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Whiteness and Racialised Structures in Social Work
No full textA talk with Enni Mikkonen (Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland) on Professional Orientations of Social Workers towards Whiteness and Racialised Structures
Unveiling the layered structures of youth work
Get PDFThis article is based on a case study involving the youth work department in the City of Kemi and the artist-researchers from the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi in Northern Finland. During the project, activities related to youth work promoting youth’s wellbeing and preventing their marginalisation have revealed to be multi-layered and complex by nature. Layers in this context refer to the organizations and their physical spaces (e.g. street address) as well as virtual spaces (e.g. discord, social media channels), Kemi service providers (e.g. Detective youth work, Ohjaamo Kemi, Rehabilitative work) and youth workers as well as the young people themselves. By looking at the plurality contained in those layers, we aim at reposition agendas and actions related to youth work and collaboration with stakeholders therein towards a more systemic - rather than individualistic - orientation that seeks to understand the complexities of circumstances different youth live in.Three types of layers will be observed. Observation from the bird's eye view aims to identify the whole and its parts, as well as the different interactions between them. In the frog, or grass-root, perspective the overall picture will be formed from separately observed sub-views “as you go”. The rhizome perspective seeks to identify structures and/or functions that lie beneath the surface. Methodically, the layer-related observations will be made by applying the theory of space syntax (Hillier 1996, 2007) and the concept of rhizome (Deleuze & Guattari 1987). Research on youth work (e.g. Mertanen 2020) will add a critical perspective to these observations. In addition, art-/design-based methods are used to support the theoretical approach. Experimental prototypes (provotypes) are manufactured to look critically at, for example, the layers and the “traffic” between them, or to unveil functions hiding under the surface.This study describes the components and actors of stakeholder and youth interaction with a particular interest in visibilising different structures and power positions among pluriversal spaces and perspectives. The aim is to seek to respond to the following research questions: What are the underlying factors defining youth work and how to perceive complexity of the situations that the youth at different margins live in? The primary data of this case study is based on 20 semistructured thematic and reflective group discussions conducted in 2020–2021 with youth workers from different organisations. The data were analysed with inductive thematic qualitative analysis. Content analysis of the websites of the youth work services guided the observation of complexity. Three analysis perspectives—the bird’s eye, grassroots, rhizome—were outlined from the emerging themes from the interviews. The theory of space syntax brought together these perspectives. A matrix was formed to summarise the findings of the study. It shows how the layers and perspectives, as well as the actors and places, form the plurality of interactions and networks involved in youth work
Dialogues for plurality:art-based exchange for strengthening youth's role as agents of change
Get PDFThis chapter presents an interdisciplinary arts-based research with seven young people from asylum-seeking backgrounds as part of a wider research project: SEEYouth. This research is based on the dialogical process leading to the transformation experienced by the participants and authors. The chapter’s main research question is: How can interdisciplinary arts-based exchange with youth create pluralistic dialogue and strengthen youth’s roles as agents of change in their life contexts? The dialogue for plurality is discussed in the chapter through verbal, visual and embodied languages, which were the main analysis categories from the process. The chapter suggests that creative dialogue for plurality, including multiple forms of languages beyond conventional research knowledge production, can create a space for youth to express their concerns related to the obstacles they face regarding their inclusion and belonging. It also encourages shared reflections, creating new perspectives and strengthening youth’s role as agents of change in society and in their personal lives
Yli kulttuuri- ja oppiainerajojen: taidekasvatus ja sosiaalityö kaksisuuntaista kotoutumista tukemassa
No full textYli kulttuuri- ja oppiainerajojen : taidekasvatus ja sosiaalityö kaksisuuntaista kotoutumista tukemassa
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Shaping Emotions: a Study about the Feeling of Loneliness through the Material Interaction with Surfaces
Get PDFThis contribution aims to investigate how design culture can foster new models of emotional, social and cultural interaction that find in the pleasantness of the surface the creation of valuable experiences for users. In particular, the
research examines interaction design from a different point of view, studying the relation of emotions and surfaces in a product-based interaction experience.
Specifically, the contribution presents the results of a workshop called shaping emotions: a formal exercise based on the understanding of how user sensations - without precise references on a particular product - can play a decisive role in defining strategies that embrace the aesthetic and typological sphere of use and meanings. This study has highlighted the transfer of intangible psycho-cognitive aspects into tangible elements whose syntax and semiotics is driven by a phenomenological approach to the formal interpretation of an emotional concept. Emotions that occur from experiential states place the feelings of the human being as a focus of the project; through the design culture, the study tries to interpret experiences and desires as components of mixed emotions
Introduction
Get PDFThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the idea of the pluriverse as one that acknowledges non-humans and treats nature as an equal ‘coauthor’ in the artistic process. It describes arts-based methods as facilitating the mapping and understanding of the human experience and thus offering new materialities for the youth to participate in processes driving for social change. The book explores speculative scenarios of the future of artistic research through an autoethnographic analysis of several case studies from diverse contexts based on a pluriversal approach to research practice, including technology, nature, humans and non-humans. It discusses public art as a way of presenting, redefining and expressing Arctic pluralism in Finnish Lapland. The book argues that recognising and celebrating knowledge plurality is necessary for greater university—community permeability, reciprocity and transformation and that design may be especially well positioned to foster such epistemic plurality.</p
“Se menee erityisen kipeään paikkaan” – Sosiaalityöntekijöiden ammatillisia orientoitumisia valkoisuuteen ja rodullistaviin rakenteisiin
Get PDFThe intersections of normative whiteness and coloniality product hegemonic epistemology and practice for social work but only a little attention has been paid to them in social work research. In this article, I analyse orientations of social work towards the processes of producing, maintaining and deconstructing normative whiteness and racialised structures within the professional practice and contexts. Empirically, the study is based on qualitative data of open interviews with twelve social workers, which I analyse by thematic content analysis. The results describe silence that covers social work’s otherising structures and present how recognising them can be a painful process to social workers. Social workers often need to balance between unequal structures and their ethical-professional values. Recognising the contradictions that this balancing includes deconstucts the silence and hegemonic processes as well as aims at more pluralistic social work that scrutinises colonial and racialised processes critically.Valkoisuuteen sisältyvän vallan ja koloniaalisuuden risteymät rakentavat hegemonista tietopohjaa ja käytäntöä sosiaalityössä, mutta aiheeseen on kiinnitetty vain vähän huomiota alan tutkimuksessa. Artikkelissani jäsennän sosiaalityön orientaatioita suhteessa valkoisuuden ja rodullistavien rakenteiden tuottamiseen, ylläpitämiseen ja purkamiseen ammatillisissa käytännöissä ja konteksteissa. Laadullisena aineistona toimii 12 sosiaalityöntekijän avointa haastattelua eri puolilta Suomea, mitä analysoin teemoittelevalla sisällönanalyysillä. Tulokset kuvaavat hiljaisuutta, joka sosiaalityössä vallitsee liittyen alan toiseuttaviin rakenteisiin, sekä sitä, miten niiden tunnistaminen voi olla sosiaalityöntekijöille kipeä prosessi. Sosiaalityöntekijät joutuvat usein tasapainottelemaan eriarvoistavien rakenteiden ja ammattieettisten arvojensa rajapinnoilla. Niihin sisältyvien ristiriitojen tunnistaminen purkaa hiljaisuutta ja hegemonisia prosesseja sekä pyrkii kohti moninaisempaa, koloniaalisia ja rodullistavia prosesseja kriittisesti tarkastelevaa sosiaalityötä
Rodullistavia ja koloniaaleja jatkumoita sekä niiden vastapuhetta Suomessa: Suvi Keskinen & Minna Seikkula & Faith Mkwesha: Rasismi, valta ja vastarinta: Rodullistaminen, valkoisuus ja koloniaalisuus Suomessa
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