This article discusses how working with aesthetic motifs can be used for cultivating motives
for young drug-users and to move social work with drug users beyond a problematic framing …

In this contribution, I present an inquiry that was prompted by an empirical observation that
emerged in interviews with student-teachers: Speaking about their beliefs about …

Rearticulating Motives Page 1 Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences
Morten Nissen Rearticulating Motives Page 2 Theory and History in the Human and Social …

The project investigated the development of more sustainable managerial practices than the
widespread New Public Management. The concrete case concerned the public Danish …

Personality testing is highly disputed, yet, widely used as a personnel selection tool. In most
research, it is taken for granted that personality tests are used with the purpose of achieving …

In this article, we approach 'going public'through a cultural-historical practice-theoretical
lens. Focusing on the situated embeddedness of ethnographic researchers in various …

Ethnographic research about gang-exit processes and formers'1 identity transformation
gives rise to the emancipatory question of how research can make a difference in practice …

This manuscript seeks to make Marxist dialectics accessible to therapists and counselors,
while contributing to discussions of Marxist theory within Critical Psychology. It offers a …

This final chapter is about re-/presentations of and for care–of which this book is itself
proposed as an instance, along with the texts we discussed in Chap. 5–and about how …

This chapter proposes a theory with which to understand motives and their re-/presentation.
After having argued the usefulness of such “positive” theoretical propositions, I reconstruct …