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 issue is Troubling Multiculturalism, the language within this issue stretches this term, troubles it, and at times, re-invents it. This book was originally published as a special issue of Child and Youth Services.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Troubling Multiculturalism J.N. Little and Hans Skott-Myhre 2. "We need to talk about it!": Doing CYC as Politicized Praxis Elicia Loiselle, Sandrina de Finney, Nishad Khanna and Rebecca Corcoran 3. Child and Youth Care To-Come Scott Kouri 4. Stories of Another Kind: Engaging in Generative Conversations in Pedagogical Spaces Marie Hoskins 5. Journeying with Youth: Re-Centering Indigeneity in Child and Youth Care Dawn Zinga 6. Unsettling Representational Practices: Inhabiting Relational Becomings in Early Childhood Education Fikile Nxumalo 7. Postcolonial Entanglements: Unruling Stories Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw 8. Reconceptualizing Multicultural Discourse as Shifting Geographies J.N. Little and M. Walker 9. Fleeing Identity: Toward a Revolutionary Politics of Relationship Hans Skott-Myhre 10. Conclusion: Sketching the Outlines: CYC Multiculturalism(?) Hans Skott-Myhre and J.N. Little

About the Author :
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.