The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World

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dc.contributor.editorSewpaul, Vishanthie
dc.contributor.editorKreitzer, Linda
dc.contributor.editorRaniga, Tanusha
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-05T21:40:14Z
dc.date.available2021-05-05T21:40:14Z
dc.date.copyright2021
dc.date.issued2021-05
dc.description.abstractA critical interrogation of the relationship between cultural practices and human rights in Africa rooted in Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work. Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use. Drawing on Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work as antidotes to colonial power and dehumanization, this collection challenges cultural practices that violate human rights, and the dichotomous and taken-for-granted assumptions in the cultural representations between the West and the Rest of the world. Engaging critically with cultural traditions while affirming Indigenous knowledge and practices, it is unafraid to deal frankly with uncomfortable truths. Each chapter explores a specific aspect of African cultural norms and practices and their impacts on human rights and human dignity, paying special attention to the intersections of politics, economics, race, class, gender, and cultural expression. Going beyond analysis, this collection offers a range of practical approaches to understanding and intervention rooted in emancipatory social work. It offers a pathway to develop critical reflexivity and to reframe epistemologies for education and practice. This is essential reading not only for students and practitioners of social work, but for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of African cultures and practices.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781773851839
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/113368
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38828
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgary Pressen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of KwaZulu Nataen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Stavangeren_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Johannesburgen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttp://press.ucalgary.ca/en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrica: Missing Voices, 12en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0en_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectHuman Rightsen_US
dc.subjectCultural Practicesen_US
dc.subjectCultural engagementen_US
dc.subjectAfrocentricityen_US
dc.titleThe Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global Worlden_US
dc.typebooken_US
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Introduction: Culture, Human Rights, and Social Work: Colonialism, Eurocentricism, and Afrocentricity
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