Subjectivity Of Participation

MORTEN NISSEN (http://mnissen.psy.ku.dk) teaches community psychology in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Fredrikstad, Norway. He investigates participation, subjectivity, 'wild' social work, and addiction, with a focus on theories, standards, and practices. He edits Outlines – Critical Practice Studies (www.outlines.dk), and heads the research centre SUBSTANce-Subjects and standards.

• Preface Acknowledgements PART I: POINT OF DEPARTURE Preface Overture: One day at The Crew Position: A critical psychology accomplice History: A Rear View Mirror Guide to the Idea of Collectivity Situating Data PART II: A THEORY OF PARTICIPATORY SUBJECTIVITY Collectives as situated units of praxis The Collective as Framed The Collective as Recognized in Ideology Constructing Subjectivity in Participation PART III: PROTOTYPICAL REFLECTIONS Practice Research as Collective Prototyping and Critique Notes References Index

"This is a very engagingly written and erudite cross-disciplinary intervention that not only connects key conceptual-political debates in psychology with the challenges and dilemmas of social work practice, but uses the latter to press for an urgent reorientation of psychological models that could enable better and more engaged forms of practice. The author has a strong and lengthy track record of work in this area, and this text represents a key synthesis and focused consideration of this corpus of work." - Erica Burman