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The Subjectivity Of Participation

Articulating Social Work Practice with Youth in Copenhagen

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  • © 2012

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  1. Morten Nissen

    1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Point of Departure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Overture: One Day at The Crew

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      Pages 3-17

    3. Position: A Critical Psychology Accomplice

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      Pages 18-45

    4. History: A Rear-View Mirror Guide to the Idea of Collectivity

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      Pages 46-83

    5. Situating Data

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      Pages 84-101

  3. A Theory of Participatory Subjectivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Collectives as Situated Units of Praxis

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      Pages 105-131

    3. The Collective as Framed

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      Pages 132-164

    4. The Collective as Recognized in Ideology

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      Pages 165-192

    5. Constructing Subjectivity in Participation

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      Pages 193-230

  4. Prototypical Reflections

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      Pages 231-231
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    2. Practice Research as Collective Prototyping and Critique

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      Pages 233-261

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 262-292
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About this book

What is a 'we' a collective and how can we use such communal self-knowledge to help people? This book is about collectivity, participation, and subjectivity and about the social theories that may help us understand these matters. It also seeks to learn from the innovative practices and ideas of a community of social/youth workers in Copenhagen between 1987 and 2003, who developed a pedagogy through creating collectives and mobilizing young people as participants. The theoretical and practical traditions are combined in a unique methodology viewing research as a contentious modeling of prototypical practices. Through this dialogue, it develops an original trans-disciplinary critical theory and practice of collective subjectivity for which the ongoing construction and overcoming of common sense, or ideology, is central. It also points to ways of relating discourse with agency, and fertilizing insights from interactionism and ideology theories in a cultural-historical framework.

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"This is a very engagingly written and erudite cross-disciplinary intervention that not only connects key conceptual-political debates in psychology with the challenges and dilemmas of social work practice, but uses the latter to press for an urgent reorientation of psychological models that could enable better and more engaged forms of practice. The author has a strong and lengthy track record of work in this area, and this text represents a key synthesis and focused consideration of this corpus of work." - Erica Burman

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Morten Nissen

About the author

MORTEN NISSEN (http://mnissen.psy.ku.dk) teaches community psychology in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Fredrikstad, Norway. He investigates 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 centre SUBSTANce-Subjects and standards.

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