Responding to youth violence through youth work / [electronic resource]
Seal, Mike,author.
Harris, Pete(Youth worker),author.
Drawing on the findings of a two-year European research project, this book presents a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively to the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers.
Specialized.
RESPONDING TO YOUTH VIOLENCE THROUGH YOUTH WORK; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction ; A European and political context; Our aims; Overarching theme and structure of the book; Part 1. Literature review, theoretical frame and researching youth violence ; 1. Youth work and youth violence in a European context; Defining youth work; Mapping out the youth work paradigm; Youth work in the UK; Youth work in Austria; Youth work in Germany; Street-based youth work in Europe; Defining youth violence; Gang violence; Youth work and youth violence; 2. Our theoretical frame
Post-structuralism and intersectionality: a critique of identity politicsDiscourses and defences: a psychosocial frame ; Gender and masculinity; Introducing a psychosocial lens on masculinity; 'Race', racism and racialisation; Desistance theory; Existentialism; Worker relationships and generativity; Structural and symbolic violence, surveillance and developing ethnopraxis; A model for meaningful responses youth violence: PCSE; 3. Using participatory methods to research youth violence; Participatory research: an overview; Project Touch; Phase 2: data gathering
Using participatory research to understand youth violencePart 2. Meaningful responses to youth violence; 4. Responding at the personal (P) level; Violence as a way of meeting needs; Empathy, collusion with neutralisation and 'constructive confrontation'; Working with teachable moments ; Removing young people; Personal reinvention; Reciprocal identification, worker thresholds and sub-cultural capital; Worker 'stories'; Epiphanies and generativity; Summary; 5. Responding at the community (C) level; Violence as a community 'habitus' ; Tall poppy syndrome; Racial and ethnic conflict
Elder ambivalence, community 'respect' and duplicityCommunity-learned helplessness; Intergenerational and community cohesion: bonding and bridging social capital; Community development and action; The 'home-grown' youth and community worker ; Long-term, embedded community work that does not 'chase' violence; Targeting through universalism; Developing ethnopraxis; Summary; 6. Responding at the structural (S) level; Direct state violence; Symbolic violence and territoriality; Surveillance; Immigration policy as state violence ; Political education and pro-social responses ; A cycle of violence
Summary7. Responding at the existential (E) level; Existential hopelessness and lack of choice; Nihilism ; Worker inertia ; Alienating policy regimes; Passionate, real 'in the moment' responses; Crises and epiphanies; Symbolic resistance and small choices; Making meaning ; New choices and narratives; A final word on existentialist philosophy: Sartrean and Christian approaches; Summary; Part 3 Rethinking youth work  practice and policy; 8. Rethinking some youth  worker 'tales'; Critically engaging with the nature of relationships; Over-identification; Respect ; Self-respect and status; Trust
Avoiding organisational defensiveness
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Drawing on the findings of a two-year European research project, this book presents a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively to the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers.
Youth and violence.