Place and space in social work

Bryant, Lia; Williams, John A.

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“…By proceeding within the framework of Conversation Analysis (see Sidnell and Stivers, 2012), with a focus on embodied interaction and its multimodal organization (see Mondada, 2019b;Streeck et al, 2011), the present study examines the sequential and multimodal organization of closings, revealing how this routine is locally accomplished not only through talk but, crucially, through participants' bodily conduct involving mobility (namely, their walking trajectories toward the exit, resulting in clients' passage and professionals' bystanding, that is, "seeing clients to the door") and tactility (namely, professionals' gentle patting of clients' backs, as well as pushing and holding knob and door). Besides further shedding light into the embodied dimension of social work intervention (see Monteiro, 2016Monteiro, , 2017Monteiro, , 2021, this study shows how place, mobility and touch are constitutive aspects of the interactional organization of closings in social work practice (see Bryant and Williams, 2020;Ferguson, 2008;Green, 2017;Stanley et al, 2016), inviting to their ethnomethodological and embodied "respecification" (see Garfinkel, 1991;Mondada, 2013).…”

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Assisting clients’ departure: On the multimodal organization of closings in social work

Monteiro

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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Interactional closings constitute a crucial aspect of social interaction and, in social work practice, are organized around participants’ orientation to an asymmetrical distribution of tasks between professional and client, informed by a “dialectics of care and control.” Proceeding from a conversation analytic framework, and grounded on video recordings of encounters between social workers and clients in diverse institutional settings in Portugal, the present paper investigates how the routine of closing social work encounters is carried out through professionals’ and clients’ joint and progressive orientation toward bringing the encounter to an end, and examines some of the interactional and embodied practices mobilized by them for accomplishing this task. By providing a detailed analysis of participants’ audible and visible conduct and their interactional practices, this study shows how social workers orchestrate clients’ leave-taking through the concerted mobilization of linguistic, bodily and material resources, shedding light into how the dialectics of care and control are managed in the everyday exercise of social intervention.

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Assisting clients’ departure: On the multimodal organization of closings in social work

Monteiro

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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“…In many countries centered to large cities, and people who live in poverty and in in communities with migrant background suffer from higher death rates. This makes it important for social work practice to scrutinize power relations related to space and place; to use scaling as a tool to recognize intersectional inequalities from the micro level of bodies, private and institutional homes, welfare systems and civil society (compare Bryant and Williams, 2020).…”

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Exhaustion and possibility. The wor(l)dlyness of social work in (G)local environment worlds during a pandemic

Livholts

2021

Qualitative Social Work

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Exhaustion is not about being tired. It is an intense feeling of restlessness, of insomnia, and awakening when I ask myself: have I exhausted all that is possible? Such a state of restlessness and wakefulness represents a turning point for having enough, and opens for new possibilities to act for social change. This reflexive essay departs from the notion that the language of exhaustion offers a wor(l)dly possibility for social work(ers) to engage in critical analytical reflexivity about our locations of power from the outset of our (g)local environment worlds. The aim is to trace the transformative possibilities of social change in social work practice through the literature of exhaustion (eg. Frichot, 2019 ; Spooner, 2011 ). The methodology is based on uses of narrative life writing genres such as poetry, written and photographic diary entrances between the 4th of April and 4th of June. The essay shows how tracing exhaustion during the pandemic, visualises a multiplicity of forms of oppression and privilege, an increasing attention and relationship to things, and border movements and languages. I suggest that social work replace the often-used terminology of social problems with exhaustive lists to address structural forms of racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, which has been further visualized through death, illness, violence, and poverty during the pandemic. I argue that the language of exhaustion is useful for reflexivity and action in social work practice through the way it contributes to intensified awareness, attention, engagement, listening, and agency to create social justice.

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“…24 n.˚ 2, jul-Dic 2022, issn (impreso): 0123-4986, issn (en línea): 2256-5493, bogotá • 241-266 constelación espacial De conceptos para trabajo social: ambiente, lugar, territorio y paisaje [ 245 ] Esta transversalidad de la dimensión espacial es un supuesto desde el que este trabajo se plantea. Adicionalmente, se entiende que el espacio es relevante para comprender los fenómenos sociales en los que el Trabajo Social interviene, y respecto de su mismo quehacer, como ha planteado Saravia (2019a), en consonancia con producción internacional reciente en el campo del Trabajo Social (Bryant y Williams 2020;Williams 2016;Spatscheck y Wolf-Ostermann 2009). Podría decirse, de hecho, que la dimensión espacial ha sido abordada en el Trabajo Social siempre: "podría decirse que la investigación y la práctica del Trabajo Social siempre han estado atentas al lugar y al espacio.…”

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“…Porque, si bien es cierto que trabajos como los de Lefebvre (2013) y Harvey (2012) tratan el concepto espacio en sí mismo, su aplicabilidad para pensar fenómenos o procesos de intervención específicos pareciera requerir una mediación conceptual que lo operativice. Por esta razón, en el Trabajo Social, salvo algunas excepciones (Bryant y Williams 2020;Saravia 2019aSaravia , 2019bSaravia , 2021Saravia, Urquieta y Ortega 2020;Crath 2012;Fairbanks 2003), es más común encontrar trabajos que utilizan conceptos como ambiente, lugar, territorio y, en menor medida, paisaje.…”

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Constelación espacial de conceptos para Trabajo Social: ambiente, lugar, territorio y paisaje

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Pinto²

2022

Trab. Soc.

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Se desarrolla una propuesta teórica que entiende el espacio como categoría central de una constelación espacial de conceptos, potencialmente útil para el Trabajo Social, que considera cuatro aspectos: ambiente, lugar, territorio y paisaje. Se revisa someramente la utilización de cada uno en el caso del Trabajo Social y se encuentran patrones diferenciados. El concepto lugar es empleado principalmente en el contexto anglófono, mientras territorio en el de América Latina. Ambiente es usado en ambos entornos, pero con sentidos diversos. Paisaje casi no es utilizado, aunque cuenta con un alto potencial explicativo e integrador. Se concluye con desafíos que vinculan la dimensión teórica y política.

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Place and space in social work

Cited by 21 publications

References 56 publications

Assisting clients’ departure: On the multimodal organization of closings in social work

Assisting clients’ departure: On the multimodal organization of closings in social work

Exhaustion and possibility. The wor(l)dlyness of social work in (G)local environment worlds during a pandemic

Constelación espacial de conceptos para Trabajo Social: ambiente, lugar, territorio y paisaje

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