Breaking hegemony: coalition as decolonial-intersectional praxis

In 2012 and 2013, Uruguay decriminalised abortion, legalised equal marriage and decriminalised the usage and self-cultivation of marijuana. Uruguayan social movements produced a wide-ranging, multi-issue coalition that mobilised around all of these bills as a package, in which they agreed to a specific sequence on the prioritisation of bills. The bridge actors that constituted the coalition operated within a framework grounded in combating the invisibilisation of marginalised groups and their specific interests. In other words, they sought to engage in a form of intersectional praxis through the platform of coalition. This article examines the workings of intersectional praxis in this case, and the actors and logic that drive it. It argues that a dual bridging model is at work in which bridge actors engage a decolonial-intersectional logic of action, working from a perspective that conceives of difference and plurality as both constitutive of social life and a normative good.<br /><br />Key message<br /><ul><li>Intersectional praxis is driven by dual bridges: the bridges of coalition created by social movement actors; and the bridges of interventionist analytics operative in an intersectional-decolonial logic.</li><br /><li>This dual bridge model of intersectional praxis allows social movement actors to engage in productive coalitions that can effect formal political change, here in passage of multiple equality laws.</li></ul>

Partially Averaged Navier-Stokes: A (k-ω)/(k-ε) Bridging Model

A new Partially Averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) bridging model is derived from existing (k−ω) and (k−ε) PANS formulations. The model behaves like the PANS (k−ω) model near rigid walls and like the PANS (k−ε) model away from walls. The new model is tested using well-known benchmark problems; a backward-facing step representing wall-bounded flows, and a circular cylinder representing free shear flows. Our results are compared to existing experimental data and previous simulation results using PANS (k−ω) and PANS (k−ε). The comparisons show our model to be superior at predicting velocity profiles in both flows. In addition, Reynolds stress predictions are also shown to improve.

Models of neuropsychiatry services and neuropsychiatric care pathways

This chapter aims to provide broad principles of service development underpinning good neuropsychiatric care. Learning from a British service provision context has been utilized to articulate service design issues relevant to an international health development agenda. The chapter further aims to clarify the purpose and composition of a specialist and multidisciplinary neuropsychiatry team. A ‘bridging model’ is advocated for development of future services in order to embed a holistic care delivery approach into service planning. A three-tier model of service provision and referral pathways in the context of a typical resource-rich health economy are described. However, the key lessons from this chapter could be easily applied to international health contexts where health budgets may be very limited in terms of service provision and human resource development.