Indigenization Discourse in Social Work / Springer Series in International Social Work (PDF)

Koustab Majumdar, MPhil, PhD, is associated with Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (Deemed to be University, Ranchi campus, India). He is also a Visiting Scholar at International Center for Cultural Studies (ICSS), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan. Dr. Majumdar was awarded with Taiwan Fellowship (2023) by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), China (Taiwan) to conduct his post-doctoral research on Comparative Indigenous Social Welfare Policy at ICSS_NYCU. He worked as a research associate at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and RKMVERI. Dr. Majumdar became the recipient of tuition fee scholarship (2019) to attend Chula Right Livelihood Summer School (Chulalongkorn University), Bangkok, Thailand. He has been associated with many international journals as a reviewer. Majumdar's research interests include agrarian change, environmental education, social work education, international social work, social welfare policies, rural and tribal livelihood and participatory re-search. He is also a member of a number of international bodies such as - Development Studies Association, UK, Canada, India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Guelph, Canada, International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD), UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab.



Rajendra Baikady, PhD, FRSA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work, at the Central University of Kerala, India. He was a Special Post-Doctoral Fellow and Assistant Lecturer at the Department of the Social Work University of Johannesburg, South Africa during the aca-demic year 2020-2022. In addition to this, Baikady is Principal Investigator (Summer Research Fellowship) at International Socioeconomic Laboratory, Harvard University, United States, and a Research Associate at the Water Policy Center in India. He completed his first Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the He-brew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2019-2020), and was awarded