Ambiguous loss of home: Syrian refugees and the process of losing and remaking home
In: Wellbeing, space and society, Band 4, S. 100136
ISSN: 2666-5581
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In: Wellbeing, space and society, Band 4, S. 100136
ISSN: 2666-5581
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 31, Heft 12, S. 1229-1239
ISSN: 0190-7409
In: Kasetsart journal of social sciences, Band 42 issue 1
ISSN: 2452-3151
In: Soziale Passagen: Journal für Empirie und Theorie sozialer Arbeit, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 225-230
ISSN: 1867-0199
ZusammenfassungIn dem an der Technischen Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm angesiedelten Forschungsprojekt "Securing Housing. Wohnen, Wohnraumverluste und Wohnungslosigkeit in Nürnberg und Wien" wird die Wirkungsweise wohnraumsichernder Instrumente in einem Städtevergleich untersucht. Während sich die Situation auf einigen ohnehin schon angespannten urbanen Wohnungsmärkten zuungunsten ärmerer Bevölkerungsteile zunehmend zuspitzt, und es vermehrt zu Verdrängungen und zur Verknappung leistbaren Wohnraumes kommt, bleiben Unterstützungsangebote, die Wohnraumverluste abwenden oder die Folgen verringern könnten, teilweise ungenutzt oder werden erst sehr spät genutzt. Um die (Nicht‑)Akzeptanz und (Nicht‑)Wirkung besser verstehen zu können, werden die den Interventionsversuchen zu Grunde liegenden Wissensvorräte, Deutungsmuster, Kollektivsymboliken und Normalitätsvorstellungen analysiert. Es wird also untersucht, welchen Einfluss die Wahrnehmung, Interpretation und normative Beurteilung von Wohnungslosigkeit und Wohnraumverlusten durch die Beteiligten auf die Akzeptanz und Reichweite wohnungspolitischer, sozialpolitischer und sozialpädagogischer Regulierungsversuche haben.
In: The American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 423-454
ISSN: 1552-3357
The passage of Proposition 13 in 1978 was a watershed event that ushered in both a new era and a new fiscal regime for California's local governments. The authors argue that in the wake of follow-on initiatives, a protracted recessionary period, and the state's use of newly authorized revenue-transfer powers, this still-evolving regime entered a new phase in the 1990s. This article analyzes the primary impacts of and responses to the changes in California's post-Proposition 13 fiscal regime in the 1990s in five local jurisdictions. The results reveal that the most significant long-term impacts of this regime have been an altered fiscal structure and an unintended decrease in local home rule. These impacts, in turn, have led to cuts in nonessential services, the expansion of sales tax-generating redevelopment efforts, implementation of new taxes and user service fees, and increased reliance on one-time fiscal measures.
In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 423-454
ISSN: 0275-0740
In: Soziale Passagen: Journal für Empirie und Theorie sozialer Arbeit, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 215-219
ISSN: 1867-0199
In: Working with older people: community care policy & practice, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 130-132
ISSN: 2042-8790
Purpose –
The paper was written to highlight the common experience of older people in care homes who are often left to deal with loss and grief without the explicit emotional validation and support needed.
Design/methodology/approach –
Beginning with a real world example of an older person who felt suicidal at the prospect of moving into a care home the paper analyses the common culture in care homes and goes onto describe a new paradigm of care giving ("the compassionate community").
Findings –
The paper highlights the need for a shift of culture and leadership thinking in the care homes.
Practical implications –
Older people need more opportunities to share their losses and grief and staff teams must develop their role so that it moves beyond physical caring to embrace the emotional and spiritual aspects of the lives of the people they care for.
Originality/value –
This paper issues a radical call for an shift in thinking and values and suggests a route map which will enable full expression of the emotional lives of the people being cared for.
In: Gerontechnology: international journal on the fundamental aspects of technology to serve the ageing society, Band 11, Heft 2
ISSN: 1569-111X
In: Smith College studies in social work, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 163-234
ISSN: 1553-0426
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In: Society and natural resources, Band 28, Heft 8, S. 839-856
ISSN: 1521-0723
In: Cultural studies - critical methodologies, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 91-94
ISSN: 1552-356X
There is an unmistakable power in narrative to comment on and shape cultural lives. This special issue of Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies is comprised of often unheard stories that seek to queer the relational phenomena of family, home, love, and loss. Authors draw on a range of theoretical perspectives and methodologies to disrupt and dismantle the normative conceptualizations that pervade research and everyday understanding concerning these thematic areas. These essays work in creative and experimental ways to evocatively demonstrate Queer Theory and queer as unique, needed, and generative paradigmatic orientations and conceptual tools for use in Cultural Studies research. They help to advance a more open and tentative understanding of relational stories and fluid and dynamic relational identities.