Assembling, disassembling and reassembling 'youth services' in Austerity Britain

被引:56
作者
Youdell, Deborah [1 ]
McGimpsey, Ian [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Birmingham, Sch Educ, Dept Educ & Social Justice, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
关键词
Deleuze; youth/adolescence; educational policy; neoconservatism/neoliberalism; poststructural/postmodern/critical theory;
D O I
10.1080/17508487.2015.975734
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
This paper moves from a reading of processes that are transforming public services in ways that amount to a dismantling of the welfare state in the UK. In order to interrogate these processes, the paper focuses on 'youth' and 'youth services'. Framed by an analysis of the aggressive disinvestment of 'austerity', we take up Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the assemblage as a tool to map and understand the apparently disparate factors or components that come together to produce a 'youth service assemblage' and its disassembly and reassembly. As we do this we demonstrate the usefulness of assemblage as way of encountering the productivity of relations across components and avoiding an account that over-states the force or scope of 'policy'. The paper concludes that by analysing in terms of assemblage, new challenges for thinking about politics emerge, in particular the limits of thinking in terms of a resistant political subject and the need to engage ambiguity.
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页码:116 / 130
页数:15
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