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In the field of ethnic relations the complex, often tortuous, interactions among academic researchers, research funders and those who use the research often result in social policy interventions that are poorly conceived and flawed in their implementation.
In this unique book, the contributors seek to develop a dialogue about the multiple constraints that skew research and its findings, and to kick-start a wider debate about the political context of current research and policy. In doing so, they aim to produce a renewed awareness of the current links between research and social policy in ethnic relations and to provide a critically reflexive basis for shaping interventions.
It will be of interest to academics working in higher and further education as well as to students at higher undergraduate and postgraduate level, and to a wide range of people working in ethnic relations policy fora.
In what ways is the meaning and practice of politics changing? Why might so many people feel dissatisfied and disaffected with electoral politics? What approaches do political activists use to raise issues and mobilise people for action? What role does the internet and social media play in contemporary citizenship and activism? This book brings together academics from a range of disciplines with political activists and campaigners to explore the meaning of politics and citizenship in contemporary society and the current forms of political (dis)engagement. It provides a rare dialogue between analysts and activists which will be especially valuable to academics and students across the social sciences, in particular sociology and political science.
There is a broad consensus that traditional philanthropy has the potential to be transformative and address inequalities and injustices, as well as provide relief to the poor. Over the last two decades individual capitalists and private corporations have become increasingly involved in philanthropy, often through foundations targeted at helping to reduce social problems associated with poverty, disease and food insecurity. This important book questions the political and ideological reasons behind rich individuals and large companies choosing to engage in poverty reduction through philanthropy. The question of concern is not whether new philanthropy is good or bad, but what motivates this form of giving and whether the sources of new philanthropy funding are legitimate. The book argues that this new philanthropy risks being a sticking plaster without long-term results, because it fails to tackle social injustice or the structural reasons for inequality.
It will be of value to academics, upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates in politics, sociology, economics and development studies.
context these standards are defined primarily in the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and other international human rights instruments, in particular the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to which the EU has been party since 22 January 2011. Structural indicators reflect the existence of legal instruments and basic institutional mechanisms to respect, protect, promote and fulfil fundamental rights; process indicators assess the actual efforts
123 FIVE Reflections of a research funder Emma Stone Introduction On this occasion, it feels helpful to start with a personal introduction. I joined the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) as a senior research manager in 1998, working on social care and disability. Before then, my focus had been China, not the UK. My early beliefs (I use the word deliberately) about research had been shaped by participatory methodologies, drawing from international development studies, UK disability studies and sociology. My preferences have been for words over numbers, the
disability groups such as Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). Uncut has also consulted with established NGOs (e.g. False Economy, Move Your Money, New Economics Foundation, Robin Hood Tax), and unions (e.g. Public and Commercial Services, Unite, GMB) that have occasionally provided resources and materials, while Uncut members have organised solidarity actions on strike days and during marches (UK Uncut, 2011d). As described above, in early 2011 Uncut had begun to make cuts to healthcare central to its messaging around bank occupations. This led to one of Uncut
, gender, disability and ethnicity, and the challenges for social policy of these often-hidden dimensions. Such insights also fed the growth of a more engaged social policy environment, one that sought to empower communities through recognition of both the shared and the specific dimensions of need. The Australian Assistance Plan (1974) and a new Cities programme (1975) brought together many of these dimensions with a geographical awareness of the concentrated and overlapping effects of disadvantage in specific localities. In this they reflected Australian
effective design and governance is the Born in Bradford programme (see www.borninbradford.nhs. uk). Bradford has high levels of childhood ill health – asthma, obesity, infections, diabetes, and childhood disability. Born in Bradford has been set up to provide a city-wide approach to understanding and tackling these health concerns. It is following up 14,000 children from their time in the womb to adulthood. Leading academics from across the world are helping to unravel the complex interplay between our genes, environment and lifestyles. Born in Bradford involves
sector (for example, health, disability, overseas aid or arts/culture); function (how they carry out their charitable purposes: for example, through grantmaking or service provision), and beneficiaries (for example, children, youth, the elderly or those from a particular religious or ethnic background). Note that some of the more detailed regulatory data – particularly that which gives a breakdown of income sources – are only available for organisations with incomes greater than £500,000. The focus of this chapter is on England and Wales. Comparisons with
issues. The range of social identities implicated in politics has broadened out to include, among others, gender, sexuality, disability, faith and ethnicity (and their intersections), but cross-cutting economic inequality has again become an increasingly salient issue. The internet and social media have become key tools for many activists and social movements, but have generally seen scant uptake across the institutions and practices of electoral politics. All forms of politics are experiencing profound change through processes of globalisation
