Robert Furbey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3421136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Furbey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Furbey |
| SIGNATURE | FURBEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Faith in the public realmControversies, policies and practices
Based on primary research, this book explores the controversies, policies and practices of ‘public faith’, questioning perceptions of a fixed divide between religious and secular participants in public life and challenging prevailing concepts of a monolithic ‘neutral’ public realm. It takes an in-depth look at the distinctiveness of faith groups' contribution, but also probes the conflicts and dilemmas that arise, assessing the role and capacity …
Faith in the public realm: Controversies, policies and practices
The public presence of religious faith in the UK and other Western nations is persistently and increasingly evident, despite the belief that it would retreat into insignificance and private obscurity. Policy makers now actively seek to engage with faiths in the provision of public services, local governance and the search for community cohesion. in the public realm takes an explicitly multi-faith perspective, exploring the controversies, policies…
Religion and urban regeneration: A Place for Faith
English The British government has identified ‘faith communities’ as a neglected resource in urban regeneration. This article first explores the context of official support for faith involvement in urban and neighbourhood policy and identifies the assumptions underlying key policy documents. These assumptions are then critically explored by reference to the links commonly drawn between religion and ‘community’, ‘neighbourhood’ and ‘social cohesio…
Housing Professionalism in the United Kingdom: The Final Curtain or a New Age
The unusually large, predominantly municipal, housing sector in the UK has provided the context for a large occupational grouping of "housing managers" that has claimed professional status.However, within the post-1945 British welfare state this professional project enjoyed limited success and social housing remained a fragile professional domain.This article explores the consequences for housing professionalism of the recent displacement of the …
Housing Professionalism in the United Kingdom: The Final Curtain or a New Age
The unusually large, predominantly municipal, housing sector in the UK has provided the context for a large occupational grouping of "housing managers" that has claimed professional status. However, within the post-1945 British welfare state this professional project enjoyed limited success and social housing remained a fragile professional domain. This article explores the consequences for housing professionalism of the recent displacement of th…
Urban 'regeneration: Reflections on a Metaphor
Recent British urban policy has pursued 'regeneration'. This article offers a critical reflection on this pervasive metaphor. 'Regeneration' is a signifier of profound change in many religious traditions and political ideologies, both radical and conservative. In practice, however, the more conservative meanings, deriving from individualistic spiritualities and 'psychologisms', sociological organicism and statist interventionism, remain dominant.…
Training for tenants: ‘Citizens’ and the enterprise culture
The recent growth of tenant participation in British council housing has been accompanied by widespread acceptance of the importance of tenant training for genuine and effective user involvement in housing decision‐making. This article focuses on the sponsorship of tenant participation and training by the Conservative central government. Official promotion of tenant training is linked to the distinctive models of ‘citizenship’ informing governmen…
Method and methodology in housing user research
In a context of growing housing shortage and decay pressure is mounting for a renewed programme of low‐cost housing for rent. Such a programme would raise again the question of appropriate design standards and the issue of user participation in new housing provision. The argument in this article is that the social survey method, despite its past use in positivist and architecturally functionalist (and therefore deficient) housing satisfaction stu…
National and Local in Social Class Relations—Some Evidence from Three Scottish Cities
Land Prices in Edinburgh, 1952‐67
Urban 'regeneration: Reflections on a Metaphor
Recent British urban policy has pursued 'regeneration'. This article offers a critical reflection on this pervasive metaphor. 'Regeneration' is a signifier of profound change in many religious traditions and political ideologies, both radical and conservative. In practice, however, the more conservative meanings, deriving from individualistic spiritualities and 'psychologisms', sociological organicism and statist interventionism, remain dominant.…
Religion and urban regeneration: A Place for Faith
English The British government has identified ‘faith communities’ as a neglected resource in urban regeneration. This article first explores the context of official support for faith involvement in urban and neighbourhood policy and identifies the assumptions underlying key policy documents. These assumptions are then critically explored by reference to the links commonly drawn between religion and ‘community’, ‘neighbourhood’ and ‘social cohesio…
Method and methodology in housing user research
In a context of growing housing shortage and decay pressure is mounting for a renewed programme of low‐cost housing for rent. Such a programme would raise again the question of appropriate design standards and the issue of user participation in new housing provision. The argument in this article is that the social survey method, despite its past use in positivist and architecturally functionalist (and therefore deficient) housing satisfaction stu…
Housing Professionalism in the United Kingdom: The Final Curtain or a New Age
The unusually large, predominantly municipal, housing sector in the UK has provided the context for a large occupational grouping of "housing managers" that has claimed professional status. However, within the post-1945 British welfare state this professional project enjoyed limited success and social housing remained a fragile professional domain. This article explores the consequences for housing professionalism of the recent displacement of th…
Training for tenants: ‘Citizens’ and the enterprise culture
The recent growth of tenant participation in British council housing has been accompanied by widespread acceptance of the importance of tenant training for genuine and effective user involvement in housing decision‐making. This article focuses on the sponsorship of tenant participation and training by the Conservative central government. Official promotion of tenant training is linked to the distinctive models of ‘citizenship’ informing governmen…
Land Prices in Edinburgh, 1952‐67
National and Local in Social Class Relations—Some Evidence from Three Scottish Cities
Land Prices in Edinburgh, 1952‐67
Method and methodology in housing user research
In a context of growing housing shortage and decay pressure is mounting for a renewed programme of low‐cost housing for rent. Such a programme would raise again the question of appropriate design standards and the issue of user participation in new housing provision. The argument in this article is that the social survey method, despite its past use in positivist and architecturally functionalist (and therefore deficient) housing satisfaction stu…
Training for tenants: ‘Citizens’ and the enterprise culture
The recent growth of tenant participation in British council housing has been accompanied by widespread acceptance of the importance of tenant training for genuine and effective user involvement in housing decision‐making. This article focuses on the sponsorship of tenant participation and training by the Conservative central government. Official promotion of tenant training is linked to the distinctive models of ‘citizenship’ informing governmen…
Urban 'regeneration: Reflections on a Metaphor
Recent British urban policy has pursued 'regeneration'. This article offers a critical reflection on this pervasive metaphor. 'Regeneration' is a signifier of profound change in many religious traditions and political ideologies, both radical and conservative. In practice, however, the more conservative meanings, deriving from individualistic spiritualities and 'psychologisms', sociological organicism and statist interventionism, remain dominant.…
Housing Professionalism in the United Kingdom: The Final Curtain or a New Age
The unusually large, predominantly municipal, housing sector in the UK has provided the context for a large occupational grouping of "housing managers" that has claimed professional status.However, within the post-1945 British welfare state this professional project enjoyed limited success and social housing remained a fragile professional domain.This article explores the consequences for housing professionalism of the recent displacement of the …
Housing Professionalism in the United Kingdom: The Final Curtain or a New Age
The unusually large, predominantly municipal, housing sector in the UK has provided the context for a large occupational grouping of "housing managers" that has claimed professional status. However, within the post-1945 British welfare state this professional project enjoyed limited success and social housing remained a fragile professional domain. This article explores the consequences for housing professionalism of the recent displacement of th…
Religion and urban regeneration: A Place for Faith
English The British government has identified ‘faith communities’ as a neglected resource in urban regeneration. This article first explores the context of official support for faith involvement in urban and neighbourhood policy and identifies the assumptions underlying key policy documents. These assumptions are then critically explored by reference to the links commonly drawn between religion and ‘community’, ‘neighbourhood’ and ‘social cohesio…
Faith in the public realmControversies, policies and practices
Based on primary research, this book explores the controversies, policies and practices of ‘public faith’, questioning perceptions of a fixed divide between religious and secular participants in public life and challenging prevailing concepts of a monolithic ‘neutral’ public realm. It takes an in-depth look at the distinctiveness of faith groups' contribution, but also probes the conflicts and dilemmas that arise, assessing the role and capacity …
Faith in the public realm: Controversies, policies and practices
The public presence of religious faith in the UK and other Western nations is persistently and increasingly evident, despite the belief that it would retreat into insignificance and private obscurity. Policy makers now actively seek to engage with faiths in the provision of public services, local governance and the search for community cohesion. in the public realm takes an explicitly multi-faith perspective, exploring the controversies, policies…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)