The global-local dialectic: Challenges for african scholarship and social work in a post-colonial world

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 419-434

  Sewpaul, Vishanthie ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)   (South Africa)

^c IASSW ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Challenging ideological hegemony; Democracy; Globalization; Neo liberal capitalism; Redistributive justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646268166     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcl003     Document Type: Article

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