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Logan, P. A., M. Batchvarova, and C. Read. "A Study of the Housing Needs of Disabled Applicants to the Nottingham City Council Housing Department and the Problems Faced by Local Housing Providers in Meeting These Needs." British Journal of Occupational Therapy 60, no. 3 (March 1997): 129–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030802269706000309.
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This study of the housing needs of disabled people and the problems faced by housing providers in Nottingham was carried out with a view to establishing a data base of adapted properties and disabled people. A small survey of 47 disabled people, with 22 respondents, reported problems when trying to find a new home. Less than a quarter of those who replied had been assessed prior to looking for a new home by an occupational therapist, while over half said that they would like help from an occupational therapist when choosing a new home. A survey of 42 housing providers found that, of the 26 respondents, over half had disabled people waiting for a property and a third had adapted properties that they were unable to let. These findings supported local concern about housing problems for disabled people and led to the development of the Disabled People and Adapted Properties Register (DPAPR). This register holds a computerised list of disabled people looking for a new home and of the adapted properties in Nottingham, for sale or for rent.
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Kwaśniak, Aleksander. "GLOSS APPROVING THE JUDGMENT OF THE PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT IN SZCZECIN OF 22 AUGUST 2019, REFERENCE NUMBER ACT: II SA/SZ 597/19." Roczniki Administracji i Prawa 4, no. XX (December 30, 2020): 297–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.8444.
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The commented judgment concerns the issue of the transport of disabled people in wheelchairs in public transport. Assessing the judgment in two dimensions, and this: the scope of the statutory authorization of the commune council to enact order regulations and the prohibition of discrimination against disabled people; the author of the gloss concludes that this judgment deserves approval. The gloss is polemical with respect to the critical gloss regarding this judgment.
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Beaton, Marion. "Glasgow City Council: library, information and learning services for disabled people in Glasgow." Library Review 54, no. 8 (October 2005): 472–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242530510619174.
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Bogdanor, Vernon. "The British–Irish Council and Devolution." Government and Opposition 34, no. 3 (July 1999): 287–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1999.tb00482.x.
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THE BRITISH-IRISH COUNCIL SPRINGS FROM AND IS PROVIDED FOR IN the Belfast Agreement signed on Good Friday 1998. Its coming into force depends upon the implementation of the Agreement. The Council is established, however, not by the 1998 Northern Ireland Act, which gives legislative expression to the bulk of this Agreement, but by an international treaty, the British–Irish Agreement, attached to the Belfast Agreement.The Belfast Agreement together with the legislation providing for devolution to Scotland and Wales establishes a new constitutional settlement, both among the nations which form the United Kingdom, and also between those nations and the other nation in these islands, the Irish nation. The United Kingdom itself is, as a result of the Scotland Act and the Government of Wales Act, in the process of becoming a new union of nations, each with its own identity and institutions – a multi-national state, rather than, as many of the English have traditionally seen it, a homogeneous British nation containing a variety of different people.
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BURCHARDT, TANIA. "The Dynamics of Being Disabled." Journal of Social Policy 29, no. 4 (October 2000): 645–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400006097.
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In recent years, the dynamics of poverty and unemployment have come under increasing scrutiny, but another of the risks with which the welfare state concerns itself – disability – is still largely understood only in a static sense. This article uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to investigate the complexity behind a cross-sectional snapshot. First, a breakdown is given of the working-age population who are disabled at any one time by the ‘disability trajectories’ they follow over a seven-year period. Second, the expected duration of disability for those who become disabled during working life is examined. The results show that only a small proportion of working-age people who experience disability are long-term disabled, although at any one time, long-term disabled people make up a high proportion of all disabled people. Over half of those who become limited in activities of daily living as adults have spells lasting less than two years, but few who remain disabled after four years recover. Intermittent patterns of disability, particularly due to mental illness, are common. Failing to distinguish the different disability trajectories people follow has led to policies which marginalise disabled people and are costly to the state.
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JW. "Accessible Holidays in the British Isles 1997 A guide for disabled people." Physiotherapy 83, no. 3 (March 1997): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9406(05)67174-x.
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HUMPHREY, JILL C. "Self-organise and Survive: Disabled people in the British trade union movement." Disability & Society 13, no. 4 (September 1998): 587–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599826623.
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Cooke, Leila B., and Valerie Sinason. "Abuse of people with learning disabilities and other vulnerable adults." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 4, no. 2 (March 1998): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.4.2.119.
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Workers in the field of learning disability drew attention to the problem of sexual abuse and learning-disabled children and adults only a decade ago (Sinason, 1986; Cooke, 1989), at the same time that British society first tolerated the knowledge that non-disabled children were being abused. Although guidelines have been produced and voluntary organisations such as the National Association for the Protection from Sexual Abuse of Adults and Children with Learning Disabilies (NAPSAC), the Association for Residential Care (ARC) and Voice UK have made vital contributions, psychiatric involvement and provision is uneven (ARC & NAPSAC, 1993).
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Barnes, Colin, and Geof Mercer. "Disability, work, and welfare." Work, Employment and Society 19, no. 3 (September 2005): 527–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017005055669.
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This article engages with debates relating to social policy and disabled people’s exclusion from the British labour market. Drawing on recent developments from within the disabled people’s movement, in particular, the concept of independent living and the social model of disability, and the associated disability studies literature, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to disabled people’s exclusion from the workplace is provided. It is argued that hitherto, analyses of work and disability have failed to address in sufficient depth or breadth the various social and environmental barriers that confront disabled people. It is suggested therefore that a reconfiguration of the meaning of work for disabled people - drawing on and commensurate with disabled people’s perspectives as expressed by the philosophy of independent living - and a social model analysis of their oppression is needed and long overdue.
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Drake, Robert F. "The Exclusion of Disabled People from Positions of Power in British Voluntary Organisations." Disability & Society 9, no. 4 (January 1994): 461–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599466780461.
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North, Barry. "The British Polio Fellowship: its contribution to the development of inclusivity for disabled people." Dynamis 32, no. 2 (2012): 361–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4321/s0211-95362012000200005.
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Mason, Joan. "The Portrayal of Disabled Children in Recent British and American Fiction for Young People." Child & Youth Services 7, no. 1-2 (May 22, 1985): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j024v07n01_06.
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Mardiros, Marilyn. "Preparing Native Indian RNs in British Columbia." Practicing Anthropology 10, no. 2 (April 1, 1988): 8–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.10.2.q36316234501h246.
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In 1981 the Nisga'a Tribal Council in New Aiyansh and North Coast Tribal Council in Prince Rupert commissioned a feasibility study to determine whether there was interest among Indian people of coastal British Columbia in pursuing registered nurse (RN) education. The study resulted in a three year project, the Northern Native Indian Professional Nursing Program (NNIPNP) offering RN preparation which addressed the personal, social and cultural needs of prospective students, their families and communities, while ensuring quality education at par with provincial standards. This article discusses the project as a community-based initiative and my roles as program coordinator, cultural broker, advocate, and liaison between communities, students and the educational institutions offering the RN program.
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Bartlett, Emily. "Reassembling Disabled Identities: Employment, Ex-servicemen and the Poppy Factory." Journal of Social History 54, no. 1 (November 26, 2019): 210–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz111.
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Abstract This article explores popular understandings of disability, work, and gender in the context of charitable employment schemes for disabled ex-servicemen after the First World War. It offers a case study of the British Legion–funded poppy factories in Richmond and Edinburgh, which employed war-disabled men to manufacture artificial flowers from 1922 onward. In so doing, this article demonstrates that press reports and charitable publications surrounding the schemes rhetorically incorporated the factories into wider twentieth-century understandings of Taylorist/Fordist productivity and manufacturing and reimagined the sites as sprawling production lines that churned out millions of flowers per year. This discourse positioned flower making as a highly skilled, masculine occupation, and relatedly constructed war-disabled flower makers as successful, productive, and physically capable workers. As one of the most publicly visible employment schemes—which catered to the most severely disabled ex-servicemen—the factories symbolized the potential of all war-disabled men for employment and went some way to challenge widespread perceptions of disabled people as idle, dependent, and useless. Moreover, this discourse represented modern, scientific methods of manufacturing as a way to make disabled bodies efficient and useful. Charitable reports positioned Taylorist/Fordist production as a solution to the problem of mass disability and ultimately countered widespread British discontent with American manufacturing ideals.
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Posadas, Brianna, Imani Sherman, Divyalashmi Mahendran, Gabriela Burgalia, and Juan Gilbert. "A Focus Group Study of Blind Voters in Alachua County." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 61, no. 1 (September 2017): 1111–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601882.
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Of the 15.6 million people with disabilities who voted in the 2012 United States Presidential Election, one- third had difficulties voting at the precinct. This statistic is one of the reasons work continues on Prime III, an all-accessible electronic voting system, designed to be used by all voters, regardless of ability or disability. To describe the current state of voting for disabled voters and identify issues Prime III can further address, focus groups were conducted with the Alachua County Council of the Blind in Florida. Four focus groups were run with 18 participants in total. Preliminary results find that while the current accessible voting machines satisfactorily allow disabled voters to cast their votes, there are features and functions Prime III can provide that are not available now such as voice input, universal access, and privacy. Next steps include conducting focus groups with disabled students at the University of Florida.
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Creed, Chris. "Assistive tools for disability arts: collaborative experiences in working with disabled artists and stakeholders." Journal of Assistive Technologies 10, no. 2 (June 20, 2016): 121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jat-12-2015-0034.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the experiences in working collaboratively with physically impaired visual artists and other stakeholders (e.g. disability arts organisations, charities, personal assistants, special needs colleges, assistive technologists, etc.) to explore the potential of digital assistive tools to support and transform practice. Design/methodology/approach – The authors strategically identified key organisations as project partners including Disability Arts Shropshire, Arts Council England, the British Council, SCOPE, and National Star College (a large special needs college). This multi-disciplinary team worked together to develop relationships with disabled artists and to collaboratively influence the research focus around investigating the current practice of physically impaired artists and the impact of digital technologies on artistic work. Findings – The collaborations with disabled artists and stakeholders throughout the research process have enriched the project, broadened and deepened research impact, and enabled a firsthand understanding of the issues around using assistive technology for artistic work. Artists and stakeholders have become pro-active collaborators and advocates for the project as opposed to being used only for evaluation purposes. A flexible research approach was crucial in helping to facilitate research studies and enhance impact of the work. Originality/value – This paper is the first to discuss experiences in working with physically impaired visual artists – including the benefits of a collaborative approach and the considerations that must be made when conducting research in this area. The observations are also relevant to researchers working with disabled participants in other fields.
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Morley, Louise, and Alison Croft. "Agency and Advocacy: Disabled Students in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania." Research in Comparative and International Education 6, no. 4 (January 1, 2011): 383–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/rcie.2011.6.4.383.
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Between 10% and 15% of the world's population are thought to be disabled. The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an example of emerging global policy architecture for human rights for disabled people. Article 24 states that disabled people should receive the support required to facilitate their effective education. In research, links between higher education access, equalities and disability are being explored by scholars of the sociology of higher education. However, with the exception of some small-scale studies from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Rwanda, Namibia, Uganda and Pakistan, literature tends to come from the global North. Yet there is a toxic correlation between disability and poverty – especially in the global South. This article is based on a review of the global literature on disability in higher education and interview findings from the project ‘Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: developing an Equity Scorecard’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Department for International Development. A central finding was that while disability was associated with constraints, misrecognition, frustration, exclusion and even danger, students' agency, advocacy and achievement in higher education offered opportunities for transforming spoiled identities.
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Glynne-Jones, Marjorie. "UK Council for Music Education and Training." British Journal of Music Education 7, no. 3 (November 1990): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051700007804.
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The first British Music Educators' Conference was held in July 1989 at Huddersfield Polytechnic. This was a special event in the development of music education in the UK, and the Council was delighted that the conference attracted presenters and participants who represented the wide range of professional activity in the field. The aim was to stimulate discussion and promote interaction among people with differing roles in music education. Presentations were grouped around the following themes.
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Jones, Christine. "Disability in Herefordshire, 1851–1911." Local Population Studies, no. 87 (December 31, 2011): 29–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.35488/lps87.2011.29.
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Disability history is a comparatively new field of study, and to date little use has been made of the British census as a source because of its perceived difficulties. This article shows that it is possible to study a local, disabled population in the second half of the nineteenth century from this source, even thought the way in which individuals' disabilities are described can sometimes vary from one census to the next. Age distribution for each condition and was found to vary between those with congenital and those with acquired conditions. Among those with a handicap of sight, hearing or speech a higher proportion remained unmarried. Disabled people were likely to remain in the parental home until their late thirties, and when their parents died they moved in with siblings or became a lodger or inmate. Although few of the disabled children seemed to be receiving education, over 60 per cent of the adult males were found to be working and almost 25 per cent of the adult females. Disabled people, it appears, were viewed not merely as statistics, but were included as members of the local population, and not always dependent members.
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Warbrick, Colin. "I. BRITISH POLICY AND THE NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL OF LIBYA." International and Comparative Law Quarterly 61, no. 1 (January 2012): 247–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589311000649.
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In February 2011,2 an uprising began in Benghazi in eastern Libya against the long-established Gaddafi3 Government. After initial military success by the rebels in the east, the government responded forcefully. In the light of threats made by the government to the lives of people in Benghazi, the Security Council authorized ‘any necessary measures’ to protect civilian lives in Libya and to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya's air space.4 Acting on this authorization, NATO forces intervened to enforce the no-fly zone and to protect civilians. The resolution precluded the occupation of Libya, so the NATO action was confined to aerial and some naval bombardment of regime targets in Libya. The combined effects of operations by the irregular forces of the rebels and the bombing by NATO eventually led to the defeat of Government forces and the death of President Gaddafi on 20 October 2011. However, the overthrow of the regime was principally the work of groups in the west and south-west, not formally associated with the original insurrection in the east. This note is not concerned with matters of legality of the use of force or the way in which the campaign was conducted by any of the participants.5 It deals with the diplomatic aspects of the development of relations between the United Kingdom, the Gaddafi Government of Libya and the ‘National Transitional Council’ (NTC). It raises some speculation about the implications in domestic law of the way British policy was conducted.
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Slade, Mike, Paul McCrone, and Graham Thornicroft. "Uptake of welfare benefits by psychiatric patients." Psychiatric Bulletin 19, no. 7 (July 1995): 411–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.19.7.411.
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The British benefit system provides for disabled people. However, disincentives within the existing system reduce uptake of benefit entitlements. The link between mental illness and poverty is now well known. If welfare benefits are essential for mentally ill people to function effectively in the community, then changes may be necessary to the current system. These changes include increasing the availability of accessible literature and information from both health and social services sources, further training for mental health staff, and the automatic evaluation of benefit entitlement by the Department of Social Security.
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McLaughlin, Janice, and Edmund Coleman-Fountain. "Visual methods and voice in disabled childhoods research: troubling narrative authenticity." Qualitative Research 19, no. 4 (March 2, 2018): 363–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794118760705.
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Visual methods are a popular way of engaging children and young people in research. Their growth comes out of a desire to make research practice more appropriate and meaningful to them. The auteur approach emphasises the need to explore with young participants why they produce the images they do, so that adult researchers do not impose their own readings. This article, while recognising the value of such visual techniques, argues that their benefit is not that they are more age appropriate, or that they are more authentic. Instead it lies in their capacity to display the social influences on how participants, of any age, represent themselves. The article does so through discussion of an Economic and Social Research Council research project, which made use of visual and other creative methods, undertaken in the UK with disabled young people. The research involved narrative and photo elicitation interviews, the production of photo journals, and creative practice workshops aimed at making representational artefacts. Through analysing the photography, the journals and interviews the article examines what it was research participants sought to capture and also what influenced the types of photographs they gathered and the type of person they wanted to represent. We argue that they aimed to counter negative representations of disability by presenting themselves as happy, active and independent, in doing so they drew from broader visual iconography that values certain kinds of disabled subject, while disvaluing others.
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Stevens, Andy. "Closer to Home: A Critique of British Government Policy towards Accommodating Learning Disabled People in Their Own Homes." Critical Social Policy 24, no. 2 (May 2004): 233–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018304041952.
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Bawalsa, Nadim. "Legislating Exclusion: Palestinian Migrants and Interwar Citizenship." Journal of Palestine Studies 46, no. 2 (2017): 44–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jps.2017.46.2.44.
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This article explores the British Mandate's legal framework for regulating citizenship and nationality in Palestine following the post–World War I fragmentation of the Ottoman Empire. It argues that the 1925 Palestinian Citizenship Order-in-Council prioritized the settlement and naturalization of Jews in Palestine, while simultaneously disenfranchising Palestinians who had migrated abroad. Ultimately, the citizenship legislation reflected British imperial interests as it fulfilled the promises made in the Balfour Declaration to establish in Palestine a homeland for the Jewish people, while it attempted to ensure the economic viability of a modern Palestine as a British mandated territory. Excluded from Palestinian citizenship by the arbitrary application of the Order-in-Council, the majority of Palestinian migrants during the 1920s and 30s never secured a legal means to return to Palestine, thus marking the beginning of the Palestinian diaspora.
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Sutherland, Anne, and Rosemary Chesson. "The Needs of Physically Disabled People Aged 16–65 Years and Service Usage in Grampian." British Journal of Occupational Therapy 57, no. 5 (May 1994): 171–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030802269405700505.
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The work reported here forms part of a two-phase investigation of disability sponsored by Grampian Regional Council Social Work Committee. Following a questionnaire survey of about one in 40 of the region's households, 212 people with physical disabilities aged 16–65 were interviewed during 1989/90 to obtain an in-depth understanding of their perceptions of current and past service provision. Two-thirds of all those interviewed required some help with self-care across a wide range of activities. Sixty-six (31%) interviewees were found to use 150 items to help with self-care and a further 45 (21%) indicated that they would like equipment. Forty-one per cent of all self-care aids had been self-purchased. Minimal service use was discovered, the most common being dentistry and chiropody. Despite the level of disability, only seven respondents currently had a home help and 10 were in receipt of community occupational therapy. Very low involvement in voluntary organisations was found. Less than half of interviewees (45%) reported ‘going out’ every day and sedentary leisure activities were more common than visits to clubs or friends. The main reason given for non-participation in other leisure activities was physical difficulty. Only 13 people took part in social activities organised either wholly or partly for people with physical disabilities. In general, those interviewed sought better opportunities for integration into the life of their community. Two case studies are presented in an appendix, which illustrate the multifaceted nature of interviewees' problems and the nature and extent of formal and informal care within two survey households.
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Łotysz, Sławomir. "Niewykorzystany kapitał. Pomoc międzynarodowa a początki rehabilitacji zawodowej w Polsce po II wojnie światowej." Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, no. 1 (2021): 25–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/0023589xkhnt.21.002.13386.
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Unused Assets. International Aid and the Birth of Vocational Rehabilitation in Poland after the Second World War In 1946, at the request of the Polish government, UNRRA sent in two British experts in vocational rehabilitation to help establish the national framework of helping people with disabilities. During numerous meetings with government representatives, medical doctors, and social workers, as well as by trainings, lectures, and screenings of instructional films, they tried to familiarise Poles with the British model of rehabilitation. The model assumed close integration of medical and vocational rehabilitation and aimed at placing the disabled workers in the industry alongside those without disabilities. Initially, officials from the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare seemed to be keen to adopt such an approach, but in 1949, they turned toward the Soviet solutions. One of the main effects of this shift was moving away from employing the disabled in the industry. They were encouraged to join cooperatives instead, which, in the end, proved to be unfavorable to their social rehabilitation. The article reconstructs the activity of the British experts in Poland and analyses their observations from the encounters. By situating these events in a broader context of political and social conditions, I argue that replacing the progressive British model with Soviet solutions stemmed from the ongoing process of the Sovietization of Poland.
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Holloway, Frank. "Caring for People: a critical review of British Government policy for the community care of the mentally ill." Psychiatric Bulletin 14, no. 11 (November 1990): 641–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.14.11.641.
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The development of ‘community care’ for the elderly, mentally ill, mentally handicapped and physically disabled has been Government policy in Britain since the 1950s. Problems with implementation of this policy led the Audit Commission (1986) to conclude that “the one option that is not tenable is to do nothing about present financial, organisational and staffing arrangements”. Sir Roy Griffiths was commissioned to review “the way funds are used to support community care policy …”. Radical solutions were proposed and subsequently incorporated in the Government White Paper Caring for People (Department of Health, 1989a). However, two very significant measures were not accepted: the ‘ring-fencing’ of community care monies and the creation of a ministerial post within the Department of Health with specific responsibility for community care.
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Picton, Jane. "Gardens and Personal Growth." Children Australia 14, no. 3 (1989): 14–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000002319.
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Gardens and gardenng often mean different things to different people. When I was invited to join a committee about nine years ago for a garden centre for people with disabilities, I was, to say he least, tentative. I knew more about disabled people and their needs and more about volunteers than gardening. I enquired about the centre and the committee. The Centre had been established by an idea sown by Kevin Heinze, the well known television gardener and educator, after he had seen a garden for people with disabilities overseas—one to work in, not just to sit in. He interested many people with the idea of developing such a garden in Melbourne. The Doncaster Council then negotiated with the State Electricity Commission about the use of some land believed suitable in Doncaster, approximately 25 km from the city.This was in 1979. I accepted the invitation to join the Kevin Heinze Garden Centre Committee just a few months after it had started operating. This paper will describe the development of the Centre and its value for people with intellectual and physical disabilities, and the work of the co-ordinator and volunteers.
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Vertoont, Susan. "Would you date ‘the undateables’? An analysis of the mediated public debate on the reality television show ‘The Undateables’." Sexualities 21, no. 5-6 (June 2, 2017): 825–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717699782.
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This article examines the different discourses in the online public debate surrounding the television dating show ‘The Undateables’. The programme, which exclusively focuses on dates of disabled people, was launched in the UK in 2012, and local adaptations of the format were broadcast in Belgium and the Netherlands. The article applies the dis/ability approach of Goodley and Runswick-Cole (2014) to examine the way in which representations of disabled singles are evaluated online. As a perspective, dis/ability destabilizes notions of normativity and enables an inquiry into not just marginalized identities, but also dominant identities. The analysis of blog posts, tweets and online press reviews of the first series of the British, Flemish and Dutch version of ‘The Undateables’ provides more insights into hegemonic and resistant notions on disability, dating and romantic relationships. This article argues that prejudices, as already identified by Morris in 1991, are still very dominant today.
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Rainsford, Emily. "Exploring youth political activism in the United Kingdom: What makes young people politically active in different organisations?" British Journal of Politics and International Relations 19, no. 4 (September 8, 2017): 790–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1369148117728666.
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This article challenges the current research on youth disengagement by asking what makes young people active in different political organisations. It applies the classic civic voluntarism model to explore which factors (skills, attitudes, mobilisation and motivations) best distinguish between young activists in political parties’ youth factions, the British Youth Council and the 2010 National Union of Students demonstrations. The results from multinomial logistic regression show that there are differences especially in the civic and political attitudes. The results also show that different organisations attract different kinds of young people, which can be used to (re-)engage young people in politics.
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WHITE, LUISE. "‘NORMAL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES’: RHODESIA, THE PEARCE COMMISSION, AND THE AFRICAN NATIONAL COUNCIL." Journal of African History 52, no. 3 (November 2011): 321–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853711000466.
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ABSTRACTIn 1972 a British commission arrived in Rhodesia to test how acceptable the latest and most comprehensive proposals to end Rhodesia's rebellion were to its entire people. Africans rejected the proposals in overwhelming numbers. Such powerful opposition was attributed to the African National Council, said to be a new and spontaneous organization, but in fact the creation of the banned political parties. This article examines the political agitation during the Pearce Commission's visit to show how commonplace the layers of political affiliation, substitution, and deception were in the groups that both supported and opposed the proposals in 1970s Rhodesia.
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Arneil, Barbara. "Domestic Colonies in Canada: Rethinking the Definition of Colony." Canadian Journal of Political Science 51, no. 3 (February 26, 2018): 497–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423917001469.
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AbstractWhat is a colony? In this article, I reconsider the meaning of colony in light of the existence of domestic colonies in Canada around the turn of the twentieth century. The two case studies examined are farm colonies for the mentally disabled and ill in Ontario and British Columbia and utopian colonies for Doukhobors in Saskatchewan. I show how both kinds of colonies are characterized by the same three principles found in Lockean settler colonialism: segregation, agrarian labour on uncultivated soil and improvement/cultivation of people and land. Defining “colony” in this way is theoretically interesting as it is different from the definition found in most dictionaries and post-colonial scholarship. There is also an inherent contradiction within domestic colonies as they both support state power over indigenous peoples, Doukhobors and the mentally ill and disabled but also challenge the principles of domination, individualism, private property and sovereignty upon which the Canadian settler state was founded.
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Niehaus, Mathilde, and Dorte Bernhard. "Corporate Integration Agreements and Their Function in Disability Management." International Journal of Disability Management 1, no. 1 (May 1, 2006): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/jdmr.1.1.42.
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AbstractThe idea of corporate integration of people with disabilities, who often have become impaired in the course of their working career, has been reinforced by the German Social Code Book IX. With the implementation of the Section 83 and 84.2, preventive approaches such as integration agreements have put the emphasis on the role of social partners in the disability management process, that is, on to the employers' representative, the representative body of the disabled employees and the Works Council. A sectoral case study of the automotive industry, funded by the German government, was conducted to evaluate the integration agreement, using both quantitative and qualitative data. This article explores the goal-setting function of the integration agreement and its role in the management process.
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Kimpson, Sally A. "Uncertain Subjects: Shaping Disabled Women’s Lives Through Income Support Policy." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 9, no. 3 (September 26, 2020): 78–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i3.647.
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This article provides a critical reading of one aspect of the “third mobilization of transinstitutionalization” (Haley & Jones, 2018), focused on how power is exercised through the B.C. government income support program (or the ambiguously-named B.C. Benefits), shaping the embodied lives of women living with chronic physical and mental impairments. I research and write as a woman living with a disabling chronic illness whose explicit focus is power: how it is enacted and what it produces in the everyday lives of women with disabling chronic conditions living on income support. I too have been the recipient of disability income support. Thus, my accounts are ‘interested.’ My writing seeks to create a disruptive reading that destabilizes common-sense notions about disabled women securing provincial income support benefits, in particular in British Columbia (B.C.), interviewed as part of my doctoral research. Despite public claims by the B.C. government to foster the independence, community participation, and citizenship of disabled people in B.C., the intersection of government policy and practices and how they are read and taken up by disabled women discipline them in ways that produce profound uncertainty in their lives, such that these women become uncertain subjects (Kimpson, 2015).
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Keedwell, Andy. "An Approach to Report Writing in the World of Work." Armenian Folia Anglistika 1, no. 1-2 (1) (October 17, 2005): 104–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2005.1.1-2.104.
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The British Council has elaborated certain materials aimed at developing the writing skills, especially report writing, of the students who have already reached upper-intermediate level of English competence. The article presents the process of the use of the abovementioned materials among Armenian junior diplomats and other people working in other fields. It further analyzes the methods that will help overcome linguistic difficulties that might arise while writing a report.
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Kavka, Gregory S. "Disability and the Right to Work." Social Philosophy and Policy 9, no. 1 (January 1992): 262–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500003678.
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It is, perhaps, a propitious time to discuss the economic rights of disabled persons. In recent years, the media in the United States have re-ported on such notable events as: students at the nation's only college for the deaf stage a successful protest campaign to have a deaf individual ap-pointed president of their institution; a book by a disabled British physicist on the origins of the universe becomes a best seller; a pitcher with only one arm has a successful rookie season in major league baseball; a motion-picture actor wins an Oscar for his portrayal of a wheelchair-bound person, beating out another nominee playing another wheelchair-bound person; a cancer patient wins an Olympic gold medal in wrestling; a paralyzed mother trains her children to accept discipline by inserting their hands in her mouth to be gently bitten when punishment is due; and a paraplegic rock climber scales the sheer four-thousand-foot wall of Yosemite Valley's El Capitan. Most significantly, in 1990, the United States Congress passed an important bill – the Americans with Disabili-ties Act – extending to disabled people employment and access-related protections afforded to members of other disadvantaged groups by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Rahman, Bambang Arif. "Debating shura and democracy among British Muslim organizations." Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies 1, no. 2 (December 1, 2011): 229. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/ijims.v1i2.229-252.
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<p>Shura as the system of representation of the Muslim’s voice in, typically, the<br />Islamic state is often confronted with the West representation system namely<br />Democracy. Some Islamic scholars believe that Shura is still the best system for<br />Muslims to vote for their need in the state. However, as Islam is not a monolithic<br />doctrine, some other Muslim groups have another alternative view to represent<br />their political opinion to the state by, surprisingly, practicing democracy. In brief,<br />Shura is still placed God instructions as the reference of all decisions which are<br />made in the council. Otherwise, democracy merely stands its policy on the people.<br />Both systems have a long tradition processes to find their recent way in this<br />global age. And the British Muslims have to realize that they live in a developed<br />country like Britain and still have to be Muslim. Giving challenging condition, Hizbut<br />Tahrir, Tablighi Jama’at, and Muslim Council of Britain, three prominent Muslim<br />Organizations in England, have different attitude towards democratic Britain to<br />voice their representation. On the one hand, Hizbut Tahrir strictly rejects the idea<br />of democracy as its goal is to establish the Islamic Caliphate in the world. And on<br />another hand, Tablighi Jama’at tends to stay away from the political issue, including<br />its representation, as the core of this organization is only preaching in a<br />peaceful way. Finally, Muslim Council of Britain as the umbrella of small-medium Muslim organizations in England, in fact is involving in the system of British democracy.<br />Shura sebagai sistem perwakilan seringkali diperbandingkan dengan sistem<br />perwakilan Barat, yaitu demokrasi. Beberapa tokoh umat Islam percaya bahwa<br />shura masih merupakan sistem perwakilan yang terbaik untuk menyuarakan<br />keinginan umat Islam terhadap negara. Namun demikian, karena Islam bukan<br />merupakan doktrin yang kaku, ada beberapa kelompok Muslim lain yang memiliki<br />pandangan berbeda di dalam mengemukakan aspirasi politiknya terhadap negara,<br />yang justru menggunakan sistem demokrasi. Secara singkat, sistem shura masih<br />menempatkan ajaran-ajaran Tuhan sebagai acuan untuk memutuskan segala<br />persoalan dalam dewan. Sedangkan demokrasi membuat kebijakan semata-mata<br />berdasarkan pada suara manusia. Kedua sistem ini memiliki proses tradisional<br />yang panjang untuk mencapai bentuknya seperti sekarang ini. Sementara itu,<br />Muslim Inggris harus menyadari bahwa mereka hidup di negara maju dan harus<br />tetap ber-Islam. Menghadapi kondisi yang menantang ini, tiga organisasi Islam<br />terkemuka di Inggris seperti Hizbut Tahrir, Tablighi Jama’ah, dan Muslim Council<br />of Britain memiliki sikap berbeda untuk menyatakan suara mereka terhadap<br />pemerintah Inggris yang demokratis. Satu sisi, Hizbut Tahrir dengan keras menolak<br />ide demokrasi dikarenakan cita-cita mereka adalah mendirikan kekhalifahan Islam<br />di dunia. Sementara di sisi yang lain, Tablighi Jama’ah cenderung menghindari<br />isu politik, termasuk keterwakilan mereka. Terakhir, Muslim Council of Britain<br />yang merupakan payung bagi organisasi-organisasi Islam kecil-menengah di<br />Inggris pada kenyataannya ikut serta di dalam sistem demokrasi Inggris.</p><p> </p>
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Cleall, Esmé. "Jane Groom and the Deaf Colonists: Empire, Emigration and the Agency of Disabled People in the late Nineteenth-Century British Empire." History Workshop Journal 81, no. 1 (April 2016): 39–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbv037.
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Goodin, Robert E. "More Than Anyone Bargained For: Beyond the Welfare Contract." Ethics & International Affairs 12 (March 1998): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.1998.tb00042.x.
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From British debates over the 1832 New Poor Law to the near present, the notion of “desert” has long had a clear referent in discussions of social welfare policy. The designation “deserving poor” was reserved for those with legitimate grounds for not supporting themselves through paid employment. Invariably among them were the very young, the very old, and the mentally and physically very disabled—people who literally could not work for a living. Also included were various categories of people who, according to the varying conventions of the day, were socially excused from paid labor—widows in the Victorian era, students in the postwar era, and so on. Anyone who could and should work for a living but refused to do so was traditionally deemed to be among the “undeserving poor.” Those were the people whose “welfare dependency” has long been the target of welfare reformers, most recently Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
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Anees, Shabana. "Disability in India: The Role of Gender, Family, and Religion." Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling 45, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 32–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0047-2220.45.2.32.
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India is a country rich in diversity, not only in its history and people, but also with respect to language, culture, religion, and philosophy. Boasting one of the world's biggest populations, second only to China, it is also the largest as well as a relatively “young” democracy. It achieved independence from the British in 1947. Currently, India is experiencing an economic boom, largely due to its expansion and innovations in technology and science. However, India still faces a number of challenges. Among these challenges is the issue of care and assistance for its citizens with disabilities. Are there adequate provisions built into the nation's constructs and infrastructure to support the country's disabled population? If so, what are these provisions and how are they funded? More importantly, how does the richness in diversity among the population affect the rehabilitation efforts for people with disabilities? This paper will closely examine how the role of gender, family, and religion plays a part in the disability and rehabilitation of people in India.
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Gathogo, Julius. "Consolidating Democracy in Kenya (1920-1963)." Jumuga Journal of Education, Oral Studies, and Human Sciences (JJEOSHS) 1, no. 1 (August 10, 2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.35544/jjeoshs.v1i1.22.
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Kenya became a Crown Colony of the British government on 23 July 1920. Before then, 1895 to 1919, it was a protectorate of the British Government. Between 1887 to 1895, Scot William Mackinnon (1823-1893), under the auspices of his chartered company, Imperial British East Africa (IBEA), was running Kenya on behalf of the British Government. This article sets out to trace the road to democracy in colonial Kenya, though with a bias to electoral contests, from 1920 to 1963. While democracy and/or democratic culture is broader than mere electioneering, the article considers electoral processes as critical steps in consolidating democratic gains, as societies now find an opportunity to replace bad leaders and eventually installs a crop of leadership that resonates well with their pains, dreams, fears and joys. With its own elected leaders, the article hypothesizes, a society has a critical foundation because elected people are ordinarily meant to address cutting-edge issues facing a given society. Such concerns may include: poverty, corruption, racism, marginalization of minority, ethnic bigotry, economic rejuvenation, gender justice, and health of the people among other disquiets. Methodologically, the article focusses more on the 1920 and the 1957 general elections. This is due to their unique positioning in the Kenyan historiography. In 1920, for instance, a semblance of democracy was witnessed in Kenya when the European-Settler-Farmers’ inspired elections took place, after their earlier protests in 1911. They were protesting against the mere nomination of leaders to the Legislative Council (Parliament) since 1906 when the first Parliament was instituted in Kenya’s history. Although Eliud Wambu Mathu became the first African to be nominated to the Legislative Council in 1944, this was seen as a mere drop in the big Ocean, as Africans had not been allowed to vote or usher in their own leaders through universal suffrage. The year 1957 provided that opportunity even though they (Africans) remained a tiny minority in the Legislative Council until the 1963 general elections which ushered in Kenya’s independence. What other setbacks did the Kenyan democratic process encounter; and how were the democratic gains consolidated? While the article does not intend to focus on the voice of religious societies, or the lack of it, it is worthwhile to concede that a democratic process is an all-inclusive enterprise that invites all cadres to “come and build the barricading wall” for all of us.
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Hing, Lo Shiu. "The Politics of the Debate over the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong." China Quarterly 161 (March 2000): 221–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000004008.
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Before the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty from Britain to the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 1 July 1997, the politics of interpreting the Basic Law had already become apparent. This article aims to use the debate over the Court of Final Appeal (COFA), which was set up in July 1997 to replace the Privy Council in Britain as the court of final adjudication in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), to analyse how the Basic Law had already been interpreted by PRC officials, their British counterparts and the Hong Kong people. The interpretation of the Basic Law involves many people from both Hong Kong and China. As one legal scholar writes: “In one sense all kinds of people [in the HKSAR] will have to interpret the Basic Law: civil servants and other administrators and lawyers in their day-today work, legislators to ensure that their legislation and motions are consistent with it, the State Council [in the PRC], the National People's Congress Standing Committee, even private parties since some provisions affect private acts.” The debate over the COFA may also help towards an understanding of the ongoing interpretation of various provisions of the Basic Law, which serves as the mini-constitution of the HKSAR.
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Warren, Anna, Lynne Thomas, and Claire Murray. "Crystallography for the People." Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances 70, a1 (August 5, 2014): C1045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/s2053273314089542.
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The British Crystallographic Association (BCA) has engaged in public outreach projects over the past two years, aimed at communicating the basic principles and applications of crystallography to the general public, especially in light of the Bragg Centenary Celebrations and the International Year of Crystallography. Based on an activity developed by the Young Crystallographers group of the BCA called "The Structure of Stuff is Sweet", we have developed a pack which can be used as a walk-up stand at science fairs and festivals, workshops and as science busking in pubs. The activities all focus on highlighting the relevance of crystallography to everyday life and are eye-catching to attract an audience. The biggest of the activities has been the UK Big Bang Fair which took place in both March 2013 and March 2014 in London and Birmingham, respectively. This is a very large science fair for schools and families to learn about different aspects of Science and Engineering, with over 75,000 people attending. The Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK and the BCA funded a crystallography stand in collaboration with Diamond and ISIS. The stand had appeal to both young and old alike, and there was the opportunity to make unit cells from marshmallows, crystallise lysozyme, and to learn about the principles of diffraction using a lego beamline! We had a team of around 40 volunteers from Universities and institutions across the UK covering biological, chemical and physical crystallography. An outline of the events, pictures and comments from participants are presented, as well as our plans for future events building on these foundations to further strengthen the BCA's engagement with the wider community and to raise the profile of crystallography in the public domain. Please come to the poster to find out more about the BCA, and what we do.
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BAUMBERG, BEN. "Fit-for-Work – or Work Fit for Disabled People? The Role of Changing Job Demands and Control in Incapacity Claims." Journal of Social Policy 43, no. 2 (January 14, 2014): 289–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279413000810.
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AbstractIt remains a puzzle as to why incapacity claims rose in many OECD countries when life expectancy was increasing. While potentially due to hidden unemployment and policy failure, this paper tests a further explanation: that work has become more difficult for disabled workers. It focuses on the UK as a ‘most likely’ case, given evidence of intensification and declining control at work. To get a more objective measure of working conditions, the models use average working conditions in particular occupations, and impute this into the British Household Panel Survey. The results show that people in low-control (but not high-demands) jobs are more likely to claim incapacity benefits in the following year, a result that is robust to a number of sensitivity analyses. Deteriorating job control seems to be a part of the explanation for rising incapacity, and strategies to cut the number of incapacity claimants should therefore consider ways to improve job control. Given the challenges in changing job characteristics, however, an equally important implication is that high levels of incapacity should not just be seen as a result of poor policies and a lack of jobs, but also as a result of the changing nature of work.
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Cowan, Isla. "Pests and People in Stef Smith’s Human Animals." New Theatre Quarterly 37, no. 2 (April 29, 2021): 159–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x2100004x.
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Throughout the history of western theatre, animals onstage have invariably been read in relation to human concerns. The reviews of Stef Smith’s Human Animals (2016) at the Royal Court followed in this tradition, interpreting the play’s central animal players as symbolic stand-ins for humans. By examining the particularity of the non-human animals at the centre of Human Animals’ urban eco-crisis, this article aims to rectify previous anthropocentric readings and acknowledge the agency and autonomy of the play’s non-human animals, namely pigeons and foxes. Building on Una Chaudhuri’s ‘Theatre of Species’, this article demonstrates Human Animals’ deep engagement with animal alterity, subverting conventional socio-zoological classifications of ‘pest’ animals and popular preconceptions of pigeons and foxes in British culture. While Smith’s play uses the dystopian mode to dramatize a small-scale, localized eco-crisis, this article highlights how its focus on urban animal encounters and zoonotic disease holds broader implications for re-imagining inter-species relations and planetary health. An award-winning playwright, Isla Cowan is also a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her current research investigates ideas of ecological consciousness in contemporary Scottish theatre and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (SGSAH).
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Doney, Jonathan. "The British Council of Churches’ Influence on the ‘Radical Rethinking of Religious Education’ in the 1960s and 1970s." Studies in Church History 55 (June 2019): 593–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2018.26.
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It is widely accepted that during the later 1960s, Religious Education (RE) in English state-maintained schools underwent a significant transition, moving from a Christian ‘confessional’ approach to an academic study of world religions. A detailed examination of the activities of the British Council of Churches’ Education Department during the period reveals examples of an active promotion of this study of world religions, something that hitherto has been absent from the historiography of RE. For example, the department organized key conferences, meetings and consultations, at which future directions for RE were considered and discussed. A research project undertaken for the department in the later 1960s, which led to the 1968 report Religion and the Secondary School, was prompted by the identification that ‘[t]oday the needs of children and young people demand a radical rethinking and reshaping of the purpose and method of religious education’. This report included a statement specifically encouraging the study of non-Christian religions, which was repeated in later key documents. This article shows how the British Council of Churches’ Education Department played a role in the development of the ‘non-confessional’ study of world religions in English state-maintained schools from as early as the late 1940s.
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McRuer, Robert. "Curb Cuts: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente." Somatechnics 6, no. 2 (September 2016): 198–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2016.0191.
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Theorists of neoliberalism have placed dispossession and displacement at the centre of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these analyses. This essay attends to what might be comprehended as the crip echoes generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity politics. Centring on British-Mexican relations during a moment of austerity in the UK and gentrification in Mexico City, the essay identifies both the voices of disability that are recognized by and made useful for neoliberalism as well as those shut down or displaced by this dominant economic and cultural system. The spatial politics of austerity in the UK have generated a range of punishing, anti-disabled policies such as the so-called ‘Bedroom Tax.’ The essay critiques such policies (and spatial politics) by particularly focusing on two events from 2013: a British embassy good will event exporting British access to Mexico City and an installation of photographs by Livia Radwanski. Radwanski's photos of the redevelopment of a Mexico City neighbourhood (and the displacement of poor people living in the neighbourhood) are examined in order to attend to the ways in which disability might productively haunt an age of austerity, dispossession, and displacement.
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Aveyard, Stuart C. "‘We couldn't do a Prague’: British government responses to loyalist strikes in Northern Ireland 1974–77." Irish Historical Studies 39, no. 153 (May 2014): 91–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400003643.
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In May 1974 the Ulster Workers' Council (U.W.C.), comprising loyalist trade unionists, paramilitaries and politicians, mounted a general strike backed by widespread intimidation. Their target was the Sunningdale Agreement, which produced a power-sharing executive for Northern Ireland and proposed a crossborder institution with the Republic of Ireland. After a fortnight the U.W.C. successfully brought Northern Ireland to a halt and the Executive collapsed, leading to the restoration of direct rule from Westminster. Three years later the United Unionist Action Council (U.U.A.C.) adopted the same strategy, demanding a return to devolution with majority rule and the repression of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (P.I.R.A.). This second strike was defeated. Many contemporary politicians were critical of the Labour government's failure to put down the U.W.C. strike. William Whitelaw, formerly secretary of state for Northern Ireland in Edward Heath's Conservative administration and the minister responsible for the bulk of the negotiations prior to Sunningdale, believed that the prime minister, Harold Wilson, and the new secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees, did not have the same attachment to the political settlement and were less willing to support the Northern Ireland Executive in its hour of need. Paddy Devlin of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (S.D.L.P.) argued that the unwillingness to arrest those involved, ‘more than any other single action by the authorities ... caused thousands of law-abiding people who had earlier given support to the executive to switch loyalties’.
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Sidiki, Bassam. "Objective Witnesses." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies: Volume 15, Issue 1 15, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2021.5.
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Closely reading British author Harry Parker’s autobiographical novel Anatomy of a Soldier, the article attempts to “disable” disability studies’ own techno-optimistic notions of becoming posthuman. It argues instead for a “counterhumanism” which centers the voices of disabled and debilitated humans in the (post)colonial world. Critiquing Parker’s narrative choice to tell the story of his double amputation after the war in Afghanistan through the perspectives of 45 nonhumans—including his prosthetic legs and an unmanned aerial vehicle—the article argues for more sustained attention to questions of race, imperialism, and militarized masculinity in Euro-American disability studies and posthumanism. In doing so, the article suggests that disability studies should not champion the cyborg but other forms of hybridity which, while underscoring the common humanity of people through their shared vulnerability to disability, is attentive to power differences.
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Gorshkova, I. D. "Legal Needs of Potential Beneficiaries of Free Legal Aid (Based on the Results of a Study of Disabled People and Low-Income Groups in Three Regions of the Russian Federation)." Russian Journal of Legal Studies 4, no. 4 (December 15, 2017): 127–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/rjls18280.
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Part of the results of quantitative research among vulnerable groups of citizens covered by the Federal Law on Free Civil Legal Aid in the Russian Federation is presented. The survey was conducted in the Tambov, Ulyanovsk and Volgograd regions within the framework of the Council of Europe project in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation «Project on Free Civil Legal Aid and Assistance for Vulnerable Groups in the Russian Federation» (2015-17). After presenting the context of the study, regional empirical material with generalizing characteristics on general issues is presented: the frequency of legal problems in target groups, the most common legal needs, how they operate, faced with legal problems, etc.