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Interfering in Hinterlands of Discontent: Making a Difference Differently

Interfering in Hinterlands of Discontent: Making a Difference Differently

Ailsa Haxell
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 11
ISSN: 1942-535X|EISSN: 1942-5368|EISBN13: 9781466677104|DOI: 10.4018/IJANTTI.2015040103
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Haxell, Ailsa. "Interfering in Hinterlands of Discontent: Making a Difference Differently." IJANTTI vol.7, no.2 2015: pp.30-40. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJANTTI.2015040103

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Haxell, A. (2015). Interfering in Hinterlands of Discontent: Making a Difference Differently. International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI), 7(2), 30-40. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJANTTI.2015040103

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Haxell, Ailsa. "Interfering in Hinterlands of Discontent: Making a Difference Differently," International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI) 7, no.2: 30-40. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJANTTI.2015040103

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Abstract

Given youth work is frequently entered into with the intention of making a difference in young people's lives, this article has been undertaken with the intention of making a difference differently. Drawing on actor-network theory, and the concept of hinterlands, influences shaping the practice of text counselling at a youth oriented helpline are discussed. This is however a contested space. There is no evidence base for such practice; but for new practices there never is. How then does novel practice come into being and become accepted? And how does this occur for people whose ways of engaging involves being neither seen nor heard? In presenting stories of practice as it is shaped there is opportunity to consider whose stories are heard and perhaps whose should be. In uncovering relations that would hold this particular practice more and less stable, scope is also provided for considering how making a difference might also be done differently.

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