Anne Power
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 244653 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anne Power |
| NOMBRES | Anne |
| APELLIDO | Power |
| FIRMA | POWER A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3887-1050 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 436 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Confucian care meets neoliberal logic in East Asia
This study looked at how services support people who are homeless in Taiwan. • Many services try to help people return to live with their family, rather than find their own home. • Workers believe this is a helpful way to support people. • Charities that provide support often have limited money and rely on donations. • These charities try to work together to improve services and speak up for change. The voluntary sector plays a central role in de…
Negotiating shared housing, care and disability
Standards in supported housing often sideline home-making and its relational work. • Focus on self-determination can overlook the atmospheric work that shapes home. • Feeling at home hinges on how staff, families and housemates negotiate power. • Shared-home atmospheres mix emotion and admin, shaping boundaries in daily life. • Positive atmospheres grow when home-making is valued as shared, relational practice. Feeling a sense of home has long be…
Home-making at the margins
Reframes home-making as an ongoing process shaped by constraint and care. • Shows how people actively make home even where normative ideals are unsettled. • Develops a thematic framework linking marginality, care, time, and relationality. • Advances debate beyond home unmaking by foregrounding adaptive everyday practices. • Positions home-making as a lived, political process across diverse housing contexts. This paper examines the creative, conte…
Vulnerability in action
Protest has been a long-held concern of geographers who have examined the socio-spatial practices of activists and social movements. Yet, within this corpus of work, limited attention has been paid to the role and experience of the body among those involved in protest. Drawing on a study focusing on the experiences of disabled activists organizing in response to austerity in the UK, the paper examines the use of the individual body in activism an…
Involvement of Lay Assessors in the Inspection and Regulation of Public Services
Public services have increasingly sought to use lay assessors (often known as “experts by experience”) as members of inspection teams in health, social care, and education settings. This involvement has been credited as giving more influence to users over how services ought to run. Yet, little is known about the process or outcome of engaging with lay assessors. We conducted a systematic review to understand the benefits and challenges of involvi…
The role of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group in shaping an evolving field over time
The Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group of the Royal Geographical Association‐Institute of British Geographers is perhaps the major professional organisation for health and medical geographers working in the UK. This paper reviews the organisational history and operation of the group, and its forerunners, and its role in shaping the development of the geographies of health and wellbeing, since its inaugural symposium in 1972, marki…
Debilitating landscapes of care and support
This paper explores the impact of policy changes and budget cuts on the service and support landscape faced by people with learning disabilities. Drawing upon collaborative research in England and Scotland and interviews with commissioners and support organisations we show how landscapes of care and support are unstable and fragmented. We identify how pressures of time, resource and precaritisation in the workforce are creating ‘debilitating land…
Parent health and wellbeing at home before and during Covid-19
Environments of parenthood are changing with increasing rates of dual-working households, more single-parent and non-traditional families, increasing cost of childcare, and growing reliance on online communities for information and support. However, everyday parenthood activities are still primarily conducted at "home". In this paper, we draw on a study which initially aimed to explore parent health and wellbeing in everyday contexts before COVID…
Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities
Social care provision across high-income countries has been transformed over the last ten years by personalisation – a policy agenda to give people with eligible support needs more choice and control over their support. Yet the ideological underpinnings of this transformation remain highly mutable, particularly in the context of reduced welfare provision that has unfolded in many nations advancing personalisation. How the policy has manifested it…
Voluntary support in a post-welfare state
Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”
In situ and mobile methodologies are increasingly popular within research into diverse geographies of health and wellbeing. These methodologies include data‐gathering techniques and modes of analysis carried out with research participants as they experience and move through settings with the potential to shape both momentary and longer‐term experiences of health and wellbeing. This methodological development is both a response to and reflection o…
Service learning with First Peoples
This article outlines a framework for working with First Peoples. The framework supports respectful and mutually beneficial learning partnerships and culminates from 6 years of practice and research in arts-based service learning with Aboriginal communities in Australia. We begin by looking at synergies between global service learning and service learning with First Peoples. We then position this work within an international context, focusing on …
Investigating the Use of Digital Media in the Music Classroom with Experienced and Pre-Service Teachers
A Western Sydney research project investigated the question, “What are the practices of pre-service teachers and experienced teachers of music in secondary schools that successfully engage their students with digital media?” The hypothesis underlying the project was that digital media offers school students opportunities, and has the potential to allow more self-paced, interactive and personalized learning. Consequently, the research sub-question…
The relational geographies of the voluntary sector
We propose that voluntary sector geographies are best understood using a systematic relational approach, drawing upon neo-Marxist and symbiotic perspectives. We focus on relations between the voluntary sector and the (shadow) state, internal spaces of client interaction, and external urban spaces. Our relational approach advances alternative understandings of the voluntary sector: ones that are partly but not fully in the orbit of the shadow stat…
Neoliberal abandonment in disability housing provision
Public or ‘social’ housing provision in many nations in the Global North is increasingly being driven by neoliberal strategies that include austerity cuts and market-led privatization. This context raises an important question of how likely the state’s reliance on the private sector can ensure that housing remains available and accessible to more disadvantaged low-income groups. To help answer this question, we draw on a comparative study of soci…
Geographies of co‐production
This introduction to the themed special issue raises provocative questions about the nature and meaning of co‐production by engaging specifically with voices from the margins – groups and individuals who occupy marginalised embodied subjectivities. Key themes emerging from the papers raise questions about the nature and meaning of co‐production. We suggest a need to move away from a focus on co‐production or even participation towards empowerment…
Hopeful adaptation' in health geographies
Living with adversity can create wide-ranging challenges for people's health and wellbeing. This adversity may arise through personal embodied difference (e.g. acquiring a brain injury or losing mobility in older age) as well as wider structural relations that shape a person's capacity to adapt. A number of dichotomies have dominated our understanding of how people engage with health and wellbeing practices in their lives, from classifying behavi…
Ageing with a learning disability
Caregiving
“Caregiving” is a complex and enduring term that denotes the physical, emotional, and psychological assistance that individuals, including family members and statutory and voluntary sector support workers, provide to people in need of support. Given the varied relationships involved across the spectrum of care, it has become an increasingly contested term, depending on the ideologies behind it, the manner in which it is given, and who receives it…
I shouldn’t be living there because I am a sponger’
Learning disability policy has for some time been framed by the goal of inclusion which purports to enable people with learning disabilities to lead a ‘life like any other’ person. This article examines the extent to which this is the case in England, by tracing the lived experiences of people with learning disabilities within their communities. The article draws on two interlinked qualitative studies involving interviews that examined their loca…
Self-building safe havens in a post-service landscape
With the increased commitment towards personalisation in adult social care, allied with more ‘austere’ funding of social services and day centre closures, support is increasingly becoming less placement-driven and woven into everyday spaces within the community. Consequently, support is being re-framed from ‘care’ in formal settings towards an effort at enabling meaningful lives in a post-service landscape nested in local neighbourhoods and ordin…
Placing care in times of austerity
There has been a flourishing of geographical studies of care and caring in recent times. Drawing on a range of new theoretical insights, and driven by questions of who and where in the provision of care, geographers have critically examined the spaces, relations, emotions and politics of caring in contemporary society (Milligan and Wiles, 2010). The evolution of this body of work has shown how the landscape of care is being continually transforme…
Voluntarism and the Voluntary Sector
Understanding voluntarism in an era of globalization, state restructuring, and demographic ageing has become a key research and policy challenge in the twenty‐first century. Across the world, and in countries of the Global North in particular, the voluntary sector has evolved into a source of welfare provisioning alongside the state, as well as a space of resistance at local, subnational, and international levels. Over the past four decades, the …
Caregiving
“Caregiving” is a complex and enduring term that denotes the physical, emotional, and psychological assistance that individuals, including family members, actors of the state, and the voluntary sector, provide to people in need of support. Given the varied relationships involved across the spectrum of care, it has become an increasingly contested term, depending on the ideologies behind it, the manner in which it is given, and who receives it. Ge…
TimeBanking
This paper explores the potential of an online TimeBank for inclusive research to address some of the challenges related to the unequal distribution of power and money for researchers within and outside the academy working in collaboration. The problem, the concept of TimeBanking, and the relationship of TimeBanking to inclusive research principles are explained. The case is made for developing an online TimeBank for inclusive research, and an ac…
Placing care in times of austerity
There has been a flourishing of geographical studies of care and caring in recent times. Drawing on a range of new theoretical insights, and driven by questions of who and where in the provision of care, geographers have critically examined the spaces, relations, emotions and politics of caring in contemporary society (Milligan and Wiles, 2010). The evolution of this body of work has shown how the landscape of care is being continually transforme…
The relational geographies of the voluntary sector
We propose that voluntary sector geographies are best understood using a systematic relational approach, drawing upon neo-Marxist and symbiotic perspectives. We focus on relations between the voluntary sector and the (shadow) state, internal spaces of client interaction, and external urban spaces. Our relational approach advances alternative understandings of the voluntary sector: ones that are partly but not fully in the orbit of the shadow stat…
Self-building safe havens in a post-service landscape
With the increased commitment towards personalisation in adult social care, allied with more ‘austere’ funding of social services and day centre closures, support is increasingly becoming less placement-driven and woven into everyday spaces within the community. Consequently, support is being re-framed from ‘care’ in formal settings towards an effort at enabling meaningful lives in a post-service landscape nested in local neighbourhoods and ordin…
Caring for independent lives
Hovels to High Rise
Hovels to Highrise traces how governments in five European countries became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high density concrete estates. As the book considers each country's housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and systems, it finds convergence of problems in the growing tensions of their most disadvantaged communities. Anne Power underlines the continuing drift tow…
Social inequality, disadvantaged neighbourhoods and transport deprivation
Making space for belonging
Geographies of co‐production
This introduction to the themed special issue raises provocative questions about the nature and meaning of co‐production by engaging specifically with voices from the margins – groups and individuals who occupy marginalised embodied subjectivities. Key themes emerging from the papers raise questions about the nature and meaning of co‐production. We suggest a need to move away from a focus on co‐production or even participation towards empowerment…
Hopeful adaptation' in health geographies
Living with adversity can create wide-ranging challenges for people's health and wellbeing. This adversity may arise through personal embodied difference (e.g. acquiring a brain injury or losing mobility in older age) as well as wider structural relations that shape a person's capacity to adapt. A number of dichotomies have dominated our understanding of how people engage with health and wellbeing practices in their lives, from classifying behavi…
Social Exclusion and Urban Sprawl
This article is about the impact of urban sprawl on social exclusion. Inner cities suffer acute abandonment. Sprawl is encouraged by hidden government subsidies. However, traffic congestion creates opposition to further development. Dispersal and high-speed communication rely on concentrated, dense networks leading to the rescue and revaluation of declining city centres and inner neighbourhoods. Complex urban management problems deter would-be re…
Heritage, health and place
Geographies of health challenge researchers to attend to the positive effects of occupying, creating and using all kinds of spaces, including 'green space' and more recently 'blue space'. Attention to the spaces of community-based heritage conservation has largely gone unexplored within the health geography literature. This paper examines the personal motivations and impacts associated with people's growing interest in local heritage groups. It d…
Voluntary support in a post-welfare state
Personalisation and Austerity in the Crosshairs
Personalisation has now become centre-stage in adult social care and continues to have an enduring level of political commitment and on-going appeal for many disabled people. And yet its roll-out has taken place during a time of austerity where central governments in many neo-liberal countries are re-imagining (read: shrinking) their role in social care provision. This paper reports on findings from an empirical study of relevant government offic…
Debilitating landscapes of care and support
This paper explores the impact of policy changes and budget cuts on the service and support landscape faced by people with learning disabilities. Drawing upon collaborative research in England and Scotland and interviews with commissioners and support organisations we show how landscapes of care and support are unstable and fragmented. We identify how pressures of time, resource and precaritisation in the workforce are creating ‘debilitating land…
Ageing with a learning disability
Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”
In situ and mobile methodologies are increasingly popular within research into diverse geographies of health and wellbeing. These methodologies include data‐gathering techniques and modes of analysis carried out with research participants as they experience and move through settings with the potential to shape both momentary and longer‐term experiences of health and wellbeing. This methodological development is both a response to and reflection o…
Voluntarism, health and place
I shouldn’t be living there because I am a sponger’
Learning disability policy has for some time been framed by the goal of inclusion which purports to enable people with learning disabilities to lead a ‘life like any other’ person. This article examines the extent to which this is the case in England, by tracing the lived experiences of people with learning disabilities within their communities. The article draws on two interlinked qualitative studies involving interviews that examined their loca…
A New Era for Social Policy
A succession of Acts of Parliament passed between 1988 and 1990 mark the most decisive break in British social policy since the period between 1944 and 1948. This paper examines the extent to which common principles underlie this legislation. One of the most important common elements has been the reduction in the powers of local government and in the presumption that local authorities should be the main providers of social welfare outside the soc…
It's the system working for the system’
The aim of this article is to examine the experiences of families with young adults with learning disabilities trying to access services. The landscape of disability services for this group is made up of day care, special vocational training and respite places. It aims to identify the extent of an implementation gap between government rhetoric and the degree to which services are characterised as being non-supportive interactions on the ground. U…
Area-based Poverty and Resident Empowerment
The gap between the poorest people in Britain and the average has grown significantly since the late 1970s. People in the lowest income groups are increasingly overrepresented in council housing. Most council housing is built in large, separate, single-purpose estates. Therefore area-based poverty has grown. In these areas, housing, income and social factors interact to create steep decline. As conditions became more extreme, local authorities an…
Spatial Perspectives on Voluntarism in Learning Disability Services in Ireland
Voluntarism has moved to the centre of most western neo-liberal governments' focus in terms of welfare delivery. At the same time, very little of the social policy literature has identified specific historical, cultural and political contexts of place in shaping the particular form of voluntarism and the scale at which it takes place in a country. In order to address policy-related issues of the voluntary sector, a geographical perspective focusi…
Disability, (auto)mobility and austerity
In Britain, many disabled people have access to a car through the Motability Scheme. However, with recent news of thousands of disability claimants losing their cars in cuts, it is worth reflecting on the cultural and symbolic importance of the motor car. This article considers the car’s ability to expand spatial and experiential horizons and offer a site of sanctuary for disabled people, and asks what can be lost in the wake of the recent govern…
High-Rise Estates in Europe
The article analyses the role of five European post-war governments in the production and organization of large-scale social housing estates based on the underlying belief in their power to reorder society through physical changes to the urban environment. The causes of the rapid social decline of mass housing schemes are linked to a mistaken concept of urban design, the scale of public interventions and the inadequate organizational framework ad…
The Crisis in Council Housing—is Public Housing Manageable
France, Holland, Belgium and Germany—a look at their housing problems and policies
Rescuing Unpopular Council Estates Through Local Management
The Crisis in Council Housing—is Public Housing Manageable
A New Era for Social Policy
A succession of Acts of Parliament passed between 1988 and 1990 mark the most decisive break in British social policy since the period between 1944 and 1948. This paper examines the extent to which common principles underlie this legislation. One of the most important common elements has been the reduction in the powers of local government and in the presumption that local authorities should be the main providers of social welfare outside the soc…
Hovels to High Rise
Hovels to Highrise traces how governments in five European countries became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high density concrete estates. As the book considers each country's housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and systems, it finds convergence of problems in the growing tensions of their most disadvantaged communities. Anne Power underlines the continuing drift tow…
Area-based Poverty and Resident Empowerment
The gap between the poorest people in Britain and the average has grown significantly since the late 1970s. People in the lowest income groups are increasingly overrepresented in council housing. Most council housing is built in large, separate, single-purpose estates. Therefore area-based poverty has grown. In these areas, housing, income and social factors interact to create steep decline. As conditions became more extreme, local authorities an…
Estates on the Edge
Reinventing opera
(1999). Reinventing opera: Seventeen dolls and a rainbow warrior. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 23, Imaginary Homelands, pp. 131-134
High-Rise Estates in Europe
The article analyses the role of five European post-war governments in the production and organization of large-scale social housing estates based on the underlying belief in their power to reorder society through physical changes to the urban environment. The causes of the rapid social decline of mass housing schemes are linked to a mistaken concept of urban design, the scale of public interventions and the inadequate organizational framework ad…
Social Exclusion and Urban Sprawl
This article is about the impact of urban sprawl on social exclusion. Inner cities suffer acute abandonment. Sprawl is encouraged by hidden government subsidies. However, traffic congestion creates opposition to further development. Dispersal and high-speed communication rely on concentrated, dense networks leading to the rescue and revaluation of declining city centres and inner neighbourhoods. Complex urban management problems deter would-be re…
Understanding social exclusion
This text explores the issue of social exclusion, considering its measurement, main determinants, and ways in which it may be reduced. The editors show how a focus on the topic may alter the relevant policy questions by fostering debate in government
Operatic Tapestry
The premiere performances of Andrew Schultz's second opera Going Into Shadows at Guildhall, London in June 2001 and Brisbane in September 2001 provide an opportunity to look at threads between it and his first opera Black River, Dramatically both are concerned with women telling their stories. In another link, both operas are concerned with issues of belonging. Musical links are found in the composer's use of chordal sources, which establish a ha…
A Mirror for Every Age
Jigsaw cities
It's the system working for the system’
The aim of this article is to examine the experiences of families with young adults with learning disabilities trying to access services. The landscape of disability services for this group is made up of day care, special vocational training and respite places. It aims to identify the extent of an implementation gap between government rhetoric and the degree to which services are characterised as being non-supportive interactions on the ground. U…
Caring for independent lives
Spatial Perspectives on Voluntarism in Learning Disability Services in Ireland
Voluntarism has moved to the centre of most western neo-liberal governments' focus in terms of welfare delivery. At the same time, very little of the social policy literature has identified specific historical, cultural and political contexts of place in shaping the particular form of voluntarism and the scale at which it takes place in a country. In order to address policy-related issues of the voluntary sector, a geographical perspective focusi…
Phoenix cities
Voluntarism, health and place
When care is left to roam
Understanding the complex negotiations in fulfilling the right to independent living for disabled people
The independent living agenda has become dominated by a rights focus which has helped drive national level shifts in setting norms and changing mind-sets. This paper is concerned with examining how rights are utilised by service providers in the process of facilitating independent living. Drawing on an empirical case-study of providers in Ireland, the paper identifies the strategies being used to put rights into practice. The findings show that i…
Social inequality, disadvantaged neighbourhoods and transport deprivation
Active Citizenship and Disability
This book provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation. It explores how these principles have been enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how different jurisdictions have implemented them to enable meaningful engagement and participation by persons with disabilitie…
Care in everyday life
‘Care’ is fast disappearing from official policy discourse, and fading from the landscape of support. It is a concept older support workers have learnt to put aside. Conventional sites of care such
Making space for belonging
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