Expert in: Spirituality, religion and social work
TRAORÉ, Diahara
Professeure adjointe
- Black communities in Quebec
- Spirituality, religion and social work
- Afrocentric approaches
- Femmes
- Religious identity and belonging
- Dynamics of small groups
- Social work with group
- Non-Western epistemologies
- Qualitative research
- North America
- Transnationalism
- Postcoloniality
- Intersectionnalité
- Canada (Québec)
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Western Africa
My research interests focus on emancipatory group interventions, non-Western social work epistemologies, postcolonial feminist theories, Afrocentric and intersectional approaches, identities within black communities, and religion and spirituality in social work. My expertise is rooted in a decade of group intervention practice, and through a series of publications, including the monograph *West African Muslim Women in Quebec, Between Subversion and Conformity* (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2019), and scholarly journal articles on bricolage, transdisciplinarity, cognitive justice, the politics of belonging, spirituality, mental health and transnational therapeutic networks. I have also co-authored chapters in collective works on epistemologies of the South and cognitive justice, as well as on spirituality and adolescent intervention. My research aims to develop practices and knowledge that promote the emancipation and inclusion of marginalized groups, by valuing diverse and critical perspectives.