Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501713217
- eISBN:
- 9781501709685
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501713217.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
When a rural family of modest means buys a new or used mobile home, unless cash is paid up-front, they become entangled with the highly profitable mobile home industrial complex, made up of home ...
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When a rural family of modest means buys a new or used mobile home, unless cash is paid up-front, they become entangled with the highly profitable mobile home industrial complex, made up of home producers, dealers, financiers, and trailer park entrepreneurs. For most working-poor rural families, with few exceptions, this engagement means being caught in an expensive trap as they chase their American Dream for housing. Rural trailer parks house approximately 12 million people, and we describe this population’s diversity across rural Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina. We ask whether living in a rural trailer park has a negative neighborhood effect on working poor families, children and youth. We found only Whites report being stigmatized as trailer trash in contrast to Hispanics and African Americans who did not report this experience. Stigmatization negatively affects youth in school and parents in the adjacent rural community.Less
When a rural family of modest means buys a new or used mobile home, unless cash is paid up-front, they become entangled with the highly profitable mobile home industrial complex, made up of home producers, dealers, financiers, and trailer park entrepreneurs. For most working-poor rural families, with few exceptions, this engagement means being caught in an expensive trap as they chase their American Dream for housing. Rural trailer parks house approximately 12 million people, and we describe this population’s diversity across rural Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina. We ask whether living in a rural trailer park has a negative neighborhood effect on working poor families, children and youth. We found only Whites report being stigmatized as trailer trash in contrast to Hispanics and African Americans who did not report this experience. Stigmatization negatively affects youth in school and parents in the adjacent rural community.
Marise Cremona (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199552894
- eISBN:
- 9780191720741
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552894.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
External relations is currently among the most dynamic areas of EU law, its institutional structures profoundly affected by the Lisbon Treaty. This volume gathers leading analysts to assess core ...
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External relations is currently among the most dynamic areas of EU law, its institutional structures profoundly affected by the Lisbon Treaty. This volume gathers leading analysts to assess core recent developments in the field, taking stock of the current law and potential developments in major policy areas. The opening chapters analyse the legal principles that ensure coherence between different strands of the EU's external activity, as well as the legal basis for the EU's activity in shaping international law and the EU's contribution to ‘state practice’. These chapters develop a picture of the EU's active international participation as well as the characteristic structural complexity of its external relations. Against this background, the remainder of the book examines key policy areas of EU external action: analysis of the relationship between trade policy and development; discussion of trade in services and the link between external and internal policy issues; and assessment of the EU's contribution to conflict resolution, an important focus of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The complex policy picture that emerges from the different goals, values, and instruments across these areas is examined in the book's final chapter, which focuses on the European Neighbourhood Policy, frequently proclaimed as a strategic priority for the EU. Together, the essays present a clear picture of the complex development of EU external relations, of the struggle for coherence in the increasingly active, visible, and self-conscious role played by the EU as a participant in the international legal order.Less
External relations is currently among the most dynamic areas of EU law, its institutional structures profoundly affected by the Lisbon Treaty. This volume gathers leading analysts to assess core recent developments in the field, taking stock of the current law and potential developments in major policy areas. The opening chapters analyse the legal principles that ensure coherence between different strands of the EU's external activity, as well as the legal basis for the EU's activity in shaping international law and the EU's contribution to ‘state practice’. These chapters develop a picture of the EU's active international participation as well as the characteristic structural complexity of its external relations. Against this background, the remainder of the book examines key policy areas of EU external action: analysis of the relationship between trade policy and development; discussion of trade in services and the link between external and internal policy issues; and assessment of the EU's contribution to conflict resolution, an important focus of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The complex policy picture that emerges from the different goals, values, and instruments across these areas is examined in the book's final chapter, which focuses on the European Neighbourhood Policy, frequently proclaimed as a strategic priority for the EU. Together, the essays present a clear picture of the complex development of EU external relations, of the struggle for coherence in the increasingly active, visible, and self-conscious role played by the EU as a participant in the international legal order.
Beatrix Futák-Campbell
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780719095894
- eISBN:
- 9781526132369
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719095894.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Russian Politics
This book is a novel contribution to practice theory in International Relations, focusing on how EU practitioners approach the Union’s foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood, including Russia, ...
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This book is a novel contribution to practice theory in International Relations, focusing on how EU practitioners approach the Union’s foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood, including Russia, from a poststructuralist perspective. It offers a new methodology to capture practices through the analytical approach of Discursive International Relations and the Discursive Practice Model (DPM). DPM focuses on the micro-interactional features of practitioners’ social actions, agency and rhetorical devices, exploring what practitioners accomplish with them and how they relate this back to foreign policy practices.
Drawing from data gathered at the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament’s AFET committee members, the study concludes that practitioners are concerned with the collective EU identity and how Russia and the eastern neighbours fit within this ‘Europeaness’. But they are equally concerned with normative and moral duties and collective security interests. This suggest that practitioners are a lot more pragmatic when it comes to this policy area then previously assumed by the vast literature on normative power in Europe. This pragmatism does not mean that identity, normative and moral concerns do not matter, but rather that they all interplay when practitioner consider this policy area. Moreover, practitioners ought to be cautious of using moral concerns when considering the eastern neighbours as they jeopardise being seen as a moralising power, rather than a moral authority in the region. The current Ukrainian crises are testament to that.Less
This book is a novel contribution to practice theory in International Relations, focusing on how EU practitioners approach the Union’s foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood, including Russia, from a poststructuralist perspective. It offers a new methodology to capture practices through the analytical approach of Discursive International Relations and the Discursive Practice Model (DPM). DPM focuses on the micro-interactional features of practitioners’ social actions, agency and rhetorical devices, exploring what practitioners accomplish with them and how they relate this back to foreign policy practices.
Drawing from data gathered at the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament’s AFET committee members, the study concludes that practitioners are concerned with the collective EU identity and how Russia and the eastern neighbours fit within this ‘Europeaness’. But they are equally concerned with normative and moral duties and collective security interests. This suggest that practitioners are a lot more pragmatic when it comes to this policy area then previously assumed by the vast literature on normative power in Europe. This pragmatism does not mean that identity, normative and moral concerns do not matter, but rather that they all interplay when practitioner consider this policy area. Moreover, practitioners ought to be cautious of using moral concerns when considering the eastern neighbours as they jeopardise being seen as a moralising power, rather than a moral authority in the region. The current Ukrainian crises are testament to that.
Dr Suresh Kumar
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199545827
- eISBN:
- 9780191730429
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545827.003.0016
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Palliative Medicine Research
This chapter discusses palliative care programmes in the south Indian state of Kerala, specifically the Neighbourhood Network in Palliative Care (NNPC). This programme recruits volunteers from the ...
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This chapter discusses palliative care programmes in the south Indian state of Kerala, specifically the Neighbourhood Network in Palliative Care (NNPC). This programme recruits volunteers from the local community and trains them to identify the problems of the chronically ill in their area and to intervene effectively. These volunteers have active support from a network of trained professionals.Less
This chapter discusses palliative care programmes in the south Indian state of Kerala, specifically the Neighbourhood Network in Palliative Care (NNPC). This programme recruits volunteers from the local community and trains them to identify the problems of the chronically ill in their area and to intervene effectively. These volunteers have active support from a network of trained professionals.
Roger White, Guy Engelen, and Inge Uljee
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029568
- eISBN:
- 9780262331371
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029568.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Urban growth and change are modelled by a constrained CA in which cell states represent land uses. The transition rule takes into account not only the neighbourhood effect, which captures attraction ...
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Urban growth and change are modelled by a constrained CA in which cell states represent land uses. The transition rule takes into account not only the neighbourhood effect, which captures attraction and repulsion effects among the various land uses, but also several other factors: suitabilities, representing physical factors such as slope or flood risk; accessibility to the transport network; legal restrictions on land use; and a random perturbation representing variability among the implicit agents making the land use decisions. The basic CA land use model is linked dynamically to other models—specifically economic, demographic, and natural system models—with two-way feedback, so that the linked models drive growth in the land use model, while changes is land use modify relevant parameters in the linked models. Applications to Dublin, Cincinnati, and the island of Saint Lucia are discussed.Less
Urban growth and change are modelled by a constrained CA in which cell states represent land uses. The transition rule takes into account not only the neighbourhood effect, which captures attraction and repulsion effects among the various land uses, but also several other factors: suitabilities, representing physical factors such as slope or flood risk; accessibility to the transport network; legal restrictions on land use; and a random perturbation representing variability among the implicit agents making the land use decisions. The basic CA land use model is linked dynamically to other models—specifically economic, demographic, and natural system models—with two-way feedback, so that the linked models drive growth in the land use model, while changes is land use modify relevant parameters in the linked models. Applications to Dublin, Cincinnati, and the island of Saint Lucia are discussed.
Martin Innes, Colin Roberts, Trudy Lowe, and Helen Innes
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198783213
- eISBN:
- 9780191830396
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198783213.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
Neighbourhood Policing is one of the most significant and high-profile innovations in UK policing of recent times. It has also been one of the most successful, garnering widespread political and ...
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Neighbourhood Policing is one of the most significant and high-profile innovations in UK policing of recent times. It has also been one of the most successful, garnering widespread political and public support. This book brings together insights and evidence from a ten-year programme of research into the concept and implementation of Neighbourhood Policing, telling its story from initial policy development, through periods where it started to feature less significantly in the everyday practice of the police, and beyond. Drawing upon extensive empirical data, blended with unique insights from the authors’ involvement in designing some of the original processes and systems underpinning the delivery of Neighbourhood Policing, the book attends to issues of criminological and sociological interest, seeking to distil key findings about this particular inflection of community policing. Locating these themes and issues within the overall trajectory of development of UK policing, the book provides a rigorously evidenced assessment of Neighbourhood Policing’s achievements and weaknesses, and a unique and compelling insight into the significant place it has achieved within the contemporary policing landscape.Less
Neighbourhood Policing is one of the most significant and high-profile innovations in UK policing of recent times. It has also been one of the most successful, garnering widespread political and public support. This book brings together insights and evidence from a ten-year programme of research into the concept and implementation of Neighbourhood Policing, telling its story from initial policy development, through periods where it started to feature less significantly in the everyday practice of the police, and beyond. Drawing upon extensive empirical data, blended with unique insights from the authors’ involvement in designing some of the original processes and systems underpinning the delivery of Neighbourhood Policing, the book attends to issues of criminological and sociological interest, seeking to distil key findings about this particular inflection of community policing. Locating these themes and issues within the overall trajectory of development of UK policing, the book provides a rigorously evidenced assessment of Neighbourhood Policing’s achievements and weaknesses, and a unique and compelling insight into the significant place it has achieved within the contemporary policing landscape.
Susan Eleuterio, Barbara Banks, Phillis Humphries, and Charlene Smith
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496810847
- eISBN:
- 9781496810892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496810847.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter explores a legendary cafeteria/restaurant on Chicago’s South Side, the Valois, which showcases the favorite breakfasts of President Barack Obama as well as traditional foods (biscuits, ...
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This chapter explores a legendary cafeteria/restaurant on Chicago’s South Side, the Valois, which showcases the favorite breakfasts of President Barack Obama as well as traditional foods (biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, grilled cheese, etc.) associated with comfort and home by Americans. Consisting of a facilitated conversation involving a folklorist and three women of African-American descent who have written about food traditions, this essay explores how restaurants, particularly diners like Valois, emphasize basic foods and plain surroundings (including a cash only policy) in order to create a sense of belonging in a commercial establishment.Less
This chapter explores a legendary cafeteria/restaurant on Chicago’s South Side, the Valois, which showcases the favorite breakfasts of President Barack Obama as well as traditional foods (biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, grilled cheese, etc.) associated with comfort and home by Americans. Consisting of a facilitated conversation involving a folklorist and three women of African-American descent who have written about food traditions, this essay explores how restaurants, particularly diners like Valois, emphasize basic foods and plain surroundings (including a cash only policy) in order to create a sense of belonging in a commercial establishment.
Alison Gilchrist
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447361107
- eISBN:
- 9781447361145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447361107.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter explores how the use of a complexity-informed approach to the development and evaluation of community action can improve joint working. It reviews the adoption of this approach by public ...
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This chapter explores how the use of a complexity-informed approach to the development and evaluation of community action can improve joint working. It reviews the adoption of this approach by public agencies and funders such as the Lankelly Chase Foundation in the UK and the FSG in the USA and explains the importance of the emphasis they place on trust-based partnerships and evaluations that are open, flexible and oriented towards collective learning. It goes on to consider a community project grant-aided by the National Lottery Community Fund which uses a complexity-informed approach to strengthen the connections within and between communities and promote neighbourhood evaluation that endeavours to identify optimal levels of interaction and inclusion that allow ‘order’ to emerge from ‘chaos’ through the co-production of sustainable outcomes.Less
This chapter explores how the use of a complexity-informed approach to the development and evaluation of community action can improve joint working. It reviews the adoption of this approach by public agencies and funders such as the Lankelly Chase Foundation in the UK and the FSG in the USA and explains the importance of the emphasis they place on trust-based partnerships and evaluations that are open, flexible and oriented towards collective learning. It goes on to consider a community project grant-aided by the National Lottery Community Fund which uses a complexity-informed approach to strengthen the connections within and between communities and promote neighbourhood evaluation that endeavours to identify optimal levels of interaction and inclusion that allow ‘order’ to emerge from ‘chaos’ through the co-production of sustainable outcomes.
Diane Warburton
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447361107
- eISBN:
- 9781447361145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447361107.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter looks at the threats posed to communities by environmental degradation, and presents five types of impact that can be achieved by community-based action, which takes into account issues ...
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This chapter looks at the threats posed to communities by environmental degradation, and presents five types of impact that can be achieved by community-based action, which takes into account issues of disadvantage, race and class. These cover the tackling of pollution with community projects and organised challenges to environmentally unfriendly proposals; enhanced communities’ role in influencing the development of land and buildings; local engagement to improve green spaces; the development of neighbourhood environment with the help of community architecture; and climate change-related actions from community energy projects to campaigns directed at wider climate policy. The highlighted approaches are illustrated with a range of examples from the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in San Francisco, to Living Under One Sun in London.Less
This chapter looks at the threats posed to communities by environmental degradation, and presents five types of impact that can be achieved by community-based action, which takes into account issues of disadvantage, race and class. These cover the tackling of pollution with community projects and organised challenges to environmentally unfriendly proposals; enhanced communities’ role in influencing the development of land and buildings; local engagement to improve green spaces; the development of neighbourhood environment with the help of community architecture; and climate change-related actions from community energy projects to campaigns directed at wider climate policy. The highlighted approaches are illustrated with a range of examples from the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in San Francisco, to Living Under One Sun in London.
Tim Blackman
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861346117
- eISBN:
- 9781447302971
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861346117.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
Where people live matters to their health. Health-improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? This book tackles this question by exploring new theoretical, empirical, and ...
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Where people live matters to their health. Health-improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? This book tackles this question by exploring new theoretical, empirical, and practice perspectives on this issue, anchored by major studies of England's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and the Programme for Action on health inequalities. It uses complexity theory to understand the inter-relationships between neighbourhood change, the emergence of states of health, and policy interventions managed using performance indicators. This is complemented by reviews of the international evidence base on area effects and neighbourhood change, supplemented by new insights from the author's own research and experience as an advisor to local-neighbourhood-renewal strategies. The book is a wide-ranging study with many new examples of the impact of neighbourhood conditions from smoking to dementia.Less
Where people live matters to their health. Health-improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? This book tackles this question by exploring new theoretical, empirical, and practice perspectives on this issue, anchored by major studies of England's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and the Programme for Action on health inequalities. It uses complexity theory to understand the inter-relationships between neighbourhood change, the emergence of states of health, and policy interventions managed using performance indicators. This is complemented by reviews of the international evidence base on area effects and neighbourhood change, supplemented by new insights from the author's own research and experience as an advisor to local-neighbourhood-renewal strategies. The book is a wide-ranging study with many new examples of the impact of neighbourhood conditions from smoking to dementia.
Chiara Saraceno, David Benassi, and Enrica Morlicchio
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781447352211
- eISBN:
- 9781447352259
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447352211.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
The chapter describes the incidence and features of poverty in the ten largest Italian cities. Exploiting the bulk of existing research, the chapter discusses how poverty is produced in each city, ...
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The chapter describes the incidence and features of poverty in the ten largest Italian cities. Exploiting the bulk of existing research, the chapter discusses how poverty is produced in each city, stressing the connection between the social organization of the urban life – including the economy, the social dynamics, the social fabric, the local politics – and the triggering of individual and household trajectories of impoverishment. Following an analysis based on maps that show how the disadvantaged population is more or less concentrated is some areas of each city, the situation of the three largest ones – Milan, Naples and Rome – is described in more detail. These three cities are very different from each other: Milan is the wealthiest city of the country, and here poverty transforms typically in social exclusion, while Naples is the ideal-typical case of Mediterranean city with a large diffusion of “integrated poverty”, but also of disqualified poverty and urban segregation. Rome is an immense territory with large dispersed and often isolated peripheries (the so-called borgate) where a highly vulnerable and variegated population live often in conflict with each other.Less
The chapter describes the incidence and features of poverty in the ten largest Italian cities. Exploiting the bulk of existing research, the chapter discusses how poverty is produced in each city, stressing the connection between the social organization of the urban life – including the economy, the social dynamics, the social fabric, the local politics – and the triggering of individual and household trajectories of impoverishment. Following an analysis based on maps that show how the disadvantaged population is more or less concentrated is some areas of each city, the situation of the three largest ones – Milan, Naples and Rome – is described in more detail. These three cities are very different from each other: Milan is the wealthiest city of the country, and here poverty transforms typically in social exclusion, while Naples is the ideal-typical case of Mediterranean city with a large diffusion of “integrated poverty”, but also of disqualified poverty and urban segregation. Rome is an immense territory with large dispersed and often isolated peripheries (the so-called borgate) where a highly vulnerable and variegated population live often in conflict with each other.
Melanie Tebbutt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719066139
- eISBN:
- 9781781704097
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719066139.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Chapter 7 enters a very different performance space, that of thestreet and the part that the ‘largely taken for granted world’ of walking played in the formation of adolescent masculinity. ...
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Chapter 7 enters a very different performance space, that of thestreet and the part that the ‘largely taken for granted world’ of walking played in the formation of adolescent masculinity. Working-class boys and young men enjoyed greater spatial freedoms than their female counterparts, but their occupation of street space was oft en depicted in very passive terms, as in cartoons from the late nineteenth century of scowling, slouching individuals, arms akimbo or hands in pockets, legs apart and a cigarette invariably drooping from the mouth. Assumptions of street ‘loitering’ ignored the dynamic nature of young people's relationships with neighbourhoods and how ‘hanging around’, gossiping and watching the world go by helped to construct male social identity in relation both to their peers and adult society. The role of place in mediating boys' entry into the world of adults is usually seen in terms of neighbourhood territory and gangs. This chapter explores how walking and place-based leisure routines helped to fashion the streets and districts in which working-class boys grew up into a ‘knowable’ landscape, a ‘practiced place’ whose meanings during adolescence deepened and extended into distinctive topographical identities, reinforced by habit, familiarity and the casual rhythms of daily life.Less
Chapter 7 enters a very different performance space, that of thestreet and the part that the ‘largely taken for granted world’ of walking played in the formation of adolescent masculinity. Working-class boys and young men enjoyed greater spatial freedoms than their female counterparts, but their occupation of street space was oft en depicted in very passive terms, as in cartoons from the late nineteenth century of scowling, slouching individuals, arms akimbo or hands in pockets, legs apart and a cigarette invariably drooping from the mouth. Assumptions of street ‘loitering’ ignored the dynamic nature of young people's relationships with neighbourhoods and how ‘hanging around’, gossiping and watching the world go by helped to construct male social identity in relation both to their peers and adult society. The role of place in mediating boys' entry into the world of adults is usually seen in terms of neighbourhood territory and gangs. This chapter explores how walking and place-based leisure routines helped to fashion the streets and districts in which working-class boys grew up into a ‘knowable’ landscape, a ‘practiced place’ whose meanings during adolescence deepened and extended into distinctive topographical identities, reinforced by habit, familiarity and the casual rhythms of daily life.
Alistair McFadyen
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529207392
- eISBN:
- 9781529207408
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529207392.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Policing has been curiously absent from direct, sustained and explicit consideration in the long-established and significant theological literature on criminal justice. This chapter begins by ...
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Policing has been curiously absent from direct, sustained and explicit consideration in the long-established and significant theological literature on criminal justice. This chapter begins by interrogating that absence as a first move towards constructing a theology of and for policing that reflects the author’s own experience as a serving British police officer. That is supplemented by the more or less focal engagement with policing in other theological literatures (political theologies, Black Lives Matter movement, international peacebuilding and just war, Christian pacifism and non-violence). Twin nodes of a theology of and for policing are identified: love of neighbourhood and of enemies as vehicles for a social order oriented towards human flourishing. Policing practices are considered as tools that might foster such a social order in a theological engagement with policing that is at once critical and, realist, in which policing has transformative and reparative potential.Less
Policing has been curiously absent from direct, sustained and explicit consideration in the long-established and significant theological literature on criminal justice. This chapter begins by interrogating that absence as a first move towards constructing a theology of and for policing that reflects the author’s own experience as a serving British police officer. That is supplemented by the more or less focal engagement with policing in other theological literatures (political theologies, Black Lives Matter movement, international peacebuilding and just war, Christian pacifism and non-violence). Twin nodes of a theology of and for policing are identified: love of neighbourhood and of enemies as vehicles for a social order oriented towards human flourishing. Policing practices are considered as tools that might foster such a social order in a theological engagement with policing that is at once critical and, realist, in which policing has transformative and reparative potential.
Steffen Eychmüller and Franzisca Domeisen Benedetti
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199644155
- eISBN:
- 9780191749094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644155.003.0007
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine Research, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making
This chapter presents an account of a regional initiative undertaken in north eastern Switzerland to develop community-based palliative care. The Kerala (India) Neighbourhood Network in Palliative ...
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This chapter presents an account of a regional initiative undertaken in north eastern Switzerland to develop community-based palliative care. The Kerala (India) Neighbourhood Network in Palliative Care (KNNPC) was identified as an excellent example of a model of community palliative care that effectively addresses some of the difficulties experienced by people who wish to die at home, and their primary carers. A participatory community development project was initiated and divided into three steps: 1. Initial evaluation of status; 2. Initiation of community round tables (a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views); and 3. Formulation of recommendations and concrete action plans. This project outlines a participatory action research project that brought together professionals, volunteers and community leaders to develop a community palliative care programme across three areas in north eastern Switzerland.Less
This chapter presents an account of a regional initiative undertaken in north eastern Switzerland to develop community-based palliative care. The Kerala (India) Neighbourhood Network in Palliative Care (KNNPC) was identified as an excellent example of a model of community palliative care that effectively addresses some of the difficulties experienced by people who wish to die at home, and their primary carers. A participatory community development project was initiated and divided into three steps: 1. Initial evaluation of status; 2. Initiation of community round tables (a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views); and 3. Formulation of recommendations and concrete action plans. This project outlines a participatory action research project that brought together professionals, volunteers and community leaders to develop a community palliative care programme across three areas in north eastern Switzerland.
Tim Marshall
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781447337201
- eISBN:
- 9781447337256
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447337201.003.0006
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
Government is central to the activity of planning. Here the basic functioning of planning in England in central and local government is summarised. The place of planning as a part of public ...
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Government is central to the activity of planning. Here the basic functioning of planning in England in central and local government is summarised. The place of planning as a part of public bureaucracies is analysed. It is argued that bureaucracy is a vital and valuable aspect of government, which can help to promote fair treatment and prevent corruption. However, planning is only in part a bureaucratic activity, as much of its work demands specific and creative responses to local circumstances. Analysis is then given of the operation of planning at the local level, identifying the role of local politicians and the formation of local political and ideological planning contexts. Case studies draw on Oxfordshire and Hampshire experience in recent decades. A final section analyses the ideological and political framing of the neighbourhood planning instituted in England in the last decade, identifying the weaknesses that this suffers from, as well as some potential for learning.Less
Government is central to the activity of planning. Here the basic functioning of planning in England in central and local government is summarised. The place of planning as a part of public bureaucracies is analysed. It is argued that bureaucracy is a vital and valuable aspect of government, which can help to promote fair treatment and prevent corruption. However, planning is only in part a bureaucratic activity, as much of its work demands specific and creative responses to local circumstances. Analysis is then given of the operation of planning at the local level, identifying the role of local politicians and the formation of local political and ideological planning contexts. Case studies draw on Oxfordshire and Hampshire experience in recent decades. A final section analyses the ideological and political framing of the neighbourhood planning instituted in England in the last decade, identifying the weaknesses that this suffers from, as well as some potential for learning.
Anne Power
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861349583
- eISBN:
- 9781447302742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861349583.003.0009
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
This chapter examines evidence to support a neighbourhood focus for delivering social policy. It presents some findings on how neighbourhood renewal in practice addresses the problems of integration ...
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This chapter examines evidence to support a neighbourhood focus for delivering social policy. It presents some findings on how neighbourhood renewal in practice addresses the problems of integration and urban recovery. The central questions are: Why does the neighbourhood affect social conditions? What is the evidence of progress in neighbourhood renewal? Are more mixed urban communities likely to emerge through neighbourhood renewal? The chapter draws on several long-run studies about low-income areas and their prospects. The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science has been tracking 12 highly disadvantaged areas, covering the different representative types of deprived neighbourhoods in England for the last eight years. The Neighbourhood Renewal Unit is trying to help in the recovery of up to 3,000 such areas.Less
This chapter examines evidence to support a neighbourhood focus for delivering social policy. It presents some findings on how neighbourhood renewal in practice addresses the problems of integration and urban recovery. The central questions are: Why does the neighbourhood affect social conditions? What is the evidence of progress in neighbourhood renewal? Are more mixed urban communities likely to emerge through neighbourhood renewal? The chapter draws on several long-run studies about low-income areas and their prospects. The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science has been tracking 12 highly disadvantaged areas, covering the different representative types of deprived neighbourhoods in England for the last eight years. The Neighbourhood Renewal Unit is trying to help in the recovery of up to 3,000 such areas.
Mark Webber
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719061486
- eISBN:
- 9781781701645
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719061486.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
As the Cold War ended, a reinvigorated role for the European Union (EU) required of its leaders a major political, even intellectual, readjustment. Prior to 1989, the European Community had enlarged ...
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As the Cold War ended, a reinvigorated role for the European Union (EU) required of its leaders a major political, even intellectual, readjustment. Prior to 1989, the European Community had enlarged on three occasions. To the original six members of the then European Economic Community (France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) were added Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom in 1973, Greece in 1981 and, five years later Spain and Portugal. These enlargements were, however, entirely consistent with the Cold War division of Europe. From its inception, the process of European integration has been explicitly informed by a desire among the governments of Europe to preserve peace on the continent. This chapter explores security governance and security community in the EU, partnership and enlargement, inclusion and exclusion, and the limits of enlargement. To assess how the limits of enlargement are to be gauged and how these relate to security governance, the chapter also turns to the categories of region, institutionalisation, and compliance. Finally, it describes the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Justice and Home Affairs.Less
As the Cold War ended, a reinvigorated role for the European Union (EU) required of its leaders a major political, even intellectual, readjustment. Prior to 1989, the European Community had enlarged on three occasions. To the original six members of the then European Economic Community (France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) were added Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom in 1973, Greece in 1981 and, five years later Spain and Portugal. These enlargements were, however, entirely consistent with the Cold War division of Europe. From its inception, the process of European integration has been explicitly informed by a desire among the governments of Europe to preserve peace on the continent. This chapter explores security governance and security community in the EU, partnership and enlargement, inclusion and exclusion, and the limits of enlargement. To assess how the limits of enlargement are to be gauged and how these relate to security governance, the chapter also turns to the categories of region, institutionalisation, and compliance. Finally, it describes the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Justice and Home Affairs.
John Eversley and Les Mayhew
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847426956
- eISBN:
- 9781447303084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426956.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter discusses the measurability of social cohesion. It addresses how the present state of the science could be greatly improved by using a system called ‘Neighbourhood Knowledge Management’ ...
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This chapter discusses the measurability of social cohesion. It addresses how the present state of the science could be greatly improved by using a system called ‘Neighbourhood Knowledge Management’ (nkm), applied to normal local-authority-level administrative data and case studies. The chapter then pays attention to the practical and ethical issues involved in using such data and how they can be managed. The problems with existing measures of cohesion include: what is being measured; the sources of data; and how the data are analysed. The chapter shows the work done by the nkm team both for London Excels and in other projects to illustrate what can be done with administrative data to support work on cohesion. There are also challenges in using the administrative data. Administrative data have been identified as a major tool for the future of sociology and social policy.Less
This chapter discusses the measurability of social cohesion. It addresses how the present state of the science could be greatly improved by using a system called ‘Neighbourhood Knowledge Management’ (nkm), applied to normal local-authority-level administrative data and case studies. The chapter then pays attention to the practical and ethical issues involved in using such data and how they can be managed. The problems with existing measures of cohesion include: what is being measured; the sources of data; and how the data are analysed. The chapter shows the work done by the nkm team both for London Excels and in other projects to illustrate what can be done with administrative data to support work on cohesion. There are also challenges in using the administrative data. Administrative data have been identified as a major tool for the future of sociology and social policy.
Ruth Lupton and Anne Power
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861345783
- eISBN:
- 9781447301394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861345783.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter focuses on New Labour's efforts to reverse the long-running negative impact on urban conditions of concentrated poverty within deprived areas and to break the connection between poor ...
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This chapter focuses on New Labour's efforts to reverse the long-running negative impact on urban conditions of concentrated poverty within deprived areas and to break the connection between poor social and physical conditions. The first section of the chapter discusses the situation New Labour inherited and the development of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. The second section discusses the measurable results of the strategy and the third section focuses on the relationship between wider urban, regional, and housing policies and the new neighbourhood renewal agenda. The chapter ends by assessing the future progress of neighbourhood renewal.Less
This chapter focuses on New Labour's efforts to reverse the long-running negative impact on urban conditions of concentrated poverty within deprived areas and to break the connection between poor social and physical conditions. The first section of the chapter discusses the situation New Labour inherited and the development of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. The second section discusses the measurable results of the strategy and the third section focuses on the relationship between wider urban, regional, and housing policies and the new neighbourhood renewal agenda. The chapter ends by assessing the future progress of neighbourhood renewal.
Joanna Howard and David Sweeting
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348951
- eISBN:
- 9781447302100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348951.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter explores the nature of democracy in neighbourhoods in England in the context of the government's neighbourhood agenda. It examines tensions between forms of democracy through an analysis ...
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This chapter explores the nature of democracy in neighbourhoods in England in the context of the government's neighbourhood agenda. It examines tensions between forms of democracy through an analysis of key programmes in the government's Neighbourhood Renewal Agenda. It notes that the current emphasis on neighbourhood governance promises to reconfigure local democracy and the neighbourhood level is presented as having the potential for widespread citizen participation and engagement. It observes that the government asserts that ‘neighbourhood arrangements must be consistent with local representative democracy’, but government prescription remains ambiguous on the nature of democracy.Less
This chapter explores the nature of democracy in neighbourhoods in England in the context of the government's neighbourhood agenda. It examines tensions between forms of democracy through an analysis of key programmes in the government's Neighbourhood Renewal Agenda. It notes that the current emphasis on neighbourhood governance promises to reconfigure local democracy and the neighbourhood level is presented as having the potential for widespread citizen participation and engagement. It observes that the government asserts that ‘neighbourhood arrangements must be consistent with local representative democracy’, but government prescription remains ambiguous on the nature of democracy.
