Co-Production of Differentiated Equalities as Everyday Life Practice

TY - CHAP

T1 - Co-Production of Differentiated Equalities as Everyday Life Practice

AU - Mørck, Line Lerche

AU - Madsen, Maja Baunbjerg

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This chapter describes how Street Lab continues a long Danish tradition of wild social work boundary communities, which we - a community of critical psychological practice researchers - have followed for 25 years. Street Lab is a voluntary Non-profit organization primarily run by volunteering parents, youth and others making ‘common third’ activities in collaboration with public employed professionals, local citizens, and other organizations.The chapter shows practice research as a participatory version of critical ethnography, where we as practice researchers are multi-positioned when we explore processes of co-production of street-sport activities, networks, dialogical practices and differentiated equalities in and around Street Lab. We show how practice research with children, young people, families, and professionals involve co-production of meaningful documentation, which are both part of the ethnographic exploration and the co-production of change.The chapter discusses how differentiated equalities as being “for all” is linked to questions of marginalization, (non-)belonging and counter-hegemonic struggles. As described in the introduction chapter of this book, exploration of differentiated equality means that we want to explore the “contradictory spaces for equality in difference and difference in equality”. We explore co-production of differentiated equalities as everyday life practice – and as individual and collective learning and co-production processes engaging Street Lab’s very different participants and collaborating organizations. This includes an ADHD-diagnosed scooter boy and his parents co-producing scooter ramps, scooter activities, co-creating videos with us researchers while moving beyond marginality. In collaboration with our co-researchers, we explore how Street Lab and its participants change as part of a local environment of overlapping networks and communities across private cultural enterprises and social and cultural public institutions. We thereby show how the research of differentiated equalities as part of a boundary community is a co-production of belonging, ideologies, identities, relations, and questions of how the community give space for expansive agency and transformative possibilities with and for subaltern groups of Danish society (Gramsci, in Lave, this book). In this sense, we conceptualize boundary community as an emancipatory and normative model for an alternative social and cultural work, promoting participatory, resource oriented, ‘open’,multi-positioned, ‘ad hoc’ culture. 

AB - This chapter describes how Street Lab continues a long Danish tradition of wild social work boundary communities, which we - a community of critical psychological practice researchers - have followed for 25 years. Street Lab is a voluntary Non-profit organization primarily run by volunteering parents, youth and others making ‘common third’ activities in collaboration with public employed professionals, local citizens, and other organizations.The chapter shows practice research as a participatory version of critical ethnography, where we as practice researchers are multi-positioned when we explore processes of co-production of street-sport activities, networks, dialogical practices and differentiated equalities in and around Street Lab. We show how practice research with children, young people, families, and professionals involve co-production of meaningful documentation, which are both part of the ethnographic exploration and the co-production of change.The chapter discusses how differentiated equalities as being “for all” is linked to questions of marginalization, (non-)belonging and counter-hegemonic struggles. As described in the introduction chapter of this book, exploration of differentiated equality means that we want to explore the “contradictory spaces for equality in difference and difference in equality”. We explore co-production of differentiated equalities as everyday life practice – and as individual and collective learning and co-production processes engaging Street Lab’s very different participants and collaborating organizations. This includes an ADHD-diagnosed scooter boy and his parents co-producing scooter ramps, scooter activities, co-creating videos with us researchers while moving beyond marginality. In collaboration with our co-researchers, we explore how Street Lab and its participants change as part of a local environment of overlapping networks and communities across private cultural enterprises and social and cultural public institutions. We thereby show how the research of differentiated equalities as part of a boundary community is a co-production of belonging, ideologies, identities, relations, and questions of how the community give space for expansive agency and transformative possibilities with and for subaltern groups of Danish society (Gramsci, in Lave, this book). In this sense, we conceptualize boundary community as an emancipatory and normative model for an alternative social and cultural work, promoting participatory, resource oriented, ‘open’,multi-positioned, ‘ad hoc’ culture. 

KW - differentiated equalities

KW - co-creation

KW - Co-production

KW - learning from the margin

KW - Empowerment

KW - inclusion

KW - boundary community

KW - beloning

KW - ADHD

KW - equity

M3 - Book chapter

BT - New Spaces of Difference (working title)

A2 - Franca, marina

A2 - Lave, Jean

A2 - Gomes, Ana

A2 - Kousholt, Dorte

A2 - Lerche Mørck, Line

PB - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

ER -