Troubling Multiculturalism
It can be easy to imagine that Child and Youth Care practitioners are inherently or naturally attuned to issues of diversity and colonization as they pertain to multicultural practice. While there are excellent culturally attuned practices that are happening in the field of Child and Youth Care, when it comes to collecting stories of cultural diversity and, more specifically, the problematic unfolding of some of these stories, there remains hesitancy in the field. This hesitancy, in part, is due to assuming we are practicing in postcolonial times, where all the messiness, the doubting, and the pain have been dealt with.
The authors of this volume suggest otherwise and their chapters represent an important contribution to the field. They are a diverse group of practitioners but they share a common concern that the term multicultural practice grooms hegemonic interventions that do not critically examine issues of power, difference, colonialism, Whiteness, or species, to name a few. Although the title of this book is Troubling Multiculturalism, the language within stretches this term, troubles it, and at times, reinvents it.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Child and Youth Services.
Hans Skott-Myhre is an Associate Professor in the Child and Youth Studies Department at Brock University, Canada, and is the author of Youth Subculture as Creative Force: Creating New Spaces for Radical Youth Work.
J.N. Little is an Instructor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Troubling Multiculturalism
Edited by
Hans Skott-Myhre and J.N. Little
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Contents
J.N. Little and Hans Skott-Myhre
Elicia Loiselle, Sandrina de Finney, Nishad Khanna, and Rebecca Corcoran
Scott Kouri
Marie Hoskins
Dawn Zinga
Fikile Nxumalo
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
J.N. Little and M. Walker
Hans Skott-Myhre
Hans Skott-Myhre and J.N. Little
The chapters in this book were originally published in Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction: Troubling Multiculturalism
J.N. Little and Hans Skott-Myhre
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp.175177
Chapter 2
We Need to Talk About It!: Doing CYC as Politicized Praxis
Elicia Loiselle, Sandrina de Finney, Nishad Khanna, and Rebecca Corcoran
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 178205
Chapter 3
Child and Youth Care To-Come
Scott Kouri
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 206236
Chapter 4
Stories of Another Kind: Engaging in Generative Conversations in Pedagogical Spaces
Marie Hoskins
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 237257
Chapter 5
Journeying With Youth: Re-Centering Indigeneity in Child and Youth Care
Dawn Zinga
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 258280
Chapter 6
Unsettling Representational Practices: Inhabiting Relational Becomings in Early Childhood Education
Fikile Nxumalo
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 281302
Chapter 7
Postcolonial Entanglements: Unruling Stories
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 303316
Chapter 8
Reconceptualizing Multicultural Discourse as Shifting Geographies
J.N. Little and M. Walker
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 317328
Chapter 9
Fleeing Identity: Toward a Revolutionary Politics of Relationship
Hans Skott-Myhre
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 329344
Chapter 10
Conclusion: Sketching the Outlines: CYC Multiculturalism(?)
Hans Skott-Myhre and J.N. Little
Child and Youth Services, volume 33, issue 34 (December 2012)
pp. 345353
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J.N. LITTLE
School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
HANS SKOTT-MYHRE
Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University,
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Child and Youth Care is an international community that is bound together by our dedication to children, youth, families, and the communities in which they live. Due to our geographical distances, varied cultural contexts, political realities, and a plethora of social issues to be addressed, it is easy (even tempting) to imagine ourselves as inherently or naturally attuned to issues of diversity and colonization as they pertain to multicultural practice. And yet, when an e-mail request was received on CYC-net in 2011 asking for a comprehensive resource for multicultural practice in CYC, the response was not overwhelming. This is not to say there are not excellent practices that are happening in the day-to-day praxis1 in which we engage; rather it suggests that when it comes to collecting these stories of cultural diversity and, more specifically, the problematic unfolding of some of these stories, there remains hesitancy in the field. This hesitancy, in part, is due to assuming we are practicing in postcolonial times, where all the messiness, the doubting, and the pain have been dealt with. The authors of this volume suggest otherwise and their words are an important contribution to the field. They are a diverse group of practitioners but they share a common concern that the term
