End of Life Care: Achieving Quality in Hostels and for Homeless People, A Route to Success

This publication aims to provide a practical guide to support hostel staff in ensuring that people nearing the end of their life receive high quality end of life care

Trust and mistrust in the lives of forcibly displaced women and children

This paper aims to consider the experiences of displaced women and children throughout the experience of displacement and the issue of trust (or mistrust) throughout this journey towards future emplacement. Issues around trust and mistrust in conflict situations and considerations around interpersonal and broader based gender-based violence in politicised contexts are explored. Various stages of displacement are viewed and, through the use of examples, from experiences within refugee camps, reception in host countries and resettlement in countries of asylum insights into the lived experiences of displaced women and children are provided. This paper therefore draws upon research projects and practitioner experience, including research carried out within refugee camps, in the UK on the dispersal of asylum seekers, qualitative research into agency responses to the trafficking of children and young people, plus a scoping study involving qualitative research into non-statutory understandings of trafficking.

After the Rain – learning the lessons from flood recovery in Hull

The report shows that it is often not so much the floods themselves, but what comes afterwards, that people find so difficult to deal with. The research on which this report is based aimed to undertake a real-time longitudinal study to document and understand the everyday experiences of individuals following the floods of June 2007 in interaction with networks of actors and organisations, strategies of institutional support and investment in the built environment and infrastructure. It had the following objectives: - To identify and document key dimensions of the longer term experience of flood impact and flood recovery, including health, economic and social aspects. - To examine how resilience and vulnerability were manifest in the interaction between everyday strategies of adaptation during the flood recovery process, and modes of institutional support and the management of infrastructure and the built environment. -To explore to what extent the recovery process entailed the development of new forms of resilience and to identify the implications for developing local level resilience for flood recovery in the future. To develop an archive that will be accessible for future research into other aspects of flood recovery. The flooding which affected the city of Kingston-upon-Hull took place in June 2007. Over 110mm of rain fell during the biggest event, overwhelming the city‟s drainage system and resulting in widespread pluvial flooding. The floods affected over 8,600 households and one person was killed. Our research used in-depth, qualitative methods where 44 people kept weekly diaries and participated in interviews and group discussions over an 18-month period

InclusiveDevelopment: The Mode of Equalization of BasicPublic Cultural Service in ChineseUrban and Rural Areas

This paper selects the perspective of urban and rural culture as a starting point to make the research of basic public service equalization. It builds a theoretical framework to analyze inclusive development as the mode of equality of basic public cultural service in Chinese urban and rural areas. Public cultural service refers to the use of public power and resources to protect the cultural rights of citizens, meet the citizens’ basic needs of public culture service. As to perfecting public cultural services, it’s Chinese important subject for cultural mechanism reform and essential aim for cultural construction. Currently there are many questions in constructing public culture service system, for examples, the poor consciousness, imperfect system, insufficient funds investment, old cultural infrastructure and the lagged market. Therefore, we should share the light of local conditions to build a new system of public cultural services in gradually. Inclusive development as the design and effective implementation of public policies and actions that bring about socio-economic and human development, in a way that promotes the capacities and equal opportunities and rights of all people in sustainable harmony with the environment, regardless of his social condition, gender, age, physical or mental condition, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc.. Inclusive development is benefit to soften social contradictions and handle human livelihood, and for building a harmonious society. Through the expansion of poverty-stricken areas of infrastructure and investment in cultural resource development, people can own their equal opportunities to raise their own culture training and quality

Social movements never died: community politics and the social economy in the Irish Republic

This paper argues for a socialist feminist theorisation of social movements that starts from the ?hidden knowledge? of situated social relations, needs and struggles. In this perspective, social movements are a constant presence in the social world, although taking different institutional forms; they do not ?revive? so much as develop, or ?fade away? so much as retreat. This paper discusses one example. Community politics in the Irish Republic, largely and significantly powered by women's activism, spans the urban working class and the rural marginalised in a challenge to official ?development?. These movements use participatory praxis to articulate locally felt needs, adding a second dimension to official nationalist and labour corporatisms. This gendered focus on participation and the hidden dimension of needs makes explicit the connection between public action and private struggle. These movements currently find their limits in difficulties with alliance-building beyond the local spheres of tacit knowledge and a tendency to co-optation by the state, converting activists into subcontracted civil servants. An understanding of movements as the organisation of situated skills can both account for this and help activists to push the other way, challenging the official knowledge of market and state on its own terrain

Social movements never died:community politics and the social economy in the Irish Republic

This paper argues for a socialist feminist theorisation of social movements that starts from the “hidden knowledge” of situated social relations, needs and struggles. In this perspective, social movements are a constant presence in the social world, although taking different institutional forms; they do not “revive” so much as develop, or “fade away” so much as retreat. This paper discusses one example. Community politics in the Irish Republic, largely and significantly powered by women’s activism, spans the urban working class and the rural marginalised in a challenge to official “development”. These movements use participatory praxis to articulate locally felt needs, adding a second dimension to official nationalist and labour corporatisms. This gendered focus on participation and the hidden dimension of needs makes explicit the connection between public action and private struggle. These movements currently find their limits in difficulties with alliance-building beyond the local spheres of tacit knowledge and in a tendency to co-optation by the state, converting activists into subcontracted civil servants. An understanding of movements as the organisation of situated skills can both account for this and help activists to push the other way, challenging the official knowledge of market and state on its own terrain

Social movements never died:community politics and the social economy in the Irish Republic

This paper argues for a socialist feminist theorisation of social movements that starts from the “hidden knowledge” of situated social relations, needs and struggles. In this perspective, social movements are a constant presence in the social world, although taking different institutional forms; they do not “revive” so much as develop, or “fade away” so much as retreat. This paper discusses one example. Community politics in the Irish Republic, largely and significantly powered by women’s activism, spans the urban working class and the rural marginalised in a challenge to official “development”. These movements use participatory praxis to articulate locally felt needs, adding a second dimension to official nationalist and labour corporatisms. This gendered focus on participation and the hidden dimension of needs makes explicit the connection between public action and private struggle. These movements currently find their limits in difficulties with alliance-building beyond the local spheres of tacit knowledge and in a tendency to co-optation by the state, converting activists into subcontracted civil servants. An understanding of movements as the organisation of situated skills can both account for this and help activists to push the other way, challenging the official knowledge of market and state on its own terrain

Surveillance and the city: patronage, power-sharing and the politics of urban control in Zimbabwe

From 2000, ZANU(PF) suffered repeated electoral defeat in the cities and lost control of municipalities to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). This turned urban governance into a battlefield, as ZANU(PF) dramatically recentralised powers over local authorities, developed ‘parallel’ party structures and used militia to control central markets and peri-urban land. Taking the case of Harare and environs during the period of Zimbabwe's Inclusive Government (IG), this article explores contestations over urban authority, focusing on the office of councillor and urban spaces dominated by ZANU(PF)-aligned militia. I argue that surveillance was central to ZANU(PF)'s strategy for urban control and to the politics of patronage. Inconvenient councillors were disciplined by threats and enticements from the feared Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and were also vulnerable to suspension, while ZANU(PF) militia made political loyalty a condition of access to market stalls, land and housing cooperatives. Dominant political science characterisations of the African postcolonial state and ethnographic accounts of precarity and vigilance mislead in this context if they fail to capture the disciplining roles and social reach of a centralised partisan state security agency and militarised party structures that suffuse work and social life within local government institutions and contested city spaces. Analyses of power-sharing need to reach beyond the national stage not only because conflict over local authorities can undermine transitional political processes but also for the light they can shed on the changing character of the state and its relationship to reconstituted ZANU(PF) powers