CALL FOR PAPERS
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK
2019 SPECIAL ISSUE

Guest-editors: Lana Sue Ka‘opua, Bruce Friedman, Rohena Duncombe, Jolan Hsieh, Peter Mataira, & Paul Bywaters

Title: Indigenous People & the Social Determinants of Health: Weaving Tradition & Innovation to Advance Well-Being for All.

Rationale: Indigenous peoples are diverse in ethnicity, cultural-linguistic factors, and temporal circumstances yet commonalities exist across groups. Commonalities include: a) historical continuity with pre-colonial societies, b) experiences of systemic oppression and ongoing marginalization by settler groups and nations, c) experiences of collective resistance and survival despite colonization and ongoing marginalization, d) maintain a dedication to ancestral lands and traditions, and e) identify as Indigenous, Aboriginal, First Nation, Native, or other linguistic-specific term. Striking health/mental health inequities persist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. This special issue aligns with the Millennium Development Goals (2015) on international development, which include global partnerships.

Aim(s): This special issue aims to advance research, education, policy, and health services for/with Indigenous peoples. Critical practice and research methods, community-academic and inter-disciplinary collaboration, and use of participatory methods that “weave” or integrate Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing with contemporary, possibly Western-based innovations are encouraged.

Suggested manuscript foci include:
•Identify, apply, and extend upon scholarship developed by/for Indigenous peoples, with a view towards advancing Indigenous ways of knowing to equity with that of Western social sciences.
•Enunciate theoretical and conceptual models that involve community based participation in local and global contexts, capacity building and research strengthening with Indigenous communities, integration of critical race praxis, Indigenous land-based literacies, and/or other considerations essential for developing multi-systemic interventions that address socially-constructed inequalities of Indigenous peoples.
•Describe/analyse data bases and trends, with attention to strategies for resolving data collection that may be inadequate to accurately and respectfully capture the health needs of Indigenous peoples.
•Describe/analyse social, political, and economic determinants that drive health disparities experienced by Indigenous populations and groups, with implications for community-engaged, participatory, and/or action-oriented research and scholarship.
•Identify/describe evidence-based, best and promising strategies for eliminating health disparities, with emphasis on culturally-grounded, -tailored, –safe research praxis, critical self-reflection of praxis, and intervention strategies at macro, mezzo, and/or micro levels of practice.
•Develop/explicate promising research/evaluation and/or pedagogical approaches for readying the social work and health services workforce for participation and leadership in global praxis that addresses health inequities affecting Indigenous peoples.

Manuscript due: Friday, July 27, 2018, July 27, 2018.
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Rohena Duncombe
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