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Global Social Work Midterm 2024 Question 3

 3. Choose a problem of acute poverty in your country and describe a global social work intervention you could create (assume you have plenty of resources) to remedy that problem. Briefly summarize the poverty-correcting intervention and then describe how you would apply it. For examples, you can use:

a.     the human rights cooperatives led by community members supported by social workers and lawyers described by Grodofsky;

b.     the response of Muhammad Yunus to remedying acute poverty and homelessness in Bangladesh;

c.     Bianco’s paper about encouraging female entrepreneurship;

d.     Onwuegbuchulam’s paper about a capability approach in KwaZulu Natal.

 Global Social Work Midterm Question 2

2.   Now imagine you are a Global social worker working as a leader with the U.N. like Professor Ruskus and Professor Leinarte, or working for an NGO like “Fight for Rights” for persons with disabilities in Ukraine. Apply the many lessons you learned from the multi-media campaign for the liberation of Vieques from the U.S. Navy using the town as a bombing trial site. What would be your strategic plan to remedy the dehumanization you described in your answer to “1” above?

Global Social Work 2024 Midterm Question 1

 

1.     Consider the readings and youtubes about dehumanization and Mr. Ayalew’s presentation about dehumanization and compliance with authority as presented in Zimbardo’s work. Now choose one of the following problems and apply Zimbardo’s ideas about dehumanization to ONE of the following populations you are concerned about. Describe how dehumanization of that population occurs and remember the concepts of “deindividuation” and “moral accountability” to describe what happens when people dehumanize others.

a.     The dehumanization of women, as evidenced by using them as objects of war crimes, only for child bearing and male pleasure (Memory Banda’s TED talk and global sex trafficking as described by Kristof and Wudun in Half the Sky),

b.     The dehumanization of persons on the basis of race, as evidenced in the Youtube about racism and the global problem of discrimination, genocide, and robbing of resources such as metals, land and forests against persons who are indigenous and of color,

c.     The dehumanization of persons on the basis of religion, nationality, or tribal affiliation, as is the justification for the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and other acts of genocide and imperialist aggression;

d.     The dehumanization of persons with disabilities, as occurred during the Holocaust and as occurs worldwide in the deprivation of rights to de-institutionalization and supported decision-making.

Put your spoken word poem here if you like

 Why knock knock made me cry

Knock knock speaks for so many who I cared for as a social worker
Persons who suffered under mountains of oppression so heavy and high I felt helpless
Mothers and fathers who suffered for their children’s suffering
Thank you, knock knock, you were never silenced, you have a voice, you are heard
Knock knock we have to hear and do to lift those mountains, it takes all of us together

Katherine

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2023 Midterm Question #3

 

Question 3:

Imagine that you are invited to speak to some international policy-makers who are having a debate about the problem of poverty on a global scale. The central question is: Can global poverty be remediated? There will be a debate, one side arguing 'yes,' and using examples from countries with the lowest rates of poverty in the world (look them up!).

The other side is arguing 'no' – that those countries are unique and their strategies cannot be used in other contexts.  

You are asked to argue "yes" and to respond thoughtfully to your opponent’s points.

Describe your argument: consider your opponent’s main point and how you would argue against it; use examples from our readings and others if you like about what can be done to remedy global poverty that is glocalized – using global principles in local contexts. You can include shifting narratives and cultural values as well.