This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. Interdisciplinary approaches bring together cutting edge scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa and Sweden. Major environmental, social and cultural issues are explored, developing an epistemology of situated knowledge and methodologies in order to examines how social work has responded to specific social problems, crises and vulnerabilities in a glocalised world. It proposes 'glocalisation' as a useful concept for re-framing conditions and practices for social work in a world perspective.

Mona Livholts is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies at Linköping University, Sweden, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Change, University of South Australia, and Founder and Coordinator of R.A.W., The Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies.

Lia Bryant is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia and is Director of the Centre for Social Change. She is Associate Professor in Social Work and Sociology.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Social Work in a Glocalised World

Mona Livholts and Lia Bryant

Part I: The Glocalisation of Social Issues

Chapter 2: Glocal Terrains of Farmer Distress and Suicide

Lia Bryant and Bridget Garnham

Chapter 3: Gendered Globalisation and Violence

Jeff Hearn, Kopano Ratele and Tamara Shefer

Chapter 4: Globalisation and Glocalised Policies for Asylum Seekers: A Comparative Analysis of Australia and the UK

Shepard Masocha

Chapter 5: 'The Humanitarian Gaze', Human Rights Films and Glocalised Social Work

Sonia Tascon

Part II: Methodological Re-Shaping and Spatial Transgression in Glocalised Social Work

Chapter 6: 'What We learn How to See': A Politics of Location and Situated Writing in Glocalised Social Work

Mona Livholts

Chapter 7: Geographies of Anger and Fear: Exploring the Affective Atmospheres of Men's 'Domestic' Violence

Lucas Gottzén

Chapter 8: Loss and Grief in Global Social Work: Autoethnographic Explorations of the Case of the Tsunami Catastrophe in Northeastern Japan, March 11, 2011

Els-Marie Anbäcken

Chapter 9: Writing from the Self and the Liberatory Process of Reformulating Identities that Extends to and Beyond the Migratory Experience

Sindi F. Gordon

Chapter 10: Social Sculpture Through Dreams and Conversations: Creating Spaces for Participatory and Situation-Specific Art Based Methods

Lott Alfreds and Charlotte Åberg

Part III: Responses from Social Work as a Glocalised Profession

Chapter 11: Community Work as a Socio-Spatial Response to the Challenge of Glocal Segregation and Vulnerability

Päivi Turunen

Chapter 12: Protecting the Rights of Overseas Filipino Workers: Social Work Beyond National Borders

Nilan Yu and Mary Lou Alcid

Chapter 13: International Migration and National Welfare Institutions: Doulas as Border Workers in Obstetric Care in Sweden

Sabine Gruber

Chapter 14: Undoing Privilege in Transnational Social Work: Implications for Critical Practices in the Local and Global Context

Bob Pease

Chapter 15: Glocality and Social Work: Methodological Responsiveness to Moments of Rupture

Lia Bryant and Mona Livholts