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This is a summary of a discussion between Edmonton Social Planning Council staff and clients from the Jasper Place Health and Wellness Centre. Clients spoke about what they would like to see in the Government of Alberta's Social Policy Framework, their attitude towards current government programs and services designed to improve the quality of life of all Albertans, and ideas for additional programs and services that would achieve this goal. This discussion was part of the ESPC's series of public consultations to help shape the Government of Alberta's Social Policy Framework.

This is a summary of a discussion between Edmonton Social Planning Council staff and clients from the Seniors Association of Greater Edmonton (SAGE). Clients spoke about what they would like to see in the Government of Alberta's Social Policy Framework, their attitude towards current government programs and services designed to improve the quality of life of all Albertans, and ideas for additional programs and services that would achieve this goal. This discussion was part of the ESPC's series of public consultations to help shape the Government of Alberta's Social Policy Framework.

While emotions are a central facet of consumer culture, relatively little is known about how they are tied to the embodied and tacit aspects of everyday living. This article explores how practices organize emotions and vice versa. Pairing Schatzki's teleoaffective structure with emotions understood as intensities that are deeply inscribed in the structural blueprints of practices, we propose that the organization of emotions and practices is recursive and based on three teleoaffective episodes: anticipating, actualizing, and assessing. To illustrate this, we present an analysis of empirical material from an ethnographic study on mothering. The practice–emotion link we unfold contributes to understanding the operation of emotions in consumer culture by specifying how practices and emotions are co-constitutive. This offers novel insights into the embodied and routinized nature of emotions, illuminates the connection between practices and individuals, and highlights the role of emotions in practice change.

Places & conditions of work have changed considerably in recent decades, not only in terms of technology but also with the advent of new work modes such as shift-sharing, telecommuting, & contract labor. Globalization & the new capitalism have made the work world more uncertain & employment more precarious, & this has had multiple effects on the health of workers. This situation is called the 'bio-politics of health.' Processes of health/illness related to work are examined here in terms of two concepts borrowed from Michel Foucault: vigilance & care of oneself.

Research on social networks has exploded over the last decade. To a large extent, this has been fueled by the spectacular growth of social media and online social networking sites, which continue growing at a very fast pace, as well as by the increasing availability of very large social network datasets for purposes of research. A rich body of this research has been devoted to the analysis of the propagation of information, influence, innovations, infections, practices and customs through networks. Can we build models to explain the way these propagations occur? How can we validate our models

This paper argues that, to fulfil the ambition to foster equality and social justice, diversity research should move outside the empirical and ideational boundaries of the firm, which have historically limited our knowledge production on diversity and social change. We first look back at 30 years of diversity research, reflecting on how the main theories, concepts and models of diversity are entangled with four root images of the firm-a neutral container, an economic entity, a cultural entity and a space of inequality-which have fundamentally shaped and limited our way of thinking about forms of action to achieve social change. We then present four illustrations of diversity research that broaden our empirical and ideational horizon: the global garments value chain; the gig economy; a public library; and a dance organization. These examples show new re-conceptualizations of diversity and open up possibilities for new conversations and politics of action to make diversity research matter for social change.

Intersecting gender and other social inequalities are pertinent to women's mental health across the life course. Gendered violence and other forms of gender inequality in particular play a key role in the higher burden of psychological distress carried by young women. However, the context of gendered violence is often minimised or overlooked entirely when young women seek help or advice around mental health concerns. This is especially the case for young women under the age of 30 years. This paper reports on a research study exploring how young women in Australia understand their mental health, and the scope for new approaches to support that better address their needs. A qualitative survey undertaken with 52 Australian young women was used to explore the nature of their mental health experiences, sought to learn about the strategies they used when experiencing poor mental health and the scope for mental health peer support as an alternative approach to intervention. Responses from a diverse group of young women demonstrated that they understood the role that gendered violence and gender inequality played in their mental health. Findings point to the risk of slippage between young women's understandings of their lived experience and those of traditional service providers, demonstrating the risks associated with minimising or ignoring of the gendered nature of young women's mental health problems.

This paper draws on Paul Ricoeur's theory of interpretation to highlight aspects of the existential realities that emerge woven within the narratives of people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It aims to give social workers and other professionals involved in inter-disciplinary care insight into the meaning-making process and the existential realities interwoven in accounts of lived experience, thereby validating this aspect of experience. To support this approach it also aims to make explicit the method used and interpretation applied to elicit these features. Ten adults with MS from across the North of England were recruited to tell their story related to the onset of, and adjustment to MS. Two of the narratives are presented, and through these, the method used for interpretation derived from the theory of Paul Ricoeur is demonstrated. What emerge, threaded within the events told in a triptych of past, present and future life envisaged, are glimpses of existential realities that evoke universal recognition such as abandonment, loss, acceptance; solidarity, aloneness, suffering and finally calm. The paper concludes that, given chronic conditions like MS often predispose existential deliberation, it is important that these dimensions of lived experience are acknowledged in professional encounters that seek to manage the condition and support people living well with it.

Relevance. This article examines the theoretical foundations of the formation and development, as an independent discipline, of regional economic policy in the works of domestic and foreign practitioners who studied such aspects as economic geography, theories of interregional development and regulatory mechanisms. The author analyzes the ongoing regional economic policy during the Soviet period and identifies its positive and negative aspects. The theoretical basis of economic policies implemented in the regions turns out to be an indispensable source of information for researchers and politicians who not only seek to understand the characteristics of the economic situation in certain regions, but also to develop effective measures for their comprehensive development.The purpose is to analyze domestic and foreign works in the field of regional economics, determine their significance for modern research, as well as identify factors influencing the development of economic indicators of the regions. Objectives: to reveal the essence of regional economic policy, to determine the degree of knowledge of regional economic policy in the works of domestic and foreign practitioners at the present stage and in past centuries.Methodology. This work uses the method of theoretical analysis of the sources of the problem under study, the method of historical and logical analysis and assessment of the current situation. Results: the main goals of regional economic policy are formulated; the theoretical foundations of regional economic policy have been identified; the contribution of domestic and foreign scientists to the development of the regional economy was considered; an analysis of the periods in which research took place in the field of territorial and economic processes in Soviet practice was carried out; the key issues on which research in the field of regional economics in the USSR focused were identified; the author's positive aspects of regional economic policy during the Soviet period are presented; It has been determined that the concept of industrial policy is the theoretical basis of the regional economy.Conclusions. Regional economics as a scientific discipline has made a huge contribution to the economic policy pursued in the regions, which has made it possible to increase the socio-economic indicators of the development of these territories.

La siguiente presentación establece una continuidad con el resumen de investigación ya enseñado durante el EBEC 2018 "Las visitadoras de higiene social en el proceso de institucionalización del Trabajo Social en Argentina (1920- 1948)". En el mismo se presentó el eje de mi tesis de maestría en Trabajo Social defendida en el mes de noviembre de 2018 titulada "Hermosear y Vigilar. Las Visitadoras de Higiene Social de la Universidad Nacional de La investigación que desde allí continúo para la obtención del doctorado en Historia, apunta a realizar un análisis histórico acerca del proceso de profesionalización y especialización del Servicio Social en la ciudad de La Plata durante la coyuntura establecida entre 1930 y 1955. En mi tesis de maestría ha sido trabajada la cuestión específica de la formación profesional dependiente de la Universidad, pero mantuve como vacancia el análisis de la intervención profesional y el vínculo establecido con las políticas sociales. Por ello, en la tesis doctoral este clivaje establecido entre formación profesional, intervención y políticas sociales resulta central en tanto permite rastrear los cambios y las continuidades en los modos de asistencia social, la transformación de las instituciones y agencias estatales donde intervenían las profesionales -especialmente en el área sociosanitaria- como así también las estrategias establecidas por las profesionales para la ejecución de las políticas sociales, los vínculos establecidos con las jerarquías médicas y por último analizar los posibles aportes realizados por las visitadoras de higiene social y las asistentes sociales en la definición de políticas públicas tendientes al sostenimiento y reproducción social de los sectores más vulnerables de la sociedad. Otro punto importante de esta investigación es en relación a los procesos específicos de feminización profesional que tuvo la profesión durante este período y como han delineado parte de la trayectoria actual de la disciplina entendiendo que estas agentes profesionales eran exclusivamente mujeres y su tarea en el ámbito sanitario fue establecer nexos con otras mujeres madres en pos de promover la modificación de hábitos al interior del espacio doméstico. Durante la coyuntura que hace a esta investigación el Estado se caracterizó por organizar acciones para suplir las urgencias de reproducción social, hecho que resulta evidente desde la Primera Conferencia Nacional de Asistencia Social generando, de algún modo, una antesala al posterior "Bienestar" promovido por el peronismo. Particularmente a partir de 1945, con el ascenso del peronismo, se amplió el repertorio de intervención social acompañados por sindicatos, la Fundación Eva Perón y la Dirección de Asistencia Social.

Purpose
Existing literature acknowledges the role of green human resource management (GHRM) in shaping employees' pro-environmental behaviour and environmental performance. However, limited studies have investigated the specific impacts of GHRM practices on pro-environmental behaviour from the employees' perspectives. This study aims to conceptualise GHRM practices as internal resources that can be used to stimulate employee pro-environmental information technology (IT) behaviour.


Design/methodology/approach
The hypothesised relationships were tested with the aid of partial least square path modelling of data collected from 333 IT professionals in ISO 14001 companies in Malaysia.


Findings
The results suggest that green training and development, performance management and empowerment and participation are essential in stimulating pro-environmental IT behaviour. Besides, the mediating effects of pro-environmental IT behaviour were significant for the impacts of green training and development, performance management and green empowerment and participation on environmental IT performance.


Research limitations/implications
The results indicate that GHRM practices are significant predictors of environmental IT performance, but training and development could be counter-productive to performance unless it stimulates employees' engagement in pro-environmental behaviour.


Originality/value
This study contributes to the resource-based view of HRM by examining GHRM practices as organisational resources for stimulating employee pro-environmental IT behaviour to support environmental IT performance.