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Youth and their workers: the interacting subjectification effects of neoliberal social policy and NGO practice frameworks
- Source :
- Journal of Youth Studies. 20:1263-1276
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- The effects of neoliberalism on young people and youth workers through outsourcing government services has attracted critique from multiple sources. Post-structural analysis interrogates subjectification effects of these policies on youth. However, this kind of analysis of the governmental formation of youth ought to consider the interaction between the knowledge of youth underpinning neoliberal social policy, and those employed by non-government agencies implementing them. The interaction between these two shape the reciprocal governing activity within the young person and youth worker power–knowledge relationship that, this paper will argue, is an important factor in the critique of neoliberal social policy. Young people are governed by a diverse array of knowledges developed by government, youth studies, NGOs and young people themselves. These knowledges interact, reinforce and contradict discourses of youth work. This paper focuses on a neoliberal social policy (FLO) which constructs youth as ...
- Subjects :
- Government
Subjectification
Sociology and Political Science
Youth work
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Neoliberalism
050301 education
General Social Sciences
Gender studies
Youth studies
0506 political science
050602 political science & public administration
Sociology
Social science
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Positive Youth Development
0503 education
media_common
Social policy
Governmentality
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14699680 and 13676261
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b609d68b05427169c84c909a40015026