Louise Hardwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Hardwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardwick |
| SIGNATURE | HARDWICK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1335-7514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Seeking recognition for people with severe disabilities on benefits
This article examines how recent welfare reform in the UK has caused systemic violence to people with severe disabilities who are reliant on state benefits. It evaluates the underpinning discourse framings and changes in welfare policies, using concepts of debility and recognition to reveal the inherent contradictions in policies targeting people on the ‘wrong side of inequality’. To help contribute to a recognition of the impact of these changes…
Gender and Race in the Modernist Middlebrow
This article marks a decisive step towards the recovery of the French woman writer, journalist, and aviation pioneer Louise Faure-Favier, who today is virtually forgotten. The article begins by situating the author, and her recovery, within wider international currents of recent feminist scholarship into neglected and lost modernist “middlebrow” women writers. I then move to analyse Faure-Favier’s innovative modernist exploration of the themes of…
Using a situated knowledge lens to reveal knowledge gains for community partners engaged with a university – community partnership
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Relationship-Based Research in Social Work
Social work practice is rooted in developing relationships and this volume acts to celebrate how this professional skill, with its underpinning value-base, can be transferred to social work research. Importantly, it also reminds us of the centrality of building relationships to the profession, at a time when this can be seen as a luxury in professional encounters and, like other recent social work research texts, highlights qualities that social …
Seeking Imperialism’s Embrace
Kristen Stromberg Childers has produced a study that roundly rebukes Napoleon’s dismissive claim that the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe were no more than the ‘confetti of empire’ (a phrase widely attributed to him). In a valuable contribution to the historical and cultural study of this region, Stromberg Childers convincingly argues that understanding the ‘Francophone Caribbean is also crucial for understanding the continu…
Towards Biopolitical Ecocriticism
This article undertakes a cultural and political examination of the Manifeste pour les 'produits' de haute nécessité , a manifesto co-authored by a collective of leading Martiniquan cultural figures, including Patrick Chamoiseau and Édouard Glissant, in response to the general strikes of 2009 in Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion. These strikes focused metropolitan attention on the high cost of living or 'la vie chère'. After a di…
Do we meet the needs of children in asylum-seeking families
First among the principles underpinning the Children Act 1989 is that the welfare of the child is of primacy concern. To this end, local authorities have a duty to provide services to support children deemed ‘in need’. However, despite this, they struggle to deliver services appropriately, especially in deprived areas. This article explores this deficit through the lens of children in asylum-seeking families who represent the extreme on the spect…
Youth Dispossession, Volcanoes and Diaspora
THE PAST DECADE HAS WITNESSED SEVERAL EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS in Francophone Caribbean cinematic production, and this article presents a survey of the current landscape of Caribbean cinema in French, focusing on work by Martiniquan and Guadeloupean filmmakers.1 The distinct history of the French islands has given rise to the development of strong literary and theoretical traditions, from Negritude and Antillanite to Creolite, which seek to explore …
Advocacy versus Social Work
This paper uses a service evaluation of a city-wide Advocacy Rights Hub, based in a northern-English city, as a vehicle to explore the shift in welfare provision away from regulated state welfare to the deregulated voluntary sector in circumstances of diminishing welfare resources in the UK. It focuses on two significant trends relating to welfare that are exposed through the evaluation. The first is how social policies are increasingly directed …
Race, violence and biopolitics in Francophone postcolonial contexts
Creolizing the Caribbean ‘Coolie
Indentured immigration from India to the Caribbean began after abolition. In the French context, it is estimated that a total of 74,386 people undertook the transoceanic journey. These indentured labourers became known as ‘coolies’, although the term itself is inherently transnational, projective and ambiguous, and carries (to this day) considerable pejorative nuances. Significant differences exist between Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean per…
Lire et enseigner le Cahier d'un retour au pays natal en Grande-Bretagne
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level (for example, the UNESCO project 'La Route de l'esclave', the 'loi Taubira' and the 'Comité pour la mémoire de l'esclavag…
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
The Invisibility of Practitioner Research
The authors offer a critical account of the struggle faced by social work practitioner research in emerging from a state of near ‘invisibility’. The authors make the case for practitioner-led research (PLR) to be valued and supported within the broad arena of social research by an infrastructure that can capitalise on the advantages of PLR. It is argued that the practitioner's situated perspective can access knowledge which takes practice fully i…
Bridging the gap between social work practice and community based welfare agencies
This article argues that social work in the UK needs to renegotiate its relationship with community welfare agencies. It begins by examining what we mean by local community and how welfare needs reflect complex non-linear dynamics unique to the local circumstances. It is argued that these are not always recognised in centralised policy agendas. The article broadly draws a parallel between policy issues for the European Community and for the natio…
J'ai toujours t une personne un peu part
This interview concentrates upon Maryse Cond's literary works since the mid-1980s. Referring to Le Cur rire et pleurer (1999), Cond explains her approach to writing accounts of childhood. Parallels are uncovered between the novels Traverse de la Mangrove (1989) and La Belle Crole (1999) and the author speaks of her complex links to her country, as well as discussing her position in relation to other francophone Caribbean authors and their literar…
Du franais-banane au crole-dragon
Raphal Confiant speaks of his literary formation, his experiences in founding the KAPES KREYOL and the paradoxes of inhabiting a diglossic society. Focusing on early Creole work with Grif an t and closely probing the labels of francaisbananeand crole-dragon, the interview explores Confiant's approach to the interplay between Creole and French. There is further questioning of comments made by Confiant at the Salon du Livre 2006, Francofffonies , a…
Fostering Children with Sexualised Behaviour
Louise Hardwick reports on an evaluation of the perceptions of foster carers attending a group for carers looking after children with sexualised behaviour. The group aimed to provide foster carers with much needed information, knowledge and understanding about the impact of sexual abuse on a child; how as foster carers they could develop strategies for dealing with challenging behaviour from the foster child; and how they could keep the child and…
Older people with dementia and social work
This article examines the impact and resource implications of providing dedicated social care to older people with dementia in a local authority in the North West of England. It examines a pilot project which addressed these issues within the context of specialised care management arrangements. The particular challenges of meeting the needs of older people with dementia are discussed, together with the shortfalls of a welfare model geared to prov…
The Invisibility of Practitioner Research
The authors offer a critical account of the struggle faced by social work practitioner research in emerging from a state of near ‘invisibility’. The authors make the case for practitioner-led research (PLR) to be valued and supported within the broad arena of social research by an infrastructure that can capitalise on the advantages of PLR. It is argued that the practitioner's situated perspective can access knowledge which takes practice fully i…
Advocacy versus Social Work
This paper uses a service evaluation of a city-wide Advocacy Rights Hub, based in a northern-English city, as a vehicle to explore the shift in welfare provision away from regulated state welfare to the deregulated voluntary sector in circumstances of diminishing welfare resources in the UK. It focuses on two significant trends relating to welfare that are exposed through the evaluation. The first is how social policies are increasingly directed …
Fostering Children with Sexualised Behaviour
Louise Hardwick reports on an evaluation of the perceptions of foster carers attending a group for carers looking after children with sexualised behaviour. The group aimed to provide foster carers with much needed information, knowledge and understanding about the impact of sexual abuse on a child; how as foster carers they could develop strategies for dealing with challenging behaviour from the foster child; and how they could keep the child and…
Creolizing the Caribbean ‘Coolie
Indentured immigration from India to the Caribbean began after abolition. In the French context, it is estimated that a total of 74,386 people undertook the transoceanic journey. These indentured labourers became known as ‘coolies’, although the term itself is inherently transnational, projective and ambiguous, and carries (to this day) considerable pejorative nuances. Significant differences exist between Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean per…
Bridging the gap between social work practice and community based welfare agencies
This article argues that social work in the UK needs to renegotiate its relationship with community welfare agencies. It begins by examining what we mean by local community and how welfare needs reflect complex non-linear dynamics unique to the local circumstances. It is argued that these are not always recognised in centralised policy agendas. The article broadly draws a parallel between policy issues for the European Community and for the natio…
J'ai toujours t une personne un peu part
This interview concentrates upon Maryse Cond's literary works since the mid-1980s. Referring to Le Cur rire et pleurer (1999), Cond explains her approach to writing accounts of childhood. Parallels are uncovered between the novels Traverse de la Mangrove (1989) and La Belle Crole (1999) and the author speaks of her complex links to her country, as well as discussing her position in relation to other francophone Caribbean authors and their literar…
Older people with dementia and social work
This article examines the impact and resource implications of providing dedicated social care to older people with dementia in a local authority in the North West of England. It examines a pilot project which addressed these issues within the context of specialised care management arrangements. The particular challenges of meeting the needs of older people with dementia are discussed, together with the shortfalls of a welfare model geared to prov…
Fostering Children with Sexualised Behaviour
Louise Hardwick reports on an evaluation of the perceptions of foster carers attending a group for carers looking after children with sexualised behaviour. The group aimed to provide foster carers with much needed information, knowledge and understanding about the impact of sexual abuse on a child; how as foster carers they could develop strategies for dealing with challenging behaviour from the foster child; and how they could keep the child and…
J'ai toujours t une personne un peu part
This interview concentrates upon Maryse Cond's literary works since the mid-1980s. Referring to Le Cur rire et pleurer (1999), Cond explains her approach to writing accounts of childhood. Parallels are uncovered between the novels Traverse de la Mangrove (1989) and La Belle Crole (1999) and the author speaks of her complex links to her country, as well as discussing her position in relation to other francophone Caribbean authors and their literar…
Du franais-banane au crole-dragon
Raphal Confiant speaks of his literary formation, his experiences in founding the KAPES KREYOL and the paradoxes of inhabiting a diglossic society. Focusing on early Creole work with Grif an t and closely probing the labels of francaisbananeand crole-dragon, the interview explores Confiant's approach to the interplay between Creole and French. There is further questioning of comments made by Confiant at the Salon du Livre 2006, Francofffonies , a…
Bridging the gap between social work practice and community based welfare agencies
This article argues that social work in the UK needs to renegotiate its relationship with community welfare agencies. It begins by examining what we mean by local community and how welfare needs reflect complex non-linear dynamics unique to the local circumstances. It is argued that these are not always recognised in centralised policy agendas. The article broadly draws a parallel between policy issues for the European Community and for the natio…
The Invisibility of Practitioner Research
The authors offer a critical account of the struggle faced by social work practitioner research in emerging from a state of near ‘invisibility’. The authors make the case for practitioner-led research (PLR) to be valued and supported within the broad arena of social research by an infrastructure that can capitalise on the advantages of PLR. It is argued that the practitioner's situated perspective can access knowledge which takes practice fully i…
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level (for example, the UNESCO project 'La Route de l'esclave', the 'loi Taubira' and the 'Comité pour la mémoire de l'esclavag…
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
Advocacy versus Social Work
This paper uses a service evaluation of a city-wide Advocacy Rights Hub, based in a northern-English city, as a vehicle to explore the shift in welfare provision away from regulated state welfare to the deregulated voluntary sector in circumstances of diminishing welfare resources in the UK. It focuses on two significant trends relating to welfare that are exposed through the evaluation. The first is how social policies are increasingly directed …
Race, violence and biopolitics in Francophone postcolonial contexts
Creolizing the Caribbean ‘Coolie
Indentured immigration from India to the Caribbean began after abolition. In the French context, it is estimated that a total of 74,386 people undertook the transoceanic journey. These indentured labourers became known as ‘coolies’, although the term itself is inherently transnational, projective and ambiguous, and carries (to this day) considerable pejorative nuances. Significant differences exist between Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean per…
Lire et enseigner le Cahier d'un retour au pays natal en Grande-Bretagne
Do we meet the needs of children in asylum-seeking families
First among the principles underpinning the Children Act 1989 is that the welfare of the child is of primacy concern. To this end, local authorities have a duty to provide services to support children deemed ‘in need’. However, despite this, they struggle to deliver services appropriately, especially in deprived areas. This article explores this deficit through the lens of children in asylum-seeking families who represent the extreme on the spect…
Youth Dispossession, Volcanoes and Diaspora
THE PAST DECADE HAS WITNESSED SEVERAL EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS in Francophone Caribbean cinematic production, and this article presents a survey of the current landscape of Caribbean cinema in French, focusing on work by Martiniquan and Guadeloupean filmmakers.1 The distinct history of the French islands has given rise to the development of strong literary and theoretical traditions, from Negritude and Antillanite to Creolite, which seek to explore …
Towards Biopolitical Ecocriticism
This article undertakes a cultural and political examination of the Manifeste pour les 'produits' de haute nécessité , a manifesto co-authored by a collective of leading Martiniquan cultural figures, including Patrick Chamoiseau and Édouard Glissant, in response to the general strikes of 2009 in Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion. These strikes focused metropolitan attention on the high cost of living or 'la vie chère'. After a di…
Seeking Imperialism’s Embrace
Kristen Stromberg Childers has produced a study that roundly rebukes Napoleon’s dismissive claim that the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe were no more than the ‘confetti of empire’ (a phrase widely attributed to him). In a valuable contribution to the historical and cultural study of this region, Stromberg Childers convincingly argues that understanding the ‘Francophone Caribbean is also crucial for understanding the continu…
Relationship-Based Research in Social Work
Social work practice is rooted in developing relationships and this volume acts to celebrate how this professional skill, with its underpinning value-base, can be transferred to social work research. Importantly, it also reminds us of the centrality of building relationships to the profession, at a time when this can be seen as a luxury in professional encounters and, like other recent social work research texts, highlights qualities that social …
Using a situated knowledge lens to reveal knowledge gains for community partners engaged with a university – community partnership
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Seeking recognition for people with severe disabilities on benefits
This article examines how recent welfare reform in the UK has caused systemic violence to people with severe disabilities who are reliant on state benefits. It evaluates the underpinning discourse framings and changes in welfare policies, using concepts of debility and recognition to reveal the inherent contradictions in policies targeting people on the ‘wrong side of inequality’. To help contribute to a recognition of the impact of these changes…
Gender and Race in the Modernist Middlebrow
This article marks a decisive step towards the recovery of the French woman writer, journalist, and aviation pioneer Louise Faure-Favier, who today is virtually forgotten. The article begins by situating the author, and her recovery, within wider international currents of recent feminist scholarship into neglected and lost modernist “middlebrow” women writers. I then move to analyse Faure-Favier’s innovative modernist exploration of the themes of…
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