Indigenization, Indigenous social work and decolonization: mapping the theoretical terrain

Title: Indigenization, Indigenous social work and decolonization: mapping the theoretical terrain
Creator: Gray, Mel; Hetherington, Tiani
Relation: Decolonizing Social Work p. 25-41
Relation: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426318
Publisher: Ashgate
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: This opening chapter attempts to map the complex theoretical terrain of Indigenous social work, a term used to describe First Nations (in North America) or Aboriginal (in Australia) social work and seen by people in North America and Australia and New Zealand as specific to a form of practice with minority Indigenous populations in mainly Western societies. Embracing Indigenous social work means being comfortable with uncertainty and diversity rather than attempting to condense complex histories and cultures into measurable units of analysis. Indigenous social work is far more comfortable with, and deals better with, uncertainty and complexity than Western social work.
Subject: Indigenous social work; decolonization; minorities; hybridity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053980
Identifier: uon:15697
Identifier: ISBN:9781409426318
Rights: Reprinted from ‘Indigenization, Indigenous Social Work and Decolonization: Mapping the theoretical terrain’, in Decolonizing Social Work ed. Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird & Tiani Hetherington (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 25-41. Copyright © 2013.
Language: eng
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