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Inclusive social work needs ‘disrupting dialogues’ in daring spaces.In this contribution we argue that ‘disrupting dialogues’ are necessary to connect the work of parenting and youth professionals with the lifeworld of young people who experience marginalisation and othering in the urban context. In these dialogues the experience and expressive language of youngsters form the starting point to explore different positions and blind spots. The cooperation between Ouder and KindTeams in Amsterdam and the theatre collective Lost Project shows how professionals can work creatively to engage with the lived experiences of youngsters and create empathic connections that boost mutual trust. This example shows how, through the use of theatre, professionals and youngsters can give shape to ‘daring spaces’ in which disrupting dialogues can take place. These daring spaces enable connections across multiple differences and counter the marginalisation of specific experiences and voices.

Abstract As the West loses its political credibility, the search has opened for alternatives to neo-liberal parliamentary democracies, failing on their own scale of good governance. Several contemporary critical thinkers, such as Alain Badiou, turn towards a communist horizon. In this paper, we want to explore the idea of commons in contemporary Internet-based groups, as a quest for contemporary appearances of communism in the Badiouian sense. From wiki formats to the hacktivism of Anonymous, there are various Internet-based initiatives that are built on a philosophy of open access to all, regardless of their identity, and a horizontal, rhizomatic organisation. We think that the organisational features of these initiatives make them suitable to carry out a struggle for new, more democratic political alternatives. COMUNISMO EM TEMPO DE LIVRE ACESSO Resumo À medida que o Ocidente perde credibilidade política, inicia-se a demanda por alternativas às democracias parlamentaristas neo-liberais, falhas em sua própria escala de governança. Vários críticos contemporâneos, como Alain Badiou, voltam-se para um horizonte comunista. Neste trabalho, desejamos explorar a ideia de “commons” (Comuns) nos grupos atuais com base na Internet, enquanto busca às aparências recentes do comunismo no sentido badiouiano. Desde os formatos “wicki” até o “hacktivismo” dos Anônimos, há várias iniciativas com base na Internet que são construídas partindo de uma filosofia de livre acesso a todos, não importando a identidade, e uma organização rizomática, horizontal. Acreditamos que as características organizacionais destas iniciativas as tornam adequadas no sentido de proceder ao esforço por novas alternativas políticas, mais democráticas.

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