Abstract
This chapter makes the case for critically examining partnership work between galleries and youth organisations. It sets out the challenges that typically face partners, as well as the potential rewards of this type of collaborative work. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of fields is introduced as a framework for analysing distinct occupational cultures and traditions, and the conflicts that arise when different fields come together. Bourdieu’s concept of ‘symbolic violence’ is also introduced as a core issue in partnerships involving marginalised young people, where there are uneven distributions of power and agency. This chapter offers examples of key partnership literature that currently exists and identifies why a specific examination of relations between the visual arts and youth sectors is needed and relevant today.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Alldred, Pam, Fin Cullen, Kathy Edwards, and Dana Fusco. 2018. Introduction. In The Sage handbook of youth work practice, ed. Pam Alldred, Fin Cullen, Kathy Edwards, and Dana Fusco, xxix–xxxvi. London: Sage Publications.
A New Direction. 2013. Schools forum: Effective partnership working. A New Direction. Accessed 25 April 2014. http://www.anewdirection.org.uk/knowledge/resources/a-new-direction-schools-forum-effective-partnership-working.
Bak Mortensen, Marie, and Judith Nesbitt, eds. 2012. On collaboration. London: Tate.
Batsleer, Janet. 2008. Informal learning in youth work. London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Belton, Brian. 2015. The impact of art analysis and interpretation on the role and practice of youth work. Youth work, informal learning and the arts: Exploring the research and practice agenda, The University of Nottingham, 18 November 2015.
Bienkowski, Piotr. 2016. No longer us and them: How to change into a participatory museum and gallery: Learning from the Our Museum programme. London: Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Brown, Colin. 2012. Six degrees of collaboration. In On collaboration, ed. Marie Bak Mortensen and Judith Nesbitt, 94–103. London: Tate.
Butler, David, and Vivienne Reiss, eds. 2007. Art of negotiation. London: Arts Council England.
Byrne, John, Elinor Morgan, November Paynter, Aida Sánchez de Serdio, and Adela Železnik, eds. 2018. The constituent museum: Constellations of knowledge, politics and mediation: A generator of social change. Amsterdam: Valiz.
Circuit. 2013a. Circuit programme handbook. London: Tate.
———. 2013b. A guide to Circuit evaluation framework. London: Tate.
Clark, Nick. 2012. Riots spark £5m Tate arts project for the young. The Independent, December 13. Accessed 7 April 2014. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/riots-spark-5m-tate-arts-project-for-the-young-8411694.html.
Connell, Raewyn, Dean Ashenden, Sandra Kessler, and Gary Dowsett, eds. 1982. Making the difference: Schools, families and social division. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Create. 2015. Panic! Create London. Accessed 3 December 2015. http://www.createlondon.org/panic/survey/.
Creating Change. 2013. Creating change: A network for targeted youth arts. Accessed 13 May 2014. http://creating-change.org.uk/.
Daly, Eileen, ed. 2012. Engage 30 Arts and healthcare. London: Engage.
Douglas, Anthony. 2009. Partnership working. Oxon: Routledge.
ECORYS. 2016. Non-arts partnerships. Creative People and Places.
Eddo-Lodge, Reni. 2017. Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Edmonds, Kathy. 2008. Making connections: Widening participation in the arts for young people through dynamic partnerships. Engage 22 Young People and Agency, 57–62.
Ellison, Jane. 2015. The art of partnering. London: King’s College London.
Facer, Keri, and Bryony Enright. 2016. Creating living knowledge. Bristol: The University of Bristol and AHRC Connected Communities programme.
Facer, Keri, and Kate Pahl, eds. 2017. Valuing interdisciplinary collaborative research: Beyond impact. Bristol: Policy Press.
Francke, Andrea. 2012. Invisible spaces of parenthood. London: The Showroom.
Freeman, Hadley. 2013. Check your privilege! Whatever that means. The Guardian, June 5. Accessed 3 February 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jun/05/check-your-privilege-means.
Gannon, Emma. 2018. The multi-hyphen method. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Gibson, Alan, and Tom Wylie. 2015. Albemarle years and the emergence of modern youth and community education. One hundred years of youth and community work education: A celebration, YMCA George Williams College, London, 8 October 2016.
Graham, Janna, et al., eds. 2012. On the Edgware road. London: Serpentine Gallery; Koenig Books.
Hall, Roz. 2001. Tailor-made practice. Engage 11 Inclusion Under Pressure: 43–49.
Hanley, Lynsey. 2016. Respectable: The experience of class. London: Penguin Random House UK.
Horlock, Naomi, ed. 2000. Testing the water: Young people and galleries. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool.
Howard, Frances. 2017. The arts in youth work: A spectrum of instrumentality? Youth & Policy. Accessed 20 July 2017. http://www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/the-arts-in-youth-work/.
Isaacs, Hedy Leonie. 2004. The allure of partnerships: Beyond the rhetoric. Social and Economic Studies 53 (4): 125–134.
Kemshall, Hazel. 2009. Risk, social policy and young people. In Work with young people: Theory and policy for practice, ed. Jason Wood and Jean Hine, 154–162. London: Sage.
Kester, Grant H. 2013. Conversation pieces: Community and communication in modern art. 2nd ed. London: University of California Press.
Kuby, Candace R. 2013. Critical literacy in the early childhood classroom: Unpacking histories, unlearning privilege. New York: Teachers College Press.
Lisicki, Barbara. 2017. Social model of disability. Shape Arts. Accessed 1 July 2017. https://www.shapearts.org.uk/News/social-model-of-disability.
Lohmann, Ingrid, and Christine Mayer. 2009. Lessons from the history of education for a “century of the child at risk”. Paedagogica Historica 45 (1): 1–16.
Lynch, Bernadette. 2011. Whose cake is it anyway?: A collaborative investigation into engagement and participation in twelve museums and galleries in the UK. London: Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Madison, D. Soyini. 2012. Critical ethnography: Methods, ethics, and performance. Los Angeles: Sage.
Matarasso, François. 2019. A restless art: How participation won, and why it matters. London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
McKenzie, Lisa. 2015. Getting by: Estates, class and culture in austerity Britain. Bristol: Policy Press.
Miessen, Markus. 2010. The nightmare of participation. Berlin: Sternberg Press.
Mills, David, and Missy Morton. 2013. Ethnography in education. London: Sage.
Morford, Roger. 2009. Arts work with socially excluded young people. Leicester: The National Youth Agency.
National Portrait Gallery. 2014. Domino effect: Engaging NEET young people through photography. London: NPG.
Patel, Raj. 2010. Creativity and partnership. In What is youth work? ed. Janet Batsleer and Bernard Davies, 61–72. Exeter: Learning Matters.
Rogers, Rebecca. 2018. Literacy research, racial consciousness, and equitable flows of knowledge. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice 67: 24–43.
Ruigrok, Sophie. 2018. The White Pube are the world’s freshest, funniest art critics. Dazed, May 17. Accessed 4 February 2019. https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40004/1/the-white-pube-are-the-worlds-freshest-funniest-art-critics.
Russell, Lisa. 2013. Researching marginalized young people. Ethnography and Education 8 (1): 46–60.
Sayers, Esther. 2014. Making ‘culture vultures’: An investigation into the socio-cultural factors that determine what and how young people learn in the art gallery. PhD thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Sennett, Richard. 2013. Together: The rituals, pleasures and politics of cooperation. London: Penguin Books.
Slater, Imogen, Chrissie Tiller, and Alison Rooke. 2016. Taking risks: An evaluation of the Ovalhouse Future Stages programme methodology and impact. London: Ovalhouse.
Smith, Emma. 2012. What does community mean? In Gallery as community: Art, education, politics, ed. Marijke Steedman, 19–42. London: Whitechapel Gallery.
Smithens, Renee. 2008. Building partnerships. A New Direction. Accessed 5 May 2014. http://www.anewdirection.org.uk/knowledge/resources/building-partnerships.
South London Gallery. 2011. The cat came as a tomato: Conversations on play and contemporary art practice. London: South London Gallery.
Steedman, Marijke, ed. 2012. Gallery as community: Art, education, politics. London: Whitechapel Gallery.
Steel, Patrick. 2018. MA launches pilot scheme to connect museums with third sector. Museums Association, July 4. Accessed 13 March 2019. https://www.museumsassociation.org/news/04072018-ma-launches-pilot-scheme-to-connect-museums-with-third-sector.
Strong Voices. 2015. Strong Voices archive. Accessed 20 December 2015. https://strongvoicesarchive.wordpress.com/.
Tate. 2012. Seeing through: The practice, process, delivery and value of working with young people in care. London: Tate.
Taylor, Tony. 2014. IDYW statement 2014. In Defence of Youth Work. Accessed 5 October 2015. https://indefenceofyouthwork.com/idyw-statement-2014/.
Thomson, Pat. 2002. Schooling the rustbelt kids: Making the difference in changing times. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books.
Turnbull, Gavin, and Jean Spence. 2011. What’s at risk? The proliferation of risk across child and youth policy in England. Journal of Youth Studies 14 (8): 939–959.
UNISON. 2018. Axing millions from youth work puts futures at risk, says UNISON. UNISON, December 3. Accessed 11 March 2019. https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2018/12/axing-millions-youth-work-puts-futures-risk-says-unison/.
Walsh, Aylwyn. 2014. Creating change, imagining futures: Participatory arts and young people ‘at risk’. London: Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Wheeler, Jo, and Amber Walls. 2008. Envision: A handbook, supporting young people’s participation in galleries and the arts. London: Engage.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Sim, N. (2019). Introduction: The Problem of Partnerships Between Galleries and Youth Organisations. In: Youth Work, Galleries and the Politics of Partnership. New Directions in Cultural Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25197-0_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25197-0_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-25196-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-25197-0
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)