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Fourteen Embedding community work
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Abstract
This chapter details a community-based project in Bradford that, through the use of ‘home-grown’ workers, manages to deliver meaningful responses to youth violence with Asian young men, despite prevailing policy regimes in the UK. The authors offer an alternative lens on such work, introducing the idea of ‘near peer’ youth work and international exchanges, where workers and young people are purposely situated in peer relationships and environments close enough to build affinity and rapport, but sufficiently different so as to expand horizons on aspects of their identity. The authors make the argument that the most effective youth work will simultaneously work on building bonding and bridging capital and recognise the dynamics and tensions between these two concepts.
Abstract
This chapter details a community-based project in Bradford that, through the use of ‘home-grown’ workers, manages to deliver meaningful responses to youth violence with Asian young men, despite prevailing policy regimes in the UK. The authors offer an alternative lens on such work, introducing the idea of ‘near peer’ youth work and international exchanges, where workers and young people are purposely situated in peer relationships and environments close enough to build affinity and rapport, but sufficiently different so as to expand horizons on aspects of their identity. The authors make the argument that the most effective youth work will simultaneously work on building bonding and bridging capital and recognise the dynamics and tensions between these two concepts.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Acknowledgements v
- Foreword vi
- Introduction 1
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Literature review, theoretical frame and researching youth violence
- Youth work and youth violence in a European context 13
- Our theoretical frame 27
- Using participatory methods to research youth violence 47
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Meaningful responses to youth violence
- Responding at the personal (P) level 71
- Responding at the community (C) level 91
- Responding at the structural (S) level 109
- Responding at the existential (E) level 121
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Rethinking youth work practice and policy
- Rethinking some youth worker ‘tales’ 137
- Working with intersectional identities 149
- Creating policy for good practice 165
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Youth work responses in action: case studies of praxis
- Responding to structural and symbolic violence: a comparative case study 183
- A sports-based response to youth violence 195
- Exploring ‘confrontational pedagogy’ 209
- Embedding community work 219
- Ethnopraxis in action 227
- Imagining realistic alternatives 237
- References 247
- Index 269
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Acknowledgements v
- Foreword vi
- Introduction 1
-
Literature review, theoretical frame and researching youth violence
- Youth work and youth violence in a European context 13
- Our theoretical frame 27
- Using participatory methods to research youth violence 47
-
Meaningful responses to youth violence
- Responding at the personal (P) level 71
- Responding at the community (C) level 91
- Responding at the structural (S) level 109
- Responding at the existential (E) level 121
-
Rethinking youth work practice and policy
- Rethinking some youth worker ‘tales’ 137
- Working with intersectional identities 149
- Creating policy for good practice 165
-
Youth work responses in action: case studies of praxis
- Responding to structural and symbolic violence: a comparative case study 183
- A sports-based response to youth violence 195
- Exploring ‘confrontational pedagogy’ 209
- Embedding community work 219
- Ethnopraxis in action 227
- Imagining realistic alternatives 237
- References 247
- Index 269
