Abstract:
Scholars have long grappled with the ways in which unequal power relations influence the creation and circulation of international social work knowledge. I outline a robust postcolonial theoretical framework to elucidate complexities of global knowledge and power and extend possibilities for considering such questions of epistemic justice. Drawing on my own research with service providers in Nepal, I suggest three analytic strategies to apply postcolonial insights in international social work research: reflexivity, critical discourse analysis, and postcolonial translation. Postcolonial theory and the strategies provided support social work researchers to comprehend, generate, and disseminate knowledge that can disrupt colonial assumptions.
摘要:
长期以来,学者们一直在努力解决不平等的权力关系如何影响国际社会工作知识的创造和流通。我概述了一个强大的后殖民理论框架,以阐明全球知识和权力的复杂性,并扩展了考虑此类认知正义问题的可能性。利用我自己与尼泊尔服务提供商的研究,我建议三种分析策略在国际社会工作研究中应用后殖民见解:反身性,批判性语篇分析,和后殖民翻译。后殖民理论和策略为社会工作研究人员的理解提供了支持,生成,并传播可以破坏殖民地假设的知识。