Outputs (8)

A flexible friend: action learning in the context of a multi-agency organisation development programme (2007)
Journal Article

This article describes an example of ‘business-driven’ action learning in a multiagency organisation development intervention, and identifies learning from the experience.

Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis (2007)
Journal Article

Direct action campaigns against new roads in the UK received much attention, but campaign groups were locally organised and little is known about how they worked. Protests by three local environmental direct action groups in the years 1992-2001 are e... Read More about Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis.

Baby Boomers & adult Ageing: Issues for Social and Public policy (2007)
Journal Article

This paper provides a critical assessment of academic and policy approaches to population ageing with an emphasis on the baby boomer cohort and constructions of late-life identity. It is suggested that policy towards an ageing population has shifted... Read More about Baby Boomers & adult Ageing: Issues for Social and Public policy.

The gap is semantic, not epistemological (2007)
Journal Article

This paper explores an alternative to the metaphysical challenge to physicalism posed by Jackson and Kripke and to the epistemological one exemplified by the positions of Nagel, Levine and McGinn. On this alternative the mind-body gap is neither onto... Read More about The gap is semantic, not epistemological.

What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia (2007)
Journal Article

Concentrating specifically on policing reform in the Republic of Serbia shortly after the fall of Slobodan Miloševic's regime, this article focuses on the process of introducing community policing to a police force equipped and trained to operate in... Read More about What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia.

Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality (2007)
Journal Article

A consistent thread weaves through all the articles in this edition. Each author, in some fashion, reflects upon the dual concepts of a ‘global green public sphere’ and the ‘global governance state’, as they intersect with the politics of environment... Read More about Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality.

Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity (2007)
Journal Article

The aim of this article is to assess the relationships between majority (South) and minority (North) world environmental groups by focusing on one of the largest transnational environmental organisations: Friends of the Earth International (FoEI):1... Read More about Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity.

The Age-shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse (2007)
Journal Article

Through a critical engagement with policy trends, we ask how shifts in ideologies of ageing might influence the possibilities available to adults as they grow older. Of particular interest are the implications for how people are being encouraged to t... Read More about The Age-shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse.