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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.
Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Personal Hygiene Practices among Urban Homeless Persons in Boston, MA. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2017
Leibler JH, Nguyen DD, León C, Gaeta JM, Perez D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Homeless Person and the Psychiatric Services [PDF]

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1976
openaire   +1 more source

Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

O14 Community prescribing of hepatitis C treatment: a mentorship and capacity building model to increase treatment uptake by targeted populations

Journal of Virus Eradication, 2017
S. Watkinson, L. Accadia, L. Coelli, G. Bartlett, T. Schulz, T. Shanahan, J. Sasadeusz   +6 more
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Changing Demographics and Prevalence of Body Lice among Homeless Persons, Marseille, France. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis, 2017
Ly TDA, Touré Y, Calloix C, Badiaga S, Raoult D, Tissot-Dupont H, Brouqui P, Gautret P.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Nutritional deficiencies in homeless persons with problematic drinking: a systematic review. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health, 2017
Ijaz S, Jackson J, Thorley H, Porter K, Fleming C, Richards A, Bonner A, Savović J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source