University of Toronto

Dr. Chambon's scholarship has moved from research and teaching on immigration and refugees to transnational social work. She is part of a network of scholars in this area with a forthcoming co-edited book on Transnational Social Support, Routledge Publisher. She is interested in expanding the scope of social work theory (cf. Reading Foucault for Social Work, Columbia University Press). Her critical interpretive research links material and discursive activities drawing from the social sciences, the humanities and the arts. She is currently involved in two main directions: what art practices can bring to social work for social change; and archival research re-examining the history and memory of the social work discipline and bringing to light multiple voices, debates and linkages between past, present and future - both with SSHRC funding.

Interests:

• Critical theory: the micro/macro links in relations of power
• Narrative and discourse analys
• Arts and social work
• History and memory of social work & social welfare
• Refugee and immigration
• Transnational processes

Selected Publications

Books

Chambon, A., Irving, A., & Epstein, L. (Eds). (1999). Reading Foucault for social work. New York: Columbia University Press (and chapters in book).

Chambon, A. & Irving, A. (Eds.), (1994). Essays on postmodernism and social work. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press (and chapter in book).

Journal co-editing

Witkin, S. & Chambon, A., invited editors. (2007). “New Voices,” Qualitative Social Work Journal, 6 (4), December (with introduction).

Book Chapters & Journal Articles

Chambon, A. (2011). The transnational circulation of model programs for children in the early 20th century in Toronto. Transnational Social Review: A Journal for Social Work, 1(1), 21-34.  

Chambon, A., Johnstone, M. & Winckler, J. (2011). The material presence of early social work: The practice of the archive.  British Journal of Social Work, 41(4), 625-644.

Ruckdeshel, R. & Chambon, A. (2010). The uses of social work research. In I. Shaw, K. Briar-Lawson, J. Orme & R. Ruckdeshel (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Work Research (pp. 195-209). London: Sage. 

Chambon, A. (2009). What does art do for social work? Canadian Social Work Review, (CSWR/RCSS), 26 (2), 217-231 & french version: Ce que l’art fait au travail social: un dialogue possible, pp. 233-248.   

Chambon, A. (2008). Critical imagination in social work and the arts. In J.G. Knowles & A. Cole, eds., Handbook of the Arts in qualitative research: Perspectives, methodologies, examples (chap. 49, pp. 591-602). CA: Sage.

Chambon, A. (2008). From one Archive to the Other: Here/Then There/Now. In exhibit catalogue, Julia Winckler, Tracing Heinrich Barth. London: Brunei Gallery, Univ. of London.

Chambon, A. (2008). Befriending refugee women: Refracted knowledge and shifting viewpoints. In M. Ahmed, N. Khanlou & H. Moussa, Eds., Not born a refugee woman: Contesting identities, rethinking practices (pp. 101-112). Oxford: Berghahn Books & Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.

Chambon, A. & Knott, D. (2008). Transmitting complicated knowledge: Textual tactics in one university/social service partnership. In C. Baudet, P. Grant & D. Starke-Meyerring (Eds.), Research communication in the social and human sciences: From dissemination to public engagement (pp. 110-120). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Chambon, A. (2007). Perspectives, positions and public space in the fresco by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Bulletino Senese di Storia Patria, CXIII.

Chambon, A. (2007). Art works: Between social critique and active re-enchantment. In D. Saleebey & S. Witkin (Eds.), Social work dialogues: Transforming the canon in inquiry, practice, and education (pp. 203-226). Alexandria, VA: Council of Social Work Education.

Chambon A. (2007). Transplanted knowledge: Uncertain visitors at an exhibit, in The Art of Visual Inquiry, vol.3, J. G. Knowles, A. Cole & L. Neilsen, eds. (pp. 235-250). Halifax: Backalong Books.

Chambon, A. (2005). Practices of art for social work. Critical Social Work Journal, 5(1) (April), (images & text).

Chambon, A. (2005). The translation and circulation of Foucauldian concepts across national borders. Preface to the Chinese edition of Reading Foucault for Social Work. Taipei: Psychological Publishing Company of Taiwan.

Chambon, A. (2004). Une intervention théorique pour interroger le quotidien : Foucault et les pratiques de travail social. Nouvelles pratiques sociales, 16(2), 80-91.

Chambon, A. (2003). Socially committed discourse analysis and social work. In C. Schweppe (Ed.), Sozialpädagogik und qualitative Forschung (Social work and qualitative research methods) (pp. 225-243). Opladen: Leske und Budrich Verlag. (in English).

Chambon, A. (2003). La recherche en travail social. Y. Hurtubise et J.P. Deslauriers, dir., Introduction au travail social: Méthodologies et pratiques nord-américaines (pp. 163-181). Lyon (France), Chronique Sociale.

Chambon, A. & Irving, A. (2003). "They give reason a responsibility which it simply can’t bear": Ethics, care of the self and caring knowledge. Journal of Medical Humanities, 24(3/4), Winter, 265-278.

Farmer, D., Chambon, A. and N. Labrie, (2003), Urbanité et immigration au sein des francophonies : étude de la dynamique communautaire franco-torontoise et des rapports d’inclusion et d’exclusion, Francophonies d’Amérique, 16 (Fall), 97-106.

Chambon, A. (2002). Réfugiés survivants de la torture et bénévoles: Comment s’amorce le renouement du lien social? Dans V. Châtel et M-H Soulet, (eds.), Faire face et s’en sortir. Vol. 2: Développement des compétences et action collective (pp. 115-121). Fribourg: Editions Universitaires Fribourg, Suisse.

Chambon, A. (2001). Recomposition transversale des savoirs: Le cas du travail social au Canada anglais à la fin des années 1990. In P. Artières & E. da Silva (Eds.), Michel Foucault et la médecine: Lectures et usages (pp. 301-324). Paris: Editions Kimé.

Chambon, A., McGrath, S., Shapiro, B., Abai, M., Dudziak, S., & Dremetsikas, T. (2001). From interpersonal links to webs of relations: Creating Befriending relationships with survivors of torture and of war. The Journal of Social Work Research and Evaluation, 2(2), 157-171.

Chambon, A. & Richmond, T. (2001) L'évaluation des services d'établissement pour les personnes immigrantes et réfugiées : Enjeux conceptuels et méthodologiques. Cahiers de recherche sociologique, 35, 167-183.

Labrie, N., Chambon, A., Heller, M. et al., (2001). Minoration et santé : les formations discursives des communautés et institutions francophones à Toronto. Dans : L. Gajo et L. Mondada (dir.) Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée 74, automne, 209-235.

Chambon, A., Tsang, A.K.T., & Marziali, E. (2000). Three complementary systems for coding the process of therapeutic dialogue. In A.P. Beck & C.M. Lewis (Eds.), Process of Group Psychotherapy: Systems for Analyzing Change (pp. 311-356). Washington D. C.: American Psychological Association.