The Subjectivity Of Participation Articulating Social Work Practice with Youth in Copenhagen

by Nissen, Morten

• ISBN13: 9780230237605
• ISBN10: 0230237606
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Using an innovative approach in critical psychology, this study examines collectivity, participation, and subjectivity, and the social theories that may help us understand these matters.

Author Biography

Morten Nissen (http //mnissen. psy. ku.dk) teaches community psychology in Copenhagen, Denmark, and fredrikstad, Norway. He investigate participation, subjectivity, 'wild' social work, and addiction, with a focus on theories, standards, and practices. He edits Outlines - critical practice Studies (www.outlines.dk), and heads the research center SUBSTANce - Subjects and Standards.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Point of Departure
Overture: One Day at The Crew	p. 3
Is this social work?	p. 5
The framing of participation	p. 8
Situated learning	p. 10
Constituting subjectivities	p. 13
Ideology, research, and critique	p. 16
Position: A Critical Psychology Accomplice	p. 18
Why position?	p. 19
The three critiques in critical psychology	p. 21
Theorizing as democratic social engineering	p. 26
Reflecting social implications from the inside	p. 26
Dialectical theory as anti-empiricist scientism	p. 27
Theorizing as reflexive modeling	p. 30
Dialectics as critical theory	p. 32
Problems of a reconstractionist critical (trans-)psychology	p. 35
The becoming of humanity as praxis	p. 35
The problem of mediating agency and subjectification	p. 38
The collective subject as mediator	p. 41
So what	p. 43
Rear-view mirror genealogy	p. 43
Prototyping	p. 44
History: A Rear-View Mirror Guide to the Idea of Collectivity	p. 46
The constitutional rapture: Association and community in society	p. 48
Basing social theory on real individuals	p. 48
A society of nice, rational individuals	p. 50
Transcendent community	p. 53
The engineering and management of collectivity in society	p. 57
Abstract groups and gatherings	p. 58
Functional collectivity: Task and life	p. 62
The self-help group	p. 65
The Utopian commune	p. 66
Beyond freedom: Diversions toward the collectivity of the productive politics of social work in a welfare state	p. 68
Professional total institutions	p. 70
Community mobilization	p. 72
The revolutionary colony	p. 73
Social-work collectives	p. 77
Situating Data	p. 84
Welfare reform in Denmark and in Copenhagen	p. 86
The Ama'r Total Theater	p. 90
User Service	p. 91
The Crew	p. 93
Wild Learning	p. 99
A Theory of Participatory Subjectivity
Collectives as Situated Units of Praxis	p. 105
Approach: Looking for meaning	p. 106
Anti-method and the real thing	p. 106
The Organic Civic Canteen	p. 108
Collective: The non-trivial identity of social units with praxis	p. 110
Basic concepts for units of praxis	p. 113
Meaning and sense	p. 113
Objects, objectivity, objectification	p. 116
The radical situatedness of the collective	p. 119
Articulating immanent structure	p. 120
Intentional, inter-subjective, and appropriational structures of the collective	p. 120
Structures of precarious meaningfulness in User Service: From social classes to local ideological life-modes	p. 124
The consequential attribution of structure	p. 128
The Collective as Framed	p. 132
Serious joking	p. 133
Know your place!	p. 134
Ideal artifacts	p. 143
The framing of collectivity in ongoing interaction	p. 147
Framing in the Contact Group	p. 150
Implications of the multiple potentialities of frames	p. 155
A critique of ironic authenticity	p. 160
The Collective as Recognized in Ideology	p. 165
Who, 'we?	p. 166
Recognition and ideology	p. 168
Recognition: Objectification of the other as subject	p. 169
Potentiality	p. 170
Ideology as the claiming of community: Common sense	p. 172
Between state of exception and concrete Utopia	p. 175
We - The Crew	p. 179
We can't accept this	p. 179
It has to be because you like him	p. 181
It's not enough if we only use them for that	p. 185
Well, it's not very pedagogical	p. 188
Constructing Subjectivity in Participation	p. 193
Subjects in practice, not persons in everyday life	p. 194
Interpellation as recognition of participation	p. 198
The singular subject of interpellation	p. 199
Participation as subjection and transformation	p. 201
Between universe and sovereign	p. 205
The atom of subjectivity and its embodiment	p. 207
The two-ways embodied selfhood: Who cares - and for whom?	p. 208
From bare life to emergent life-narrative	p. 211
Life-modes and local-ideological narratives	p. 214
Formative narratives of Wild Learning	p. 217
The interpellation of 'Girl, 16 years'	p. 218
The story of how Senko and Ramid juggle multiple relations of trust and power	p. 221
The positivity of formative narrative	p. 227
Prototypical Reflections
Practice Research as Collective Prototyping and Critique	p. 233
Abstracts	p. 234
The collective (taken from the bottom)	p. 234
Critical trans-pedagogy	p. 236
Analytical tools (sketching an example)	p. 237
Practice research: Research for, about, as, and with practices	p. 239
Method as result	p. 239
Transformation of references	p. 241
Prototypes	p. 243
The collective subjectivity of research	p. 245
From collectives of 'critical psychologists' to joint ventures the case of German-Scandinavian critical psychology	p. 245
The Utopia, intersubjectivity, and objectivities of research - in wild social work	p. 250
The precarious and contentious relevance of this	p. 256
Relevance is demanding!	p. 256
Some historical conditions for relevance	p. 258
Notes	p. 262
References	p. 273
Index of Theoretical Terms	p. 290
Index of Names and Concepts from the Field	p. 292ÿþ
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