323 Policy & Politics vol 33 no 2 • 323–39 (2005) The representation of women in local politics Key words: women • representation • councillors • barriers The representation of women in local politics Nirmala Rao Final submission 10 June 04 • Acceptance 16 June 04 © Th Policy Press, 2005 • ISSN 0305 5736 English The under-representation of women in local politics has been debated for many years. While there is evidence to suggest that more women are now being elected to local authorities, they continue to face barriers to their entry and to their subsequent
121 FIVE Participatory research: interpretation, representation and transformation Introduction Writing is an everyday communicative practice, which pervades our lives at an individual as well a societal level. Given the omnipresence of the written word, research into the role of written language in everyday communication is at the heart of understanding contemporary forms of social interaction, between institutions and communities as well as between individuals. (Barton and Papen, 2010, p 3) From the perspective of contemporary anthropology, authors such
3 Representation Stand-up: representing whom? Brendan Burns, quoting George Carlin, describes the drama of stand-up comedy with a view to its solipsism: ‘You’re here for me, I’m here for me. Let’s go on from there’ (Burns, 2016). Encapsulating the ethos of stand-up as an intrapersonal art form, Carlin’s dictum also demonstrates what stand-up, in the language of traditional aesthetics, represents. Stand-up, at first glance, is about the presentation of self. Unlike actors in a play, and the moods, emotions and meaningful gestures they may imitate, stand
Key messages Despite improvement in the numbers of women in parliaments, representative democracy continues to fail women. ‘Poverty of representation’ captures the intersectional ways in which women are both under-represented and misrepresented. We call for the formal presence within existing legislatures of ‘affected representatives of women’. Feminist democratic representation incentivises elected representatives to meet the needs of diverse women. Introduction A lot can be said about the failure of representative democracy to do good by women
77 Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 24 • no 1 • 77–83 • © Policy Press 2016 • #JPSJ Print ISSN 1759 8273 • Online ISSN 1759 8281 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/175982716X14525973105408 policy and practice Identity, representation and the ‘acceptable face’ of equalities policy making in Britain Asif Afridi, asifa@brap.org.uk brap,1 Birmingham, UK Equalities-based public policy making in Britain is informed heavily by forms of ‘descriptive representation’ (seeking representatives with particular identities or attributes that can speak on behalf of
531 Policy & Politics • vol 42 • no 4 • 531-46 • © Policy Press 2014 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655738 article Representative bureaucracy: a typology of normative institutional strategies for the representation of women Karen Johnston Miller, k.miller@gcu.ac.uk Duncan McTavish, d.mctavish@gcu.ac.uk Glasgow Caledonian University, UK In public service institutions occupational gender segregation persists. These institutions are often gendered with predominantly masculine
floor. I agree that we need more imaginative ways to present and engage with climate data, and welcome such experiments. However, I want to stage a defence of representation as a resource for experimental and speculative practice. Indeed, close attention to Barry, Lobo and Duffy’s examples suggest that the way that these two artworks work actually relies on the capacity of representational signification to open up a ‘play’ between world and meaning. What do I mean by the representational? Fundamentally, representation is a relation where a ‘this’ stands for a
Key messages The article links citizens’ perception of being represented with objective representation. The article tests different policy–opinion congruence measures, with varying outcomes. Policy–opinion congruence with the government is only associated with higher perceived representation. Introduction In recent decades, many studies have highlighted the erosion of political support ( Dalton, 2004 ), and scholars have underlined many challenges for representative democracy. The issue of unequal representation ( Bartels, 2008 ) is one of these
Digital media technologies have enabled some LGBTQ individuals and communities to successfully organise for basic rights and justice. But these technologies can also present risks, such as online and in-person harassment and assault, and unsettled standards of privacy and consent.
Justin Ellis provides new insights on LGBTQ identity formation through social media networks and platform biometrics. Drawing on debate over gender, procreation, religion, nationalism and tech-regulation, he considers the effects of surveillance technologies on LGBTQ agency. In doing so, he brings an interdisciplinary ‘digiqueer’ perspective to negotiations of LGBTQ identity through case studies of digital harms from case law, parliamentary debates, social and mainstream media and LGBTQ-tech advocacy.
The meaning and importance of access to legal representation Access to legal representation refers to the ability of a defendant in a criminal case to talk privately with a lawyer. Such access can be very important for defendants because confronting a criminal charge in court is complicated. Rules of criminal procedure and the criminal codes that stipulate punishments and sentences are generally mysterious to laypeople. Criminal defence attorneys are professionals trained to understand legal systems and to provide confidential advice to people facing
