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Forget the facts: a humanistic approach to addressing contemporary issues in urban waste management
No full textDespite public knowledge of the impacts of litter on environmental preservation efforts, volumes of litter continue to grow at alarming rates. In reviewing the history of litter research, a trend of focusing primarily on changing behaviour is apparent, while there remains very little understanding of the behaviour itself. By leveraging principles of radical research, a focus on understanding how items are littered identifies that a large portion of litter is generated unintentionally, calling into question the effectiveness of communication with a public who is not aware of the consequences of their actions
A critical analysis of the global biodiversity framework
Get PDFAdopted in 2022 by states party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Biodiversity Framework has been celebrated as a game changer in the international community’s efforts to address dangerous levels of biodiversity loss. Through a detailed analysis, this article argues that this optimism is unfounded, and instead the Framework will fail to halt the decline of the natural world. It begins by locating the Framework in its international legal context before critiquing its regulatory form, described as ‘global target, national action’. The remainder of the article provides a comprehensive assessment of the Framework’s 2050 Vision for Biodiversity and its associated global goals, and its 2030 Mission and the related 23 action-oriented targets. It concludes by offering brief thoughts on alternative directions international conservation law and policy could go in to address the biodiversity crisis
Video: Racism and antisemitism in the hostile environment
No full textRecording from SSAHE March 2025 webinar featuring Nira Yuval Davis, Ben Gidley and Shabna Begum.
Mainstream politicians today are all in agreement that antisemitism is an evil that needs to be combated – even while making alliance with far right and authoritarian populist movements that themselves promote antisemitic narratives. The “Great Replacement Theory”, a conspiracy theory proposing that Jews are orchestrating mass migration from the global South, has become a stable of the rhetoric an increasingly mainstream right-wing politics. How can we respond to antisemitism without creating a hierarchy of racism? How can we build deeper solidarity between those in struggle against antisemitism and those in struggle against other forms of racism, including Islamophobia and anti-migrant racism? Can we build a politics of anti-antisemitism that is not carceral and punitive? How can we respond to the ways in which the right has used antisemitism as a political football in its culture wars against the left and against minorities in the UK? This webinar focuses on antisemitism in the UK as a form of racism, and how the anti-racist and migrant solidarity movement should respond to it. Building on earlier webinars on identity politics and culture wars, on the state imposition of definitions of racism, and on the criminalisation of protest (including Palestinian solidarity protest), in this session we build our analysis of contemporary antisemitism and suggests ways forward. and harm that antisemitism inflicts on Jewish people
The positive duty to protect against religious offence under the European Convention on Human Rights
No full textThe European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in interpreting the positive duties of a state party under art.9 ECHR has held in a number of cases that there is an obligation to protect an individual from “religious offence”. The first part of this paper explores the complex history of positive duties in this area and how they often revolve around what the ECtHR terms the protection of “religious peace”. As the second and third sections of this paper argue, this allows states to make defensive relativist arguments about the protection of religious peace, claiming its protection necessitates domestic laws which place disproportionate restrictions on other rights. The construction of this positive duty is particularly problematic, as the fourth section of this paper argues, in the context of rising autocratic legalism at the ECtHR which poses a systemic danger to the way both arts 9 and 10 rights are protected. The final section of this paper lays out different ways to strengthen the protection of art.10 rights in the formulation of any positive duty to protect art.9 rights
Occupational safety and health for older workers: a European policy perspective
No full textBook synopsis: This timely Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how aging affects occupational health and safety. Experts explore global trends and scientific theories on workplace aging to gain deeper insight into underlying issues in the field and identify areas for improvement.
This Research Handbook contains practical information on how to create a healthy and safe environment for older workers across different sectors, based on case studies and early intervention research. Pairing empirical investigations and theoretical perspectives, authors analyze how aging affects work ability, occupational health, and safety in the workplace. Topics covered include international rules and regulations on aging, the role of age in remote and hybrid work, and a recipe for successful aging. Ultimately, it sheds light on the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace as older workers comprise a substantial part of the workforce.
This Research Handbook is an important read for scholars and students of human resource management, organizational and occupational psychology, and sociology and social policy. It is also a beneficial resource for employers, employees, and policymakers
‘I’m utterly utterly despondent and disappointed.’ Bereaved families describe being failed by the inquest system
Get PDFCo-creation and innovation policy
Get PDFThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. As the world faces new complex challenges, we need innovations in how public policy can support innovation to unlock economic, societal and technological progress. Bringing together expert contributors from across science, technology, innovation and policy making, this book presents thought leadership pieces that address the question: What does the future of innovation policy look like
Creating cities of care: towards a new radical care framework for geographical research with urban migrants and refugees
No full textThis paper brings into proximity and advances geographical engagements with care to propose a new radical care framework for research with minoritised migrants and refugees in the city. Informed by calls for alternative and care-full modes of knowledge production through creative engagements with lived experiences of care and building on recent scholarship on shadow infrastructures of care in cities, it examines how we might attend to the invisibilised modes of caring in the city with migrants and refugees. The paper outlines three dimensions of the framework – knowledges, temporalities and spatialities – as starting points to develop more expansive understandings of care and its radical potential, offering new politics and poetics that challenge and refuse the co-optation of care into the logics of neoliberalism and racial capitalism and to imagine more care-full urban futures
Is it all in Marshall, still? An appreciation of Marshall's contribution to modern Economics
No full textThis Special Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics (CJE) marks the centenary of the death of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), a founding father of modern economics. The publication of Marshall’s (1890) Principles of Economics is widely acknowledged as having shaped the teaching of economics and economic research in the twentieth century. The Principles helped formalise the discipline and establish the marginalist turn in economics. It is still regarded by many as the foundation stone of neo-classical economics. Yet, as a scholar, Marshall was full of apparent contradictions. Throughout his writings he sought to maintain continuity with the classical tradition of Smith, Ricardo and Marx, while anticipating or developing ideas critical to it, notably in the theory of value and distribution. Marshall subjected the key extant and hitherto non-formalised ideas in mathematical language, and yet he was dismissive both of mathematical formalism, and the notion that economics should be modelled along the lines of sciences such as Physics. Instead, Marshall emphasised the social and communitarian elements of production, markets and industrial districts, and famously viewed economics as the ‘study of man in the ordinary business of life’ (Marshall, 2011 (1890), Book 1, Chapter II pp. 35). He appreciated interdisciplinary perspectives and would often explore interests in sociology and philosophy. This Editorial opens with a portrait of Marshall’s life and times to provide context for his intellectual contributions. It then focuses on some of his less explored contributions to economics, which are gradually acquiring more interest and importance. It then introduces the papers in the Special Issue, before concluding with some critical reflection on the contemporary relevance of Marshall for policy and areas for scholarly development
From high scores to high calories: Investigating the relationship between gaming disorder and unhealthy eating behaviors in the context of wellness
No full textObjective: While the relationship between gaming and eating has been previously investigated, the mechanisms underlying the association between gaming disorder and unhealthy eating behaviors remain unclear. Method: A nationally representative sample of 1074 adults from the United Kingdom was recruited via an online survey to examine whether wellness factors such as mental wellness and physical wellness mediate the relationship between gaming disorder and unhealthy eating behaviors. Correlational and latent mediation analyses were conducted to characterize the pattern of associations among these variables. Results: At the correlational level gaming disorder and unhealthy eating behaviors were significantly associated with all key study variables. Moreover, the highest gaming disorder associations observed were with unhealthy eating behaviors and physical wellness. Additionally, unhealthy eating behaviors was negatively associated with physical wellness and mental wellness. The findings of the mediation analysis suggested a partial mediation effect with gaming disorder being associated with unhealthy eating behaviors both directly and indirectly via physical wellness but not mental wellness. More specifically, physical wellness significantly mediated the relationship between gaming disorder and unhealthy eating behaviors, indicating that higher gaming disorder levels associated with lower physical wellness, which in turn associated with unhealthy eating behaviors while mental wellness did not emerge as a significant mediator, suggesting that psychological well-being alone may not be a primary explanatory pathway for the gaming disorder-unhealthy eating behaviors link. Discussion: These findings support the gaming disorder-unhealthy eating behaviors relationship, highlighting the important role of physical wellness in explaining this association. Future research should further explore specific psychological and behavioral mechanisms that further contribute to this relationship
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