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The Social Work Pathways Initiative aims to address a workforce shortage of MSW and PhD social workers of color, partly caused by relatively low social worker salaries compared to high tuition and living expenses. Students of color at the School of Social Work typically graduate with a higher amount of student debt than white students, due in part to less intergenerational wealth and lower family incomes.
Columbia School of Social Work has been a leader in social work education and research since 1898. It joins rigorous academic theory with real-world practice to enhance the welfare of citizens and communities in New York City, the nation and around the world.
I work on Francophone North African literature in relation to political, social, and cultural debates in the region and beyond. My broad research interests include contemporary fiction and poetry in French, literary and postcolonial theory, and translation. My scholarly publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Research in African Literature, The Journal of North African Studies, French Studies, Nottingham French Studies, the Irish Journal of French Studies, and Revue Roland Barthes.
Rutgers offers the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with a social work major through the School of Social Work and the Camden College of Arts and Sciences and the New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences.
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'Another important contribution to the growing literature on critical social work. It is on the cutting edge of thinking about social work and its goal of social change.' - Kate van Heugten, Social Work Review
Critical Social Work starts from the premise that a central goal of social work practice is social change to redress social inequality. Taking a critical theoretical approach, the authors explore the links between personal and social change. They confront the challenges for critical social work in the context of pressures to separate the personal from the political and in responding to the impact of changes in the socio-political, statutory and global contexts of practice.
Critical Social Work has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent social, economic and political developments. Coverage of theoretical frameworks has been substantially expanded and reflects current concerns such as evidence based practice and human rights. The causes of people's marginalisation and oppression are examined in relation to class, race, ethnicity, gender and other forms of social inequality.Case study chapters in the earlier edition on working with immigrants, Indigenous people, women, men, families, people with psychiatric disabilities and those experiencing loss and grief have been updated and revised. The second edition includes new case study chapters on disability, older people, children, rurality, and violence and abuse.
Critical Social Work is an essential resource to inform progressive social work practice.
As part of the project, I also organised a country-wide gender-sensitising workshop together with local partners, inviting energy-sector professionals across Pakistan. The workshop provided a platform to share the project findings, invite a response on the policy brief from an expert panel, and conduct interactive sessions with participants to identify key areas for intervention, generate dialogue and develop an understanding of best practices for gender mainstreaming in energy policy and practice.
Further details of the project and workshop event can be found on the project website.
My interest in this area was triggered by the desire to solve the very real energy issues faced by my own community where I lived in Pakistan and how energy shortages affect the lived experiences of different people. Continuing down this path, my research journey progressed organically. I started with a techno-economic study of energy efficiency in building materials and appliances to reduce energy demand during my Masters. I went on to investigate energy consumption as an integral part of social practices and material arrangements that are mediated by the socio-cultural context, as part of my PhD. Currently, I am taking a socio-technical and feminist approach to investigate the underlying systems and processes that determine sustainable, equitable and just energy transitions.
Within architectural practice, I have been inspired by the influential work of Architect Kamil Khan Mumtaz who takes an Islamic philosophical and regionalist approach in design. I am a strong advocate of indigenous knowledge formation through design as seen in the influential social housing projects of Architect Yasmin Laari, the first female architect of Pakistan.
To tackle global 21st-century energy challenges, we need to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and include diverse perspectives in knowledge formation, especially from social scientific theory and women of the South.
Future smart infrastructure development, in both developing and developed countries, is hinged on demand management and response strategies with consumers actively involved in time-shifting electricity consumption for improved efficiency. This paper presents a qualitative, interview-based, comparative study of how homeowners adapt their practices to the changing systems of electricity provision in two countries, Pakistan and Denmark. It reveals that household practices like laundering are flexible, highly contextualised and embedded in the wider socio-material and cultural context. In Denmark, time-shifting of laundering in households with photovoltaics is done voluntarily and closely interwoven with the temporal rhythms of the common dual-income household, as well as the natural cycles of the sun and weather, and is in most cases based on some degree of automation. In Pakistan, blackout schedules dictate time-shifting of most practices. Large family sizes and nuanced clothing make laundering more complex, socially bound and time-consuming; however, joint family systems, provision of house-staff and outsourcing make it more time-flexible and less dependent on automation and electricity-use. Using theories on temporalities of practices in a cross-cultural analysis highlights the significance of local socio-material and cultural context in the performance, bundling and synchronisation of practices. While practice theories prove useful in cross-cultural comparison of temporalities of household practices and demand, further theory development is needed to conceptualise practices as shared or socially differentiated entities in varying cultural contexts. This has implications for demand management policies proposed in smart-grid transitions as well as in the possible cross-cultural transfer of smart technology and demand response strategies.
Thus, through a cross-cultural analysis, the study seeks to examine the extent to which temporalities of practices are defined by the given socio-material and cultural context and what this means for smart infrastructure development. Based on the empirical work, the study also aims to determine the usefulness of theories of practices and temporalities in analysing time-shifting of practices in the context of different countries. It further examines how a practice-based approach can inform the possible transfer of smart infrastructure technology and demand response strategies from one culture to another. This discussion will then help formulate policy implications.
Mylan and Southerton (2017) highlight a number of social mechanisms that order the performance of laundry practices at the personal, household and societal level, including social relations within the households (e.g. gender divisions of domestic labour) and cultural conventions that act as cultural ideals for laundering (e.g. softness and smell of freshly laundered clothes and convenience). Materiality is another social mechanism identified by Mylan and Southerton, but that has been elaborated further and in more detail by Spurling (2018), who focuses on the material dependencies of temporalities; accordingly, technologies and infrastructures are partially responsible for setting the temporal patterns of energy consumption by co-constituting the sequence, duration, frequency, and temporal location of various practices. Combining these two approaches, this paper focuses on understanding the role of socio-material settings in time-shifting of household practices.
As such, a comparison of household practices in empirical case-studies from Pakistan and Denmark provided a viable option; both countries have national objectives for smart-grid transitions with changing electricity provision systems but differ considerably in their existing socio-cultural context and material infrastructure. The empirical case-studies of household practices and energy demand for the two countries were conducted separately and form part of earlier published work (Friis and Christensen 2016; Khalid and Sunikka-Blank 2017). The Pakistan study formed part of an on-going PhD research at the University of Cambridge, UK, whereas the Danish study formed part of a household smart grid study at Aalborg University in Denmark. The original empirical research was not designed with the objective of a cross-cultural comparison, but the two available datasets presented an excellent opportunity to compare time-shifting adaptability of household laundry practices under changing systems of electricity provision; the Danish households with microgeneration as a new form of energy provision and the Pakistani households with varying modes of electricity generation in an uncertain intermittent supply system. In both the Pakistani and Danish study, the empirical material focused on time-shifting and household energy consumption more broadly. This empirical data was revisited and re-analysed for the purpose of this study with a view to compare and contrast time-shifting of practices. Consequently, this paper focuses on detailed comparison of laundry practices.
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