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While there is a considerable body of literature on symbolic boundaries that engages with long-established/newcomer configurations, work on conviviality has only rarely taken this angle, despite its general focus on contexts of immigration-related diversity. This article connects these works of literature by examining insider-outsider configurations between long-established residents and newcomers in two very different contexts of rapid demographic change, where the established population is already marginalized and feels further threatened by newcomers. Drawing on ethnographic research in Newham, UK, and Mshongo, South Africa, we advance debates on conviviality by revealing how perceptions of inequality, lack of civility, and lack of reciprocity shape symbolic boundaries against newcomers, which may, in turn, be softened by convivial practices. We also consider what the differences between the sites might reveal about the enabling conditions for conviviality in such neighbourhoods.

1. Public policy theory, practice and teaching : investigating the interactions / Trish Mercer, Russell Ayres, Brian Head and John Wanna -- 2. A quixotic quest? Making theory speak to practice / David Threlfall and Catherine Althaus -- 3. What can policy theory offer busy practitioners? Investigating the Australian experience / Trish Mercer -- 4. Delivering public policy programs to senior executives in government--the Australia and New Zealand School of Government 2002-18 / John Wanna -- 5. How do policy professionals in New Zealand use academic research in their work? / Karl Löfgren and Sarah Hendrica Bickerton -- 6. The dilemmas of managing parliament : promoting awareness of public management theories to parliamentary administrators / Val Barrett -- 7. Public policy processes in Australia : reflections from experience / Meredith Edwards -- 8. Using the policy cycle : practice into theory and back again / Russell Ayres -- 9. Succeeding and failing in crafting environment policy : can public policy theories help? / Kathleen Mackie -- 10. Understanding the policymaking enterprise: Foucault among the bureaucrats / Craig Ritchie -- 11. The practical realities of policy on the run : a practitioner's response to academic policy frameworks / Louise Gilding -- 12. Documenting the link between policy theory and practice in a government department : a map of sea without any land / Andrew Maurer -- 13. Taking lessons from policy theory into practice / Paul Cairney -- 14. Synthesising models, theories and frameworks for public policy : implications for the future / Allan McConnell -- 15. Public policy theory, practice and skills : advancing the debate / John Wanna, Russell Ayres, Brian Head and Trish Mercer.

The United States of America has been in a state of continual war in Afghanistan and across the Middle East for 18 years. Three sitting presidents, two of which inherited the war from their predecessor, have authorized to either extend or increase military spending and troop levels, slowly bleeding the retrograde process of exiting Afghanistan over the past decade, with no foreseeable resolution in sight. Returning service-members, who themselves make up but a fraction of the ½% of the U.S. population serving in the military are met by a largely uninformed and unmoved public unaware of the difficulties of reintegrating weaponized bodies and brains back into their communities. I believe this is due to the following two factors: first, the implementation and professionalization of a post-Vietnam War, all-volunteer military, and second, the valorization/idealization of service-members and veterans within popular society. In addition to these cultural trends, the Department of Defense (DoD) has continued to develop weapons systems technology far beyond the rifles and bayonets of preceding wars- instead, human actors are increasingly plugged into rhizomatic networks of algorithms and data for application overseas. Not only does this keep service members twice removed from the battlefield, but it also seats them within an ecosystem of data exchange, information, and execution increasing mediated through screens and digital readouts, and away from the real world effects of U.S. interventionism overseas. It is not a question of whether this industrial complex of body, tech, and ideology exists, but to what extent, and to what end. History has proven that a standing defense force is necessary at every level and formulation of social organization- that much is not in question. What remains to be seen is whether the United States can field such a force with the informed, deliberate consent of its public. I've delineated the evolution of my research and practice into three distinct phases, each of which builds on the knowledge and experience of the previous concepts. The first, Weaponization details the conditioning process through which behavior modification, motor learning, and psychology are used to desensitize service members to the commitment of institutional violence on behalf of the U.S. government, a process I experienced first-hand. The second, Response, plots the re-emergence from the rhizomatic power structures of the military and State through reintegration/reclamation/repurposing of the body/mind dynamic using the principles of somatic awareness, improvisational body movement (dance), and performance. The third, Social Engagement, outlines the full circle of integration back into society as teacher, facilitator, and mediator through the arts.

There are significant differences between the concept of social exclusion adopted by the mainstream policy agenda and what social exclusion means to young disabled people, particularly those with high levels of support needs. Currently, the experiences and concerns of this group are not being heard in the arenas where policies are developed. The silence about their experiences masks an assumption that, to have high levels of support needs, means dependency and exclusion are inevitable. It is unlikely, therefore, that current initiatives to tackle social exclusion will address the experiences of these young disabled people as they grow into adulthood. In contrast, a human rights agenda offers greater opportunities to challenge the way young disabled people with high levels of support needs are 'shut out' from society.

Governments write us into being by compelling the public to fill in tiny boxes on forms revealing our most private information. These personal details become matters of public record. What if students thought about how writing in public administration shapes us? In the spring of 2015, my Public Administration class joined with New York City Historic Houses Trust and its LatimerNOW project a not-for-profit organization affiliated with the New York City Parks department whose goal is to reimagine the use of historic house museums, Louis Latimer House and Writing On It All (a participatory art not-for-profit exploring space and identity through writing) to learn public administration through participation in a public participatory art project. The immediate goal was for the students to use public administration theory to design, implement, participate and evaluate a one-day project. The hope was to offer a chance to practice on a real project in a safe space so that they could later use the skills once they were employed in public administration (and the stakes were higher). I engaged reflective practice to get them to move from theory to practical application, forcing them to defend and make explicit their administrative choices, thus offering a common vocabulary for critical conversations about the process and the results. In this article, I describe the experience and critically evaluate how reflective practice can add to the teaching and learning of public administration.

100 years after its philanthropist founder identified poverty alcohol, drugs and gambling among the social evils of his time the Joseph Rowntree Foundation initiated a major consultation among leading thinkers, activists and commentators to identify social evils in the 21st century

"An actionable framework for developing and executing successful social media strategies supporting collaboration, teamwork and communication in modern corporations Using straightforward language, this book offers real-world stories and revealing anecdotes to demonstrate how executives and business leaders develop successful corporate social media strategies. High level guidance to developing the practical business frameworks and policies necessary for implementing and managing successful corporate social media strategies Describes the actual processes, organizational structures, and technology platforms required to develop and execute a strategy of continuous engagement with customers, partners, and stakeholders Provides both how-to advice as well as best practices on creating an enterprise social networking strategy Other titles by Barlow: Partnering with the CIO: The Future of IT Sales Seen Though the Eyes of Decision Makers An executive handbook and referencefor social media strategy planning and development, The Executive's Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy answers all the questions you have on this topic, including why every corporation needs a social media strategy and how it can be successfully leveraged to achieve business objectives."--

The purpose of this study was to identify the reasons why some organizations do not employ certain HRM practices that could increase levels of employee performance and organizational profitability. The focus was on the staffing area (recruitment and selection) of HRM.1 Specifically, this study looked at five staffing practices that the academic research literature has found can significantly increase employee performance levels. Descriptions of these practices, and references supporting their impact on employee performance, are provided in Exhibit 1.

Addressing issues such as new markets and labour demand, price competition, international components trade, outsourcing, impact of legislation and social dialogue and industrial relations, this report provides a valuable overview of the developments in the motor vehicle sector

Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue that addressing future sustainability challenges for achieving more equitable development in GEAs requires a more explicit role for bottom-up inspired futures. To this end, this paper employs an innovative global assessment framework for exploring alternative futures that are grounded in local realities and existing practical actions, and that can be appropriately scaled to the required decision-making level. This framework was applied in the context of the UN's Global Environment Outlook 6, a major example of a GEA. We developed novel methods for synthesizing insights from a wide range of local practices and perspectives into global futures. We collected information from crowdsourcing platforms, outcomes of participatory workshops in different regions of the world, and an assessment of reported regional outlooks. We analysed these according to a framework also used by an integrated assessment model in the same GEA. We conclude that bottom-up approaches to identify and assess transformative solutions that envision future pathways towards greater sustainability significantly strengthen current GEA scenario-development approaches. They provide decision makers with required actionable information based on tangible synergistic solutions that have been tested on the ground. This work has revealed that there are significant opportunities for the integration of bottom-up knowledge and insights into GEAs, to make such assessments more salient and valuable to decision makers.