Graham Bright is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies and Youth and Community Work at York St John University, UK. His PhD with Durham University explores youth workers’ life and practice narratives. Graham is editor of Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts (Palgrave, 2015). His practice continues to support work in the voluntary and faith sectors.Carole Pugh is Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at York St John University, UK. Prior to this she worked as a Youth Worker in Local Authority contexts. Her PhD at Huddersfield University explores youth work’s capacity to support the political engagement of young people.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionGraham Bright and Carole Pugh1 On Critical Beginnings: How We Got to Where We AreBernard Davies and Tony Taylor2 Contrasting Futures? Exploring Youth Work across the UKTony Jeffs, Annette Coburn, Alastair Scott-McKinley and Steve Drowley3 Youth Work and Cartographic Action: Re-naming Paradoxes – Mapping Utopian FuturesGraham Bright and Carole Pugh4 Youth Workin’ All over Europe: Moving, Associating, Organising and ProvidingHoward Williamson and Filip Coussée5 The Future of US Youth WorkDana Fusco and Michael Baizerman6 Future Prospects for Australasian Youth WorkTrudi Cooper and Rod Baxter7 Youth Work: Global Futures – Pictures from the Developing WorldStuart Wroe8 Dichotomous Voluntary FuturesIlona Buchroth and Dan Connolly9 Where Is Faith-Based Youth Work Heading?Naomi Thompson10 The Future of Online Youth WorkJane Melvin11 On the Future of Youth Work with Young WomenJanet Batsleer and Karen McCarthy12 Towards New Horizons? ‘Youth and Community Work’ and Rhizomatic PossibilitiesGraham Bright and Carole PughIndex