75 4 Intervention, autonomy and power in polarised societies Corinna Jentzsch Introduction The secretary of a small village in Murrupula district in northern Mozambique received my research assistant and I with a concerned expression on his face when we visited the village for a second time. Following our first visit, four people from the area had been arrested and incarcerated for six days. During our first stay, we had conducted extensive interviews with former members of a community-initiated militia, the Naparama, active during the country’s civil war
political agenda sought can flow and change throughout its lifetime, raising a variety of different ethical questions and debates as a result. Given this fluidity it is challenging to create distinct breaks between the chapters focusing only on specific hacking tools. Instead, broad themes based on the general ethos and political objectives sought by the hackers can be established to help categorize and then facilitate the ethical evaluation. This chapter will focus on operations whose purpose is concerned with political autonomy: that is, restoring, protecting or
17 TWO Sleep and autonomy in later life: the SomnIA project Sara Arber, Susan Venn and Ingrid Eyers Introduction Sleep is central to health and wellbeing, yet sleep is likely to deteriorate with advancing age. Health promotion over the last two decades has emphasised the importance for health and wellbeing of the ‘big four’ – a good diet, physical exercise, not smoking, and restricting alcohol consumption. A fifth health promotion message is also essential for good health and wellbeing, namely, sleep. Sleep of a sufficient duration and quality is important
by disabled persons (particularly for personal and technical assistance) regardless of their income or resources. Understanding the reception of these programmes entails analysing both their empirical effects on beneficiaries’ living conditions and on the configuration within which their autonomy is defined, as well as how these programmes are appropriated (that is, how the benefits are used and the significance that users assign to them). The data reveal a broad gap between the objective impact of a given benefit, which, however inadequate, may be assumed to be
185 Conclusion: autonomy, dialogue and recognition Nigel Thomas We don’t need no education; We don’t need no thought control; No dark sarcasm in the classroom; Teacher, leave those kids alone. Hey! Teacher, leave those kids alone. All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.1 These words by Roger Waters were sung by pupils from Islington Green School on the recording of Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2), the rock band Pink Floyd’s biggest hit single. The record reached Number 1 in the British music charts on 15 December 1979, and stayed there for five
Introduction This article analyses the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on ‘monetised’ 1 family carers’ understanding of their own autonomy in the context of a long-term care (LTC) relation at home in the case of France. During the first lockdown in France from mid-March to early June 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the reduction or, in some cases, the complete suspension of health and medico-social service delivery, as well as most social contacts. During this period, some family carers of frail older people or people with disability had to assume
69 FIVE Reconfiguring professional autonomy? The case of social work in the UK John Chandler, Elisabeth Berg, Marion Ellison and Jim Barry Introduction The history of social work in the United Kingdom is a long and complex one, and there are no signs of it getting less complex. If the theory and practice of UK social work is of interest to an international audience, it is not just because of the hegemony of the English language, but also because it has often been at the forefront of changes – for good and ill, perhaps. If there is something to learn from
211© The Policy Press, 2012 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: older people • end of life • decision making • autonomy Policy & Politics vol 40 no 2 • 211-26 (2012) • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/147084411X581916 ‘Choice is a small word with a huge meaning’: autonomy and decision making at the end of life Eileen Sutton and Joanna Coast The United Kingdom (UK) End-of-Life Care Strategy, published in June 2008, recommends the identification, documentation and review of people’s preferences for care and highlights the importance of choice at an individual level. Drawing on
357 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 6 • no 3 • 357–73 • © Policy Press 2017 • #FRS Print ISSN 2046 7435 • Online ISSN 2046 7443 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14534751747450 Accepted for publication 05 January 2016 • First published online 25 January 2016 Relational autonomy: kinship and daughters-in- law negotiating affinity with their mothers-in-law Roderick Galam, galamrg@zedat.fu-berlin.de Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Research on mother- and daughter-in-law relationships has primarily focused on the conflict between the two. This
