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Moonstruck: An Exploration of Love & Madness
No full textIn mythology, the moon relates not just to madness, but to love. And that’s very convenient from my perspective, because I strongly believe that a deficit of love is what causes so-called madness, and the cure for which, therefore, is also love.
So that’s what this article is all about: love. Not romantic love, as is normally associated with the moon, but taking it right back to our most formative experience of love or loveless-ness – from our parents – from which of course all later love derives. And to make it relevant to psychiatry and medicine per se, I’m going to show how the care and treatment of doctors towards their patients may be perceived as a form of love – making up to a greater or lesser extent for that which was lacking in our childhood – and how we, as patients, in turn, project the love we need onto our doctors. I don’t think I’m alone in doing this. In fact, it’s so common it’s even got a name: transference, and there are whole theories around it. But in lay circles it’s not something we talk about openly or even acknowledge to ourselves much of the time because it makes us feel so vulnerable, arising as it does out of our most primitive need for attachment and belonging from day one of our existence
Radical Learning: Higher, Adult and Community Education and Votes for Women
Full text link21st January 2019 marked one hundred years after the founding of the first Irish parliament since the Act of Union in 1801, Dáil Éireann. Prior to that date, Irish Members of Parliament were elected to Westminster. The previous year, 1918, the right to vote was granted to all men over the age of 21 and to women over the age of thirty with assets to the value of £5, or, indeed, married to men with such riches, in Britain and Ireland. The first opportunity to activate the vote was on the 14th December 1918, and the first woman elected to The House of Commons was Constance Markievicz, born Constance Gore-Booth, in County Sligo, Ireland
Youth Work Education: Is the Voluntary Principle no Longer Reliable in Defining Youth Work?
Full text linkAt a time when traditional orthodoxies are open to challenge, it is useful to critically reflect on changing youth work practice contexts. Asserting the voluntary principle and free choice in open access youth work helps us to distinguish educational youth work methodologies from types of work with young people across a range of disciplinary areas where young people are required to attend. Yet, the context in which the voluntary principle became established in the UK, has changed. New roles are emerging for youth workers in contexts where the voluntary principle may be compromise
Draw from the Past, Cut into the Present, Create the Future
Full text linkCommunity development has always served ideological functions. In the current era of neoliberal austerity, empowerment narratives are in vogue across the British political spectrum. The strapline is that communities can use their assets, strengths and positive attributes to foster resilience. However, such rhetoric obfuscates the fact that marginalised communities have been objectified in a way which allows for further state withdrawal. This article will suggest that practitioners would do well to draw from past radical projects to assist in coherently re-framing the Scottish Government’s empowerment agenda and to assist communities in claiming spaces to forge a vision for social justice
Youth Work: A 2020 Vision Editorial Introduction
Full text linkFuture commentators looking back on the first decade of the 21st century will undoubtedly be drawn to accounts of the unprecedented political, economic and social changes that have come to define this epoch. Across the UK, the effect of economic austerity has been felt no more acutely than in local youth work services.
Youth work has been placed on the back foot. More and more, the sector must effectively respond to the primacies of government policy whilst also meeting the often-contrasting needs of young people in local communities. Such a task is made more challenging by diminishing resources. This is a tall order, with the added requirement demanded of practitioners to increasingly demonstrate outcomes and impact of their practice intervention in this context. Seemingly against the odds, youth work endures
Forever Young? Youth Work Then and Now
Full text linkThis is a special issue of Concept which considers the changed and changing landscape of youth work in the UK. It includes contributions which take a backward look in order to locate present day developments, articles which reflect on contemporary themes, issues and practices, and interviews with current youth workers who are striving to manage the contradictions of politics and policy for young people, on the ground.
Editors: Mel Aitken & Mae Shaw
Youth Work: A 2020 Vision- Editorial Introduction: Ian Fyfe
\u27Open\u27 Youth Work in 2019: A backward look: Bernard Davies
Youth Work: Converging and diverging responses in Scotland: Annette Coburn and Sinead Gormally
The decline of the Local Authority Youth Service in England: Reflections of an actor in its demise: Tony Taylor
\u27That was another moment where people were like wow! These young people have really done something!\u27: Christina McMellon
Relocating place in the life of neo-liberal youth: Alan Mackie
On the Ground!: Sabrina Tickle, Karen Anderson & Gemma Burns
Cover image: Special thanks to Caitlyn McFarlane. Her art can be followed on Instagram under the name c8s_art. 
Tim Highfield (2016) Social Media and Everyday Politics
Full text linkThe book represents the outcome of the author’s research during his PhD and postdoctoral study at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, from 2008 to 2015. Tim Highfield has recently been appointed assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam[1]. The book engages with an empirical and theoretical study on social media and everyday politics. Highfield’s empirical study mainly consists of digital research methods and his theoretical angle is rooted in Cultural Studies. The book consists of seven chapters, each of which focuses on specific aspects of everyday social media and politics.
[1] See: http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/h/i/t.j.highfield/t.j.highfield.htm
The Continuing Relevance of Marxism for Popular Education Today
Full text linkThis contribution argues that Marxism is more relevant than ever, and particularly so for popular education and development in the contemporary context. The first section summarises the major challenges to be faced, with the growth of far-right populism on a global scale. How are we to make sense of these developments? And how should we respond, in developing community-based strategies for social justice and social solidarity? These questions set the context for identifying the relevance of key features of Marx’s approach, focussing on his analysis of class, class consciousness and class conflict, as capitalism expands across the globe. Armed with these analytical tools, community and youth workers and popular educators have the equipment to support communities in challenging the growth of far-right populism, contributing to the development of more progressive agendas for social change. There are alternatives to neo-liberal agendas, just as there are alternatives to their effects, including the alienation and the anger that populist politicians foster, for reasons of their own. Marxism provides no easy answers, but it does provide the analytical tools with which to develop such alternatives from the bottom up
Peter Beresford (2016) All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy
Full text linkBook review - Peter Beresford (2016) All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy