1st Edition
Decolonization as World Counterculture Studying Theories in Motion in Social Work Education
By Sandra Holtgreve
Copyright 2026
266 Pages
3 Color & 6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
266 Pages
3 Color & 6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Decolonization as World Counterculture captures the underlying conditions of the rise of post- and decolonial theories by asking how we arrived at this moment when decolonial arguments seem to be everywhere and yet not enough.
While efforts to decolonize knowledge and disciplines continue to expand, this book takes a different, theory-reflecting approach. It examines instead how... Read more
1. Introduction: Studying theories in motion 2. How non-Western principles permeate the world? 3. Tracing world countercultural models 4. Semantic landscapes of the turn to coloniality 5. Four drivers of institutionalization 6. Decolonization as world counterculture: Lessons from the turn to coloniality 7. Bibliography 8. Attachments
Biography
Sandra Holtgreve is a lecturer at Bielefeld University and a practicing social worker responsible for coordinating municipal integration initiatives. She is the co-editor of Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global (2021), with Karlson Preuß and Mathias Albert.
