Line Lerche Mørck
“Crossing boundaries: Preventing polarization, radicalization and gang involvement”
Line Lerche Mørck, professor in educational psychology at Aarhus University, is known for her practice research into ways of holistic prevention, boundary communities, gang exit, and mo(ve)ments beyond radicalization and marginalization. She has written books about boundary communities and Community-building practices and articles about counter-hegemonic alternatives. She has co-authored journal articles about gang exit, forensic psychiatry and social practice ethics – with co-researchers, where two is former gang leaders. Currently she is leading two collective research projects: “Boundary Youth Work – Bridging and Community-Building in Marginalized Residential Urban Areas”, and ”Youth Pedagogical Transformative Work. How can community-building contribute to overcoming ethnic othering and discrimination?”
In the keynote professor Line Lerche Mørck present prolonged co-research with two former gang leaders struggling to move beyond forensic psychiatry and to build a meaning full life, two leaders who use to be enemies in a gang war years before we started this research collaborations. Line reflects on how you need to cross boundaries to (re)produce trust in times of increased polarization. Along the 11 and 8 year long research collaborations, she has developed new standards of social practice ethic, that prioritize ethics of care and recognition. She will discuss possibilities and dilemmas of mutuality of care relations (Løgstrup). She will also discuss ways of doing thrust and transformative research across other research collaborations with both marginalized and established parties.
