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Purpose
By using experiential learning theory, this study aims to examine how students engage in sustainable living practices that can improve their sustainability literacy and behaviours. It also explores their motivations and enablers. In doing so, the research seeks to develop a curriculum model that may assist educators in designing learning activities for sustainable living.


Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative study is conducted with 38 second-year undergraduate students on a sustainability-related module. Students are asked to engage in sustainable living practices for a six-week period. Descriptive statistics and inductive/thematic analysis are carried out on students' reflective reports.


Findings
The results reveal five top sustainable living practices for students. The use of technology is revealed as an important enabler. Sustainable living motivations and approaches, and new skills are revealed. A sustainable living curriculum model is developed as a student-centric approach for fostering sustainability values.


Practical implications
The findings have implications for those teaching sustainability on the design of their learning content and activities by taking a student-centric approach to sustainable living. It also encourages active reflection throughout using an incremental learning process.


Originality/value
The research contributes to the existing literature by showing different choices and approaches for students' sustainable living that can be considered when designing curriculum and educational activities to encourage maximum interaction in sustainable living. It develops a new curriculum model specific to sustainable living, and also builds on the concept of "learning by living", an extension of learning by doing.

"You can't choose who you fall in love with, they say. If only it were that simple. Growing up in Walsall in the 1990s, Huma straddled two worlds - school and teenage crushes in one; the expectations and unwritten rules of her family's south Asian social circle in the other. Reconciling the two was sometimes a tightrope act, but she managed it. Until it came to marriage. Realising that marriage - arranged or otherwise - cannot be the all-consuming purpose of her life, Huma learns to start focusing on herself. And then she meets someone. Neither Pakistani nor Muslim nor brown, and therefore technically not suitable at all. When your worlds collide, how do you measure one love against another?"--Publisher's description

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A decentred approach to policy making -- 3 Multiculturalism to integration: conceptualising key terms and concepts -- 4 British policies towards its minorities (pre-2001): historical background and context -- 5 The role of British Muslim women activists in informing and implementing post-7/7 PVE policies of the British government -- 6 Luton: a community development approach to PVE -- 7 'Representation claims' of Muslim women activists: authenticity or authorisation? -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book is key to the debates surrounding the achievement of Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), a crucial aspect of SDG16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions'. It examines the role of Muslim women activists in the implementation of ethno-religious minority policies in the UK. It presents a comprehensive analysis of Muslim women's engagement with political and governance processes over the years, especially the execution of PVE policies in the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings in the UK. It studies the extent to which the government has been successful in its policy of involving Muslim women in governing contexts, by referring to changes that these women have brought about as part of the government's consultative forums and meetings. Drawing on evidence based on documentary analysis and in-depth elite interviews, the author highlights the positive role of non-elected Muslim women in the wider debate on countering extremism and radicalization. An important contribution to the study of minority policies in the UK, the book will be useful for students and researchers of security studies, public policy, minority studies, politics, multiculturalism, terrorism, race and ethnic studies and sociology.

Introduction: 'You know nothing, Jon Snow' -- Asim Qureshi I How did we get here?1 Remaking rule: 'I refuse to condemn...' -- Shenaz Bunglawala2 They needed us, and now they are terrified -- Fatima Rajina3 The four stages of moral panic -- Adam Elliott-Cooper4 The duty to see, the yearning to be seen -- Tarek Younis II Resisting the structure5 Refusing to condemn as a political act -- Remi Joseph-Salisbury6 Navigating refusal within the academy -- Shereen Fernandez and Azeezat Johnson7 Randomly selected: close encounters of the hive mind -- Shafiuddean Choudry8 Guilty without a crime -- Saffa Mir9 The struggle of a Muslim terror 'suspect lawyer' -- Fahad Ansari III Resisting the personal10 The (im)possible Muslim -- Yassir Morsi11 The racialised 'go-to Muslim' -- Sadia Habib12 Writing for the kids -- Nadya Ali13 It is Allah who condemns -- Cyrus McGoldrick IV Resisting the performance14 Is this radical? Am I radical? -- Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan15 Grappling with shadows -- Lowkey16 That's because I've read -- Hoda Katebi17 My art is for my people -- Aamer Rahman GlossaryAcknowledgementsNotesFurther reading

"Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "1: Introduction" -- " Bureaucracy" -- " Public Goods" -- " Civil Society" -- " Research Setting and Methods" -- " Outline of the Book" -- "Bibliography" -- "2: AIDS in the Islamic Republic" -- " AIDS and Public Morality" -- " The Policy Spotlight" -- " The Enhanced Program" -- " The Global Fund Project" -- " An Epidemic of Significations" -- " Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "3: The HIV Prevention Market" -- " The World Bank Mission to Evaluate the Enhanced Program" -- " Output-Based Contracting" -- " Disgruntled Government Officials" -- " Playing the Victim" -- " Brokerage and Primitive Accumulation" -- " Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "4: Enterprising Bureaucrats" -- " The New Bureaucratic Field" -- " Entrepreneurial Reconstitution" -- " Entrepreneurial Relationships" -- " Chez Nadir" -- " Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "5: Surviving Hard Times" -- " The Crisis" -- " Emotional Encounters Between Colleagues" -- " Insecurity, Distrust and Resentment" -- " Floundering in the Midst of Uncertainty" -- " The New Face of the NACP" -- " Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "6: Participating in the Global Fund" -- " The Civil Society Partners" -- " CBOs with Big and Small Bamboo" -- " The Participatory Process" -- " Squabbling for Funds" -- " The Next Project" -- " Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "7: Responsibility for Care and Support" -- " Living Positively" -- " Shining Star" -- " The Discovery of the Outbreak" -- " The Wailing in the Local Health Department" -- " Gujrat's New Antiretroviral Therapy Centre" -- " Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "8: AIDS Activism and 'Civil Society'" -- " Gharailu Aurat (a Home-Maker)" -- " A Big Step and 'Pulling Others' Legs'" -- " The Saviours of the HIV Positive" -- " The PLHIV 'Community'" -- " The Association of PLHIV

Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- A Rise in Marital Breakdown -- Catching Up? -- Conjugality -- Legal Pluralism -- New Kinship -- Research Setting -- Methods and Analysis -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Part I: Grounds for Conflict -- 2: Storying Marital Conflict -- Naila -- Afzal -- Kulsoom -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Explanations for Divorce -- Divorces Past and Present -- Lack of Commitment -- Not Putting Up with Any More -- Sexual Unfairness and Infidelity -- Wanting Love and Not Getting It -- Conclusion

Against long-standing characterizations of British Asians as flying the flag for traditional life, this book identifies an increase in marital breakdown and argues to reorient debates about conservatism and authoritarianism in British Asian families. Qureshi draws on a rich ethnographic study of marital breakdown among working class Pakistani Muslims in order to unpick the grounds of marital conflict, the manoeuvres couples undertake in staying together, their interactions with divorce laws and their moral reasonings about post-divorce family life. Marital Breakdown among British Asians argues against individualization approaches, demonstrating the embeddedness of couples in extended family relations, whilst at the same time showing that Pakistani marriages and divorces do not deviate in all respects from wider marital separation trajectories in Britain. Providing new insights into how marital breakdown is changing the contours of British Asian families, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students, clinicians working in couple or family therapy, social workers and legal practitioners."