Ian Rees Jones
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 247439 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ian Rees Jones |
| PRENOMES | Ian Rees |
| SOBRENOME | Jones |
| ASSINATURA | JONES I R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bangor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1682-9134 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 377 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Conjunctural municipalism and the struggle for Zagreb
There is renewed interest in conjunctural approaches within urban studies, human geography and beyond to help interpret the troubles of the political present. Moves have been made to specify and systematise a methodological remit for conjunctural analysis, yet there is a risk of losing the political impulse motivating such approaches. As such, this article brings together different intellectual and political currents informing conjunctural analys…
Continuity, change and ‘living well’ for older people with dementia
Living well’ is an important concept across national dementia strategies. Qualitative research has contributed to understanding of living well for people with dementia. Longitudinal qualitative approaches, though fewer, can explore potential changes in accounts of living well, psychological coping and adapting to dementia, and if/how people with dementia maintain continuity in their lives. This longitudinal qualitative study aims to gauge what is…
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads
This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology provides us with the critical lens to view the circular economy as part of an emergent regime of accumulation that may supersede neoliberalism. However, if each regime entails new frontier zones for appropriating cheap natures and dumping wastes, then the circular economy—…
We're happy as we are’
It is estimated that a third of people in the United Kingdom with signs of dementia are living without a formal diagnosis. In Wales, the proportion is nearly half. Some explanations for the gap between prevalence of dementia and number of diagnoses include living with a long-term partner/spouse and systemic barriers to diagnosis. This study recruited participants from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies-Wales (CFAS-Wales) cohort, randomly s…
Are profiles of social, cultural, and economic capital related to living well with dementia? Longitudinal findings from the Ideal programme
New policies and efforts from the government, philanthropic foundations, the voluntary and primary care sectors are needed to address social, cultural, and economic disadvantage among people with dementia
The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia
This paper uses precarity as a framework to understand the vulnerabilities experienced by those living with or caring for someone living with dementia. Drawing on qualitative interview data from the Improving the Experience of Dementia and Enhancing Active Life (IDEAL) programme, we attend to our participants' reflections on how they manage the condition and the wider circumstances in which this occurs. To interrogate the utility of precarity, we…
Living Well” Trajectories Among Family Caregivers of People With Mild-to-Moderate Dementia in the Ideal Cohort
The findings indicate the importance of prompt identification of, and support for, caregivers at risk of the declining capability to "live well" and may assist in identifying those caregivers who could benefit most from targeted support
Longitudinal Trajectories of Quality of Life Among People With Mild-to-Moderate Dementia
Understanding individual trajectories can contribute to personalized care planning. Efforts to prevent decline in perceived QoL should primarily target psychological well-being. Efforts to improve QoL for those with poorer QoL should additionally address functional impairment, isolation, and disadvantage related to social structure
Exploring the Substantive Representation of Non-Humans in UK Parliamentary Business
This study is concerned with the substantive representation of non-human species in parliamentary business. It applies Leston-Bandeira’s legislative functions perspective (LFP) to a data set of 2500 public petitions on animal welfare, submitted over three terms of the UK parliament. The wider significance of this work lies in: (i) underlining the utility of the LFP to petitions analysis; (ii) showing that, while few directly secure policy change,…
Placing the Foundational Economy
Emerging in the mid-2010s, the Foundational Economy has been heralded as 'a compelling counter-project against neoliberalism' and 'an alternative pathway ... [for] progressive political renewal'. Grounded in a review of cross-disciplinary debates, this paper introduces the concept of the Foundational Economy and places it in relation to heterodox geographic theories of socio-economic development such as the 'social economy' and 'diverse economies…
What's so critical about it? An analysis of critique within different strands of critical gerontology
Shortly after emerging in the 1980s, critical gerontology became a recognised part of mainstream gerontology. Under the umbrella of ‘critical gerontology’ sits a number of orientations that draw attention to how ageing is socially located, while foregrounding the importance of values in ageing research. Nevertheless, as critical gerontology is not a clearly defined field or orientation, inconsistencies in the use of ‘critique’ among critical gero…
Evaluation in reinforcing and resisting hierarchical relations between state and civil society
Here we present a critical exploration of evaluation as a concept within a state‐led social policy programme. Studies critiquing this type of evaluation often assume its purpose is to provide knowledge and understanding of a given social policy, and its relative impact upon the social issue towards which it has been directed. However, drawing on the accounts of 25 community development workers gathered over the course of a 17 year state‐led, anti…
Sentience and salience – exploring the party politicization of animal welfare in multi-level electoral systems
This study explores the party politicization of animal welfare in the context of multi-level governance in the UK. It examines over 1300 pledges in party manifestos for Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish elections 1998–2017. It reveals the nature of party competition, including increasing salience over electoral cycles. This is complemented by examination of the party dynamics in two sub-fields: wildlife protection and farm animal welfare. The wi…
All the world's a stage
Qualitative dementia research emphasises the importance of recognising the voice of the person with dementia. However, research imbued with a politics of selfhood, whereby individuals are called upon to give coherence to experience and emotion, jars with representations of dementia as a gradual decline in capacity. Moreover, it reinforces an assumption that there is an essential experience that can be accessed through different methods. Drawing o…
Professional autonomy and surveillance
Professional autonomy has come under greater scrutiny due to managerialism, consumerism, information and communication technologies (ICT), and the changing composition of professions themselves. This scrutiny is often portrayed as a tension between professional and managerial logics. Recently, medical autonomy has increasingly been shaped in terms of transparency, where publication of clinical performance (via ICT) might be a more pervasive form …
Protocol for the Ideal-2 longitudinal study
IDEAL-2 will provide evidence about the key indicators of, and factors associated with, living well over the course of dementia and how these differ for particular subgroups. It will tell us which combinations of services and support are most beneficial and cost-effective. Moreover, the IDEAL-2 study will gather evidence from under-researched groups of people with dementia, who are likely to have their own distinct perceptions of living well
Elite city-deals for economic growth? Problematizing the complexities of devolution, city-region building, and the (re)positioning of civil society
The concept of localism and spatial delineation of the ‘city region’ have seen a renaissance as the de facto spatial political units of governance for economic development. One articulation of this has seen the creation of Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) to potentially enhance Wales’s poor economic performance and secure democratic forms of social cohesion. City regions have been vaunted as the ‘spatial imaginary’ for engendering economic developmen…
Unequal cities
Unequal cities: The challenge of post-industrial transition in times of austerity." Regional Studies, 53(3), p. 447
Dualities of dementia illness narratives and their role in a narrative economy
The concept of 'narrative economies' has recently been proposed as a set of exchange relationships that, through biography and story-telling, facilitate access to resources and act as a source of value. We utilise this concept to inform our analysis of 18 qualitative interviews with five people with dementia and four informal carers. Our participants are members of a pre-existing group of dementia advocates, representing the voices of those livin…
Consumption & Generational Change
Consumption and Generational Change
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on detailed empirical work to address key questions that arise from the interplay between the rise of mass consumption, increasing individualization, and generational fracture. It provides a collective contribution, from a diversity of perspectives, to the debates surrounding generational change in contemporary consumer s…
Making sense
Originally home meant the centre of the world – not in a geographical but in an ontological sense ... Home was the centre of the world because it was the place where a vertical line crossed a horizontal one. The vertical line was a path leading upwards to the sky and downwards to the underworld. The horizontal line represented the traffic of the world, all the possible roads leading across the earth to other places (Berger, 1984: 55–6). The late …
Social class, dementia and the fourth age
Research addressing social class and dementia has largely focused on measures of socioeconomic status as causal risk factors for dementia and in observed differences in diagnosis, treatment and care. This large body of work has produced important insights but also contains numerous problems and weaknesses. Research needs to take account of the ways in which ageing and social class have been transformed in tandem with the economic, social and cult…
Defining continuity of care from the perspectives of mental health service users and professionals
BACKGROUND: Continuity of care (COC) is central to the organization and delivery of mental health services. Traditional definitions have excluded service users, and this lack of involvement has been linked to poor conceptual clarity surrounding the term. Consequently, very little is known about the differences and similarities in the conceptualization of COC by mental health service users and professionals. OBJECTIVE: To explore and compare menta…
The Curious Case of St Caffo’s Church, Anglesey, Wales
The Christianisation of later prehistoric sites has been hitherto rarely discussed (e.g. Holtorf 1997). However, it is becoming increasingly clear that many churchyards, in particular within the west of Britain possess histories that extend way before their current use and meaning. In this brief note, the authors describe and contextualise a recent discovery of a later prehistoric engraved bowl-mark that was found within the churchyard of St Caff…
Is There a Place for Geography in the Analysis of Health Inequality
This paper considers how ideas and evidence concerning geographical health variation are used in discourses relating to health inequalities. We consider the different concepts of space and place which are employed in these debates. Much of the discussion in the literature focuses on the relative importance of compositional and contextual effects in determining health variation between different geographical areas. We discuss some of the theory wh…
The natural, the normal and the normative
Not just old and sick – the ‘will to health’ in later life
The end of the ‘Golden Age’ of welfare capitalism in the 1970s was the prelude to a period of greater individualisation within societies and was accompanied by an increase in the importance of consumption as a way of organising social relations. During the same period there was also an expansion in the discourses aimed at enhancing the government of the autonomous self. One such discourse operates around what has been termed the ‘will to health’:…
From Passive to Active Consumers? Later Life Consumption in the UK from 1968-2005
The significance of the UK's ageing population has been generally acknowledged, however its implications for consumption have been neglected. The consumption patterns of older people are important given that the end of the 20th century witnessed profound changes to the nature of later life, many linked to the emergence of 'consumer societies' in the UK and elsewhere. The uneven nature of retirement, as well as the relative affluence of many retir…
Dualities of dementia illness narratives and their role in a narrative economy
The concept of 'narrative economies' has recently been proposed as a set of exchange relationships that, through biography and story-telling, facilitate access to resources and act as a source of value. We utilise this concept to inform our analysis of 18 qualitative interviews with five people with dementia and four informal carers. Our participants are members of a pre-existing group of dementia advocates, representing the voices of those livin…
Regulation, governance and agglomeration
This paper provides an overview and synthesis of debates pertaining to the development of city-regions and their applicability to the UK space economy. The purpose is to make links to advance both international academic debates and realpolitik policy knowledge concerns. The paper, firstly, traces the multifarious and at times disconnected academic discussions around the concepts of regionalism, city-regionalism and localism in the UK. Secondly, i…
Choice, consumerism and devolution
The introduction of choice and consumer mechanisms in public services has been identified as a fundamental shift in welfare service provision internationally. Within the United Kingdom (UK), such mechanisms developed and integrated into English services have not been replicated in their entirety in Scotland and Wales. For the first time since the inception of the UK welfare state, there are now formal differences in entitlement for older people a…
Illness careers and continuity of care in mental health services
Is patient involvement possible when decisions involve scarce resources? A qualitative study of decision-making in primary care
Greater patient involvement has become a key goal of health care provision. This study explored the way in which general practitioners (GPs) in the UK manage the dual responsibilities of treating individual patients and making the most equitable use of National Health Service (NHS) resources in the context of the policy of greater patient involvement in decision-making. We undertook a qualitative study incorporating a series of interviews and foc…
Placing the Foundational Economy
Emerging in the mid-2010s, the Foundational Economy has been heralded as 'a compelling counter-project against neoliberalism' and 'an alternative pathway ... [for] progressive political renewal'. Grounded in a review of cross-disciplinary debates, this paper introduces the concept of the Foundational Economy and places it in relation to heterodox geographic theories of socio-economic development such as the 'social economy' and 'diverse economies…
Elite city-deals for economic growth? Problematizing the complexities of devolution, city-region building, and the (re)positioning of civil society
The concept of localism and spatial delineation of the ‘city region’ have seen a renaissance as the de facto spatial political units of governance for economic development. One articulation of this has seen the creation of Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) to potentially enhance Wales’s poor economic performance and secure democratic forms of social cohesion. City regions have been vaunted as the ‘spatial imaginary’ for engendering economic developmen…
Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the last century for a constant area definition. The analysis proceeds at the level of registration districts as defined in the 1890s, generated using the British Isles Historical Geographical Information System. Infant mortality at this spatial definition is followed over four points in time, the most recent being the early 1990s. Using a variety of i…
Habitus and Bureaucratic Routines', Cultural and Structural Factors in the Experience of Informal Care
This article draws on Bourdieu's notion of habitus to address the interaction between cultural and structural factors in influencing the experience of informal care among Bangladeshi women in London. The authors present a secondary analysis of a qualitative study focusing on the accounts of informal care. The data were drawn from a two-year study with Bangladeshi women aged 35-55. Thirty-two out of the 100 women in the original study were providi…
The Experience of Retirement in Second Modernity
Retirement and later life are taking on new forms and these may be related to what Ulrich Beck and others have referred to as the birth of the 'quasi-subject'. This article addresses the ways in which retirement, for some, is actively constructed as a lifestyle option or choice. We present findings from a study based on 20 qualitative interviews with UK men and women who had previously worked in executive and higher management posts and who had r…
The long shadow of work—does time since labour market exit affect the association between socioeconomic position and health in a post-working population
Objective: To test the effect of time since labour market exit (LME) on associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and self-rated health. Methods: Retirees from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) were divided into three groups on the basis of the length of time since LME. Seven different indicators of SEP were identified: socioeconomic class, income, wealth, education, tenure, area deprivation and subjective social status. Una…
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads
This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology provides us with the critical lens to view the circular economy as part of an emergent regime of accumulation that may supersede neoliberalism. However, if each regime entails new frontier zones for appropriating cheap natures and dumping wastes, then the circular economy—…
The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia
This paper uses precarity as a framework to understand the vulnerabilities experienced by those living with or caring for someone living with dementia. Drawing on qualitative interview data from the Improving the Experience of Dementia and Enhancing Active Life (IDEAL) programme, we attend to our participants' reflections on how they manage the condition and the wider circumstances in which this occurs. To interrogate the utility of precarity, we…
Longitudinal Trajectories of Quality of Life Among People With Mild-to-Moderate Dementia
Understanding individual trajectories can contribute to personalized care planning. Efforts to prevent decline in perceived QoL should primarily target psychological well-being. Efforts to improve QoL for those with poorer QoL should additionally address functional impairment, isolation, and disadvantage related to social structure
Exploring the Substantive Representation of Non-Humans in UK Parliamentary Business
This study is concerned with the substantive representation of non-human species in parliamentary business. It applies Leston-Bandeira’s legislative functions perspective (LFP) to a data set of 2500 public petitions on animal welfare, submitted over three terms of the UK parliament. The wider significance of this work lies in: (i) underlining the utility of the LFP to petitions analysis; (ii) showing that, while few directly secure policy change,…
Unequal cities
Unequal cities: The challenge of post-industrial transition in times of austerity." Regional Studies, 53(3), p. 447
Are profiles of social, cultural, and economic capital related to living well with dementia? Longitudinal findings from the Ideal programme
New policies and efforts from the government, philanthropic foundations, the voluntary and primary care sectors are needed to address social, cultural, and economic disadvantage among people with dementia
What's so critical about it? An analysis of critique within different strands of critical gerontology
Shortly after emerging in the 1980s, critical gerontology became a recognised part of mainstream gerontology. Under the umbrella of ‘critical gerontology’ sits a number of orientations that draw attention to how ageing is socially located, while foregrounding the importance of values in ageing research. Nevertheless, as critical gerontology is not a clearly defined field or orientation, inconsistencies in the use of ‘critique’ among critical gero…
Making sense
Originally home meant the centre of the world – not in a geographical but in an ontological sense ... Home was the centre of the world because it was the place where a vertical line crossed a horizontal one. The vertical line was a path leading upwards to the sky and downwards to the underworld. The horizontal line represented the traffic of the world, all the possible roads leading across the earth to other places (Berger, 1984: 55–6). The late …
Class and lifestyle ‘lock‐in’ among middle‐aged and older men
Health lifestyles are collective patterns of health risk behaviour that develop within a social habitus. An important area for research is the extent to which health lifestyles become more individualised over time and as people age, or whether health lifestyles remain socially structured. This article presents findings from a Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the British Regional Heart Study. Our findings suggest that smoking and alcohol use re…
Living Well” Trajectories Among Family Caregivers of People With Mild-to-Moderate Dementia in the Ideal Cohort
The findings indicate the importance of prompt identification of, and support for, caregivers at risk of the declining capability to "live well" and may assist in identifying those caregivers who could benefit most from targeted support
Oregon, public health and social control
(1992). Oregon, public health and social control. Critical Public Health: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 12-16
The implications of government policy for equity, justice and fairness in the NHS
Equity, justice and fairness
Is There a Place for Geography in the Analysis of Health Inequality
This paper considers how ideas and evidence concerning geographical health variation are used in discourses relating to health inequalities. We consider the different concepts of space and place which are employed in these debates. Much of the discussion in the literature focuses on the relative importance of compositional and contextual effects in determining health variation between different geographical areas. We discuss some of the theory wh…
Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the last century for a constant area definition. The analysis proceeds at the level of registration districts as defined in the 1890s, generated using the British Isles Historical Geographical Information System. Infant mortality at this spatial definition is followed over four points in time, the most recent being the early 1990s. Using a variety of i…
Social identities and the 'new genetics'
The use of social identities in genetic research is increasing, yet for the most part their use remains untheorized. The possible consequences of this practice extend beyond the essentialization of social identities, to the production and application of genetic information. This paper examines the four processes linking the construction of social identities with the allocation of 'collective genetic affinities', and deconstructs the assumptions u…
Power, Present and Past
Is patient involvement possible when decisions involve scarce resources? A qualitative study of decision-making in primary care
Greater patient involvement has become a key goal of health care provision. This study explored the way in which general practitioners (GPs) in the UK manage the dual responsibilities of treating individual patients and making the most equitable use of National Health Service (NHS) resources in the context of the policy of greater patient involvement in decision-making. We undertook a qualitative study incorporating a series of interviews and foc…
New Medical Technologies and Society
The long shadow of work—does time since labour market exit affect the association between socioeconomic position and health in a post-working population
Objective: To test the effect of time since labour market exit (LME) on associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and self-rated health. Methods: Retirees from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) were divided into three groups on the basis of the length of time since LME. Seven different indicators of SEP were identified: socioeconomic class, income, wealth, education, tenure, area deprivation and subjective social status. Una…
With an attack I associate it more with going into hospital
Habitus and Bureaucratic Routines', Cultural and Structural Factors in the Experience of Informal Care
This article draws on Bourdieu's notion of habitus to address the interaction between cultural and structural factors in influencing the experience of informal care among Bangladeshi women in London. The authors present a secondary analysis of a qualitative study focusing on the accounts of informal care. The data were drawn from a two-year study with Bangladeshi women aged 35-55. Thirty-two out of the 100 women in the original study were providi…
Medical Sociology and Old Age
The nature of health in later life has conventionally been studied from two perspectives. Medical sociologists have focused on the failing body, chronic illness, infirmity and mortality, while social gerontologists on the other hand have focused on the epidemiology of old age and health and social policy. By examining these perspectives, Higgs and Jones show how both standpoints have a restricted sense of contemporary ageing which has prevented a…
Not just old and sick – the ‘will to health’ in later life
The end of the ‘Golden Age’ of welfare capitalism in the 1970s was the prelude to a period of greater individualisation within societies and was accompanied by an increase in the importance of consumption as a way of organising social relations. During the same period there was also an expansion in the discourses aimed at enhancing the government of the autonomous self. One such discourse operates around what has been termed the ‘will to health’:…
Illness careers and continuity of care in mental health services
From Passive to Active Consumers? Later Life Consumption in the UK from 1968-2005
The significance of the UK's ageing population has been generally acknowledged, however its implications for consumption have been neglected. The consumption patterns of older people are important given that the end of the 20th century witnessed profound changes to the nature of later life, many linked to the emergence of 'consumer societies' in the UK and elsewhere. The uneven nature of retirement, as well as the relative affluence of many retir…
Femme Noir
The natural, the normal and the normative
The Experience of Retirement in Second Modernity
Retirement and later life are taking on new forms and these may be related to what Ulrich Beck and others have referred to as the birth of the 'quasi-subject'. This article addresses the ways in which retirement, for some, is actively constructed as a lifestyle option or choice. We present findings from a study based on 20 qualitative interviews with UK men and women who had previously worked in executive and higher management posts and who had r…
Class and lifestyle ‘lock‐in’ among middle‐aged and older men
Health lifestyles are collective patterns of health risk behaviour that develop within a social habitus. An important area for research is the extent to which health lifestyles become more individualised over time and as people age, or whether health lifestyles remain socially structured. This article presents findings from a Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the British Regional Heart Study. Our findings suggest that smoking and alcohol use re…
Can We Live Forever? A Sociological and Moral Inquiry
Turner, B.S. Can We Live Forever? A Sociological and Moral Inquiry . London : Anthem Press , 2009 . £19.99 (pbk ) 174 pp ISBN 978-1-84331-794-4 The range and depth of Bryan Turner’s writing is of international renown and in Can we Live Forever? he attempts to provide both a sociological analysis of life extension and an unpacking of the moral and ethical implications of the technological advances that promise ‘immortality’. It is a mistake to vie…
Towards a Sociology of Disclosure
Despite the increasingly widespread emphasis on the need for transparency in health‐care and elsewhere, there is limited evidence regarding the consequences of disclosing medical performance data. The evidence is disparate and has not been synthesised in a coherent way. This paper focuses on surgical performance, whose measurement is generally often seen as straight forward. It begins by outlining the context for understanding the publication of …
Choice, consumerism and devolution
The introduction of choice and consumer mechanisms in public services has been identified as a fundamental shift in welfare service provision internationally. Within the United Kingdom (UK), such mechanisms developed and integrated into English services have not been replicated in their entirety in Scotland and Wales. For the first time since the inception of the UK welfare state, there are now formal differences in entitlement for older people a…
Continuity of care for carers of people with severe mental illness
INTRODUCTION: Continuity of care has been demonstrated to be important for service users and carer groups have voiced major concerns over disruptions of care. We aimed to assess the experienced continuity of care in carers of patients with both psychotic and non-psychotic disorders and explore its association with carer characteristics and psychological well-being. METHODS: Friends and relatives caring for two groups of service users in the care …
Continuity of care for people with psychotic illness
BACKGROUND: The relationship between continuity of care and user characteristics or outcomes has rarely been explored. The ECHO study operationalized and tested a multi-axial definition of continuity of care, producing a seven-factor model used here. AIMS: To assess the relationship between user characteristics and established components of continuity of care, and the impact of continuity on clinical and social functioning. METHODS: The sample co…
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