Community Psychology in different places

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Community Psychologyin different places

• Morten Nissen
• http//www.psy.ku.dk/mnissen/Undervisning/soejle/S
  soejle04e.htm

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Community 3 aspects

• Critical / progressivist movement
• Context Kurt Lewin B f (P E)
• Vague totalities Everyday life
• Empowerment, resources, social support
• Theorizing an entity in / of social life
• What is a community? How does it work? How is one
  community distinguished from another?
• What is participation? What does participation
  mean to individuals?
• Discursive / practical element
• What are the effects of community?
• How are communities recruited, aligned,
  created?

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The third sector community

• The community of the third sector, the third
  space, the third way of governing, () is a moral
  field binding persons into durable relations. It
  is a space of emotional relationships through
  which individual identities are constructed
  through their bonds to micro-cultures of values
  and meanings () And it is through the political
  objectification and instrumentalization of this
  community and its culture that government is to
  be re-invented
• Rose, N. (1999). Powers of Freedom, p. 172f.

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Social Work

• The social from the social problem to
  social work
• 3 tasks Creation of subjects, speaking for
  subjects, integrating objectivities into subjects
• (Mark Philp Notes on the form of knowledge in
  social work. Sociological Review 1979)
• Free spaces The absent presense of power
• Welfare State Social engineering
• Protective Relative autonomy of society, family,
  person, but
• ResponsiveTransforms itself through struggles
  over social problems while interpellating
  human beings
• Productive Substantial universalism, from social
  rights to comprehensive institutions (in DK)

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Fieldwork

• Continuous community or network since 1987,
  action research since 1990
• Grassroot political and self-help dimension
• Recruiting wild youngsters as partners and
  ressource persons in ad hoc projects
• Gradual recognition into changing profile of city
  social work services
• Cultural manifestations such as theatre, music
  festivals, posters, websites
• The Crew 1993-
• Wild Learning 1999-

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Local Cultural Organization

• A culture (from Thomas Højrup)
• Materially reproducing and self-defining form of
  everyday life
• Organizes forms of labor (life modes,
  positions)
• Culture as particular community
• Culture community mutually, indexically defined
• Organization beyond functional and systemic
• Local ideological reproduction
• Power, recognition, exchange
• Production / performance of us
• Subjectification / Interpellation

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I have this project with a girlfriend of mine who
takes drugs in the street, that's because I once
lived there. It's a former Sjakket-girl who
disappeared, they can't get in touch with her. So
I find her and get her away from the street. That
way, I improve more and more, so that I do things
for Sjakket and stop being a street kid. What do
you think your girlfriend needs? A lot of good
friends, that's when she's into shit, because she
lost her friends, she's only ever seeing her
boyfriend, and when he started on dope, she did,
too. They had a lot of fights and she lost her
friends. She lied to me at first, because she
knows I'm deeply against it. But I found out, I
know a lot of people in there who told me I
should take a hold of her. Only yesterday I was
in there to look for her But what is it you
actually do? What I do - well, I figure out what
she's up to, how far she's out, is she beyond
hope, does she need a detox or what - and then
I'll ask what she likes, just like they asked me
back then, becase if she's having a good time she
doesn't think about dope so much. It's when she's
bored she thinks about it. Even when it's not in
your body anymore you still have it in your mind,
you know. Now I know how far she's out - pretty
far in two weeks she'll be prostituting herself,
she's hooked, only 16 years. Sjakket is going to
buy a farm in the countryside next sunday, and
I'll take her along to look at the place, I want
to take her there and do funny things with her.
Alexandra, age 19, The Crew, 1995