Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work

lt;p>Melinda Madew is Professor in International Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg, Germany and a Research Associate of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.  She serves as Board Member of the European Social Work Research Association. Her teaching and research are in the areas of gender politics, postcolonial social work and indigenous knowledge and practice in community organizing.  She has served as education and research consultant for international development organizations. She conceptualized and implemented international projects under the auspices of European Union educational programs for North-South university collaboration. 

Marcin Boryczko is an associate professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland, where he teaches Social Work on bachelors and masters levels. He serves in the board of several international and national associations such as the Polish Federation of Social Workers and Social Service Employees Unions (Polska Federacja Zwiazków Zawodowych Pracowników Socjalnych i Pomocy Spolecznej), the European Social Work Research Association, the International Advisory Board of the European Social Work Research Journal, and Polish representative in the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW). His main research interests include social work education, critical social work theory, human rights, decolonization, neoliberal governmentality, and populism in Central Europe. 

Mark Lusk is a faculty member in the School of Social Work at New Mexico State University. Professor Lusk was Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Catholic University of Peru in Lima and also a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He currently works with forced migrants and refugees from Central America and Mexico and related human rights issues. Dr. Lusk was founding director of the School of Social Work at Boise State University (Idaho) and has served as Associate Provost at the University of Georgia. 

Part I - Social Work and the Decolonization Project .- Chapter 1 - Human Rights and the Decolonization of Social Work.- Chapter 2 - Relativism, Universalism and Pluriversality in Human Rights.- Part II - History of Social Work as a Human Rights Profession.- Chapter 3 - Interrogating the Colonial Past: The Conflicting History of Social Work as a Human Rights Profession.- Chapter 4 - The Postcolonial Present and a Decolonized Future for Social Work.- Chapter 5 - Kinship Care, Responsibility and Self-Determination: Exploring African Individual and Community Rights in Decolonized Social Work.- Part III - Human Rights Mandate in Social Work.- Chapter 6 - Mapping Basic Human Rights Instruments.- Part IV - Situating Human Rights in the Global North-South Divide.- Chapter 7 - Postcolonial Europe and its Premises for Decolonization.- Chapter 8 - Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work in the United States. Chapter 9 - Challenging Coloniality in Social Work Theorizations on Human Rights.- Part V - Decolonized Approaches in Human Rights Advocacy.- Chapter 10 - Understanding the U.S.-Mexico Border Through a Decolonial Lens.- Chapter 11 - Decoding a Colonial Impact - The Women's Movement in India.- Chapter 12 - From Anti-Colonial Revolutionaries to Subversive Feminists - Women in the Philippines.- Chapter 13 - Colonial History of Territorial Dislocation and Landlessness - Indigenous Peoples and Farmers' Food Sovereignty in the Philippines.- Chapter 14 - Lessons from Social Movements: Farmers and Food Sovereignty in India.- Chapter 15 - Decolonizing Social Work Education.- Chapter 16 - A Path Forward for Social Work, Human Rights and Decolonization.