A5038430262- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Romani and Gypsy Studies
- Rural development and sustainability
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social and Demographic Issues in Germany
- Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
- Photography and Visual Culture
- Data Analysis and Archiving
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
Bournemouth University
2007-2024
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2007
Max Planck Society
2007
University of Glasgow
2005
State frameworks for welfare and social security have been subject to processes of privatization, decentralization, neoliberal reform in many parts the world. This article explores how these developments might be theorized using anthropological understandings combination with feminist perspectives on care. In its application post-1989 socioeconomic transformation former socialist region, this perspective overcomes conceptual inadequacies "state withdrawal" model. It also illuminates nuanced...
■ Post-1989 structural reforms to the Czech health care service allowed for introduction of new models nurse—patient relationship and ideals adequate nursing care. This article follows how these shifts were manifested in social relations within a Prague-based home, founded by Borromeo nuns mid 1990s. Focusing on ideas about place emotional identification with patients amongst range staff home (nuns, civil nurses managers), this explores ideologies are linked different articulations modernity...
The UK's departure from the European Union (Brexit) is likely to result in greater immigration and employment restrictions on Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) nationals within United Kingdom. EU/EEA citizens constitute a significant proportion of current social care workforce. Research evaluating impact Brexit has highlighted potentially severe future workforce shortfalls, but not engaged detail with experiences personnel involved day-to-day recruitment retention activities. This...
This article examines how boundaries of the state are negotiated and projected in Czech health care volunteering. Hospital regimes professional provided by doctors nurses widely imagined as a domain intensified authority, legacy socialism. I explore attempts NGO actors, hospitals, local government officials involved three volunteer programs to create alternative, non-medicalized forms patient civil society, thereby reproducing boundary between non-state that characterized society discourses...
The aim in this paper is to present a discussion of the participatory research methods employed explore intersectionality between sexuality, rurality and age through consideration project investigating how older lesbian gay citizens rural southwest England Wales interact with their local community. adjust connect environment, exploring notion “rural idyll” for groups who may be seen as different. Discussion different used themes surrounding connectivity, place, space identity will offered....
Drawing on a recent ethnographic study of contemporary hospital volunteering in the Czech Republic, this paper explores changing ideologies underpinning youth context and shows how they may be linked to broader socio-economic political transformations that have taken place society following collapse state socialism 1989. Volunteering discourses period promote processes individualisation, experiences young volunteers highlight as an activity enabling construction distinctive personal...
Volunteer management is an expert practice which aims to maximise the productivity and efficiency of volunteers’ activities, by adapting Human Resource Management (HRM) approaches voluntary work settings. Sociological social anthropological studies volunteering have not explored significance effects volunteer in sufficient detail. This article critically examines historical emergence UK, explores its contemporary at a charity providing counselling services phone online. Using data drawn from...
During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020–2021, voluntary and community networks in UK mobilised to provide practical help neighbourhoods communities. This article locates these within longer-term historical trajectories social care policy provision. Drawing on data from a qualitative study southern England, this explores how responses fulfilled scaled up pre-pandemic objective expanding volunteer unwaged labour Feminist theories reproduction are applied explore occurred ways that were bound...
Abstract In this paper we explore whether government policy acts as a barrier or facilitator to the work of nonprofits, and in what ways (if at all) different contexts influence place-based community-led nonprofit organizations working improve health wellbeing their communities. Employing ‘abductive’ analysis qualitative data collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews focus groups with 20 non-profit leaders located parts UK, found that can act both various times. There is often...
In recent years, visual anthropologists such as MacDougall [1997 1997 The Visual in Anthropology. Rethinking Anthropology . Howard Morphy and Marcus Banks , eds. Pp. 276 – 95 New Haven London : Yale University Press [Google Scholar]] Ginsburg [1998 1998 Transcultural Cinema Edited with an introduction by Lucien Taylor. Princeton have identified the need to develop connections between study of cultures practices on one hand, ethnographic use media other. This article explores way which this...
Abstract This article examines maternalism in the Czech Republic by exploring how waged and unwaged forms of caring work were framed through discourses women's innately nature late twentieth century. Present-day hospital volunteering programmes, which bring female, lay volunteers onto wards to provide care patients, are inscribed maternalist tropes historically associated with domestic family care, rather than neutral expertise female workers public, institutional settings. The assesses...