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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Drug Using Environments -- 2 Structure and Agency -- 3 Considering Bourdieu -- 4 Methodology and Method -- 5 Field -- 6 The Doxic Attitude of Public Injecting: Habitus and Capital -- 7 Struggle: Control and Resistance -- 8 Harm and Hazard: The Illusio of the Public Injecting Habitus -- 9 Producing Habitus: The Embodiment of Public Injecting Observed -- 10 Habitus and Drug Using Environments: Health, Place and Lived-Experience -- References -- Index

Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Review -- Introduction -- 1 Considering an Applied Visual Sociology? -- 2 Harm Reduction and Injecting Drug Use -- Part II Empiricism -- 3 Methodology and Methods -- 4 Analysis -- 5 Drug Using Environments as a 'Continuum of Descending Safety' -- 6 Drug Related Litter as Visual Data -- 7 The Management of Drug Related Litter in UK Settings -- Part III An Applied Visual Sociology -- 8 The Value of Applied Visual Data in 'Real World' Settings -- 9 Towards an Applied Visual Sociology -- 10 Practical Exercises in Applied Visual Sociology -- References -- Appendix I: A Harm Reduction Response to Media Reports of Needlestick Injury/Drug Related Litter -- Appendix II: Frontline: A Photo-Ethnography of Drug-Using Environments -- Index.

Involving communities in developing locally based initiatives to tackle the problem of illegal drugs is a cornerstone of the UK drug strategy. Whilst the notion of rebuilding communities is very much at the heart of New Labour polices, the notion of community itself has been criticized for assuming a commonality of interests on the part of what are often diverse and conflicting voices within communities. In this article we consider the potential for community based action of a kind envisaged within the UK drug strategy, within a community in Scotland that has a substantial local drug problem. On the basis of ethnographic research within this community we identified profoundly anti-drug user sentiments on the part of residents, coupled with concerns about anti-social behaviour on the part of young people and a sense of failure on the part of the police to maintain public safety. Drug users also articulated a sense of exclusion from the community in which they had grown up. In advance of developing locally based initiatives to tackle the drugs problem in the area it will be necessary to re-establish a sense of safety on the part of community members and to develop a greater degree of understanding and trust between the various factions within the community, including between those using illegal drugs and those not using illegal drugs. It is suggested that one way in which this could be facilitated is through a community based restorative justice process tied to concrete programmes of community development and possibly funded on the basis of seized assets from known drug dealers.

In spite of their widespread use in policy making in the UK and elsewhere, there is a relatively sparse literature specifically devoted to policy pilots. Recent research on policy piloting has focused on the role of pilots in making policy work in accordance with national agendas. Taking this as a point of departure, the present paper develops the notion of pilots doing policy work. It does this by situating piloting within established theories of policy formulation and implementation, and illustrating using an empirical case. Our case is drawn from a qualitative policy ethnography of a local government pilot programme aiming to extend access to healthcare services. Our case explores the collective entrepreneurship of regional policy makers together with local pilot volunteers. We argue that pilots work to mobilise and manage the ambiguity and conflict associated with particular policy goals, and in their structure and design, shape action towards particular outcomes. We conclude with a discussion of the generative but managed role which piloting affords to local implementers. © 2017 The Authors ; cited By 0

In spite of their widespread use in policy making in the UK and elsewhere, there is a relatively sparse literature specifically devoted to policy pilots. Recent research on policy piloting has focused on the role of pilots in making policy work in accordance with national agendas. Taking this as a point of departure, the present paper develops the notion of pilots doing policy work. It does this by situating piloting within established theories of policy formulation and implementation, and illustrating using an empirical case. Our case is drawn from a qualitative policy ethnography of a local government pilot programme aiming to extend access to healthcare services. Our case explores the collective entrepreneurship of regional policy makers together with local pilot volunteers. We argue that pilots work to mobilise and manage the ambiguity and conflict associated with particular policy goals, and in their structure and design, shape action towards particular outcomes. We conclude with a discussion of the generative but managed role which piloting affords to local implementers.

With the proportion of people between young adulthood and the third age growing in relation to children and young people in western industrialised societies, there is an increasing need for a comprehensive look at the past, present and future of adult lives. These adult lives are defined by the experience of history, are structurally specific, and draw upon different interpersonal, lifestyle and cultural resources and it is important to recognise the impact of the past and the present on future adult lives. 'Adult Lives', co-published by The Policy Press and the Open University, is a diverse collection of readings, rich in resources, from all stages of life. These readings contribute to a shared life course perspective to understand how those living and working together in an ageing society relate to each other. The originality and appeal of this Reader lies in its holistic approach to understanding ageing in adulthood through biography and auto-biography that is applicable to all, including those developing policy and in practice, and will make essential reading for those who wishing to contextualise ageing, understand how lives can be transformed through policy and practice, and consider the lived experience