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Publication date: 1 May 1993

Susan Denman, Jane Reeves and Ian McCafferty

Reports on a trip to St Petersburg and Russian attitudes to healtheducation as well as some of the health problems in Russia. Outlineseducational practices in Russia – looks at…

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Reports on a trip to St Petersburg and Russian attitudes to health education as well as some of the health problems in Russia. Outlines educational practices in Russia – looks at lack of support with regard to the development of health education policies and the growing desire to press for change. Concludes that, in addition to environmental and economic difficulties, there is a substantial threat from the Western problems of alcohol, illegal drugs and HIV; some of the more pressing concerns related to disease prevention and nutritional health have delayed the resources allocated to health education in the curriculum.

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Health Education, vol. 93 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-4283

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Publication date: 1 May 1986

Ian McCafferty

Any manager or entrepreneur who aims to survive for a considerable period needs information not only on what is going on now, and what happened several months ago, but also what…

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Any manager or entrepreneur who aims to survive for a considerable period needs information not only on what is going on now, and what happened several months ago, but also what is likely to happen in the future. As none of us has perfect vision in this area, we are going to rely on a certain amount of intuition — playing hunches — and on the information that can be gained from forecasting.

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Library Management, vol. 7 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 21 January 2015

UNITED KINGDOM: MPC members will agree on price trends

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES197151

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Publication date: 21 June 2018

UNITED KINGDOM: Rate rises will wait until late 2018

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES235617

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Publication date: 6 August 2015

UNITED KINGDOM: Rate meeting flags cautious outlook

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES201517

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Publication date: 15 June 2017

UNITED KINGDOM: Bank interest rate divisions deepen

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES221535

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Publication date: 15 September 2017

UNITED KINGDOM: Bank rhetoric is more upbeat than GDP

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES224496

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Publication date: 3 August 2017

UNITED KINGDOM: Rates lower for longer; risks are high

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES223595

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Publication date: 18 April 2023

Andrew Adams, Stephen Morrow and Ian Thomson

To provide insights into the role of formal and informal accounts in preventing the liquidation of a professional football club and in post-crisis rebuilding.

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Purpose

To provide insights into the role of formal and informal accounts in preventing the liquidation of a professional football club and in post-crisis rebuilding.

Design/methodology/approach

This case study, framed as a conflict arena, covers an eight-year period of a high-profile struggle over the future of a professional football club. It uses a mixed methods design, including direct engagement with key actors involved in administration proceedings and transformation to a hybrid supporter-owned organisation.

Findings

Our findings suggest that within the arena:• formal accounting and governance were of limited use in managing the complex network of relationships and preventing the abuse of power or existential crises. • informal accounting helped mobilise critical resources and maintain supporters’ emotional investment during periods of conflict. • informal accounts enabled both resistance and coalition-building in response to perceived abuse of power. • informal accounts were used by the Club as part of its legitimation activities.

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This study provides theoretical and empirical insights into an unfolding crisis with evidence gathered directly from actors involved in the process. The conceptual framework developed in this paper creates new visibilities and possibilities for developing more effective accounting practices in settings that enable continuing emotional investment from supporters.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 37 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3574

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Publication date: 12 September 2017

Azrini Wahidin and Jason Powell

The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the importance of the experiences of female former combatants during the Irish Conflict, colloquially known as “The Troubles”…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the importance of the experiences of female former combatants during the Irish Conflict, colloquially known as “The Troubles” and outline key moments of resistance for female political prisoners during their time at Armagh jail. The paper will situate the analysis within a Foucauldian framework drawing on theoretical tools for understanding power, resistance and subjectivity to contextualise and capture rich narratives and experiences. What makes a Foucauldian analysis of former female combatants of the Conflict so inspiring is how the animation and location of problems of knowledge as “pieces” of the larger contest between The State, institutions of power and its penal subjects (ex-female combatants as prisoners). The paper has demonstrated that the body exists through and in culture, the product of signs and meanings, of discourse and practices.

Design/methodology/approach

This is primarily qualitative methodology underpinned by Foucauldian theory. There were 28 women and 20 men interviewed in the course of this research came from across Ireland, some came from cities and others came from rural areas. Some had spent time in prisons in the UK and others served time in the Republic of Ireland or in the North of Ireland. Many prisoners experienced being on the run and all experienced levels of brutality at the hands of the State. Ethical approval was granted from the Queens University Research Committee.

Findings

This paper only examines the experiences of female ex-combatants and their narratives of imprisonment. What this paper clearly shows through the narratives of the women is the gendered nature of imprisonment and the role of power, resilience and resistance whilst in prison in Northern Ireland. The voices in this paper disturb and interrupt the silence surrounding the experiences of women political prisoners, who are a hidden population, whilst in prison.

Research limitations/implications

In terms of research impact, this qualitative research is on the first of its kind to explore both the experiential and discursive narratives of female ex-combatants of the Irish Conflict. The impact and reach of the research illustrates how confinement revealed rich theoretical insights, drawing from Foucauldian theory, to examine the dialectical interplay between power and the subjective mobilisation of resistance practices of ex-combatants in prison in Northern Ireland. The wider point of prison policy and practice not meeting basic human rights or enhancing the quality of life of such prisoners reveals some of the dystopian features of current prison policy and lack of gender sensitivity to female combatants.

Practical implications

It is by prioritising the voices of the women combatants in this paper that it not only enables their re-positioning at the centre of the struggle, but also moves away methodologically from the more typical sole emphasis on structural conditions and political processes. Instead, prioritising the voices of the women combatants places the production of subjectivities and agencies at the centre, and explores their dialectical relationship to objective conditions and practical constraints.

Social implications

It is clear from the voices of the female combatants and in their social engagement in the research that the prison experience was marked specifically by assaults on their femininity, to which they were the more vulnerable due to the emphasis on sexual modesty within their socialisation and within the ethno-nationalist iconography of femininity. The aggression directed against them seems, in part, to have been a form of gender-based sexual violence in direct retaliation for the threat posed to gender norms by their assumption of the (ostensibly more powerful) role as combatants. They countered this by methods which foregrounded their collective identity as soldiers and their identification with their male comrades in “the same struggle”.

Originality/value

This paper is one of the first to explore the importance of the experiences of female former combatants during the Northern Irish Conflict with specific reference to their experience of imprisonment. The aim of this significant paper is to situate the critical analysis grounded in Foucauldian theory drawing on theoretical tools of power, resistance and subjectivity in order to make sense of women’s experiences of conflict and imprisonment in Ireland. It is suggested that power and resistance need to be re-appropriated in order to examine such unique gendered experiences that have been hidden in mainstream criminological accounts of the Irish Conflict.

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International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 37 no. 9/10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-333X

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