Youth Work, Galleries and the Politics of Partnership

This book sheds critical light on the routinely debated issue of how to createsustainable, equitable and meaningful partnerships between visual artorganisations and youth organisations. Using a Bourdieusian framework, thisbook analyses the different social and professional worlds of youth work andgallery education and explores why tensions often arise between partners inthese fields. Written at a time of significant crisis for the UK youth sector and inthe context of an entrenched neoliberal policy climate, this publication seeks tohighlight hopeful, experimental practice and possibilities for creative resistance.With public organisations and services under ever-greater governmental pressureto pursue collaborations within and across sectors, this is a timely moment toexamine the challenges, ethics and advantages of working together, and to bringtheoretical discussion to dominant yet vague understandings of partnership.