I Mcintosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Mcintosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcintosh |
| SIGNATURE | MCINTOSH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3798-7860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Reframing human rights-based approaches to the misuse of restraint. A binary approach is needed
Purpose The misuse of restrictive interventions including restraint, seclusion and pharmacological restraint is an increasing source of concern. This has led to calls to address the issue based on the principles of human rights. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on previously unaddressed aspects of adopting such an approach. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses frame analysis to critique what it suggests is a dominant uni dimensional…
Paying to Be at the Bridge Table: An Exploration of the Bridge Playing-Sponsor Experience in Mindsport
Recently the card game bridge has become a focus of sociological study including the professionalisation of the game at elite tournament level. This article, based on 11 in-depth interviews with elite bridge sponsors, focuses on playing-sponsors; amateur players who sponsor and also play alongside professional elite players. The playing-sponsor is important for the financing of elite bridge but occupies an, often awkward, role as both a sponsor/e…
Blurring the Boundaries between Leisure and Work: Professionals as Devotees in the Mind-Sport Bridge
Bridge is a partnership card game that has increasingly professionalized in recent years, particularly at ‘elite’ level. ‘Elite’ bridge players participate in a unique leisure world which hitherto has been understood as a form of serious leisure. However, due to professionalization there is the possibility to work as a professional bridge player thus blurring the boundaries between leisure and work. The paper is based on the lived experiences of …
Pilgrimage, tourism, and peace building
Rising international tensions during the Cold War saw peace become one of the driving ideals for global tourism scholars and practitioners in the management of tourism development. The term “peace” can be difficult to define, as it is often associated with words such as justice, love, and happiness. Standard dictionaries, for example, define peace as a state of tranquility or quiet between two parties after formal negotiations and the signing of …
‘I See the Site of the Old Colliery Every Day’: Scotland’s Landscape Legacies of Coal
This article examines how landscapes of abandoned collieries in central Scotland are used, understood and experienced within the context of de-industrialisation and its lingering effects. A mixed research methodology was adopted that consisted of an on-line questionnaire, face to face interviews and on site observations, together with two case studies focusing on the Polmaise colliery site at Fallin (Stirlingshire) and the Devon colliery at Fishc…
The Preface to A Critique of Political Economy
Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader
This Reader brings together a generous selection of readings from the original texts of the three major classical sociological theorists: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim. The readings are deliberately of a substantial length to allow students to gain a full understanding of the texts. Organised in a clear and accessible manner, each reading is introduced by an editorial commentary which explains the importance of the piece within the context…
Exploring what the Notion of 'Lived Experience' Offers for Social Policy Analysis
In this article, we suggest that social policy may be on the cusp of a large-scale adoption of the notion of lived experience. However, within social policy and allied disciplines, the growing use of the term 'lived experience' is unaccompanied by discussion of what it may mean or imply. We argue that now is a good time to consider what this term could mean for social policy analysis. The peculiarities of Anglo-centric usage of the broader term '…
I see a totally different picture now’: An evaluation of knowledge exchange in childcare practice
This article draws on a critical evaluation of a knowledge exchange (KE) project, Food for Thought , devised to promote and develop awareness of the use of food within children’s residential and foster care services. From the 22 qualitative interviews conducted, reflections on the differing forms of knowledge incorporated into the design of the project and its outputs are discussed and the limitations of current thinking on knowledge exchange are…
It's not as easy as saying, ‘just get them to eat more veggies’”: Exploring healthy eating in residential care in Australia
Young people living in residential out-of-home care (henceforth OoHC) are at increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. Currently, recognition of the everyday mechanisms that might be contributing to excess weight for children and young people in this setting is limited. The aim of this study was to better understand the barriers and complexities involved in the provision of a 'healthy' food environment in residential OoHC. Heightening aware…
The Classroom as a Peace Incubator: A US-Gaza Case Study
This paper describes the design, implementation, and lessons from a case study in transforming two university classrooms into what we call an international “peace incubator.” In the besieged Gaza Strip, opportunities for normalization of relations with Israel are almost non-existent, and there is very limited desire or personal capacity among the student population of Gaza to do the work of peace-building. A semester-long videoconference class li…
Food and Feelings in Residential Childcare
The selection, preparation and consumption of food are everyday experiences; however, the social and symbolic meaning attached to such practices varies widely. This paper presents findings from a research project which aimed to explore how such food practices were experienced, produced and maintained within residential children's homes in Scotland. Data were generated over a year-long fieldwork period during which participant observation was unde…
Food is a funny thing within residential child care: Intergenerational relationships and food practices in residential care
This article is based on an ethnographic study that explored everyday food practices and relationships in three residential children's homes in Scotland. On the one hand, food practices in residential child care can be used to cross intergenerational boundaries in a positive, enabling and caring manner. On the other hand, food can be interpreted differently by children and staff, at times resulting in negative interactions which may involve contr…
You have a right to be nourished and fed, but do I have a right to make sure you eat your food?’: Children's rights and food practices in residential care
Many of the difficulties of applying rights in practice lie in competing interpretations of rights by different groups and organisations. This paper illustrates the complexities of putting a theory of children's rights into practice within the everyday contexts of residential child care, in particular, as part of the routines of food provision and consumption of staff and children. The challenges of operationalising children's rights specifically…
Missing the Revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem Land
By their own admission, members of Charles Mountford's 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land were motivated by a search for the primitive. It is no surprise, then, that the published records show a singular lack of awareness of the sorts of debate raging within Aboriginal circles at that time. For example, so-called missionised Yolngu (as the Aboriginal people of North-East Arnhem Land are known) were engaged in a major di…
The Birrinydji Legacy: Aborigines, Macassans and mining in north-east Arnhem Land
For som e clans in north-east A rnhem Land, the D ream ing-being Birrinydji is the king, boat captain and blacksm ith.H e is at once the m inerals of the ground and the land itself, and Yolngu (Aborigines) are b o rn in his im age and cerem onially enact his will.Yet Birrinydji represents the technology and pow er possessed by non-Aborigines, but not Aborigines.The perception is that follow ing the days w hen Indonesian fisherm en from M acassar …
You don’t have to be watched to make your toast’: Surveillance and Food Practices within Residential Care
This paper explores forms of surveillance within residential care homes for young people. It is argued that surveillance is a crucial aspect of care and this can be experienced as both negative and positive by children and staff. In particular the research was concerned with how forms of control and monitoring are conducted in relation to food and food practices. Relations of power and resistance within the context of a care home are routinely pl…
Discussant piece: Food and schools
First paragraph: The school has long been regarded as having responsibility for not only the intellectual development of children but also their social and physical wellbeing. As such the school has become one of the most externally surveyed and regulated spaces that children and adults pass through. This is particularly the case in relation to adult's and children's food and their accompanying food practices. The school has thus been central in …
Children's food practices in families and institutions
First paragraph: Food and food practices lend themselves to sociological and geographical analysis. In particular the study of the relationships that develop around and through food interactions and rituals can bring into focus practices that are often hidden from view; part of an everyday and mundane world frequently so taken for granted that their meaning becomes lost. Research in this growing field brings to light the significance of food and …
Children and food practices in residential care: Ambivalence in the ‘institutional’ home
Using an ethnographic approach, we provide an analysis of food practices in residential care to explore the atypical nature of children's homes as a three-fold space that combines characteristics of ‘home’, ‘institution’, and ‘workplace’. Residential staff invested considerable effort into recreating a ‘family-like’ home but the practices and ideals they drew on could be interpreted and experienced in different ways. We demonstrate the difficulty…
Neighbourhood Identity: The Path Dependency of Class and Place
This paper explores the value of path dependency as a tool to explain why the social identity of particular neighbourhoods can remain relatively fixed over time. Three neighbourhoods in a small Scottish city are examined using historical documentary and sociological qualitative research methods, over an 80‐year period. Class is shown to be the dominant influence in determining social attitudes towards these three neighbourhoods. Path dependency h…
Barter', `Deals', `Bribes' and `Threats: Exploring sibling interactions
This article investigates forms of strategic interaction between siblings during childhood. The authors argue that these interactions, characterized by notions of reciprocity, equivalence and constructions of fairness, are worked out in relation to responsibility, power, knowledge and sibling status. Birth order and age are not experienced as fixed hierarchies as they can be subverted, contested, resisted and negotiated. To explore these issues, …
Connecting with the Scottish Diaspora
A Treaty with the Macassans? Burrumarra and the Dholtji Ideal
Is there evidence for the enactment of treaties between Aborigines (Yolngu) in north-east Arnhem Land and Macassan trepang fishermen in the days preceding British settlement in northern Australia? In this paper, I examine David Burrumarra's claim that ceremonies linked to a Dreaming Macassan (Birrinydji) united Yolngu and the very earliest ‘Macassan’ visitors, the Bayini and Wurrumala. Could these partnerships be considered treaties? To answer th…
“It's as if you're some alien…’ Exploring Anti-English Attitudes in Scotland. ‘
English people are the largest national or ethnic minority within Scotland but remain under-researched. This is despite a view taken by many writers, and by the popular press, that anti-English attitudes within Scotland are a major social problem. Via 30 in-depth interviews, this paper explores the experiences of a group of English people living in Scotland and the extent and nature of any anti-Englishness they have encountered. The paper also fo…
Exploring what the Notion of 'Lived Experience' Offers for Social Policy Analysis
In this article, we suggest that social policy may be on the cusp of a large-scale adoption of the notion of lived experience. However, within social policy and allied disciplines, the growing use of the term 'lived experience' is unaccompanied by discussion of what it may mean or imply. We argue that now is a good time to consider what this term could mean for social policy analysis. The peculiarities of Anglo-centric usage of the broader term '…
Children's food practices in families and institutions
First paragraph: Food and food practices lend themselves to sociological and geographical analysis. In particular the study of the relationships that develop around and through food interactions and rituals can bring into focus practices that are often hidden from view; part of an everyday and mundane world frequently so taken for granted that their meaning becomes lost. Research in this growing field brings to light the significance of food and …
Barter', `Deals', `Bribes' and `Threats: Exploring sibling interactions
This article investigates forms of strategic interaction between siblings during childhood. The authors argue that these interactions, characterized by notions of reciprocity, equivalence and constructions of fairness, are worked out in relation to responsibility, power, knowledge and sibling status. Birth order and age are not experienced as fixed hierarchies as they can be subverted, contested, resisted and negotiated. To explore these issues, …
Islam and Australia's Aborigines? A Perspective from North‐East Arnhem Lnnd
Neighbourhood Identity: The Path Dependency of Class and Place
This paper explores the value of path dependency as a tool to explain why the social identity of particular neighbourhoods can remain relatively fixed over time. Three neighbourhoods in a small Scottish city are examined using historical documentary and sociological qualitative research methods, over an 80‐year period. Class is shown to be the dominant influence in determining social attitudes towards these three neighbourhoods. Path dependency h…
Children and food practices in residential care: Ambivalence in the ‘institutional’ home
Using an ethnographic approach, we provide an analysis of food practices in residential care to explore the atypical nature of children's homes as a three-fold space that combines characteristics of ‘home’, ‘institution’, and ‘workplace’. Residential staff invested considerable effort into recreating a ‘family-like’ home but the practices and ideals they drew on could be interpreted and experienced in different ways. We demonstrate the difficulty…
We Hate the English, Except for You, Cos You're Our Pal: Identification of the ‘English’ in Scotland
This article explores the experiences of the largest minority group in Scotland: the English-born. To date the English in Scotland are a relatively under researched group. Our research indicates that a key experience for many English people in Scotland is that of a constant reminder of difference. This can make questions of 'belonging' problematic. Constructions of 'Englishness', via often routine and mundane interactions with Scottish people, we…
Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader
This Reader brings together a generous selection of readings from the original texts of the three major classical sociological theorists: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim. The readings are deliberately of a substantial length to allow students to gain a full understanding of the texts. Organised in a clear and accessible manner, each reading is introduced by an editorial commentary which explains the importance of the piece within the context…
Money for nothing: Understanding Giving to Beggars
This article explores the nature of the begging encounter. It does this through an investigation of people's attitudes towards, and experiences of, being approached by people begging. The data are derived from interviews with people who work in the centre of Edinburgh and are regularly involved in begging encounters. The begging encounter is often a problematic one and we argue that this is, in part, because of the ambiguous nature of the interac…
Neither One Thing Nor the Other: Compulsory Competitive Tendering and Southburgh Cleansing Services
The 1988 Local Government Act greatly extended compulsory competitive tendering within local authorities. This paper adds to our understanding of changes to local government work organisation since the introduction of CCT through a case study of `Southburgh' cleansing section - one of the first cleansing departments in the UK to open its services out to tender. We also provide an ethnographic input into current sociological debates about work suc…
You don’t have to be watched to make your toast’: Surveillance and Food Practices within Residential Care
This paper explores forms of surveillance within residential care homes for young people. It is argued that surveillance is a crucial aspect of care and this can be experienced as both negative and positive by children and staff. In particular the research was concerned with how forms of control and monitoring are conducted in relation to food and food practices. Relations of power and resistance within the context of a care home are routinely pl…
Food and Feelings in Residential Childcare
The selection, preparation and consumption of food are everyday experiences; however, the social and symbolic meaning attached to such practices varies widely. This paper presents findings from a research project which aimed to explore how such food practices were experienced, produced and maintained within residential children's homes in Scotland. Data were generated over a year-long fieldwork period during which participant observation was unde…
You have a right to be nourished and fed, but do I have a right to make sure you eat your food?’: Children's rights and food practices in residential care
Many of the difficulties of applying rights in practice lie in competing interpretations of rights by different groups and organisations. This paper illustrates the complexities of putting a theory of children's rights into practice within the everyday contexts of residential child care, in particular, as part of the routines of food provision and consumption of staff and children. The challenges of operationalising children's rights specifically…
A Treaty with the Macassans? Burrumarra and the Dholtji Ideal
Is there evidence for the enactment of treaties between Aborigines (Yolngu) in north-east Arnhem Land and Macassan trepang fishermen in the days preceding British settlement in northern Australia? In this paper, I examine David Burrumarra's claim that ceremonies linked to a Dreaming Macassan (Birrinydji) united Yolngu and the very earliest ‘Macassan’ visitors, the Bayini and Wurrumala. Could these partnerships be considered treaties? To answer th…
Personal Names and the Negotiation of Change: Reconsidering Arnhem Land's Adjustment Movement
Both before and after the momentous ‘adjustment movement’ that occurred in Arnhem Land in 1957, Yolngu Aborigines living in certain Christian missions in Australia’s Northern Territory were able to
Discussant piece: Food and schools
First paragraph: The school has long been regarded as having responsibility for not only the intellectual development of children but also their social and physical wellbeing. As such the school has become one of the most externally surveyed and regulated spaces that children and adults pass through. This is particularly the case in relation to adult's and children's food and their accompanying food practices. The school has thus been central in …
It's not as easy as saying, ‘just get them to eat more veggies’”: Exploring healthy eating in residential care in Australia
Young people living in residential out-of-home care (henceforth OoHC) are at increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. Currently, recognition of the everyday mechanisms that might be contributing to excess weight for children and young people in this setting is limited. The aim of this study was to better understand the barriers and complexities involved in the provision of a 'healthy' food environment in residential OoHC. Heightening aware…
Food is a funny thing within residential child care: Intergenerational relationships and food practices in residential care
This article is based on an ethnographic study that explored everyday food practices and relationships in three residential children's homes in Scotland. On the one hand, food practices in residential child care can be used to cross intergenerational boundaries in a positive, enabling and caring manner. On the other hand, food can be interpreted differently by children and staff, at times resulting in negative interactions which may involve contr…
Connecting with the Scottish Diaspora
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Who are the Bayini
In the literature, the first non-Aboriginal visitors to the Arnhem Land coast (pre -Macassan) are referred to as Bayini.The stories of the Bayini have meaning only when seen through the mythology of the ancestral being Birrinydji, who, in a "cargo" type perspective, is the foundation of the wealth of non-Aborigines.At the "beginning of time", Aborigines possessed this wealth, but through misadventure this was lost, and now "whites" control the pr…
The Birrinydji Legacy: Aborigines, Macassans and mining in north-east Arnhem Land
For som e clans in north-east A rnhem Land, the D ream ing-being Birrinydji is the king, boat captain and blacksm ith.H e is at once the m inerals of the ground and the land itself, and Yolngu (Aborigines) are b o rn in his im age and cerem onially enact his will.Yet Birrinydji represents the technology and pow er possessed by non-Aborigines, but not Aborigines.The perception is that follow ing the days w hen Indonesian fisherm en from M acassar …
Who are the Bayini
In the literature, the first non-Aboriginal visitors to the Arnhem Land coast (pre -Macassan) are referred to as Bayini.The stories of the Bayini have meaning only when seen through the mythology of the ancestral being Birrinydji, who, in a "cargo" type perspective, is the foundation of the wealth of non-Aborigines.At the "beginning of time", Aborigines possessed this wealth, but through misadventure this was lost, and now "whites" control the pr…
Islam and Australia's Aborigines? A Perspective from North‐East Arnhem Lnnd
Neither One Thing Nor the Other: Compulsory Competitive Tendering and Southburgh Cleansing Services
The 1988 Local Government Act greatly extended compulsory competitive tendering within local authorities. This paper adds to our understanding of changes to local government work organisation since the introduction of CCT through a case study of `Southburgh' cleansing section - one of the first cleansing departments in the UK to open its services out to tender. We also provide an ethnographic input into current sociological debates about work suc…
Anthropology, Self‐determination and Aboriginal Belief in the Christian God
Over the past forty years the Aboriginal people of Galiwin'ku (Elcho Island) in north‐east Arnhem Land have successfully incorporated Christianity into their world view. However, a Uniting Church report characterises members of this same Yolngu (Aboriginal) community as being overwhelmed with feelings of inferiority and powerlessness and unable to function within structures established by Balanda (non‐Aborigines). This paper contrasts the ways in…
The Ship's Mast. The legacy of the Macassan presence in northern Australia
A ship's mast with flags attached stands anchored to the ground in a cleared area near the centre of a number of Yolngu (Aboriginal) communities in north-east Arnhem Land.The mast is, I argue, the most significant and enduring legacy of contact with Macassan' trepangers from Sulawesi, who ventured onto the northern Australian coast from at least 1700 until the early years of this century.Drawing on Taussig's (1993) text 'Mimesis and Alterity,' an…
Money for nothing: Understanding Giving to Beggars
This article explores the nature of the begging encounter. It does this through an investigation of people's attitudes towards, and experiences of, being approached by people begging. The data are derived from interviews with people who work in the centre of Edinburgh and are regularly involved in begging encounters. The begging encounter is often a problematic one and we argue that this is, in part, because of the ambiguous nature of the interac…
When will we know we are reconciled
Systems, Fiddling and Strangers: Young People on the ‘Welfare State’
This paper is concerned with young people's understanding of the welfare state; who and what is it for, and what is their relation to it? It is argued that such qualitative research into these questions is not common. Exploring these issues increases our knowledge of the presence that ideas and discourses about welfare states have in young people's understanding of the social world. Qualitative approaches such as the one adopted in this paper can…
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“It's as if you're some alien…’ Exploring Anti-English Attitudes in Scotland. ‘
English people are the largest national or ethnic minority within Scotland but remain under-researched. This is despite a view taken by many writers, and by the popular press, that anti-English attitudes within Scotland are a major social problem. Via 30 in-depth interviews, this paper explores the experiences of a group of English people living in Scotland and the extent and nature of any anti-Englishness they have encountered. The paper also fo…
We Hate the English, Except for You, Cos You're Our Pal: Identification of the ‘English’ in Scotland
This article explores the experiences of the largest minority group in Scotland: the English-born. To date the English in Scotland are a relatively under researched group. Our research indicates that a key experience for many English people in Scotland is that of a constant reminder of difference. This can make questions of 'belonging' problematic. Constructions of 'Englishness', via often routine and mundane interactions with Scottish people, we…
Personal Names and the Negotiation of Change: Reconsidering Arnhem Land's Adjustment Movement
Both before and after the momentous ‘adjustment movement’ that occurred in Arnhem Land in 1957, Yolngu Aborigines living in certain Christian missions in Australia’s Northern Territory were able to
A Treaty with the Macassans? Burrumarra and the Dholtji Ideal
Is there evidence for the enactment of treaties between Aborigines (Yolngu) in north-east Arnhem Land and Macassan trepang fishermen in the days preceding British settlement in northern Australia? In this paper, I examine David Burrumarra's claim that ceremonies linked to a Dreaming Macassan (Birrinydji) united Yolngu and the very earliest ‘Macassan’ visitors, the Bayini and Wurrumala. Could these partnerships be considered treaties? To answer th…
Connecting with the Scottish Diaspora
Barter', `Deals', `Bribes' and `Threats: Exploring sibling interactions
This article investigates forms of strategic interaction between siblings during childhood. The authors argue that these interactions, characterized by notions of reciprocity, equivalence and constructions of fairness, are worked out in relation to responsibility, power, knowledge and sibling status. Birth order and age are not experienced as fixed hierarchies as they can be subverted, contested, resisted and negotiated. To explore these issues, …
You don’t have to be watched to make your toast’: Surveillance and Food Practices within Residential Care
This paper explores forms of surveillance within residential care homes for young people. It is argued that surveillance is a crucial aspect of care and this can be experienced as both negative and positive by children and staff. In particular the research was concerned with how forms of control and monitoring are conducted in relation to food and food practices. Relations of power and resistance within the context of a care home are routinely pl…
Discussant piece: Food and schools
First paragraph: The school has long been regarded as having responsibility for not only the intellectual development of children but also their social and physical wellbeing. As such the school has become one of the most externally surveyed and regulated spaces that children and adults pass through. This is particularly the case in relation to adult's and children's food and their accompanying food practices. The school has thus been central in …
Children's food practices in families and institutions
First paragraph: Food and food practices lend themselves to sociological and geographical analysis. In particular the study of the relationships that develop around and through food interactions and rituals can bring into focus practices that are often hidden from view; part of an everyday and mundane world frequently so taken for granted that their meaning becomes lost. Research in this growing field brings to light the significance of food and …
Children and food practices in residential care: Ambivalence in the ‘institutional’ home
Using an ethnographic approach, we provide an analysis of food practices in residential care to explore the atypical nature of children's homes as a three-fold space that combines characteristics of ‘home’, ‘institution’, and ‘workplace’. Residential staff invested considerable effort into recreating a ‘family-like’ home but the practices and ideals they drew on could be interpreted and experienced in different ways. We demonstrate the difficulty…
Neighbourhood Identity: The Path Dependency of Class and Place
This paper explores the value of path dependency as a tool to explain why the social identity of particular neighbourhoods can remain relatively fixed over time. Three neighbourhoods in a small Scottish city are examined using historical documentary and sociological qualitative research methods, over an 80‐year period. Class is shown to be the dominant influence in determining social attitudes towards these three neighbourhoods. Path dependency h…
Missing the Revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem Land
By their own admission, members of Charles Mountford's 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land were motivated by a search for the primitive. It is no surprise, then, that the published records show a singular lack of awareness of the sorts of debate raging within Aboriginal circles at that time. For example, so-called missionised Yolngu (as the Aboriginal people of North-East Arnhem Land are known) were engaged in a major di…
The Birrinydji Legacy: Aborigines, Macassans and mining in north-east Arnhem Land
For som e clans in north-east A rnhem Land, the D ream ing-being Birrinydji is the king, boat captain and blacksm ith.H e is at once the m inerals of the ground and the land itself, and Yolngu (Aborigines) are b o rn in his im age and cerem onially enact his will.Yet Birrinydji represents the technology and pow er possessed by non-Aborigines, but not Aborigines.The perception is that follow ing the days w hen Indonesian fisherm en from M acassar …
You have a right to be nourished and fed, but do I have a right to make sure you eat your food?’: Children's rights and food practices in residential care
Many of the difficulties of applying rights in practice lie in competing interpretations of rights by different groups and organisations. This paper illustrates the complexities of putting a theory of children's rights into practice within the everyday contexts of residential child care, in particular, as part of the routines of food provision and consumption of staff and children. The challenges of operationalising children's rights specifically…
The Classroom as a Peace Incubator: A US-Gaza Case Study
This paper describes the design, implementation, and lessons from a case study in transforming two university classrooms into what we call an international “peace incubator.” In the besieged Gaza Strip, opportunities for normalization of relations with Israel are almost non-existent, and there is very limited desire or personal capacity among the student population of Gaza to do the work of peace-building. A semester-long videoconference class li…
Food and Feelings in Residential Childcare
The selection, preparation and consumption of food are everyday experiences; however, the social and symbolic meaning attached to such practices varies widely. This paper presents findings from a research project which aimed to explore how such food practices were experienced, produced and maintained within residential children's homes in Scotland. Data were generated over a year-long fieldwork period during which participant observation was unde…
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