Using Persona Dolls as an Anti-Oppressive Technique in the South African Social Work Curriculum

Bozalek, Vivienne; Smith, Carol A.

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“…all of which were designed to split African families and compel the menfolk to work for the White people on the basis of single person wages. There was thus no acknowledgement that the men who were working on the mines were supporting people from their families that they had left behind (Family Profile 1) (Bozalek 2004).…”

Section: Post-qualitative Methodology: Fragmentary Writing and Diffra...mentioning

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“…This was one of the tragedies in my life. (Family Profile 118) (Bozalek 2004) Fraser (2017) defines imperialism as the disadvantaging of certain geographical contexts through the privileging of other geographical contexts. Indeed, the contemporary capitalist system still benefits from the power inequalities, first established during colonisation, through its continued appropriation of resources from the Global South to the Global North.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…My cousin's father is a vagrant now, who refuses to accept help. (Family Profile 27) (Bozalek 2004) Here, underpaidor entirely unwagedcaregiving activities are used to look after those who are privileged enough to extract this carework, while denying that this extraction exists. The expropriation of care work always happens at the expense of others further down the care chain, where one finds an increasing deficit of care.…”

Section: Post-qualitative Methodology: Fragmentary Writing and Diffra...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Imperialism to Radical Hospitality: Propositions for Reconfiguring Social Work towards a Justice-To-Come

Bozalek

Hölscher

2022

SAJSWSD

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The focus of the article is on injustices towards South African families in postcolonial and neocolonial contexts, our understanding of which has been greatly enlarged by Nancy Fraser’s conceptualisations of expropriation and imperialism and Jacques Derrida’s notions of hostility and hospitality. We used Walter Benjamin’s and Karen Barad’s montage methods of fragmentary writing to diffractively read expropriation, imperialism, hostility and hospitality through one another in the context of injustices done to South African families. A diffractive methodology entails a close and attentive reading of concepts or pieces of text through one another, to arrive at new insights with regard to a particular issue. The new insights we arrive at in the article are five propositions for ethically engaging in a justice-to-come for social work – that of attentiveness, rendering each other capable, responsibility, response-ability and radical hospitality.

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Section: Post-qualitative Methodology: Fragmentary Writing and Diffra...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Post-qualitative Methodology: Fragmentary Writing and Diffra...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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From Imperialism to Radical Hospitality: Propositions for Reconfiguring Social Work towards a Justice-To-Come

Bozalek

Hölscher

2022

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“…We have moved further along the road of teaching for diversity in justice -at an international level (Adams, Bell & Griffin, 2007) and at home in South Africa, where we are so conscious of our unjust past under apartheid education (Bozalek & Biersteker, 2010;Bozalek & Smith, 2010;Hemson, 2007;Jansen, 2009;Leibowitz, Bozalek, Rohleder, Carolissen & Swartz, 2010). The blended format for teaching and learning is becoming more popular (Castle & McGuire, 2010;Vaughan & Garrison, 2007).…”

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Contradictions of Concern to Benchmarking in the South African Bachelor of Social Work Degree

Collins

2014

Social Work

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“…The first slaves arrived in the Cape in 1652 and slavery was only abolished in 1834, spanning almost 200 years of slavery (Mountain 2004). Although various social service professions, such as psychology, have recognised the impact of apartheid on South African families, social work, to a large extent in its practice and theory, has operated in an apolitical context regarding work with families (Abdullah 2015;Bozalek 2004Bozalek , 2010. This article therefore focuses on the need to decolonise social work research (Gray et al 2013;Rowe, Baldry, and Earles 2015).…”

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Decolonising Social Work Research with Families Experiencing Intergenerational Trauma

Hoosain

2018

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This article focuses on social work research with displaced families in the Western Cape, South Africa, who have experienced both the historical trauma of their slave past and the trauma of displacement during apartheid. In a similar context, aboriginal academic writers have found that initial studies of intergenerational trauma did not take into account the historical ordeal of colonialism which they believe has left its mark on aboriginal communities today. Intergenerational trauma has also been based on research with holocaust survivors. For this research paper, a postcolonial indigenous research paradigm was implemented owing to the colonial history of Cape Town. Collective narrative practice and participatory learning action techniques were used to decolonise the theoretical and methodological approach. Foucault’s counter-memories and counter-histories were applied to critically engage with the research findings to include the “unofficial” stories of slave descendants in social work discourse where these stories have largely been ignored.

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Using Persona Dolls as an Anti-Oppressive Technique in the South African Social Work Curriculum

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

From Imperialism to Radical Hospitality: Propositions for Reconfiguring Social Work towards a Justice-To-Come

From Imperialism to Radical Hospitality: Propositions for Reconfiguring Social Work towards a Justice-To-Come

Contradictions of Concern to Benchmarking in the South African Bachelor of Social Work Degree

Decolonising Social Work Research with Families Experiencing Intergenerational Trauma

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