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This book provides a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion programme'. Leading experts present the findings of this wide-ranging programme organised around themes of competitiveness, social cohesion and the role of policy and governance.

AbstractThe concept of 'child voice' is examined through a longitudinal narrative case‐based analysis of interviews and drawings with an 8‐year‐old Chilean girl, who was in psychotherapy following sexual abuse, alongside interviews with her mother and therapists. Prompted by the child's description of herself through the neologism of the opinista—one who has opinions—the analysis encompasses diverse narratives of a critical moment in therapy, illuminating the complexity and entangled relationality of 'child voice'. Moving beyond an individualizsed conception of 'voice' makes it possible to account for relationality without privileging adult articulations of children's experiences—allowing the opinista to be heard.

This paper examines the views of mothers who have experienced (or are judged to be at risk of) recurrent removal of children into care or adoption. Drawing on their accounts of working with an intensive 18 month support program called Pause, we argue for the relevance of conceptualizing policy and practice with reference to Honneth's theory of recognition and Fraser's arguments about the need to address misrecognition through redistribution, attending to gendered political and economic injustice. The analysis draws on qualitative longitudinal interviews with 49 women, conducted as part of a national UK Department for Education (DfE)-funded evaluation of Pause. Each woman was interviewed up to four times over a period of up to 20 months, both during and after the Pause intervention. Case-based longitudinal analysis illuminates how stigma can obscure women's rights and needs—including welfare entitlements and health, as well as rights to family life—and shows how support can act to enable both redistribution, advocating to ensure women's rights in a context of diminishing public welfare, and recognition, challenging stigmatization through recognition of women's motherhood, and of their rights to care, solidarity, respect and fun.

In communities where members actively engage with others, perceive their neighbourhood to be safe, and have a positive sense of belonging, children's safety, health, and wellbeing are enhanced. However, over the last few decades, there have been extensive socioeconomic and demographic changes in Australia, which have eroded family and neighbourhood support networks. .We surveyed local residents about whether they viewed their community as a supportive environment, with a 'village' culture, that is, a place where they had developed positive personal networks. Fifty eight parents and carers from three early childhood and education centres identified their observations, perceptions, and experiences about the community environment in which they were raising their children. The community was generally described as a good place to raise children by most residents, but for a small proportion, exclusion and stress were problematic. This small group had limited opportunity or capacity to engage in the community. Informal connections were the most common source of support, but up to 40 percent of the parents were not always able to access supports. Formal services were underutilised, particularly given the level of stress and isolation in the community. In this paper, the authors suggest measures to help communities and family support services to better understand community cohesion and access meaningful support.

PurposeThis paper aims to reinforce the significance of visual ethnography as a tool for mental health promotion.Design/methodology/approachVisual ethnography has become an established methodology particularly in qualitative studies, to understand specific themes within participants' everyday realities. Beyond providing a visual element, such methods allow for meaningful and nuanced explorations of sensitive themes, allowing richer sets of data to emerge rather than focussing on conversations alone. The participants in this study evaluated how far they had come by exploring complex circumstances using visual ethnographic means.FindingsResearch with single refugee women in Brisbane, Australia, demonstrates how discussing photographs and creating digital movies yielded a sense of achievement, pride and accomplishment, health and wellbeing, and ownership for some women, while for others it was a burden.Originality/valueStudies with single refugee women have been scarce with limited use of visual ethnographic methods. Visual ethnography is particularly suited to understanding refugee narratives, as complex experiences are not always conveyed through textual representations alone.

This article argues for feminism's enduring importance in light of social workers' daily experience of women's abuse and oppression. Although cognizant of the many ways in which feminist theories can be understood, the authors examine the successive waves of feminism and apply Fraser's theory of recognition and redistribution to examine contemporary feminist movements and point to future directions for feminist social work. They argue that postcolonial feminism, with its awareness of culture and context, is most useful for social work. They see new forms of third-wave feminism, including integrative and postfeminism, as fueling neoliberal consumerist inequality, intensifying the need for feminist social work critique, scholarship, and activism.