Human geography and questions for social work education

Wilkinson, Pat; Bissell, Gavin

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“…Place attachment is normally understood to be part of a person’s overall identity, consisting of the memories, feelings, beliefs and meanings associated with their physical surroundings (Corbishley, 1995; Lalli, 1992; Proshansky et al., 1983). It was helpful to draw upon behavioural geography, and specifically the work of Wilkinson and Bissell (2006), to gain an understanding of how lawyers and parents respond to the court environment.…”

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‘Children not trophies’: An ethnographic study of private family law practice in England

Holt

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2020

Qualitative Social Work

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‘Children not trophies’: An ethnographic study of private family law practice in England

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2020

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“…As part of the associated research endeavour, over recent decades, social work scholarship has drawn on, and deployed, various social science disciplinary perspectives, the closest engagement being with sociology (e.g., Heraud, ), but with political science (e.g., Gray & Webb, ), social psychology (e.g., Radey & Figley, ), economics (e.g., Gordon, ), and others being utilised to different extents, and in various ways. Despite this broad social science grounding, only occasionally however have there been explicit discussions of human geography in social work research and/or occasions where the discipline's ideas and conceptualisations have clearly been used (specifically—Carbone & McMillin, ; Galloway, Wilkinson, & Bissell, ; Hillier, ; Jeyasingham, , ; Schmidt, ; Wilkinson & Bissell, , , ; Zapf, , , , ), although, as we shall see, quite a lot of social work research is implicitly/loosely “geographical” in orientation.…”

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Working social assemblages: Towards a new geography of social work

Andrews

2019

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This paper explores possibilities for extending the geographical imagination in academic studies of social work. It notes how current "geographical" research is extensive and diverse-including interests in social and natural environments, practice settings, and global issues-but argues for a change whereby it is more explicitly informed by, and cast as, human geography. Part of this change would involve a transition in basic enterprise, whereby researching social work geographically shifts from being a one-way effort on the part of academic social workers, to being a two-way project also involving geographers. Another part would be

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“…Some writers have employed psychological concepts to understand place, often through adaptations of ideas already familiar to social workers (see discussions of ‘place attachment’ such as Jack, 2010; Possick, 2006) or through the use of approaches from behavioural geography to understand our responses to our environment (e.g. Wilkinson and Bissell, 2006). The spiritual significance of place has also started to be explored in social work literature, particularly in relation to ‘traditional’ or ‘indigenous’ forms of knowledge (e.g.…”

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Place and the uncanny in child protection social work: Exploring findings from an ethnographic study

Jeyasingham

2016

Qualitative Social Work

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This article presents findings from an ethnographic study of child protection social workers in Britain, which explored social workers’ experiences of and practices in space and place. It draws on data from interviews with practitioners and observations that were carried out as social workers moved around the places (the town, estates, streets and areas around service users’ homes) where they worked. It focuses on the significance of a particular affective experience, the uncanny, which social workers evoked in many of their accounts of these places. The article introduces recent conceptualisations of space, affect and the uncanny before going on to consider data from the interviews. The following themes are explored: the relationships between the intimate spaces of service users’ homes and the neighbourhoods in which they were located; social workers’ accounts of feeling vulnerable in public and open spaces; social workers’ experiences of feeling unsettled by apparently mundane features of neighbourhood spaces. The article draws on critical engagements with the uncanny to consider its significance for child protection social work practice in Britain and its consequences in terms of social workers’ potential to work in emplaced and locally sensitive ways.

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Human geography and questions for social work education

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‘Children not trophies’: An ethnographic study of private family law practice in England

‘Children not trophies’: An ethnographic study of private family law practice in England

Working social assemblages: Towards a new geography of social work

Place and the uncanny in child protection social work: Exploring findings from an ethnographic study

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