160 research outputs found
Support services play a crucial role in the benefits system but are currently at risk of being overwhelmed
No full textDebates about the withdrawal of crisis social security measures have focused on the financial implications for benefit claimants. Attention is also needed on what this means for welfare support services, explain David Robertshaw and Daniel Edmiston
The age of austerity: contesting the ethical basis and financial sustainability of welfare reform in Europe
No full textThis paper examines the policy of austerity in three European welfare regimes with differing levels of social spending and fiscal balance: Italy; Sweden; and the UK. In spite of significant material differences between the three countries, the paper begins by illustrating that there is ultimately convergence in their responses to the economic crisis. These welfare regimes have justified the terms of austerity by suggesting that economic and welfare reforms address questions of ‘need’, ‘fairness’ and ‘sustainability’. Contrary to dominant political and policy rationale, the paper demonstrates that austerity measures in each country fail to meet policy objectives given their own conceptions of social and distributive justice. The three welfare regimes lack cogent strategies to safeguard their financial sustainability and this results in a neo-liberal paradigm that compromises the ethical and internal coherence of austerity
Book review: Welfare, inequality and social citizenship: deprivation and affluence in austerity Britain by Daniel Edmiston
No full textIn Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship: Deprivation and Affluence in Austerity Britain, Daniel Edmiston offers insight into how austerity and inequality impact upon citizen identities, showing that low-income individuals are excluded from dominant narratives of citizenship. Heather Mew recommends this structural account for evidencing how austerity in the UK is intensifying the gulf between social and welfare rights available to low- and high-income citizens
Unsigned letter to George P. Edmiston, December 21, 1900
No full textThe author informs Edmiston that the owner of the Montana Saloon, Jno. Bioti, is very unhappy with the way things currently are, mentions a man named Raymond who is causing trouble, informs that a Pat Flynn believes that the union is failing; two pages, handwritten
Student Nurse Academic Partnership (SNAP) Conference Proceedings 2016
No full textThe Student Nurse Academic Partnership (SNAP) Conference is an educational initiative developed between the Schools of Nursing at Kingston & St George's and Gibraltar Health Authority. SNAP aims to give nursing students the opportunity to share their ideas and experiences of nursing with other students, academic staff and practice partners. Nursing students partnered up with an academic of their choice to submit an abstract of their ideas relating to nursing theory, education or practice. The best abstracts were selected to be presented during the first SNAP conference on 13th January 2016 at St George's, University of London. Following the successful delivery of the presentations, the student nurses have written up their presentations into papers that are published here as conference proceedings.- This journal opens with a foreword by Dr. Julia Gale and contains the featured paper by Professor Ian Peate, 'The Trouble with Men...'. The other eleven articles were written by student nurses and demonstrate the passion and enthusiasm student nurses hard for their chosen profession. - The papers are authored by: Emily Davis & Angela Richardson, Aurelia Edmiston, Rhianna McGowan, Gemma Pumford, Elizabeth Ross & Dr Jayne Price, Pardina Samson-Fessale & Mary Brady, Katrina Sealey, Ekta Shah & Robert Stanley, Daniel Sinclair, Daniel Waters & Denise Bodley, and Nikki Yun & Paul Newcombe
Despite the suspension of conditionality, benefit claimants are already looking for work
No full textThe unique challenges that COVID-19 presents have meant a ‘pause’ in overt work-related requirements. Despite this, and the dire job prospects facing many, the majority of the new COVID-19 cohort of benefit claimants who do not have a job are actively looking for work, find Daniel Edmiston, Ben Baumberg Geiger, Lisa Scullion, Jo Ingold and Kate Summers. This questions many of the assumptions that underpin our increasingly conditional social security system and should encourage policymakers to rethink what income and employment support might look like as we move beyond this pandemic
Student Nurse Academic Partnership (SNAP) Conference Proceedings 2016
No full textThe Student Nurse Academic Partnership (SNAP) Conference is an educational initiative developed between the Schools of Nursing at Kingston & St George's and Gibraltar Health Authority. SNAP aims to give nursing students the opportunity to share their ideas and experiences of nursing with other students, academic staff and practice partners. Nursing students partnered up with an academic of their choice to submit an abstract of their ideas relating to nursing theory, education or practice. The best abstracts were selected to be presented during the first SNAP conference on 13th January 2016 at St George's, University of London. Following the successful delivery of the presentations, the student nurses have written up their presentations into papers that are published here as conference proceedings.- This journal opens with a foreword by Dr. Julia Gale and contains the featured paper by Professor Ian Peate, 'The Trouble with Men...'. The other eleven articles were written by student nurses and demonstrate the passion and enthusiasm student nurses hard for their chosen profession. - The papers are authored by: Emily Davis & Angela Richardson, Aurelia Edmiston, Rhianna McGowan, Gemma Pumford, Elizabeth Ross & Dr Jayne Price, Pardina Samson-Fessale & Mary Brady, Katrina Sealey, Ekta Shah & Robert Stanley, Daniel Sinclair, Daniel Waters & Denise Bodley, and Nikki Yun & Paul Newcombe
Sade: queer theorist
No full textIn an era when both Church and State assigned gender roles and defined sexual practices in terms of male/female, lawful/illicit, Sade’s extensive accounts of sexual activity were categorized as deviant, prurient or provocative. William F. Edmiston explores how Sade’s unique challenge to sexual, moral and social taboos anticipates the discourses of queer theory. Following an overview of queer theory, Edmiston examines the categories of sex, gender and sexuality as treated in some of Sade’s best- and lesser-known works. He demonstrates the extent to which Sade erodes the boundaries of sexual opposition through discourses justifying rather than illegitimizing ‘unlawful’ sex. The author reveals the coexistence of two competing discourses on sexuality: a proclivity that cannot be eradicated, and a habit that one can choose to adopt. This pioneering re-reading culminates with an examination of how recent biographies attempt to force Sade into a normal/abnormal dichotomy, manipulating police reports, personal correspondence or narratorial interventions to establish (or not) the author’s homosexuality. Through revealing Sade’s attempts to undermine prevailing gender roles and sexual identities, Edmiston uncovers a ‘queer’ discourse that challenges the still common assumption that heterosexuality is exclusively natural and normative, and that nature has always prompted humans to reproduce, rather than to seek pleasure. Introduction Sade, a queer theorist? What is queer theory? ‘Sodomie’ and ‘antiphysique’ in the writings of Sade Corpus and other details 1. Sade’s erotic novels: can we read them as queer? Sex (anatomy): female/male Gender (behavior): masculine/feminine Sexuality: (object-choice of sexual pleasure) homosexual/heterosexual 2. Nature, sodomy, semantics and queer discourse Nature Sodomy: queer discourse Semantics Practice or proclivity? 3. Atrocities of a quite different kind: non-normative eroticism in Aline et Valcour Incest in the frame narrative Homosexuality and incest in the embedded narratives 4. Queering the Marquis Conclusion Bibliography Inde
Citizenship
No full textCitizenship as a status concerns who gets what from the terms of membership within a given community. Citizenship as a socio-cultural practice shines light on how and why some are recognized as (worthy) members whilst others are not. Reflecting on this distinction, this chapter starts by briefly outlining T. H. Marshall’s seminal account that has proven influential in shaping, and in many ways constraining, contemporary understandings of citizenship within society and social policy. The chapter considers the contested functions of social citizenship when it comes to capitalism, democracy and inequality. It then problematizes some of the claims underpinning normative and ideological accounts of citizenship. The chapter concludes by discussing the emergence of multiple, shifting citizenships that currently reflect and condition welfare politics. The author argues that the terms of citizenship are being reformulated not just through – but also in revolt against – de-territorialized memberships and ‘flexible’ forms of belonging and entitlement
Attracting the power cohort to the Tenth District
No full textA long debated issue in regional economics is whether “people follow jobs” or “jobs follow people.” That is, do people move to where jobs are available, or do employers locate their facilities where potential employees reside? If people follow jobs, an appropriate economic development policy would be to concentrate on luring employers, especially large employers. This view reflects many traditional state and local economic development policies. If, on the other hand, jobs follow people, a better policy would be to focus on luring skilled people by creating an environment that is an attractive place to live. ; Increasingly, state and local economic development agents are following the latter policy. In particular, many state and local governments are seeking to attract a “power cohort” of young, childless, college-educated residents. These people are not only attractive to employers but are typically more responsive to the quality of the urban milieu, which can be influenced by policy. Because singles are generally more mobile than families with school-aged children, much of the economic development effort is focused on that subgroup, but the effort also focuses on childless couples. ; In the Tenth District most cities are relatively weak in attracting this power cohort. Specifically, the district cities as a whole attract fewer migrants from this cohort than would be expected given their populations, wage levels, and housing costs. This fact raises an important question: Why? ; Edmiston argues that the relative performance of migration across Tenth District cities—and elsewhere in the United States—is largely a function of two sets of factors. The district does well based on the first set of factors: unemployment, wages, and taxes. The district is relatively weak based on the second set of factors: cultural and recreational amenities, intellectual capital, topography, and crime.
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