Marketing ‘madness’: conceptualising service user/survivor biographies in a period of deinstitutionalisation (1975–2014)

This article aims to present the lived experiences of psychiatric service users/survivors who have experienced the transition from institutional care in the 1970s and 1980s to community care services in the 1990s and post-2000s. By using a biographical narrative approach the study compares service users’ historical experiences with their contemporary experiences of community and residential care. Sixteen biographical narratives were analysed to explore how mental health services have changed over time, from the perspective of service users/survivors, their families and mental health practitioners. The study examines how the closure of NHS mental hospitals in the 1980s, which were replaced in the 1990s with new types of community and residential care services, has changed the lives of service users/survivors. Thus, the article presents these lived biographical experiences which, for the majority of service users/survivors, were defined by the process of trans-institutionalisation rather than de-institutionalisation, within a neoliberal context.     

Regulating social welfare services: Between compliance and learning

With the ongoing privatisation and marketisation of social welfare, the regulatory functions of governments have become much more important, necessitating careful attention. Yet there is little scholarly work on the goals and nature of regulating privatised social welfare services. To fill this gap, this study examined the regulatory process used by the Israeli Youth Protection Authority (YPA) to regulate homes for at‐risk youth. Based on 24 semi‐structured interviews with inspectors and staff, the article highlights the YPA's distinctive learning‐based and collaborative approach to regulating social welfare services. This approach puts the capacity‐building of professional skills, rather than compliance, at the centre of the regulatory mission and leaves room for professional discretion to the homes and the inspectors. The article outlines the distinctive features of this approach, considering its advantages and shortcomings in comparison with the more legalistic and audit‐based approaches currently dominating the field of social care inspection.     

Young care leavers' expectations of their future: A question of time horizon

This paper investigates young care leavers' expectations of their future after discharge from care. The results are based on qualitative longitudinal data where 16‐ to 21‐year‐old care leavers (n = 15) were interviewed twice, first when still in care but planning for their discharge (T1) and the second time 6–9 months later (T2). The analysis using a general inductive approach showed that their expectations were dependent on the time horizon and that there was an obvious difference between the young informants' short‐ and long‐term expectations. Their short‐term expectations consisted of worries connected to their approaching discharge (at T1) and how to cope with challenges of everyday life after discharge from care (at T2). These results seem to echo negative outcomes shown in previous quantitative research. However, the informants' long‐term expectations provide a different picture, being mainly positive in both interviews (T1 and T2). The results are discussed from a life course perspective, where the informants' visions of their future are framed and understood in terms of the different stages of their transition process.     

回归原初话语：经典马克思主义的空间地理学探析

在空间批判理论溯源式研究的学术背景中,进行马克思主义理论的空间化解读,探析经典马克思主义的空间地理学,是扩展和深化马克思主义研究的一个重要方面。生产要素的全球流动、资本生产的空间规划与时空辩证法展示的地理学情景,雇佣工人的城市居住空间状况和资本的力量造就的对抗性的城市地理关系,以及基于资本的国际化运动,共产主义革命作为全球性而非地方性存在呈现的空间意蕴,构成了经典马克思主义空间地理学的话语主体。在经典马克思主义的理论体系中,资本贯穿其间的空间地理学思想是一个合乎逻辑的整体形象,尽管它并非是关于空间的一种元理论。     

推进现代居民社区幸福观教育的构想

中国现已展开了实现中华民族伟大复兴"中国梦"的宏伟蓝图。"中国梦"归根到底是人民的梦,是人民的幸福梦,实现人民幸福生活是中国梦的重要组成部分。实现人民幸福生活离不开科学幸福观的教育,而今,幸福观教育的普及面还仅仅停留在学校层面,远远没有深入到基层。本文创新性地提出了推进现代居民社区幸福观教育的构想,并着重针对居民社区幸福观教育的现状提出了推进现代居民社区幸福观教育的思路。     

既有住宅建筑估价方法研究

为了满足现阶段既有住宅建筑市场的投资开发以及广大居民对既有住宅建筑估价的要求,基于既有住宅建筑重置价格,考虑既有住宅建筑成新度、年限折旧度以及环境适宜度等,并进行细分计算,提出了既有住宅建筑的估价方法,为较为准确地估计既有住宅建筑的价值提供了理论基础。     

农村宅基地使用权立法评析

农村宅基地使用权指农村村民依法享有的,在集体所有的土地上建造、保有住宅及附属设施的权利。现阶段我国农村宅基地使用权制度仍然存在着法律规范较少、效力层次低、社会实用性差以及法律规范之间相互冲突等缺陷,要建立完善的农村宅基地使用权法律制度除了沿用已取得的成就外,还必须加强立法,化解现有法律制度的相冲突的局面。     

Segregated behind the walls: residential patterns in pre-industrial Copenhagen

ABSTRACT

This article presents a longitudinal study of residential patterns in the fortified city of Copenhagen. It uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) approach along with the HISCO and HISCLASS coding schemes for occupational titles to discuss residential segregation in Copenhagen between 1711 and 1845. In a period of population growth, spatial expansion of Copenhagen was prevented by building restrictions related to the fortress. As the city grew increasingly dense into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, historians have assumed that distinct areas of high or low social status (horizontal segregation) were non-existent and that the city was only socially stratified within buildings (vertical segregation), with basements and attics housing the economically deprived. Already in the early eighteenth century, however, the social landscape of Copenhagen was divided into areas of high and low status. Further, towards the middle of the nineteenth century, social status increased in the city centre as it decreased in peripheral areas. This change stands in contrast to the models of Sjoberg and Vance, in which socio-geographical change comes with urban expansion. Instead, I argue that fires and other disasters offered similar opportunities for change, with the extent of socio-geographical change determined by the political circumstances surrounding reconstruction.     

Families of adult people with disability: Their experience in the use of services run by social cooperatives in Italy

Social cooperation has historically played a pivotal role in developing socio‐educational services for people with disability, thereby contributing to counteracting the social isolation often associated with this condition. Using a mixed‐method methodology, this study maps the diversity of perspectives on how the use of disability‐related services run by social cooperatives impacts on and becomes meaningful to family life. One hundred twenty‐nine interviews with family members of adults with different kinds of disability were studied using emotional textual analysis. It provides a multi‐dimensional model to read and map the multiplicity of emotional meanings related to disability and the use of services, shedding light on key diversities in how family members emotionally make sense of care and support. The results reveal the importance of supporting family‐carers on two main issues: accessing a less passive representation of their relative with disability; and being able to test and acknowledge limits without succumbing to a sense of powerlessness.