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Artiklen undersøger gymnasieunges oplevelser med, forståelser af og praksisser omkring sundhed i deres hverdagsliv. Børn og unge eksponeres i dag for sundhedsbudskaber, påbud og overvågning i mange af de sociale sfærer med sundhed forstået som et individuelt ansvar der udøves gennem at regulere sin kost, rusmiddelbrug og motionsvaner. Gymnasieeleverne oplever gymnasielivet stressende og presset, men de formår også – måske som en reaktion herpå – aktivt at skabe sociale og kropslige rum, som de forbinder med sundhed. I disse rum afstresser de, "er i kroppen" og lader op igen. Disse kropslige og kollektive sundhedsrum er dog ikke identiske med, men står snarere i modsætning til, dominerende individualistiske, biomedicinsk forankrede sundspolitiske påbud og normer. Tværtimod er et væsentligt aspekt af de unges følelse af sundhed, at skærme sig imod disse normer, som også repræsenterer udefrakommende, moralske krav, som virker ikke-kropsliggørende i forhold til deres egne fornemmelser for, hvad der er sundt for dem. Studiet illustrerer vigtigheden af at skoler skaber læringsmiljøer som muliggør at eleverne udforsker deres kropslige og intellektuelle potentialer og kapaciteter, bl.a. gennem at overskride den individualisme som i øjeblikket præger ungdomsuddannelser og sundhedsfremme i Danmark. Gymnasiet bør i stedet søge at skabe rum for kollektiv kropsligt forankret og forankrende læring, i en erkendelse af at motivation, engagement og myndiggørende og styrkende affektive relationer – isundhed, krop og skolepræstationer – hviler på en sam-produktion af engagementer.

_ Summary: This article analyses – by drawing on ideology critical and psychoanalytical concepts from Slavoj Zizek and Glynos et al. – how political, social and fantasmatic logics interplay and form social workers' professional identities within two youth social work institutions that operate within different social policy paradigms: a socialinterventionist paradigm in 2002 and a neoliberal paradigm in 2010. _ Findings: The article shows how the current neoliberalisation of public policy permeates social work practices through fantasmatic narratives that create professional identities to heal discrepancies in and conceal the political dimension of everyday life. In one institution, within a welfare state-based ideology a compensating-including social professional identity is created in response to the young people's alleged deficiencies; in the other institution, within a neoliberal ideology a mobilising-motivating identity is created to meet the young people's alleged excess. In both narratives, however, the young people risk bearing the blame for the failure of the social professional project. _ Applications: Fantasies in both institutions conceal how social workers' professional identities sustain dominant ideology through dislocating uncertainties, ambiguities and ambivalences implicated in professional social work. Whether rooted in the state-based welfare or market-oriented neoliberal policy paradigms, realisation of these dynamics may expose the basic interdependencies of state, civil society and market actors implicated in the project of professional social work.

Summary This article analyses – by drawing on ideology critical and psychoanalytical concepts from Slavoj Žižek and Glynos et al. – how political, social and fantasmatic logics interplay and form social workers' professional identities within two youth social work institutions that operate within different social policy paradigms: a social-interventionist paradigm in 2002 and a neoliberal paradigm in 2010. Findings The article shows how the current neoliberalisation of public policy permeates social work practices through fantasmatic narratives that create professional identities to heal discrepancies in and conceal the political dimension of everyday life. In one institution, within a welfare state-based ideology a compensating-including social professional identity is created in response to the young people's alleged deficiencies; in the other institution, within a neoliberal ideology a mobilising-motivating identity is created to meet the young people's alleged excess. In both narratives, however, the young people risk bearing the blame for the failure of the social professional project. Applications Fantasies in both institutions conceal how social workers' professional identities sustain dominant ideology through dislocating uncertainties, ambiguities and ambivalences implicated in professional social work. Whether rooted in the state-based welfare or market-oriented neoliberal policy paradigms, realisation of these dynamics may expose the basic interdependencies of state, civil society and market actors implicated in the project of professional social work.

This article uses a bodily and affective perspective to explore racial minority young people's experiences of racism, as enacted (on film) through disgust and enjoyment. Applying Žižek's ideology critical psychoanalytical perspective and Kristeva's concept of "abjection", the article considers race embodied, that is the racial body both partly Real (in the Lacanian sense) and a mean for the projection of ideological meanings and discursive structures, which are sustained by specific fantasies. From this perspective, the film's affective racism is "symptomatic" of the discrepancies between, on the one hand, Danish social democratic welfare state ideology and a dominating race discourse of "equality-as-sameness", on the other, the Real of racial embodiment, which makes the encounter with the Other traumatic and obscene. The analysis exposes the bodily and affective underside of race relations (which lead attempts to discursively undo racism to fail) and instead seeks to undermine the fantasies that sustain racial power relations.

AbstractThis article reviews the literature on social problems work concerned with children and young people. Social problems work involves assessing particular people, events and circumstances as instances of social problems. We focus on how social problems work is organized within discourses of childhood and youth, how it is a site for holding children and young people accountable, and how normalization is an aspect of social problems work. Our review brings together analytic themes in the literature on social problems and that on children and young people. We also point to topics that might be elaborated upon in future research on social problems work concerned with children and young people.

This article analyses the breakdown of teenage placements in Denmark from survey data on 227 teenagers placed in care during 2004. We explore frequencies of breakdown, time of breakdown occurrence and factors possibly causing breakdown. These are factors related to (i) the teenager, (ii) the parents, (iii) the care environment and (iv) the casework process. Results show that 26 per cent of the teenagers in the study experienced placement breakdown. Thirty per cent of these breakdowns occurred within the first 4 months of placement. A factor significantly increasing probability of breakdown was emotional problems of the teenager. A factor significantly reducing placement breakdown was the teenager having continuity with the same caseworker throughout the placement. System‐ and policy‐related factors also proved to have an influence on breakdown rates. We discuss possible policy implications of these findings.