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This edited collection is an effort to rethink the set of relations generally referred to as working with young people. The necessity to think again about how various modes of praxis are deployed is premised in an acknowledgment that the sociopolitical landscape, in which this work is embedded, has shifted considerably as we enter the twenty-first century. The advent of global capitalism with its neoliberal imperatives for education, psychology, and child and youth care (CYC)/youth work (YW) has had far-reaching effects, both for the definitional categories that comprise children, youth, and adults, as well as for the sets of relations between the subjects. Indeed we might say that we are in a period in which the terms of civil society generally are being upended, disrupted, and very possibly eviscerated (Hardt, 1995). We would argue that the traditional modes of civil society that were designed to integrate and shape young people as functioning members of society, such as education, the family, modes of psychotherapy, as well as orphanages and other forms of residential care, are in various stages of crisis and reconfiguration.
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Skott-Myhre, H., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Skott-Myhre, K.S.G. (2016). Introduction. In: Skott-Myhre, H., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Skott-Myhre, K.S.G. (eds) Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480040_1
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