Helen Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2960-445X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What is a curriculum for life? Using youth participatory action research and applied arts to understand and amplify undergraduate students', children's and young people's mental health and wellbeing r…
Mental health is a critical issue globally, with young people being one of the most affected groups. Young people have campaigned vehemently for a ‘curriculum for life,’ arguing that their education is failing to meet their needs (British Council, 2022). The International Survey of Children's Wellbeing reports that children and young people feel adults do not listen to them. As academics working in the Education Department of a University, our re…
The United States of Medievalism
The Resilience and Adaptation of Pastoralist Livestock Mobility in a Protracted Conflict Setting
This paper focuses on the dynamics of pastoralist herd mobility in West Darfur State, Sudan, a region affected by persistent conflict. The paper examines the annual cycle and seasonal trajectories of mobility for camels, cattle, and sheep, comparing mobility patterns by livelihood specialisation and reviewing the mobility of multi-species herds. Using social research tools and remote sensing livestock tracking technology, the study found diverse …
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy
This book offers more than the subtitle promises; from some viewpoints there is only a short distance between The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. Kellyann Fitzpatrick's investigation of neomedievalism is both deeper and more expansive than the title suggests. It ranges temporally from the nineteenth century to the present, and across novels, art, film and television, and card and video games, as well as academic neomedievalisms. The range …
Global Medievalism
The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist worlds, but we see only a fraction of them through the stories and travels of the characters. Organised around the theme of mobility, this Element seeks to deconstruct the Eurocentric orientations of western popular medievalisms which typically position Europe …
A Decolonizing Medieval Studies
This article considers how medievalism, particularly in its academic form of medieval studies, might contribute to decolonization through exploration of how the Western “cultural archive” (Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies) draws on the teleological temporality embedded in the idea of the “medieval” to rationalize “white possessive logics” (Moreton-Robinson, White Possessive). It explores medievalisms in legal, mainstream, and academic contexts t…
Sustained nutrition impact of a multisectoral intervention program two years after completion
Progress on the nutrition Sustainable Development Goals has been slow. More attention is needed on the 'sustainable' part, focused on impact lasting beyond programme implementation. To determine sustained impact of a multisectoral nutrition intervention that provided water, sanitation, hygiene, livelihood, health and nutrition support (2013-2015) in eastern Chad, we utilize longitudinal household data collected 2 years (2017) after the interventi…
Sensitivity of Nutrition Indicators to Measure the Impact of a Multi-Sectoral Intervention
Interventions tackling multiple drivers of child malnutrition have potential, yet the evidence is limited and draws on different analysis and nutrition outcomes, reducing comparability. To better understand the advantages and disadvantages of three different analytical approaches on seven common nutrition indicators, we use panel data (2012, 2014, 2015) on 1420 households from a randomized control study of a multi-sectoral intervention in Chad. W…
The seasonal imperative
Student voice in higher education
UK national policy and the practices of university course boards tend to reduce understandings of ‘student voice’ to a feedback loop. In this loop, students express feedback, the university takes this on board, then they tell the students how they have responded to their feedback. The feedback loop is a significant element of the neoliberal imaginary of higher education globally. This qualitative research study drew on interviews with course repr…
Riot grrrl gaming
In this article, we provide a critical analysis of the mystery/adventure video game Gone Home to demonstrate how the game resists norms of contemporary gaming by drawing on a tradition of feminist action in cultural spaces. In interrogating the ways in which Gone Home invokes the aesthetics, identities, and political strategies of the 1990s riot grrrl scene, we argue that Gone Home, in its centring of women’s narratives, collective feminist agenc…
Complexity, continuity and change
Darfur farming and pastoralist livelihoods are both adaptations to the environmental variability that characterises the region. This article describes this adaptation and the longer-term transformation of these specialised livelihoods from the perspective of local communities. Over several decades farmers and herders have experienced a continuous stream of climate, conflict and other shocks, which, combined with wider processes of change, have tr…
Busy yet passive
School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and duties, and their formal role positions them as decision-makers. This article draws on qualitative research in the governing bodies of four maintained schools. Using deliberative democracy as a sensitising concept, the article considers some processes by which decisions are made (or not made) in governing bodies. Without claiming that governors never make decisions, it explores const…
Asking the ‘right’ questions
School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and responsibilities with regard to the education of pupils. This paper draws on an analysis of policy and on qualitative research in the governing bodies of four maintained schools. It explores two policy technologies through which education and the work of school governing bodies are constituted as apolitical. Firstly, it considers the move to recruit governors with (unspecified) ‘skil…
Racial Logics, Franchising, and Video Game Genres
This article explores the ways game adaptations engage with existing popular culture constructions of race within the framework of commercial franchises. Its focus is on games which are part of the so-called "Frodo Franchise" based on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. It considers the role played by licensing agreements, the conventions, and ludic elements of different game genres, the need for new characters and narratives …
Studies in Medievalism XXIV
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and whi…
Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Foreword Jan Egeland Introduction: Helping Post-conflict Communities Survive and Thrive Helen Young and Lisa Goldman Part 1: Natural Resource Conflicts, Livelihoods, and Peacebuilding Approaches Introduction 1. Social Identity, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding Arthur Green 2. Swords into Ploughshares? Access to Natural Resources and Securing Agricultural Livelihoods in Rural Afghanistan Alan Roe 3.Forest Resources in Cambodia's Transition to …
Race in online fantasy fandom
The fantasy genre and its fandom have a reputation for whiteness. The twenty-first century has seen multiple challenges to that identity, but it is also one which is at times vigorously defended. This article examines debates about race on Westeros.org, a fan website devoted to the novels of George R.R. Martin and the related franchise, particularly HBO's Game of Thrones. Drawing on the work of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, it explores the rhetorical st…
No Way Back? Adaptation and Urbanization of IDP Livelihoods in the Darfur Region of Sudan
This article explores how people in conflict zones adapt their livelihoods after they migrate to urban areas. Drawing on case studies in two towns in the Darfur region of Sudan, the authors find that livelihood systems are in transition and have undergone fundamental changes resulting from displacement and the effects of conflict on dysfunctional and failing institutions. Urban migrants' livelihood strategies evolve in a context of insecurity, di…
Participation, political economy and protection
Humanitarian food assistance aims to meet short-term emergency needs, yet often it is sustained over many years and develops its own systems and infrastructure that interact with local governance and local communities. This paper explores the links between participation and local governance, as well as the implications for exclusion of certain groups, the dignity of those involved, and protection issues. The paper proposes a framework for reviewi…
The new compulsory schooling age policy in NSW, Australia
The new schooling-leaving age policy in New South Wales, a state in Australia, requires all students to stay at school until they are 17 years old. The policy was introduced in January 2010, with little warning and, it appears, little consideration of its impact in complex contexts. In south-western Sydney, the most diverse region in the city, the impact is just being felt. In this paper, we draw on Ball’s approach to policy, maintaining ‘the com…
Targeting and distribution in complex emergencies
Darfurian Livelihoods and Libya
Labor migration and commerce between Sudan and Libya have long been features of livelihoods in Darfur. This paper describes the importance of historical trade and migration links between Darfur and Libya, and provides a background to the political and economic situation in Libya which has influenced opportunities for Sudanese migrant workers. A case study of the situation of the Darfurian migrants in Kufra (an oasis and transnational trade hub in…
Looking beyond food aid to livelihoods, protection and partnerships
The humanitarian crisis in Darfur remains extremely serious. The optimism that followed the signing of the Abuja Peace Accord was followed by a rapid deterioration in security on the ground in part associated with increasing factionalism in various rebel movements. This paper briefly reviews the evolution of the crisis, its impact on lives and livelihoods and the response by the World Food Programme (WFP) to June 2006. The major challenges and is…
Race in online fantasy fandom
The fantasy genre and its fandom have a reputation for whiteness. The twenty-first century has seen multiple challenges to that identity, but it is also one which is at times vigorously defended. This article examines debates about race on Westeros.org, a fan website devoted to the novels of George R.R. Martin and the related franchise, particularly HBO's Game of Thrones. Drawing on the work of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, it explores the rhetorical st…
Nutrition, Disease and Death in Times of Famine
In this article we review the relationship between malnutrition and mortality, and the interaction of morbidity, with the aim of clarifying the health risks of malnutrition in situations of famine and food insecurity. Apart from reviewing what is known about this relationship, we highlight areas where further research is needed. Among refugee and famine affected populations living in camps, there appears to be a close association between high rat…
Nutritional Assessments, Food Security and Famine
The widely held view that malnutrition is a late indicator of famine is challenged on the basis of evidence that people often deliberately reduce their food intake as an early response to inadequate food security. This broadens the possible interventions in response to high malnutrition rates to include measures to support livelihoods under threat of collapse. In the late stages of famine, social disruption and distress migration often result in …
Participation, political economy and protection
Humanitarian food assistance aims to meet short-term emergency needs, yet often it is sustained over many years and develops its own systems and infrastructure that interact with local governance and local communities. This paper explores the links between participation and local governance, as well as the implications for exclusion of certain groups, the dignity of those involved, and protection issues. The paper proposes a framework for reviewi…
The Sphere Project
Complexity, continuity and change
Darfur farming and pastoralist livelihoods are both adaptations to the environmental variability that characterises the region. This article describes this adaptation and the longer-term transformation of these specialised livelihoods from the perspective of local communities. Over several decades farmers and herders have experienced a continuous stream of climate, conflict and other shocks, which, combined with wider processes of change, have tr…
Public Nutrition in Emergencies
This paper introduces and discusses the main themes and issues arising from the workshop 'International Public Nutrition in Emergencies: The Potential for Improving Practice'.Good co-ordination within the nutrition sector of the international humanitarian response system has led to a range of achievements in recent years. Major constraints to improving programme impact remain, however, including misconceptions about the scope of nutrition among t…
Busy yet passive
School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and duties, and their formal role positions them as decision-makers. This article draws on qualitative research in the governing bodies of four maintained schools. Using deliberative democracy as a sensitising concept, the article considers some processes by which decisions are made (or not made) in governing bodies. Without claiming that governors never make decisions, it explores const…
Racial Logics, Franchising, and Video Game Genres
This article explores the ways game adaptations engage with existing popular culture constructions of race within the framework of commercial franchises. Its focus is on games which are part of the so-called "Frodo Franchise" based on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. It considers the role played by licensing agreements, the conventions, and ludic elements of different game genres, the need for new characters and narratives …
Looking beyond food aid to livelihoods, protection and partnerships
The humanitarian crisis in Darfur remains extremely serious. The optimism that followed the signing of the Abuja Peace Accord was followed by a rapid deterioration in security on the ground in part associated with increasing factionalism in various rebel movements. This paper briefly reviews the evolution of the crisis, its impact on lives and livelihoods and the response by the World Food Programme (WFP) to June 2006. The major challenges and is…
Malnutrition and Poverty in the Early Stages of Famine
In this article we report findings on the relationship between malnutrition and poverty during a period of acute food insecurity in Darfur, Sudan. Children of rich and poor families were equally likely to be malnourished, which is explained in terms of people's responses to the threat of famine. This finding has important implications for targeting interventions in the early stages of famine. Appropriate interventions at the early stages of famin…
Student voice in higher education
UK national policy and the practices of university course boards tend to reduce understandings of ‘student voice’ to a feedback loop. In this loop, students express feedback, the university takes this on board, then they tell the students how they have responded to their feedback. The feedback loop is a significant element of the neoliberal imaginary of higher education globally. This qualitative research study drew on interviews with course repr…
Riot grrrl gaming
In this article, we provide a critical analysis of the mystery/adventure video game Gone Home to demonstrate how the game resists norms of contemporary gaming by drawing on a tradition of feminist action in cultural spaces. In interrogating the ways in which Gone Home invokes the aesthetics, identities, and political strategies of the 1990s riot grrrl scene, we argue that Gone Home, in its centring of women’s narratives, collective feminist agenc…
Asking the ‘right’ questions
School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and responsibilities with regard to the education of pupils. This paper draws on an analysis of policy and on qualitative research in the governing bodies of four maintained schools. It explores two policy technologies through which education and the work of school governing bodies are constituted as apolitical. Firstly, it considers the move to recruit governors with (unspecified) ‘skil…
Linking Rights and Standards
This article examines the recent revision of the Sphere Minimum Standards in disaster response relating to food security, nutrition and food aid. It describes how the revision attempted to incorporate the principles of the Humanitarian Charter, as well as relevant human rights principles and values into the Sphere Minimum Standards. The initial aim of the revision was to ensure that the Sphere Minimum Standards better reflected the principles emb…
The new compulsory schooling age policy in NSW, Australia
The new schooling-leaving age policy in New South Wales, a state in Australia, requires all students to stay at school until they are 17 years old. The policy was introduced in January 2010, with little warning and, it appears, little consideration of its impact in complex contexts. In south-western Sydney, the most diverse region in the city, the impact is just being felt. In this paper, we draw on Ball’s approach to policy, maintaining ‘the com…
Darfurian Livelihoods and Libya
Labor migration and commerce between Sudan and Libya have long been features of livelihoods in Darfur. This paper describes the importance of historical trade and migration links between Darfur and Libya, and provides a background to the political and economic situation in Libya which has influenced opportunities for Sudanese migrant workers. A case study of the situation of the Darfurian migrants in Kufra (an oasis and transnational trade hub in…
Fair Representation in the European Parliament
The seasonal imperative
No Way Back? Adaptation and Urbanization of IDP Livelihoods in the Darfur Region of Sudan
This article explores how people in conflict zones adapt their livelihoods after they migrate to urban areas. Drawing on case studies in two towns in the Darfur region of Sudan, the authors find that livelihood systems are in transition and have undergone fundamental changes resulting from displacement and the effects of conflict on dysfunctional and failing institutions. Urban migrants' livelihood strategies evolve in a context of insecurity, di…
Targeting and distribution in complex emergencies
Selective feeding programmes in Ethiopia and East Sudan-1985/1986
A survey of thirty-four feeding programmes in Ethiopia and East Sudan was undertaken. Wie differences were found between the two countries and also within Ethiopia. Irrelugar general ration distribution was commonplace in Ethiopia, thus placing an extra strain on selective feeding programmes. The principal admission criteria to Selected Feeding Programmes (SFPs) were weight for height categories. The cut-off stages of the emergency. Useful compas…
The development of aid agency policy on the use of imported biscuits in emergency relief
During 1985 more than 5,000 tonnes of biscuits consisting of twenty-eight different brands were sent to Ethiopia and Sudan for emergency relief feeding. They were freely available to recognized agencies operating feeding programmes. Biscuits were popular with programme supervisors as few resources (fuel, staff and personnel) were required for their preparation and distribution. They were also popular with beneficiaries.Different aspects of biscui…
Fair Representation in the European Parliament
The development of aid agency policy on the use of imported biscuits in emergency relief
During 1985 more than 5,000 tonnes of biscuits consisting of twenty-eight different brands were sent to Ethiopia and Sudan for emergency relief feeding. They were freely available to recognized agencies operating feeding programmes. Biscuits were popular with programme supervisors as few resources (fuel, staff and personnel) were required for their preparation and distribution. They were also popular with beneficiaries.Different aspects of biscui…
Selective feeding programmes in Ethiopia and East Sudan-1985/1986
A survey of thirty-four feeding programmes in Ethiopia and East Sudan was undertaken. Wie differences were found between the two countries and also within Ethiopia. Irrelugar general ration distribution was commonplace in Ethiopia, thus placing an extra strain on selective feeding programmes. The principal admission criteria to Selected Feeding Programmes (SFPs) were weight for height categories. The cut-off stages of the emergency. Useful compas…
A Case Study of the Chadian Refugees in Western Sudan
This case study of providing food assistance to Chadian refugees in Western Sudan illustrates some of the problems that are common to many refugee situations throughout Africa. The first part of the paper describes the initial emergency in 1985 and 1986 when refugee camps were established. The second part describes how refugee food requirements are determined by the annual Food Assessment Mission (a joint undertaking by the World Food Programme, …
Nutrition, Disease and Death in Times of Famine
In this article we review the relationship between malnutrition and mortality, and the interaction of morbidity, with the aim of clarifying the health risks of malnutrition in situations of famine and food insecurity. Apart from reviewing what is known about this relationship, we highlight areas where further research is needed. Among refugee and famine affected populations living in camps, there appears to be a close association between high rat…
Malnutrition and Poverty in the Early Stages of Famine
In this article we report findings on the relationship between malnutrition and poverty during a period of acute food insecurity in Darfur, Sudan. Children of rich and poor families were equally likely to be malnourished, which is explained in terms of people's responses to the threat of famine. This finding has important implications for targeting interventions in the early stages of famine. Appropriate interventions at the early stages of famin…
Nutritional Assessments, Food Security and Famine
The widely held view that malnutrition is a late indicator of famine is challenged on the basis of evidence that people often deliberately reduce their food intake as an early response to inadequate food security. This broadens the possible interventions in response to high malnutrition rates to include measures to support livelihoods under threat of collapse. In the late stages of famine, social disruption and distress migration often result in …
Public Nutrition in Emergencies
This paper introduces and discusses the main themes and issues arising from the workshop 'International Public Nutrition in Emergencies: The Potential for Improving Practice'.Good co-ordination within the nutrition sector of the international humanitarian response system has led to a range of achievements in recent years. Major constraints to improving programme impact remain, however, including misconceptions about the scope of nutrition among t…
The Sphere Project
Linking Rights and Standards
This article examines the recent revision of the Sphere Minimum Standards in disaster response relating to food security, nutrition and food aid. It describes how the revision attempted to incorporate the principles of the Humanitarian Charter, as well as relevant human rights principles and values into the Sphere Minimum Standards. The initial aim of the revision was to ensure that the Sphere Minimum Standards better reflected the principles emb…
Darfurian Livelihoods and Libya
Labor migration and commerce between Sudan and Libya have long been features of livelihoods in Darfur. This paper describes the importance of historical trade and migration links between Darfur and Libya, and provides a background to the political and economic situation in Libya which has influenced opportunities for Sudanese migrant workers. A case study of the situation of the Darfurian migrants in Kufra (an oasis and transnational trade hub in…
Looking beyond food aid to livelihoods, protection and partnerships
The humanitarian crisis in Darfur remains extremely serious. The optimism that followed the signing of the Abuja Peace Accord was followed by a rapid deterioration in security on the ground in part associated with increasing factionalism in various rebel movements. This paper briefly reviews the evolution of the crisis, its impact on lives and livelihoods and the response by the World Food Programme (WFP) to June 2006. The major challenges and is…
Targeting and distribution in complex emergencies
The new compulsory schooling age policy in NSW, Australia
The new schooling-leaving age policy in New South Wales, a state in Australia, requires all students to stay at school until they are 17 years old. The policy was introduced in January 2010, with little warning and, it appears, little consideration of its impact in complex contexts. In south-western Sydney, the most diverse region in the city, the impact is just being felt. In this paper, we draw on Ball’s approach to policy, maintaining ‘the com…
No Way Back? Adaptation and Urbanization of IDP Livelihoods in the Darfur Region of Sudan
This article explores how people in conflict zones adapt their livelihoods after they migrate to urban areas. Drawing on case studies in two towns in the Darfur region of Sudan, the authors find that livelihood systems are in transition and have undergone fundamental changes resulting from displacement and the effects of conflict on dysfunctional and failing institutions. Urban migrants' livelihood strategies evolve in a context of insecurity, di…
Participation, political economy and protection
Humanitarian food assistance aims to meet short-term emergency needs, yet often it is sustained over many years and develops its own systems and infrastructure that interact with local governance and local communities. This paper explores the links between participation and local governance, as well as the implications for exclusion of certain groups, the dignity of those involved, and protection issues. The paper proposes a framework for reviewi…
Race in online fantasy fandom
The fantasy genre and its fandom have a reputation for whiteness. The twenty-first century has seen multiple challenges to that identity, but it is also one which is at times vigorously defended. This article examines debates about race on Westeros.org, a fan website devoted to the novels of George R.R. Martin and the related franchise, particularly HBO's Game of Thrones. Drawing on the work of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, it explores the rhetorical st…
Studies in Medievalism XXIV
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and whi…
Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Foreword Jan Egeland Introduction: Helping Post-conflict Communities Survive and Thrive Helen Young and Lisa Goldman Part 1: Natural Resource Conflicts, Livelihoods, and Peacebuilding Approaches Introduction 1. Social Identity, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding Arthur Green 2. Swords into Ploughshares? Access to Natural Resources and Securing Agricultural Livelihoods in Rural Afghanistan Alan Roe 3.Forest Resources in Cambodia's Transition to …
Asking the ‘right’ questions
School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and responsibilities with regard to the education of pupils. This paper draws on an analysis of policy and on qualitative research in the governing bodies of four maintained schools. It explores two policy technologies through which education and the work of school governing bodies are constituted as apolitical. Firstly, it considers the move to recruit governors with (unspecified) ‘skil…
Racial Logics, Franchising, and Video Game Genres
This article explores the ways game adaptations engage with existing popular culture constructions of race within the framework of commercial franchises. Its focus is on games which are part of the so-called "Frodo Franchise" based on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. It considers the role played by licensing agreements, the conventions, and ludic elements of different game genres, the need for new characters and narratives …
Busy yet passive
School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and duties, and their formal role positions them as decision-makers. This article draws on qualitative research in the governing bodies of four maintained schools. Using deliberative democracy as a sensitising concept, the article considers some processes by which decisions are made (or not made) in governing bodies. Without claiming that governors never make decisions, it explores const…
Riot grrrl gaming
In this article, we provide a critical analysis of the mystery/adventure video game Gone Home to demonstrate how the game resists norms of contemporary gaming by drawing on a tradition of feminist action in cultural spaces. In interrogating the ways in which Gone Home invokes the aesthetics, identities, and political strategies of the 1990s riot grrrl scene, we argue that Gone Home, in its centring of women’s narratives, collective feminist agenc…
Complexity, continuity and change
Darfur farming and pastoralist livelihoods are both adaptations to the environmental variability that characterises the region. This article describes this adaptation and the longer-term transformation of these specialised livelihoods from the perspective of local communities. Over several decades farmers and herders have experienced a continuous stream of climate, conflict and other shocks, which, combined with wider processes of change, have tr…
Political science (18 works) · Geography (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Livelihood (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works)