Care and order in urban spaces
Social Workers and Security Guards
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6423728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leni Mjåland (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-130 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1457 • E-ISSN: 1468-2664 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691457.2024.2378918 |
| OpenAlex | W4400862626 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Outreach work has been praised for its inclusionary potential and problematised for reproducing exclusion mechanisms. This study investigates these dynamics by exploring how spatial dimensions shape outreach work. Its point of departure is social workers employed in NGO-based initiatives in Norway. Focusing on the spatial context includes social workers' relation to other actors who use and produce these urban spaces. In this case, the concern for and interaction with security guards is central to the social workers' everyday work. While organised around different functions, both actors can be considered central in responding to marginalisation issues. Concerns in the literature on both outreach work and security guards' policing include ways in which these care and order practices are engaged in mechanisms of social control and repression. The findings show how the two actors relate to each other, oppose and reproduce spatial ruling in complex ways. While their practices are shaped by spatial relations of power, dynamics of spatial in/exclusion are also constituted by embodied experiences of encounters with people subject to processes of marginalisation. As opposed to research focusing on social arrangements, this study contributes to understanding ways in which spatial dimensions of outreach work is significant
Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Geography · Outreach · Political science · Public relations · Social exclusion · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
The New Parapolice
Discrimination against Roma
Towards a clearer understanding of the transformational potential of outreach work
Finding ways to the hard to reach—considerations on the content and concept of outreach work
Outreach social work
Un/Free mobility
Private security guards policing public space
Responding to People Sleeping Rough
Lefebvre, Anti‐logos and Nietzsche
Street Work and Outreach
Revanchist Sanitisation or Coercive Care? The Use of Enforcement to Combat Begging, Street Drinking and Rough Sleeping in England
Valour for Money? Contested Commodification in the Market for Security
Making space for sex work
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
Caring on the margins of the healthcare system
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |