Papers by Julie Rippingale
Developing the Higher Education Curriculum, 2017
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This article draws on the narratives of community and youth workers who attended a meeting held w... more This article draws on the narratives of community and youth workers who attended a meeting held with the authors to examine the neoliberal restructuring of social policy and the subsequent impact on practice. The article contends that community and youth workers navigate a system which portrays young people as problematic. This jars with their value base and practice, which views young people as having potential. The erosion of care within global and local neoliberal regimes privileges performance measures over working with people. The article examines the mirrored experiences of community and youth workers and those they engage with – both encountering feelings of disempowerment, caught in the bind of a ‘double jeopardy’, a construct which highlights service users needing to feel cared about and workers wanting to care. The austerity cuts applied by the neoliberal regime impede this relational process through decreased resources, which in turn means that time is taken up with monit...
Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice
This article draws on the narratives of community and youth workers who attended a meeting held
w... more This article draws on the narratives of community and youth workers who attended a meeting held
with the authors to examine the neoliberal restructuring of social policy and the subsequent impact
on practice. The article contends that community and youth workers navigate a system which
portrays young people as problematic. This jars with their value base and practice, which views
young people as having potential. The erosion of care within global and local neoliberal regimes
privileges performance measures over working with people. The article examines the mirrored
experiences of community and youth workers and those they engage with – both encountering
feelings of disempowerment, caught in the bind of a ‘double jeopardy’, a construct which highlights
service users needing to feel cared about and workers wanting to care. The austerity cuts applied
by the neoliberal regime impede this relational process through decreased resources, which in
turn means that time is taken up with monitoring and evaluating funded outcomes, eating into time
of the actual work of ‘what needs to be done’. Community and youth workers have little space to
discuss and engage with the feelings they experience as a result of the incongruent nature of their
increasingly bureaucratised role which conflicts with working towards enhancing young people’s
quality of life. They expressed a need to find spaces of safety to articulate feelings and explore
‘what is to be done’, working communally with academic partners to reflect, but also to regain
confidence sapped by the brutalising neoliberal regime.
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Papers by Julie Rippingale
with the authors to examine the neoliberal restructuring of social policy and the subsequent impact
on practice. The article contends that community and youth workers navigate a system which
portrays young people as problematic. This jars with their value base and practice, which views
young people as having potential. The erosion of care within global and local neoliberal regimes
privileges performance measures over working with people. The article examines the mirrored
experiences of community and youth workers and those they engage with – both encountering
feelings of disempowerment, caught in the bind of a ‘double jeopardy’, a construct which highlights
service users needing to feel cared about and workers wanting to care. The austerity cuts applied
by the neoliberal regime impede this relational process through decreased resources, which in
turn means that time is taken up with monitoring and evaluating funded outcomes, eating into time
of the actual work of ‘what needs to be done’. Community and youth workers have little space to
discuss and engage with the feelings they experience as a result of the incongruent nature of their
increasingly bureaucratised role which conflicts with working towards enhancing young people’s
quality of life. They expressed a need to find spaces of safety to articulate feelings and explore
‘what is to be done’, working communally with academic partners to reflect, but also to regain
confidence sapped by the brutalising neoliberal regime.
with the authors to examine the neoliberal restructuring of social policy and the subsequent impact
on practice. The article contends that community and youth workers navigate a system which
portrays young people as problematic. This jars with their value base and practice, which views
young people as having potential. The erosion of care within global and local neoliberal regimes
privileges performance measures over working with people. The article examines the mirrored
experiences of community and youth workers and those they engage with – both encountering
feelings of disempowerment, caught in the bind of a ‘double jeopardy’, a construct which highlights
service users needing to feel cared about and workers wanting to care. The austerity cuts applied
by the neoliberal regime impede this relational process through decreased resources, which in
turn means that time is taken up with monitoring and evaluating funded outcomes, eating into time
of the actual work of ‘what needs to be done’. Community and youth workers have little space to
discuss and engage with the feelings they experience as a result of the incongruent nature of their
increasingly bureaucratised role which conflicts with working towards enhancing young people’s
quality of life. They expressed a need to find spaces of safety to articulate feelings and explore
‘what is to be done’, working communally with academic partners to reflect, but also to regain
confidence sapped by the brutalising neoliberal regime.