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AbstractIntroductionWhile disengagement from HIV care threatens the health of persons living with HIV (PLWH) and incidence‐reduction targets, re‐engagement is a critical step towards positive outcomes. Studies that establish a deeper understanding of successful return to clinical care among previously disengaged PLWH and the factors supporting re‐engagement are essential to facilitate long‐term care continuity.MethodsWe conducted narrative, patient‐centred, in‐depth interviews between January and June 2019 with 20 PLWH in Lusaka, Zambia, who had disengaged and then re‐engaged in HIV care, identified through electronic medical records (EMRs). We applied narrative analysis techniques, and deductive and inductive thematic analysis to identify engagement patterns and enablers of return.ResultsWe inductively identified five trajectories of care engagement, suggesting patterns in patient characteristics, experienced barriers and return facilitators that may aid intervention targeting including: (1) intermittent engagement;(2) mostly engaged; (3) delayed linkage after testing; (4) needs time to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART); and (5) re‐engagement with ART initiation. Patient‐identified periods of disengagement from care did not always align with care gaps indicated in the EMR. Key, interactive re‐engagement facilitators experienced by participants, with varied importance across trajectories, included a desire for physical wellness and social support manifested through verbal encouragement, facility outreach or personal facility connections and family instrumental support. The mechanisms through which facilitators led to return were: (1) the promising of living out one's life priorities; (2) feeling valued; (3) fostering interpersonal accountability; (4) re‐entry navigation support; (5) facilitated care and treatment access; and (6) management of significant barriers, such as depression.ConclusionsWhile preliminary, the identified trajectories may guide interventions to support re‐engagement, such as offering flexible ART access to patients with intermittent engagement patterns instead of stable patients only. Further, for re‐engagement interventions to achieve impact, they must activate mechanisms underlying re‐engagement behaviours. For example, facility outreach that reminds a patient to return to care but does not affirm a patient's value or navigate re‐entry is unlikely to be effective. The demonstrated importance of positive health facility connections reinforces a growing call for patient‐centred care. Additionally, interventions should consider the important role communities play in fostering treatment motivation and overcoming practical barriers.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; List of Boxes, Diagram, Figures, Graph and Tables; Chapter One -- Where Trade Negotiations Competition Begins; Chapter Two -- The Basis of Negotiations; Chapter Three -- Bilateral Trade Relations; Introduction; The crisis period, 1997 -- 2008; The manufacturing sector; Agriculture; The transitional period, 2009 -- 2013; Europe's dominance in the EPA process; EU's influence in the EPA process; EPA technical and ideological issues; Conclusion; Chapter Four -- State of Play in Negotiations; Introduction

The educational and social disengagement of Indigenous youth in many remote communities in Northern Australia is well documented. A cursory reading of media reports and opinion pieces uncovers many who can be blamed: schools, parents, teachers, government, socialists, anthropologists, linguists and even film makers. Solutions offered are legion and range from conservative (eliminate bilingual programs, link welfare payments to school attendance, send children to boarding schools so they can escape their dysfunctional communities), to progressive (build true partnerships between communities and schools, develop an Indigenous teaching workforce, support bilingual programs), to common-sensical (equip schools with enough desks for every student, provide cross-cultural training for non-Indigenous teachers, invest in the development of curricula that fit the needs of Indigenous children). Yet all of these and most other solutions focus directly or indirectly on 'school'. In this exploratory paper I will shift focus away from 'school' and look for another place or another 'space' where learning and social re-engagement among young Indigenous people in remote Australia might be supported. Drawing on theories of 'third space' and 'hybridity', I will explore Indigenous land as 'tranformative space' where Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge, opportunities and responsiblities intersect and where young people might engage with meaningful practice.

In this article, we respond to Cabantous, Gond, Harding and Learmonth's (2016) critique of recent conceptual contributions that employ the concept of performativity for prompting progressive changes in organizations. All in all, we seem to share the general unease concerning the marginal impact of Critical Management Studies on re-defining organizational realities. At the same time, we largely disagree on how critical scholars could support effective, progressive changes. In this rejoinder, we respond to but also absorb Cabantous et al.'s critique of progressive performativity and sketch three ways of how to advance discussions of Critical Management Studies' role in organizational scholarship.

Against the backdrop of debates about the UK's ability to design and implement grand strategy or effective regional strategies, this article examines the nature, coherence and effectiveness of Britain's recent re-engagement with Southeast Asia. The article makes three main arguments. First, British re-engagement vis-à-vis Southeast Asia has been multi-dimensional in character with an emphasis on defence and economic diplomacy, alongside efforts to achieve a separate new dialogue partnership with ASEAN. Second, the recent notable increase in the Royal Navy's presence in Southeast Asia and the surrounding region not only reflects the "Global Britain" narrative of Conservative [End Page 329] Party policymakers, but also builds on more longstanding security and alliance considerations and institutional support that preceded the June 2016 Brexit referendum. Third, while British strategizing and policies may in the longer term yield the outcomes the UK wants, the effectiveness of the country's re-engagement for now is to some extent in question. In particular, UK policymakers and officials continue to struggle in taking forward and convincingly communicating an integrated and aligned strategy vis-à-vis Southeast Asia that is embedded in a wider regional approach. (Contemp Southeast Asia/GIGA)