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
‘To always be inclusive in every sense of the word, is ensuring that no one is left behind and that everyone is always at the table, and if you’re not on the table, then you’re probably on the menu, so …’ Kya, practitioner, LGBTI refugee organization, England This chapter explores issues of representation (who is represented, and whether and how to represent) in efforts to operationalize intersectionality. Representation was identified by many of my participants as inseparable from intersectionality in equality organizing. Equality organizations
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
Introduction There is a simple, but profound, premise that underpins this chapter: a reimagining of ‘parliamentary representation’ requires a ‘systemic view of representation’. In the words of one of the foremost theorists of representation, Hanna Pitkin (1967 : 221–2), ‘what makes representation is the overall-structure and functioning of the system, and the patterns emerging from the multiple activities of many people’. Of necessity, therefore, reimagining parliamentary representation involves some notion of an interlocking of electoral modes with non
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
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
