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Impact of food hubs on food security and sustainability: Food hubs perspectives from Leeds, UK
Get PDFIn the context of rising food insecurity, food hubs such as food pantries, food banks, community agriculture supported schemes, social supermarkets, community kitchens and cafes, have proliferated both in number and in the roles they perform. Food hubs have a range of benefits in the communities that they serve as well as the wider food system. However, more empirical evidence is required to build a compelling case for policy support. Using the area of Leeds, UK as a case study, and taking a mixed methods approach (i.e. evidence synthesis, mapping, survey and interviews) we present the food hubs’ perspectives on the benefits that they offer to food security, sustainability, resilience and food justice. Food hubs reflect on how their activities enhance sustainability, strengthen local food systems, support local economies, and improve the health, wellbeing and agency of their communities. In doing so, food hubs contribute to regional, national and global priorities on food security, health, sustainability, justice and resilience. However, to scale up or out their positive impact, food hubs require support to transition away from emergency food provision to longer-term, holistic and financially viable models that focus on community wellbeing and empowerment, healthy diets, local economies and environmental sustainability
Sport, leisure and social justice in the age of precarity and prosumption
Get PDFPower's relationship with social justice represents a critical area of scholarship, highlighting how progressive political movements challenge social injustices relating to human rights, poverty, and civil liberties. The chapter provides an overview of power and its relationship with social control, starting with definitions from political thinkers such as Steven Lukes and Michel Foucault. Before analysing literature exploring power as a form of authority within industrial modernity, unpacking research that has positioned sport and leisure as a mechanism of disciplinary power built around the idea of panoptic surveillance. From here, the chapter introduces perspectives that connect power with an evolution in the cultural landscape of modernity that has seen disciplinary authority replaced by the principles of seduction, precarity and synopticism. This idea links sport and leisure to a culture of idolatry that has come to symbolise consumer society, the increased phenomenon of celebrity and the political ideology of free-market capitalism that together have seen the state's frontiers recede, fuelling increased individualism over collective security
Building positive Zimbabwean tourism festival, event and destination brand image and equity: a systematic literature review
Get PDFThis article aims to explore the concept of tourism festival and event destination branding and relate it to practices in Zimbabwean festivals and tourism events. The article is therefore based on the following objectives: to understand the concept of tourism festival, event and destination brand image in Zimbabwe; to explain its essence and importance in Zimbabwe; to explore the brand process by mainly looking at market analysis, brand development, brand positioning, brand personality, brand implementation, brand communication and brand tracking; to understand the necessary critical success factors; to explore the constructs of brand equity; and to analyse previous models and discussion in tourism festival and event destination brand equity. A systematic literature review was applied to gather relevant literature related to the study. The process involves a predetermined and comprehensive approach to searching, analysing and synthesising extant literature. Results showed that the image of country’s imagea and vital role in building a positive or negative perception towards a tourism destination image. However, it is essential to note that the image of a country might take a long time to restore itself, even going on for generations. The research study contributes to future research directions by unpacking existing research gaps and advancing knowledge relating to tourism festivals, events and destination brand image in Zimbabwe
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working: a literature review
Get PDFA move to online therapy, observed in counselling courses within the UK during the global Covid-19 pandemic, prompted a research team of counselling educators to undertake a rapid literature review to explore the perceptions and experiences of video therapy internationally (PROSPERO 2020 CRD42020204705). Four databases (CINAHL, Medline, PsychInfo, and Web of Science) were searched using 25 keyword-phrases. Over half the research identified focused on using computers for therapy. Insufficient papers explored the client experience for inclusion. However, eleven practitioner papers of reasonable to strong quality were identified and are reported in this paper, with only one from the UK. Thematic analysis identified four internationally applicable themes for practitioners: therapeutic practice; technical concerns; perceptions of client benefits and challenges when working online; and therapist challenges. The paper identifies several areas of potential future research from the identified themes which could inform future practice, including the need for further client-based research
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No full textYoung People’s Use of School-Based Banter
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This chapter draws upon several concepts derived from, or inspired by, Norbert Elias to critically examine the processes in which young people use ‘banter’ in a physical education school context. Ethnographic data is presented and analysed using Elias’s concepts of the individual civilizing process, habitus, ‘I-We-They’ identities and figuration, alongside Wouter’s notion of a third-nature psyche. We discuss banter as a behavioural norm and theorise the ways in which young males utilise, interpret and respond to banter with psycho-social emotional processes. We argue that young males’ use of banter is evidence of relatively high levels of shared understanding and mutual respect, both of which required heightened levels of emotional self-restraint and the need to exercise greater degrees of foresight. The use of banter demonstrates features of young people’s individual civilising process. In doing so, the chapter demonstrates how a figurational sociological approach can be applied to analysing young people’s relationships, behaviours and identities in an educational setting