This paper contributes to the literature on loneliness by exploring how loneliness is impacted by a sense of home and experiences and negotiations of belonging. With an ethnographic point of ...departure in a newly established senior housing facility for older adults experiencing loneliness in Denmark, the paper discusses loneliness as a social and spatial phenomenon that is not static and does not exclusively pertain to the individual. Instead, it is something that is reshaped and (re)negotiated among the residents and their surroundings. This holds promise for welfare professionals to work on alleviating loneliness among older adults at senior housing facilities through working with the arrangements of the social and physical environments. This paper also notes that structures and physical settings that are purportedly supportive can also alienate older adults and hence risk worsening their experiences of loneliness.
Through anthropological fieldwork among people with severe mental health disorders, this article focuses on these service users’ interactions and relations with the professionals and with other ...service users at recovery-oriented housing facilities in Denmark. We discuss how recovery-oriented spaces designed for the service users may feel out of reach to them, hence making the service users feel awkward and reluctant to participate. The study shows how service users, initially recognized as “unengaged,” rather are to be understood as active actors involved in their recovery and forming social bonds. The research seeks to put forward new perspectives on recovery as a concept in psychosocial rehabilitation, arguing that recovery and healing may take up different forms in different spaces and that recognizing services users’ enactment of reluctancy and disengagements could serve as an important part of recovery work in rehabilitation.
Med udgangspunkt i et antropologisk feltarbejde blandt forskellige grupper af unge i, mellem og udenfor ungdomsuddannelser diskuterer denne artikel kulturelle orienteringsforsøg og længsel efter ...civilisering i et ungdomslivsperspektiv. Empiri og analyser i artiklen er bearbejdninger og fokuseringer af min ph.d.-afhandling ’Ungdomsliv i en uddannelsestid’ (2015), hvor jeg fulgte grupper af unge, særligt drenge, over en periode på to år, fra de startede på henholdsvis et grundforløb til gastronomi og automekaniker. Afhandlingen handler om deres møder med en ungdomsuddannelse, deres fremtidsforestillinger og frem for alt deres forskellige forsøg på at skabe sig et (uddannelses)liv på trods af til tider barske vilkår og udgangspunkter.
Recovery-orientated approaches have grown more and more common in psychosocial rehabilitation in Denmark, thus shifting the focus to the dynamic status of mental health issues that were historically ...regarded as chronic. This change has caused an important shift towards recognizing service users as humans with equal rights and possibilities. But the recovery-oriented approach is also complex and difficult to apply in practice. Drawing on phenomenological concepts of bodies and orientations in space, the paper discusses how bodies, which are perceived as queer, seek to reorientate themselves. The discussion draws on three empirical cases involving service users from fieldwork at housing facilities for people with severe mental health issues. The paper concludes that psychosocial rehabilitation housing facilities may benefit from adopting a broader perspective on body orientations because this contributes with a focus on service users as active agents who strive to inhabit space.
Resumé Artiklen bygger på empiri fra et antropologisk feltarbejde blandt unge voksne med psykiske diagnoser, der bor på §107 socialpædagogiske botilbud. Med udgangspunkt i tre feltnoteuddrag der ...udspiller sig omkring beboermøder og fælles madlavningssituationer, diskuterer artiklen, hvordan det, der umiddelbart kan genkendes som ”uengagerede og ligeglade unge”, også kan forstås som unge, der på forskellige måder forsøger at skabe ståsteder i et rum, hvor de på den ene side er inviteret til demokratisk deltagelse, men på den anden side positioneres i et pædagogisk opdragende rum. I den forbindelse laver artiklen analytiske nedslag i forhold til, hvordan rum for deltagelse, på trods af gode pædagogiske intentioner, kan opleves irrelevante og udenfor rækkevidde, samt hvordan beboerne protesterer imod de pædagogiske krav om udvikling og deltagelse med undvigelser og tavshed.
Abstract Uninvolved and indifferent? – navigations in social pedagogical housing for young peopleThe article is based on empirical data from anthropological fieldwork among young adults, who live in housing facilities for people with severe mental disorders. Drawing on three field note excerpts that take place around residents’ meetings and common cooking situations, the article discusses, how actions that may easily be written off as belonging to ”uncommitted and indifferent young people”, can also be understood as agency belonging to young people who in various ways try to create positions in a space where they, on the one hand, are invited to democratic participation, but on the other hand, are positioned in a pedagogically educational space. The article is centered around two themes; respectively how space for participation, despite good pedagogical intentions, may be perceived as irrelevant and out of reach – and how the young residents may respond to the pedagogical requirements for development and participation with evasions and avoidance mechanisms.
Uengageret og ligeglad? Steno, Anne Mia
Forskning i pædagogers profession og uddannelse,
10/2021, Letnik:
5, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Resumé Artiklen bygger på empiri fra et antropologisk feltarbejde blandt unge voksne med psykiske diagnoser, der bor på §107 socialpædagogiske botilbud. Med udgangspunkt i tre feltnoteuddrag der ...udspiller sig omkring beboermøder og fælles madlavningssituationer, diskuterer artiklen, hvordan det, der umiddelbart kan genkendes som ”uengagerede og ligeglade unge”, også kan forstås som unge, der på forskellige måder forsøger at skabe ståsteder i et rum, hvor de på den ene side er inviteret til demokratisk deltagelse, men på den anden side positioneres i et pædagogisk opdragende rum. I den forbindelse laver artiklen analytiske nedslag i forhold til, hvordan rum for deltagelse, på trods af gode pædagogiske intentioner, kan opleves irrelevante og udenfor rækkevidde, samt hvordan beboerne protesterer imod de pædagogiske krav om udvikling og deltagelse med undvigelser og tavshed.
Abstract Uninvolved and indifferent? – navigations in social pedagogical housing for young peopleThe article is based on empirical data from anthropological fieldwork among young adults, who live in housing facilities for people with severe mental disorders. Drawing on three field note excerpts that take place around residents’ meetings and common cooking situations, the article discusses, how actions that may easily be written off as belonging to ”uncommitted and indifferent young people”, can also be understood as agency belonging to young people who in various ways try to create positions in a space where they, on the one hand, are invited to democratic participation, but on the other hand, are positioned in a pedagogically educational space. The article is centered around two themes; respectively how space for participation, despite good pedagogical intentions, may be perceived as irrelevant and out of reach – and how the young residents may respond to the pedagogical requirements for development and participation with evasions and avoidance mechanisms.
ResumeGennem empiriske nedslag undersøger artiklen, hvordan kvinder på socialpædagogiske bosteder, oplever at skulle tilkæmpe sig ønskede positioner i deres liv og hvordan deres blikke på dem selv og ...deres udvikling er sammenfiltret og påvirket af de gængse og strukturerende diagnose- og kønsopfattelser de mødes af. Artiklens analyser illustrerer, hvordan både køn og psykiatriske diagnoser går forud for kvinderne og fortæller historier om, hvem de er og hvad de kan med deres liv, før de selv når frem. Et fokus på de ressourcer der ligger gemt i de forskellige former for modstand, strategier og navigationer kvinder gør brug af, samt et blik for de forskellige kontekster kvinderne er en del af – er relevant for det pædagogiske felt. Dels fordi det peger på, at diagnoser og psykisk sygdom ikke må stå alene, men også bør forstås som rimelige reaktioner på urimelige kontekster. Dels, fordi et fokus på kvindernes modstandsstrategier og navigationer viser, at de ikke er passive modtager af pædagogiske indsatser, men aktive medskabere af de kategorier, de mødes af og med. AbstractYoung women at psychosocial housing facilities – negotiations and navigations across diagnoses and genderThrough empirical extracts, this article examines how women in psychosocial housing facilities experience a need to fight for desired positions in their lives and how their view of themselves and their development is entangled and influenced by the common and structuring diagnosis and gender perceptions they encounter. The article illustrates how both gender and psychiatric diagnoses precede them and tell stories about who they are and what they are able do with their lives. A focus on the resources that are hidden in the different forms of resistance, strategies, and navigations that these women make use of, as well as a look at the different contexts that the women are a part of – is highly relevant for the pedagogical field. Partly because it indicates that diagnoses and mental illness cannot stand alone, but should also sometimes be understood as reasonable reactions to unreasonable contexts. Partly because a focus on the women’s resistance, strategies and navigations shows that they are not passive recipients of pedagogical efforts, but active co-creators of the categories they meet from time to time.
ResumeGennem empiriske nedslag undersøger artiklen, hvordan kvinder på socialpædagogiske bosteder, oplever at skulle tilkæmpe sig ønskede positioner i deres liv og hvordan deres blikke på dem selv og ...deres udvikling er sammenfiltret og påvirket af de gængse og strukturerende diagnose- og kønsopfattelser de mødes af. Artiklens analyser illustrerer, hvordan både køn og psykiatriske diagnoser går forud for kvinderne og fortæller historier om, hvem de er og hvad de kan med deres liv, før de selv når frem. Et fokus på de ressourcer der ligger gemt i de forskellige former for modstand, strategier og navigationer kvinder gør brug af, samt et blik for de forskellige kontekster kvinderne er en del af – er relevant for det pædagogiske felt. Dels fordi det peger på, at diagnoser og psykisk sygdom ikke må stå alene, men også bør forstås som rimelige reaktioner på urimelige kontekster. Dels, fordi et fokus på kvindernes modstandsstrategier og navigationer viser, at de ikke er passive modtager af pædagogiske indsatser, men aktive medskabere af de kategorier, de mødes af og med. AbstractYoung women at psychosocial housing facilities – negotiations and navigations across diagnoses and genderThrough empirical extracts, this article examines how women in psychosocial housing facilities experience a need to fight for desired positions in their lives and how their view of themselves and their development is entangled and influenced by the common and structuring diagnosis and gender perceptions they encounter. The article illustrates how both gender and psychiatric diagnoses precede them and tell stories about who they are and what they are able do with their lives. A focus on the resources that are hidden in the different forms of resistance, strategies, and navigations that these women make use of, as well as a look at the different contexts that the women are a part of – is highly relevant for the pedagogical field. Partly because it indicates that diagnoses and mental illness cannot stand alone, but should also sometimes be understood as reasonable reactions to unreasonable contexts. Partly because a focus on the women’s resistance, strategies and navigations shows that they are not passive recipients of pedagogical efforts, but active co-creators of the categories they meet from time to time.
Resume Gennem empiriske nedslag undersøger artiklen, hvordan kvinder på socialpædagogiske bosteder, oplever at skulle tilkæmpe sig ønskede positioner i deres liv og hvordan deres blikke på dem selv ...og deres udvikling er sammenfiltret og påvirket af de gængse og strukturerende diagnose- og kønsopfattelser de mødes af. Artiklens analyser illustrerer, hvordan både køn og psykiatriske diagnoser går forud for kvinderne og fortæller historier om, hvem de er og hvad de kan med deres liv, før de selv når frem. Et fokus på de ressourcer der ligger gemt i de forskellige former for modstand, strategier og navigationer kvinder gør brug af, samt et blik for de forskellige kontekster kvinderne er en del af – er relevant for det pædagogiske felt. Dels fordi det peger på, at diagnoser og psykisk sygdom ikke må stå alene, men også bør forstås som rimelige reaktioner på urimelige kontekster. Dels, fordi et fokus på kvindernes modstandsstrategier og navigationer viser, at de ikke er passive modtager af pædagogiske indsatser, men aktive medskabere af de kategorier, de mødes af og med. Abstract Young women at psychosocial housing facilities – negotiations and navigations across diagnoses and gender Through empirical extracts, this article examines how women in psychosocial housing facilities experience a need to fight for desired positions in their lives and how their view of themselves and their development is entangled and influenced by the common and structuring diagnosis and gender perceptions they encounter. The article illustrates how both gender and psychiatric diagnoses precede them and tell stories about who they are and what they are able do with their lives. A focus on the resources that are hidden in the different forms of resistance, strategies, and navigations that these women make use of, as well as a look at the different contexts that the women are a part of – is highly relevant for the pedagogical field. Partly because it indicates that diagnoses and mental illness cannot stand alone, but should also sometimes be understood as reasonable reactions to unreasonable contexts. Partly because a focus on the women’s resistance, strategies and navigations shows that they are not passive recipients of pedagogical efforts, but active co-creators of the categories they meet from time to time.
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