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Toward Indigenist Re-Imaginings: Indigenous Social Work Theory
Section 6: Indigenous Social Work
From: Critical Social Work Praxis
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This chapter explores the tenets of Indigenous approaches to social work practice. It touches on FRAMEWORKS ROOTED IN AN INDIGENOUS WORLDVIEW, HISTORIES OF SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTIONS IN INDIGENOUS LIVES, INDIGENOUS SOCIAL WORK AND INTERSECTIONALITY, INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL WELFARE, and EMERGING ISSUES IN INDIGENOUS SOCIAL WORK among other topics.
Contributors
Laura Hall
Laura Hall is a researcher, educator and writer who focuses on decolonial deconstructions of social welfare studies, environmental studies and social work theory. Her work applies a settler colonial studies lens to diverse social and environmental justice theories.
Monique Woolnough
Monique Woolnough is a lawyer who works in the community legal clinic system, with a focus on the impacts of ongoing colonization through Canadian administrative legal systems (including social welfare and housing) on Indigenous Peoples. Since the age of fifteen, she has organized around Indigenous sovereignties, environmental justice, anti-racism and anti-colonialism.
Sheri Cecchetto
Sheri Cecchetto is a field coordinator and member of the School of Indigenous Relations, Laurentian University. Sheri is a graduate student and researcher with expertise in emergent learning, pedagogy and theoretical development in Indigenous social work.
