Youth work : : global futures / / edited by Graham Bright and Carole Pugh.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bright, Graham (Lecturer in Education),; Pugh, Carole, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction /; On Critical Beginnings: How We Got to Where We Are /; Contrasting Futures? Exploring Youth Work across the UK /; Youth Work and Cartographic Action: Re-naming Paradoxes – Mapping Utopian Futures /; Youth Workin’ All over Europe: Moving, Associating, Organising and Providing /; The Future of US Youth Work /; Future Prospects for Australasian Youth Work /; Youth Work: Global Futures – Pictures from the Developing World /; Dichotomous Voluntary Futures /; Where Is Faith-Based Youth Work Heading? /; The Future of Online Youth Work /; On the Future of Youth Work with Young Women /; Towards New Horizons? ‘Youth and Community Work’ and Rhizomatic Possibilities /; Back Matter --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004396551
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Graham Bright and Carole Pugh.

There is on-going debate in youth and community work regarding its future. Driven by processes of neo-liberal governmentality, youth work has been bent in new and uncomfortable directions. For many, this threatens the very telos of praxis. However, despite this, a passionate commitment to youth work’s values and approaches doggedly remains. This edited volume invites academics working in different continents and contexts to move beyond a critique of youth work’s current state, towards imagining different professional futures. Rooted in the profession’s historic values, and drawing on the distinct political and cultural environments that have shaped youth work practice in different global locations, the authors explore possible new routes and approaches for the profession. These discussions are located geographically (in a devolved United Kingdom, Europe, United States, Australasia, and the Developing/Majority world) as well as across different sectors and approaches (voluntary sector, faith sector, online, young women’s work). The result is a rich picture of global practice. This provides both depth and perspective from which to gain new insights regarding possibilities for future practices, which imagine fairer and more participative societies.