{"product_id":"9789819671250","title":"Social Work Research Methodologies in Fields of Practice","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSocial Work Social Sciences Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSocial Work Research\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMethodologies in Fields of Practice\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAlex Akhup | Biswaranjan Tripura | Bipin Jojo\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Social Work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThis book, sourced from the experience of the \u003cspan class=\"marko1esnatd2\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003esocial\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"markjpuuiudbj\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003ework\u003c\/span\u003e researchers, educators and practitioners, offers, for the first time from the Indian context, a reflexively situated and insightful pathways to \u003cspan class=\"marko1esnatd2\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003esocial\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"markjpuuiudbj\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003ework\u003c\/span\u003e research and theorising practice that underlines the importance of 'methodologies in fields of practice'– epistemologies, locationalities and positionalities embedded at varied sites of practices. This understanding is built on the observation that research capturing specific ‘Fields of subjectivities’ (rural tribal communities, women, children and youth, and persons with disabilities) located in the Indian contexts responds to \u003cspan class=\"marko1esnatd2\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003esocial\u003c\/span\u003e issues in complex and diverse situations - a relational ontology. It underscores the scope and new possibilities of research in the \u003cspan class=\"marko1esnatd2\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003eSocial\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"markjpuuiudbj\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003eWork\u003c\/span\u003e discipline, and its function in contextualizing ‘fields of practice’. The strength of the book lies in capturing and visibilizing these varied sites of practices through ‘research-practice continuum’ approach while demonstrating the primacy of ‘methodologies of practice’ in building a \u003cspan class=\"marko1esnatd2\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003esocial\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"markjpuuiudbj\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003ework\u003c\/span\u003e knowledge i.e. democratic, emancipatory and locally empowering. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAccordingly, the book suggests that strengthening of \u003cspan class=\"marko1esnatd2\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003esocial\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"markjpuuiudbj\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003ework\u003c\/span\u003e research and theorising practice would entail recognition of 'methodologies in fields of practice' in the context. In doing so, the book underlines the need to take a decolonial approach and  intends to strengthen practice-based knowledge for an immediate reference point for \u003cspan class=\"marko1esnatd2\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003esocial\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"markjpuuiudbj\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003ework\u003c\/span\u003e scholars, researchers, educators, practitioners, administrators and policymakers.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eAlex Akhup is a Professor and PhD Coordinator of the School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He completed a Master of Arts and MPhil degrees in Social Work from the Delhi School of Social Work, Delhi University. He was awarded a PhD in Social Science by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He actively contributes to curriculum formulation, teaching, research, fieldwork, and publication on issues concerning social justice and governance within social work education and practice. His research interests include Identities (Tribal and Adivasi), Culture, Governance and Politics; Forest, land and Tribal Communities; Education Policy and Practice; and Social Work Interventions and Practice in Rural\/Adivasi Areas. He is editor of book titled Identities and Their Struggles in North East (2015), Adivaani, Kolkata. ORCID id: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9955-0541\"\u003ehttps:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9955-0541\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eBiswaranjan Tripura teaches Indigenous\/Tribal Studies within the Centre for Social Justice and Governance, School of Social Work at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. He has BA in Economics from Loyola College, Chennai, University of Madras; MA in Social Work (Specialization in Tribal Studies) from TISS, Mumbai; and earned his PhD (magna cum laude) in International Development Studies from the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (German acronym: IEE), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He was recipient of the Brot für dieWelt (Berlin) Development Scholarship to undertake his doctorate studies. His research interests include anthropology of everyday state and development, social work education and intervention, indigenous studies, decolonial methodologies, governance, indigenous education, political economy, Tiprasa Studies, and Northeast India studies. He is the author of Everyday State and Development in Northeast India (2025), Routledge, London, and Educational Experiences of Indigenous Peoples (2014), Mittal Publication, New Delhi. ORCID id: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2406-7213\"\u003ehttps:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2406-7213\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eBipin Jojo is Professor and Dean of the School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. Previously, he was chairperson of the Centre for Social Justice and Governance and International Relations Office at TISS. He was Commonwealth visiting fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, during 2008–2009; visiting professor at the University of Tampree, Finland, in 2018; and delivered lectures at the University of Bilbao, Spain, and Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He also worked on a collaborative research project on communities’ informal care and welfare systems with Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research on Tribal Education and Ashram Schools in Maharashtra has made a significant contribution to tribal studies in India. Being a founding member of Tribal Intellectual Collective India, he is also associated with multiple community outreach initiatives and community-based civil society organizations in India. He is co-editor of book titled Children and Scars of COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Issues and Challenges (2024), Routledge, London. 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