔,我们的努力对所有人都是开放的,但考虑到我们自己的立场,这个特殊问题只代表非洲大陆的一小部分。非洲大陆继续受到全球不公正现象的不成比例的影响,正是出于这个原因,《进步人类服务杂志》在关于南部非洲的特刊上继续为全球南部的学者提供一个平台,让他们继续就“鼓励全球正义:将地方和全球视角纳入社会工作”这一主题做出贡献并分享他们的愿景。这是我们的第二期特刊,JPHS从进步的角度报道人类服务中的专业问题,并通过激发当地对全球社会问题的想法和辩论,作为开发建设一个关爱和公正社会所需分析工具的平台,我们对此感到鼓舞。读者必须知道,我们在这里提出的学术是新兴的,试图将全球政治经济背景下的历史经验置于其中,例如,姆巴齐马·S·马西班恩的文章《对社会工作中的“社会”进行Quzzing》将非洲社会工作中“社会”作为殖民社会控制系统,突出了今天殖民主义的持续经历。通过对“社会”的批判性审问,文章展示了西方社会工作作为一种殖民工具,以帮助职业的形式,是如何通过系统地破坏土著解决问题的方式,并用外来的、引以为豪的欧洲-北美社会心理护理系统取代他们,使非洲人的服从制度化的。Zibonele Zimba博士介绍了社会工作者在文化多样性的南非实现可持续发展目标时的文化复杂性思维。作者认为,可持续发展目标的全球议程为社会工作者提供了一个机会,重新定义他们在社会经济发展、人权和环境方面的贡献。南非的社会工作者尤其如此,他们的贡献已经缩小到只专注于儿童保护服务。因此,本文使用《人类服务进步杂志2020》第31卷第2期第75-76页,确定了社会工作者对可持续发展目标的潜在贡献https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1760416
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8.30%
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14
期刊介绍: The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.
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