Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Where we’ve been and what we are up against: Social welfare and social work in Canada 7
6. Where we’ve been and what we are up against: Social welfare and social work in South Africa 17
7. How art works: Hopes, claims, and possibilities for social justice 27
8. Art for Conscientization and Re-Storying Selves
9. Art and storytelling with migrant children: Developing and thickening alternative storylines 45
10. Art towards critical conscientization and social change during social work and human rights education, in the South African post-apartheid and post-colonial context 63
11. When we are naked: An approach to cathartic experience and emotional autonomy within the post-apartheid South African theatrical landscape 79
12. Art for Community and Cultural Healing, Sustainability, and Resilience
13. Excavating and representing community-embedded trauma and resilience: Suitcases, car trips and the architecture of hope 97
14. Performing understanding: Investigating and expressing difference and trauma 115
15. Towards an Indigenous narrative inquiry: The importance of composite, artful representations 135
16. Art for Transforming Social Relations
17. Emerging paradigms for managing conflicts through applied arts 161
18. Corroding the comforts of social work knowing: Persons with intellectual disabilities claim the right of inspection over public photographic images 173
19. Art for Transforming Social Care Practice
20. Bringing relating to the forefront: Using the art of improvisation to perceive relational processes actively in social work 191
21. Making meaning of our experiences of bearing witness to suffering: Employing A/R/Tography to surface co-remembrance and (dwelling) place 205
22. Bibliography 221
23. Contributors 241
24. Index 245