David Yuzva Clement
Adjunct Research Professor
| Degrees: | PhD (Erfurt, Germany), MA (Erfurt, Germany), BSW (Cologne, Germany) |
| Email: | davidclement3@cunet.carleton.ca |
Teaching experience:
SOWK 3206 Community Development and Social Change in an International Context
SOWK 2203 Introduction to Social Work Practice with Groups and Communities
SOWK 5608 Social Work with Communities
Research interests:
- Social Work with Communities
- Democracy and Pedagogy
- Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Hate
- Community Building and Support Services for Victims and Survivors of Hate
- Public Space, Urbanization and Social Work
Current research projects:
- Senior researcher with Carleton University’s SSHRC-funded research project entitled Hate 3.0: Memory, Populism, and Misinformation in the Canadian Social Mediascape
- Digital ethnography on the “incelexit” forum: A place for critical reflection, disengagement, and undoing inceldom?, together with Ruxi Gheorghe
- Developing a professional program on Preventing and Countering Hate and Violent Extremism for the School of Social Work, Akkon University (Berlin, Germany)
Biographical statement:
David is an interdisciplinary trained Adjunct Research Professor and Lecturer at Carleton University’s School of Social Work. He currently works in macro-level social work as a Research Advisor for the Government of Canada’s Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, where he is responsible for policy advancement, research, knowledge mobilization, and program development. He has published widely on the role of religion and culture in social work, adolescence and radicalization, and the prevention of violent extremism.
Prior to moving to Canada in 2018, David has conducted research and practiced for over 10 years in various community development and social work capacities including in urban planning, anti-racist education and intercultural dialogue, youth work, child and youth welfare policy, and neighborhood social work, in Germany, Kenya, and Palestine.
Currently, David is involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects and curriculum development initiatives. Together these examine the role of social work, public health, education and community development in fostering social cohesion and community empowerment; and in preventing and countering hate, populism, and violent extremism.
David identifies as a cisgender, feminist, able-bodied, and as a settler person. His teaching focuses on critical reflection, engagement, ethics and decolonizing colonial continuities in social work and beyond. Grounded in social justice, critical theories and decolonization, David’s classes facilitate a space for learners to examine topics such as empowerment, community organizing, bias, privilege, allyship, decolonization, power dynamics, and how to integrate the values of social justice into professional social work practices.
Publications (selected):
Jennifer Evans, Swen Steinberg, & David Yuzva Clement (under review). Transatlantic Hate: People, Pathways, and Networks Between Germany and Canada in the 20th and 21st Century. Central European History.
David Yuzva Clement, Janine Kiefer, Ghayda Hassan, and Michael King (2022). Countering Radicalization to Violence in Canada: A Multi-Sector Perspective, in Rauf Ceylan and Michael Kiefer, Der islamische Fundamentalismus im 21. Jahrhundert. (Wiesbaden: Springer VS), 325-345. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37486-0_16
David Yuzva Clement (2022). Post-Migrant Dynamics of Islam: Muslim Youth and Salafism in Germany, in Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Thomas K. Gugler, and Armina Omerika, Dynamics of Islam in the modern world (Leiden and Boston: Brill), 141-174. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004512535_008
David Yuzva Clement, Ariane Wolf, & Dennis Walkenhorst (2021). Zwischen Online-Lebenswelt und extremistischer Gewalt: „Incels“ als Herausforderung für Pädagogik und Soziale Arbeit [Between online life-worlds and extremist violence: “Incels” as a challenge for pedagogy and social work], in Thomas Damberger, Ines Schell-Kiehl, and Johannes Wahl, Pädagogik, Soziale Arbeit, Digitalität [Pedagogy, Social Work, Digitalization] (Weinheim: Beltz JUVENTA), 77-91.
David Yuzva Clement (2020). Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit im Kontext des Salafismus. Soziale Arbeit und Radikalisierungsprävention [Open Child and Youth Work in the context of Salafism. Social Work and the Prevention of Radicalization] (Wiesbaden: Springer VS). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-30746-2
David Yuzva Clement, & Maike Nadar (2019). Religionssensibilität in der politischen Bildung: Wissens-, Haltungs- und Handlungskompetenzen [Sensitivity of religion within civic education: theoretical, attitudinal, and pedagogical competences], in Siegfried Grillmeyer and Karl Weber, Das Religiöse ist politisch: Plädoyer für eine religionssensible politische Bildung [Religion is political: Plea for a sensitivity of religion in civic education], with Maike Nadar, (Würzburg: Echter Verlag), 63-84.
David Yuzva Clement (2015). Religion und interreligiöser Dialog in der Offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit [Religion and Inter-Religious Dialogue in Youth Work]. Jugendhilfereport (3): 46-49.
David Yuzva Clement (2014). Gedanken zum Verhältnis von Sozialer Arbeit und Religion [Reflecting on the Nexus between Social Work and Religion]. Jugendhilfereport (4): 38-42.
Book reviews:
David Yuzva Clement (2022). Said S. M., Rajendra Baikady, Cheng Sheng-Li and Haruhiko Sakaguchi (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of global social work education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), in Social Work Education 41 (2): 261-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2021.1970663
David Yuzva Clement (2019). Luise Hartwig, Gerald Mennen and Christian Schrapper (eds.), Handbook of social work with child refugees and families (Weinheim: BELTZ Juventa, 2018), in International Federation of Social Workers. https://www.ifsw.org/handbook-of-social-work-with-refugee-children-and-families/