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The recovery experiences of homeless service users with substance use disorder: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis
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The relationship between homelessness and substance use disorder (SUD) is layered and complex. Adults pursuing recovery while dealing with homelessness and SUD face many challenges. Little research has inspected qualitative first-person accounts of recovery in the context of homelessness and SUD, and few studies have employed conceptualisations of recovery beyond abstinence. In this systematic review study, we examine the qualitative literature on the recovery experiences of adult homeless service users with SUD.
Methods
2,042 records were identified via database and secondary searching strategy. After title and abstract and full text screening, 15 eligible studies remained. Critical Appraisal Skills Programme quality appraisal criteria was used to assess potential bias in the studies. Meta-ethnography was employed to synthesise extracted data.
Results
Four themes were generated from the extracted data: Two sides of the Service Coin; Navigating Relationships; Recovery Practices and Personal Attributes; and Housing as Foundational for Recovery.
Conclusion
Unconditional housing, a broad array of supports, opportunities to contribute to society, and family reunification supports all facilitate the development of recovery for adults with SUD experiencing homelessness. Implications for policy are discussed
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
Get PDFSonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary and who reshaped modern jazz time and time again over the course of a career lasting more than sixty years. Throughout the greater part of it, Rollins also maintained a notebook in which he sketched in words and images as he pondered art and life and his own search for meaning. The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins provides an unequaled glimpse into the mind and workshop of a musical titan, along with a wealth of insight and inspiration to readers.
In the fall of 1959, Rollins famously took a break from performing and recording. He turned to practicing for long hours, often late at night, on the Williamsburg Bridge, and it was then for the first time that he began to turn regularly to his notebooks, which at the time and in the years to come proved for him an indispensable instrument of change in their own right. Here Rollins can tend towards the aphoristic, as in “Face the startling and intriguing reality that there is within me a force working hard for my own destruction, even as I try to improve." Elsewhere, music is front and center, as he mingles observations on embouchure, fingering, and technique with reflections on harmony and dissonance.
Lists of daily chores, rehearsal routines, reflections on particular tours and recordings (including detailed notes on how Rollins wanted live albums to be edited), and a steady stream of notes on diet and health also find their way into the notebooks, as do ruminations on systemic racism and the way nightclub culture degrades jazz musicians. Rollins emphatically resists claims that jazz should be considered solely as an African American art form, protesting the diminishment that is caused to jazz musicians by labeling their work “racial music.” “The point to be absorbed here," he writes, "is that any definition which seeks to separate Johann Sebastian Bach from Miles Davis is defeating its own purpose of clarification. The musings of Miles is then the bouncing of Bach both played against each other.”
Carefully selected and including an informative introduction by critic and scholar Sam Reese, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins makes a vital and fascinating document of American culture publicly available for the first time
Writing Performances of the Vocal Body
Get PDFThis article uses in-depth performance descriptions to engage in what Donna Haraway terms the ‘view from a body’ (1988: 589). I frame my practice-led research in performance art by scoring and writing through four selected performances: Nape (2013), Scaw (2014), Mean (2016) and Faults (2019). These performance descriptions are presented as performance documentation providing insight to an established practice in performance art that is language-oriented. This writing is both descriptive and autobiographical and explore methods and tasks that use the vocal-body as ‘writing with the voice’ and ‘live writing’ over extended duration. These texts position the creation of language-oriented performance art from within, expanding and reframing my own performances that bring new understandings on how we read, witness and experience experimental writing practice in performance
“Our satirists prove such very slaughter-men”: The Character of the Satirist in Eighteenth-Century Print
No full textThis essay surveys descriptions of the satirist from across the eighteenth century, arguing that attention to the character of the satirist reveals that during this period satire was not only performative but preoccupied with questions of performance. In order to understand the various elements of eighteenth-century satiric performance, the essay demonstrates the applicability of three contemporary models of subjectivity: mask, persona, and character. Though discrete, the different layers of satiric performance were not consistently aligned and often instead playfully rejected internal coherence. Readers were compelled to negotiate layers of mask and character which were purposefully mismatched to produce deliberate, revealing, and entertaining dissonances. The essay then considers in detail two anonymous attempts to prescribe how the ideal satirist should behave, The Satirists: A Satire (1739) and The Satirist: A Poem (1771), arguing that stricter clarification on what was considered permissible satirical behaviour only created additional means by which satirists could frustrate and subvert readers expectations to further satirical effect. Ultimately, this essay suggests that satirical utterances printed throughout the eighteenth century necessarily and intrinsically demanded readers to engage with and navigate complex and slippery questions of character
Conceptualising and navigating bullying in English secondary schools: A figurational analysis of power imbalances in physical education
Get PDFThis article focuses on how secondary school pupils and teachers conceptualise bullying and how pupils navigate bullying within physical education (PE). This ethnographic case study presents findings from participant observations, focus group discussions, and semi-structured interviews. Applying figurational sociology, power imbalances central to bullying within the PE figuration are analysed. Elias and Scotson’s (1994) model of established-outsider relations is applied to demonstrate how peer commentary proved an effective power resource that some sporty pupils used to marginalise and exclude perceived less sporty peers. Elias’s (2001) personal pronoun model is also utilised to analyse how fear, stigmatisation, and identity self-preservation underpinned a culture of silence in reporting bullying. Throughout our results and discussion, we provided much needed empirically and theoretical informed insights into the gendered nuances, and similarities, in boys’ and girls’ experiences of bullying in PE. Finally, we propose a more negotiated PE-specific code of conduct may be more beneficial
Contemporary Women's Fiction: Speculative Fiction and reproductive rights.
No full textThis piece explores how dystopian fictions which explore maternal experience and the reproductive body can help to illuminate the notion of ‘speculative fiction.’ Such fictions present the reproductive body in culture as a site of political power and demonstrate how, once a woman’s body is caught in the economies of reproduction, she is politically weakened. Dystopian texts are particularly effective and affecting in exploring this state I will term ‘bodily estrangement’
Phage Therapy: A Targeted Approach to Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance
Get PDFThe rise of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections has become a significant global health threat, necessitating the need for alternative therapeutic strategies. The use of bacteriophages—viruses that particularly infect and lyse bacteria—in phage therapy has resurfaced as a potentially effective substitute for conventional antibiotics. This narrative review aims to explore the mechanisms, applications, challenges, and prospects of phage therapy in combating antibiotic-resistant infections. A thorough analysis of the literature was carried out by exploring online databases, such as Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. The search focused on peer-reviewed articles, clinical trials, and authoritative reports published in the last 10 years. The review synthesized findings from studies on phage mechanisms, therapeutic applications, regulatory challenges, and advances in phage engineering. Phage therapy demonstrates several advantages over antibiotics, including high specificity for target bacteria, the ability to penetrate biofilms, and a lower propensity for resistance development. However, significant challenges remain, such as regulatory and production hurdles, the potential for phage resistance, and interactions with the host immune system. Advances in genetic engineering have enhanced the therapeutic potential of phages, and personalized phage therapy is emerging as a viable approach for tailored treatments. Phage therapy holds significant promise as an alternative to antibiotics, particularly in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. While challenges persist, ongoing research, technological advancements, and collaborative efforts are crucial for integrating phage therapy into mainstream clinical practice, potentially revolutionizing the treatment of bacterial infections and addressing the global antibiotic resistance crisis
Towards Boundary Crossing: Primary and Secondary School Teachers Teaching Creative Writing and its Redrafting
Get PDFThere is little research into how teachers conceptualise and teach creative writing and its redrafting and how this might differ depending upon the age of the students being taught. In this paper, we compare the creative writing conceptualisations and practices of primary and secondary school teachers in England through a qualitative survey. Taking an ecological view of creative writing, we analyse the qualitative survey using the 5A’s theory of creativity (Glăveanu, 2013) and landscapes of practice (Wenger-Trayner, Wenger-Trayner, 2015). Our analysis demonstrates how
product based approaches are prevalent in both landscapes of practice, meaning redrafting is largely conceptualised as a technical rather than creative action. Our analysis also shows that whilst creative writing is overall more marginalised in the secondary school landscape, it is often taught through a mixture of product and process approaches that provide students as actors with more agency to determine the nature of their artifact and their audiences when compared with the primary school landscape. Reasons for this difference are explored and we recommend professional development which involves dialogue between primary and secondary schoolteachers in order to enable them to cross boundaries of practice
