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Rough sleeping in rural England is a social problem denied. This neglect reflects the more general noncoupling of homelessness and rurality, with idyll-ised notions of rural England informing interpretations of social problems in rural spaces. This article contends that this non-coupling also stems from the inappropriate application of traditional methods for estimating rough sleeping in rural locations. The particular geography of problem recognition that has driven the policy response to rough sleeping is revealed and the insights provided by and challenges raised through the application of an alternative method of counting rough sleeping sensitive to the rural context are exposed.

Mozambique's achievement of independence, under the leadership of the front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), on 25 June 1975, was a pivotal moment in the country's history. After what is often implicitly regarded as a revolution against the Portuguese colonial government, Felimo's project of 'scientific socialism' and 'popular democracy' was welcomed and celebrated in the writings of many left-wing observers in the West. However, this study will challenge the key assumption of much of the historiography of Mozambique: that the change in government marked the beginning of Mozambique's transformation into a socialist state. It will be argued here that despite a long struggle against a repressive regime, there was no revolution in Mozambique. Furthermore, while Frelimo had initially aligned itself with socialist ideals, the pursuit of socialism had all but ended when Frelimo declared itself to be a 'Marxist-Leninist Vanguard Party' at the time of its Third Congress in 1977. Frelimo's political vision had been tempered by the realities of the country's material conditions of underdevelopment and an unorganised, politically unenthusiastic worker population: the by products of Portuguese colonialism.

Comparative awareness of and response to cholera epidemic.