A New Ontology and Youth Work Ethics in a Time of Planetary Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Bessant (0000-0001-7385-5358, RMIT University, corresponding author), R Watts (0000-0003-2886-1366, RMIT University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-148 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496535.2024.2324313 |
| OpenAlex | W4392813992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 49 |
Evidence of the far-reaching impact of the Anthropocene on young people presents youth work with opportunities to reflect on some long-standing issues. This pioneering exercise considers the implications for youth work practice and its ethical frameworks should it embrace the tenets of the 'new materialism'. We ask how youth work practice is currently understood, especially in 'British-influenced youth work' and whether there are problems with its conceptual, ethical and practice frameworks. We offer an account of 'new materialism' then consider the implications for the ethics of youth work practice if practitioners were to adopt this ontological perspective. Conceptually youth work would have a more relational orientation and rely less on essentialist universalised categories like 'child', 'adolescent' and 'adult'. It would jettison developmentalist narratives and the structure-agency impasse by elaborating new accounts of assemblages-contingency. Adopting this approach also entails an ethic of cultivation grounded in care for the world. Such an ethic would entail situational judgements about how to enact care in a world in which unexpected changes periodically emerge. This bears a close relationship to 'phronetic practice
Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Ontology · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Philosophy · Social Work Education and Practice · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Visual Communication for Social Work Practice
Making Social Science Matter
New Materialism
Introducing the New Materialisms
Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities
The reflective practitioner
The impact of climate change and biodiversity loss on the health of children
The Ethical Foundations of Youth Work as an International Profession
Situating Indigenous and Black Childhoods in the Anthropocene
The Government of Things
The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies
Down to Earth
The Religion of the Future
Youth Rising
Nomadic subjects
Fortunes of Feminism
Assemblage Theory
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change
Post-qualitative inquiry and the new materialist turn
Radical Care
Beyond ‘developmentalism’
Feminist Politics in the Age of Recognition
Southern theory
Aristotle meets youth work
Public Administration, Habermas and the Crisis of Legitimacy in the Youth Justice System
The Culture of Professionalism
Nature’s Queer Performativity
Sociology and the New Materialism
Metamorphoses
A thousand plateaus
Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology
The New Materialisms and Indigenous Theories of Non-Human Agency
A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities
The Affective Turn
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |