51 5 Being an outsider ‘Community’ is often used as a warmly persuasive word to add a positive glow to a policy or seen in a nostalgic lens as having been the prevailing characteristic of working-class life and being among the primary working-class values. In the process of this research, some assumptions about ‘community’ were strongly challenged. This chapter focuses on the ways that ‘outsider’ positions are constructed and contribute to the social conditions of loneliness. It does this by examining stories we heard that were presented by those who told
127 five the outsider within: crossing worlds introduction Chapters Three and Four have investigated two points of view of Southmead: the view from without, the ‘master’s’ position; and that from within, the ‘subordinate’ position. These standpoints impose a dualism on knowledge of the area. This chapter involves looking at Southmead from positions that cross between being within and without and question that dualism. The position of black women working as domestics in white households has been described by Collins as ‘a curious outsider-within stance, a
35 4 Insider- outsider positions during co- production Reflections from the Candomblé terreiros in Brazil Clarice Mota, Leny Trad, and Lisa Dikomitis We are three female anthropologists collaborating in global health research. Across languages, cultures, and ethnicities, we are connected through our social engagement with, and our commitment to, the Brazilian communities where we conduct research. In this chapter, we share our reflections on a ‘COVID- 19 Control Committee’ composed of Candomblé terreiros in the Brazilian city of Salvador (from here
67 three the intelligent outsider? official and media representations of Southmead introduction A major theme, an orthodoxy even, is that in the battle of representation that is fought over Southmead there exist very different ‘outsider’ and ‘insider’ knowledges and representations of the area, emanating from standpoints that make this a two-sided battle. The difference between these two standpoints and their representations is used as one of the definitional markers of what Southmead itself is; the idea of ‘out’ and ‘in’ sets up Southmead as a bounded
197 Sure Start Local Programmes: an outsider’s perspective ELEVEN Sure Start Local Programmes: an outsider’s perspective Sir Michael Rutter This volume provides a most valuable, thoughtful account of both the origins of Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) and what they have achieved so far. My assignment was to provide an independent assessment of the initiative as a whole, insofar as it can be judged at this rather early stage. I approach that task wearing the hat of a clinician who has throughout his career been concerned with preventive and therapeutic
the likelihood that policy actors get the sort of policies they wish for, little is known about the extent to which actors’ choices of advocacy strategies are interdependent. For the purposes of this research, we define an advocacy strategy as an activity used by a policy actor to influence a policy design or choice. Interest groups scholarship has restricted its focus to the study of how interest groups (such as NGOs and businesses) use two distinct types of advocacy strategies: an insider strategy and an outsider strategy ( Grant, 1978 ; Gais and Walker, 1991
119 6 Insider-outsider reflections on terrorism research in the coastal region of Kenya Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen Introduction Navigating one’s positionality while researching on terrorism can be particularly challenging when working in regions vulnerable to religiously motivated ideologies on violent extremism, where suspicion and access present barriers to engaging with the participants (Dolnik, 2013; Nielsen, 2014). Even if the researcher shares the same religion as that of the participants and is acquainted with the culture wherein relational aspects
37 3 Decomposing Policy Design: An Outsider-Within Perspective on the Father’s Quota1 Introduction This chapter examines migrant fathers’ experiences with the Norwegian father’s quota. There has been an increase in migration to Norway, particularly of migrant workers from countries of the former Eastern Europe and Sweden, but also from countries in Southern Europe, such as Italy and Spain (SSB, 2014). This is why it is interesting to look into how immigrants who have become fathers in Norway experience a ‘father- friendly welfare state’. Family policy
169 EIGHT Dualising the Swedish model: insiders and outsiders and labour market policy reform in Sweden: an overview Johan Bo Davidsson Introduction What was widely regarded as the ‘Swedish model’ of labour market policy no longer exists. However, it is not the fault of fiscal austerity imposed by the European Union (EU). Rather, it is the product of a long series of reforms that began with another economic crisis: the Swedish financial crisis of the early 1990s. The recurring budget deficits and the growing debt that it produced forced cutbacks in the
what he terms the ‘metamorphoses and disguises’ of ‘the camp’, we find that bare life is not confined to a discrete physical space of exclusion but infiltrates the fabric of mainstream society through the incorporation of destitution into devices of discipline and control. But just as the legal/illegal binary is rendered more complex in this process, so too is the insider/outsider divide. Indeed, many of the insights mentioned earlier concerning selectivity, conditionality and their related effects also apply to citizenship, not only through selection for inclusion
