Papers by Hans Skott-Myhre
Child & Youth Services, 2012
Child & Youth Services, 2012
Child & Youth Services, 2012
Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, 2014
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2010
... DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2010.504595 Hans Skott-Myhre * & Donato Tarulli pages 247-260. Avai... more ... DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2010.504595 Hans Skott-Myhre * & Donato Tarulli pages 247-260. Available online ... Law. The gatekeeper tells him it is because this entrance was for him alone and now that he is gone it can be closed. In ...
Child and Youth Care Forum, 2005
This paper focuses on the tradition of ''radical youth work'' within western democratic societies... more This paper focuses on the tradition of ''radical youth work'' within western democratic societies. It argues that this tradition has been lost within the field of contemporary youth work through the appropriation of youth services by capitalist interests. Utilizing Marxist and post-Marxist analysis, the mechanisms by which capitalism has removed the revolutionary political possibilities of youth-adult collaborations are outlined and their impact on youth work practice delineated. The paper closes with a proposal for the beginnings of an alternative ''radical youth work'' based in shared risk and the transformative capacity of affect.
Child and Youth Care Forum, 2005
Child & Youth Care Forum, 2008
The majority of the literature on homelessness conceptualizes it as an urban problem and a wide b... more The majority of the literature on homelessness conceptualizes it as an urban problem and a wide body of research exists that provides estimates of metropolitan street youth and qualitatively describes their experiences. Similar descriptions and population estimates are virtually absent for youth who experience rural homelessness despite the number of urban homeless youth with rural origins. Indeed, although some metropolitan literature does remark on rural youth homelessness, it comments only on its invisible nature. This exclusion has significant implications in that it marginalizes the rural homeless and hinders the development of social policy to address the issues this population faces. Drawing on existing literature on rural youth homelessness, discussions with service providers in a rural area and a small number of interviews with youth, this paper begins to explore key issues facing homeless rural youth, existing intervention options and recommendations for the development of service delivery systems.
Settler Colonial Studies, 2015
This paper maps one mode of production within the overall machinery of genocide, appropriation, a... more This paper maps one mode of production within the overall machinery of genocide, appropriation, and subjugation which is colonialism: the settler subject. The settler colonial project is nothing short of a catastrophe, and the subjects who populate Indigenous territory without sanction have been produced through this catastrophe as subjects of colonial conquest, war, and settlement. While bloodshed and bigotry mark the foundational coordinates of North American nation building and settler subjectivities, we here approach catastrophe as a rupture or event that has contemporary potential to open and transforms existing sets of relations. Following Deleuze and Guattari's insistence that ruptures are opportunities to recreate ourselves in new ethical and aesthetic ways, we map the catastrophic elements of settler colonialism against catastrophe as an event that holds subversive potential. We focus on the settler because its coordinates map each of us within the political, social, and cultural cartography of twenty-first-century North America and ask: How can a transversal mapping of settlement probe aspects of settler subjectivity in order to constitute us as people accountable to colonialism? We therefore probe the affective, relational, and unconscious dimensions of the settler subject in order to develop, following Braidotti, an affirmative and active mode of engaging in the complexities of current relations within settler colonial states.
This paper maps one mode of production within the overall machinery of genocide, appropriation, a... more This paper maps one mode of production within the overall machinery of genocide, appropriation, and subjugation which is colonialism: the settler subject. The settler colonial project is nothing short of a catastrophe, and the subjects who populate Indigenous territory without sanction have been produced through this catastrophe as subjects of colonial conquest, war, and settlement. While bloodshed and bigotry mark the foundational coordinates of North American nation building and settler subjectivities, we here approach catastrophe as a rupture or event that has contemporary potential to open and transforms existing sets of relations.
Young, 2007
The fi lm Modern Times was singular in its historical moment as a work that considered youth as a... more The fi lm Modern Times was singular in its historical moment as a work that considered youth as a creative and social force in itself. Indeed, while there are many ways to read the major themes in a fi lm such as Modern Times, this article, following Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, engages Charlie Chaplin's fi lm as a vehicle for exploring a certain kind of becoming-youth as a question of force. The kind of force that is explored here is the production of youth as a specifi c kind of radical social subjectivity; that is to say, as a subjectivity comprising multiple collisions, contestations and struggles between sets of proscribed social roles. The article investigates how the fi lm engages the question of youth-adult identity as a social binary that can be collapsed into a relation that fl ees the social containment of both youth and adult.
The question of psychotherapy and politics for scholars and activists (dare we say revolutionarie... more The question of psychotherapy and politics for scholars and activists (dare we say revolutionaries?) is set somewhere along its historical trajectory as bourgeois accommodation, reactionary social formation and its latent possibility as a social practice constitutive of revolutionary forms of subjectivity and consciousness. In this, the term "psychotherapy" has some of the same problematic historical 20th-century resonance as words such as communism or democracy. However, it will be argued here that there may be some possibility to rethink psychotherapy as having new capacities within the shifting mode of production of global capitalism within what Marx termed the moment of "real subsumption". To do so, a proposal for a radical political psychotherapy will be offered through a non-dialectical immanentist reading of the psyche, drawing on Heraclitus and minor Marxism. This reading, it is suggested, opens the door to a re-examination of Deleuze and Guattari's neglected proposals for schizoanalysis as revolutionary practice that may have much to offer as a response to the appropriations and brutality of global capitalism.
The International Journal of Children's Rights, 2006
Young, 2007
The fi lm Modern Times was singular in its historical moment as a work that considered youth as a... more The fi lm Modern Times was singular in its historical moment as a work that considered youth as a creative and social force in itself. Indeed, while there are many ways to read the major themes in a fi lm such as Modern Times, this article, following Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, engages Charlie Chaplin's fi lm as a vehicle for exploring a certain kind of becoming-youth as a question of force. The kind of force that is explored here is the production of youth as a specifi c kind of radical social subjectivity; that is to say, as a subjectivity comprising multiple collisions, contestations and struggles between sets of proscribed social roles. The article investigates how the fi lm engages the question of youth-adult identity as a social binary that can be collapsed into a relation that fl ees the social containment of both youth and adult.
Child Care Quarterly, 2006
This article follows Foucault’s notion of the social diagram to illustrate how current practices ... more This article follows Foucault’s notion of the social diagram to illustrate how current practices in the field of child and youth work are premised in constructions of “otherness” which were produced during the Enlightenment and colonial periods of European history. It argues that this historical practice of creating otherness is at the heart of many of the frustrations, which take place between those we label children and youth and those we call adults. It further contends that perpetuating such colonial patterns obscures the wisdom and knowledge produced by youth and adults when they think and create together. To remedy this it is proposed that adult youth workers must cease attempting to dominate and control young people. To do this, adult ways of knowing must be interrogated and dismantled from the inside out. No investigation of the characteristics of the young people as other will ever yield information about dismantling otherness. The dismantling of otherness needs to come through an exploration of adult’s own “local memory.” Through this exploration we, as adults, can become visible and through that visibility we can possibly become accountable to the young people we engage and to ourselves and our communities.
Books by Hans Skott-Myhre
Since the 1980s, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the 'hood for inspiratio... more Since the 1980s, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the 'hood for inspiration, whether in music, film, or television. Habitus of the Hood explores the myriad ways in which the hood has been conceived—both within the lived experiences of its residents and in the many mediated representations found in popular culture. Using a variety of methodologies including autoethnography, textual studies, and critical discourse analysis, contributors analyze and connect these various conceptions.
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