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Janet Batsleer
Affiliation

Head of Centre: Childhood,Youth and Community

Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University
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I bring an expertise to this topic based on my work in the field of youth work. I have a particular interest in voices and the creation of ‘little publics’ through community-based youth work practice. I am also interested in how the boundaries of spaces for informal learning are created and how they support or diminish groups who have historically been pushed to the edges of many systems. Theoretically my work has been strongly informed informed by critical cultural studies and by poststructuralist feminist perspectives.

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Publications

Batsleer,J (forthcoming) Investigating Precarity: Putting Bread on the Table. Accompaniment, Community and Youth Work in the Context of Austerity Education and Ethnography

Batsleer, J. (2014) ‘Against Role Models: Tracing the Histories of Manliness in Youth Work. The Cultural Capital of Respectable Masculinity.’ Youth and Policy 113 Autumn 2014

Batsleer,J.(2013) Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings. A Feminist Perspective Ashgate Arena pp255

Batsleer,J and Hughes,J. (2013) ‘Looking from the Other Side of the Street: Youth,Participation and Arts in the Edgelands of Urban Manchester’ in Tony Fry and Eleni Kalantidou (ed) ‘Design in the Borderlands: Contesting Globalism’ (2013) Routledge

Batsleer J. (2013) ‘Youth Work, Social Education, Democratic Practice and the challenge of difference: A contribution to debate’ Oxford Review of Education 39, 3, 287-306

Batsleer, J (2011) `Voices from an Edge. Unsettling The Practices of Youth Voice and Participation: arts-based practice in The Blue Room, Manchester’ Pedagogy, Culture and Society 19(3) pp 419-434 ISSN 1468-1366
Previous projects

My work on participation has been re-activated by my involvement with work occurring in the arts and by the cross over with arts based practice. This started with an evaluation of a local project – The Blue Room- a street based project with young men living vulnerable lives and selling sex in the City Centre and has recently been energised by my work as Co-Convenor of BERA Youth Studies SIG, creating a Youth Work and the Arts network. It continues to be activated in my connection with feminist-inspired youth work through the Feminist Webs collective (or should it be network or assemblage….)