With public organisations and services under ever-greater governmental pressure to pursue collaborations within and across sectors, it is a timely moment to examine the challenges, ethics and advantages of working together. This book deconstructs the ubiquitous and often problematic concept of 'partnership' in the context of relations between the youth and visual arts sectors in the UK. It makes a case for interrogating the underlying conditions affecting these relationships and offers ways to strengthen cross-sector alliances at a time of increasing uncertainty for youth provision and young people. Mobilising Bourdieu's theory of fields, the book provides a theoretical framework to understand these different professional worlds, and identifies why equitable partnerships between youth and visual arts organisations are difficult to sustain. Finally the book provides recommendations for organisations, policymakers, funders and strategic bodies - suggesting avenues for change if the sectors are to work towards building a permanent collaborative field.weiterlesen