scholarly journals Trans* policy, politics and research: The UK and Portugal

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Hines ◽  
Ana Cristina Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Gender Recognition ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
Policy Shifts

This article explores law and social policy regarding trans* activism amongst trans* and non-binary social movements, and academic research addressing trans* in the UK and Portugal. In considering different possibilities for theorising gender diversity, this article positions a politics of difference and embodied citizenship as fruitful for synergising the issues under discussion. The authors consider recent law and policy shifts around gender recognition in each country and examine the gaps and the connections between policy developments, activism and research around trans*. Though each country has divergence in terms of the history of trans* activism and research, the article identifies significant similarities in the claims of activist groups in the UK and Portugal and the issues and questions under consideration in academic research on trans* and non-binary.

scholarly journals ‘'Sex Changes'? Paradigm Shifts in ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ following the Gender Recognition Act?’

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Whittle ◽  
Lewis Turner
Keyword(s):  
Sex Change ◽  
Gender Recognition ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Legal Understanding

Gender transformations are normatively understood as somatic, based on surgical reassignment, where the sexed body is aligned with the gender identity of the individual through genital surgery – hence the common lexicon ‘sex change surgery’. We suggest that the UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 challenges what constitutes a ‘sex change’ through the Act's definitions and also the conditions within which legal ‘recognition’ is permitted. The sex/gender distinction, (where sex normatively refers to the sexed body, and gender, to social identity) is demobilised both literally and legally. This paper discusses the history of medico-socio-legal definitions of sex have been developed through decision making processes when courts have been faced with people with gender variance and, in particular, the implications of the Gender Recognition Act for our contemporary legal understanding of sex. We ask, and attempt to answer, has ‘sex’ changed?

The changing landscape of local authority commissioning

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-196
Author(s):  
Dave Ayre
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter assesses the history of the relationship between public and private sectors and the extent to which the political and regulatory environment of governments and institutions such as the European Union (EU) can help or hinder the efforts of public bodies in seeking to deliver services that determine the health and quality of life for communities. The relationship of public and private sectors in the United Kingdom (UK) and the commissioning, procurement, and development of public–private partnerships is driven by the prevailing political and economic environment. However, rigorous academic research on the benefits of partnering to organisations, societies and between countries is limited. Evidence is needed to fill the policy vacuum. A bolder approach is necessary to work with public and private sectors to develop and implement successful partnering alternatives to the outsourcing of public services. The growing catalogue of outsourcing failures in construction, probation, rail franchising, health, and social care is creating an appetite for change, and the exit of the UK from the EU provides the opportunity.

scholarly journals Domesticating the ‘troubled family’: Racialised sexuality and the postcolonial governance of family life in the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Turner
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
National Health ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
History Of ◽  
Benefit Sanctions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Postcolonial Governance

This article examines how the UK’s Troubled Families Programme works as a strategy of domestication which produces and delimits certain forms of ‘family life’. Drawing upon critical geographies of home and empire, the article explores how the Troubled Families Programme works to manage the troubled family as part of a longer history of regulating unruly households in the name of national health and civilisation. Viewing the Troubled Families Programme as part of the production of heteronormative order highlights how the policy remobilises and reconfigures older forms of colonial rule which work to demarcate between civility/savagery, the developable/undevelopable. In examining the postcolonial dimension of neoliberal social policy, the article stresses how the Troubled Families Programme relies on racialising and sexualised logics of socio-biological control borrowed from imperial eugenics. Reading the Troubled Families Programme in this way contributes to our understanding of neoliberal rule. That the troubled family can be either domesticated or destroyed (through benefit sanctions and eviction) equally reveals the extent to which domesticity works as a key site for the production of both ‘worthy’ and ‘surplus’ life.

A history of academic research on Foraminifera in the UK

2017 ◽  
pp. 285-303
Author(s):  
Malcolm B. Hart ◽  
John R. Haynes ◽  
Richard J. Aldridge ◽  
Haydon W. Bailey ◽  
W. Roland Gehrels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals The Evolution of Choice Policies in UK Housing, Education and Health Policy

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN GREENER ◽  
MARTIN POWELL
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Welfare State ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Comparative Examination

AbstractScholarship in social policy in recent years has examined how policy positions users in a range of roles, particularly most recently in terms of their roles as ‘choosers’ through the increased use of markets in welfare. This article considers how choice policies have positioned users since the creation of the modern welfare state, presenting a history of choice policies, but also a comparative examination of how they have differed in the UK between housing, education and healthcare. It concludes by suggesting that although approaches to choice vary considerably between the three public services examined, policy-makers often appear unaware of these differences, leading to mistaken assumptions that policies can be transferred or transplanted unproblematically.

scholarly journals Sex and Gender Equality Law and Policy: A Response to Murray, Hunter Blackburn and Mackenzie

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Sharon Cowan ◽  
Harry Josephine Giles ◽  
Rebecca Hewer ◽  
Becky Kaufmann ◽  
Meryl Kenny ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Trans Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Policy Shifts ◽  
Status Of Women

This article is a response to ‘Losing Sight of Women's Rights: The Unregulated Introduction of Gender Self-Identification as a Case Study of Policy Capture in Scotland’ by Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa MacKenzie, published in Scottish Affairs 28(3). Murray et al. sought to explore the legal status of women, particularly with regard to discrimination legislation, and concluded that the interests of trans women had begun to systematically erode the interests of non-trans women in Scotland. In this response, we aim to correct some of the erroneous statements made by Murray et al. about legal definitions of sex and gender, and about discrimination law. In critically engaging with Murray et al..’s argument we aim to build a much-needed clearer understanding of law and policy on sex and gender in Scotland, particularly as it relates to the application of the Equality Act 2010. We argue that, in that claiming that there has been policy capture in Scotland, Murray et al.. have neglected to contextualise ongoing debates about sex and gender in law against the backdrop of over two decades of clear legal and policy shifts across the UK. We call for researchers and others – in Scotland and elsewhere – to take care, particularly in interpreting and applying the law, especially as it applies to marginalised minority populations, so that we do not further obfuscate or mislead on important legal and social issues.

scholarly journals Exploring the trajectories of highly skilled migration law and policy in Japan and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Wakisaka ◽  
Paul James Cardwell
Keyword(s):  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Highly Skilled Migration ◽  
Successful Recruitment ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Law

AbstractJapan and the UK appear to have few commonalities in terms of their history of and approach to migration law and policy. However, strong similarities in their contemporary approaches can be detected. Migration sits at the very top of the national political agendas and both have undertaken successive, major policy reforms over the past decade. Both have governments publicly committed to policies to attract ‘highly skilled’ migrants, with a restrictive approach towards ‘unskilled’ migrants. This article draws out the similarities and differences of migration law and policy in Japan and the UK via their respective legislative structures and policy trajectories on highly skilled migration. The article argues that Japan and the UK promote a market-driven model which enables highly skilled migration to be ‘sold’ to publics believed to be hostile to increased migration. Yet, the rapid changes in policy and revising of applicable rules often prevents the successful recruitment of highly skilled migrants to both countries.

Towards a Sociology of Resentment: A Debate on Class and Whiteness

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vron Ware
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Max Scheler ◽  
Marginal Areas ◽  
Political Idea ◽  
History Of ◽  
Immigration And Asylum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Key Indicators

This debate essay argues that there are urgent reasons why sociologists should pay attention to the history of resentment as ‘a political idea’. It offers different examples of the way the concept of white working class resentment has been routinely used in public discourse on race, immigration and multiculturalism in the UK. The BBC White Season is examined in detail as a framing device. Trends in political campaigning indicate increasing use of polling data to identify emotive issues, such as economic immigration and asylum seekers, which have been shown to be particularly divisive in marginal areas. In the context of policy-oriented, academic research on social cohesion, citizenship and belonging, social class and white identity emerge as key indicators of ‘resentment’. The Nietzschian concept of ressentiment, particularly as developed by German sociologist Max Scheler, is considered in order to complicate the broader psycho-social dynamics of resentment today. Finally, the essay discusses Ghassan Hage's work on affective attachments as a model of thinking through ‘resentment’ as a particular response to perceptions of waning racial privilege. The concept of ‘white decline’ and the subsequent embracing of victim identity precipitates political formations that endanger fragile multicultures.

scholarly journals Does Early Childhood Education in England for the 2020s Need to Rediscover Susan Isaacs: Child of the Late Victorian Age and Pioneering Educational Thinker?

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Hood
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education Act ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level

Since the nineteenth century, the history of childhood has been inextricably linked to the history of schooling. Throughout the period of state-provided schooling, the approach to teaching the youngest children, originally from five but currently usually from three years old, has been contentious. This article looks at Susan Isaacs as a major figure in the shaping of views about early childhood education and thus in the history of contemporary childhood. It surveys her rather special position as someone who was herself a child in the urban late Victorian school system when schooling became compulsory for all, and who later combined radical innovation in the combination of educational theory and practice. She experienced for a period the running of a small experimental primary school on a daily basis, yet also engaged in high level academic research and writing which was founded on psychological, educational and, unusually for the time, observational principles. She thus provided evidence-based thinking for policy making at a crucial point in England’s educational history (The 1944 Education Act). Her early life, her neighbourhood as shown by the 1901 census and the educational significance of her position on the value of assessment through detailed observation are discussed within the overall context of the last one hundred and thirty years of educational change. This reveals the principles which formed during her childhood and which teachers who work with young children share now even though these are challenged by current government policy. This article focuses on educational policy in England, as the other countries of the UK have at times evolved separate structures for their school systems.

scholarly journals Voluntary Action, Territory and Timing: The Council of Social Service for Wales, Periodisation and the New Historiography of the ‘British Welfare State’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
DANIEL WINCOTT ◽  
PAUL CHANEY ◽  
CHRISTALA SOPHOCLEOUS
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Voluntary Action ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
State Analysis

Abstract This article analyses the development of the Council of Social Service for Wales during what is often called the Golden Age of the Welfare State. Recovering the neglected history of the peak organisation for voluntary social service in Wales adds to our understanding of the histories of social policy and postwar Wales. The article addresses social policy from a doubly peripheral perspective – it attends to a territorial periphery of the UK State while voluntary action can be left at the margins of Welfare State analysis. From this perspective we hope to cast new light on the historiography of the ‘British Welfare State’

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