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1、CapturedbyCapital:YouthWorkandtheLossofRevolutionaryPotentialHansA.Skott-MyhreBrockUniversityABSTRACT:Thispaperfocusesonthetraditionofradicalyouthworkwithinwes-terndemocraticsocieties.Itarguesthatthistraditionhasbeenlostwithinthefieldofcontemporaryyouthworkthroughtheappropriationofyouthse
2、rvicesbycapitalistinterests.UtilizingMarxistandpost-Marxistanalysis,themechanismsbywhichcapi-talismhasremovedtherevolutionarypoliticalpossibilitiesofyouth-adultcollaborationsareoutlinedandtheirimpactonyouthworkpracticedelineated.Thepapercloseswithaproposalforthebeginningsofanalternativer
3、adicalyouthworkbasedinsharedriskandthetransformativecapacityofaffect.KEYWORDS:radicalyouthwork;youth-adultcollaboration;alienation;marx;latestagecapitalism.Thefieldofyouthworkismultifacetedinpractice,theoryandlocation.Initssimplestsenseitbringstheworldof…adolescentstogetherwiththeworldofa
4、dults(Arieli,1997,p.1).Thiscantakeplaceworkinginresidentialtreatmentcenters(Arieli,op.cit.),streetoutreach(Oliviera,1995),daytreatment,emergencyshelters(Gershowitz&McFarland,1990),aswellasschools,churchesandcommunitycenters.Withinthesediverselocales,however,themissionofthefieldbecomesmore
5、diffuse.Youth,asasubjectwithinthishistoricalandcontemporaryterrain,constitutesaparticularterritory,boundary,andfrontier.Youthworkanditscloselyaligneddisciplinesofpsychology,psychiatry,sociologyandsocialworkmapthisterritory,becausetheyintendtosketchitsoutlinesandalsobecausetheycannothelpi
6、t.Eachconversationthatanadulthaswithyouthsubjectstheyouthtoacartographyofunderstanding.Mapsopenterritorieseventhough,asKorzibsky(1941)haspointedout,themapisnottheterritoryitself.Nonetheless,mappingopensfrontiersandfrontiersarenoteasilyboundedonceCorrespondenceshouldbedirectedtoHansA.Skot
7、t-Myhre,ChildandYouthStudies,BrockUniversity,500GlenridgeAvenue,St.CatherinesONL2S3A1;e-mail:hskottmy@brocku.ca.Child&YouthCareForum,34(2),April2005Ó2005SpringerScience+BusinessMedia,Inc.141DOI:10.1007/s10566-004-2182-8142Child&YouthCareForumengaged.AsWhittaker(1994)point
