"This book will explore practical and political ways in which social work practice has been updated and reconstructed both in its relational approach to the work with its clients and in contexts which differ greatly from those customary focus occupied by mainstream human service organisations and government agencies covering the welfare and other relevant areas of program delivery"--.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• Section 1: Origins
  • Chapter 1: Recontextualization
  • Chapter 2: Social Working the Borderlands
• Section 2: Beyond Spaces and Places
  • Chapter 3: Responding to the Natural World
  • Chapter 4: Eco-Disasters
  • Chapter 5: It's Like Felting
  • Chapter 6: Social Work Practice in the Compensation Context
  • Chapter 7: Social Work, Op-Shops, and Job Training
• Section 3: Indigenous Discourse
  • Chapter 8: Ecological Social Work in South Africa and the Way Forward
  • Chapter 9: Social Workers Navigating a Colonial Bureaucratic System While Also Re-Kindling Obuntu-Led Relational Social Work in Uganda
  • Chapter 10: Recontextualizing Social Work in a Globalized World
  • Chapter 11: Advancing Local, Social, and Ecological Transitions Through Community Development
• Section 4: Post-Human/Global
  • Chapter 12: Power, Politics, and Social Work
  • Chapter 13: Social Work in the Anthropocene
  • Chapter 14: Looking Back to Keep Moving . . . And It May Not Be “Forward”
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index