Section 136 and Mental Health Act; Â鶹Éç World Service
Laurie Taylor explores the role of the diverse broadcasters at the heart of the Â鶹Éç's foreign service. Also, the increasing use of mental health 'sections'.
Laurie Taylor explores The World Service, talking to Marie Gillespie about her study into the role of the diasporic broadcasters at the heart of the Â鶹Éç's foreign service. Even though the Service has derived much of its creative and diplomatic significance from these men and women, they've been largely absent from academic work and public debate. Professor Gillespie's work brings to light the invisible writers and intellectuals who've been responsible for the Â鶹Éç's credibility as an international broadcaster. She's joined by Ramy Aly, a Middle Eastern scholar who has studied the Â鶹Éç Arabic Service, in particular. Also, who decides when someone is a danger to themselves or others? Professor Gillian Bendelow discusses her research into the use of section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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Marie Gillespie
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Open University
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Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan contact zones at the Â鶹Éç World Service (1932-2012)
Marie Gillespie, Alban Webb (Editors)
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-10: 0415508800
ISBN-13: 978-0415508803
Ramy Aly
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo
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The Â鶹Éç World Service in Arabic: A Dilemmatic Triangle Competing Elites, Conflicting Priorities, and Contested Media Strategies. Aly, R & Baumann, G. (2012)
Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the Â鶹Éç World Service
Marie Gillespie, Alban Webb (Editors)
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-10: 0415508800
ISBN-13: 978-0415508803
Gillian Bendelow
Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex
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Ethnography Award
Thinking Allowed in association with the British Sociological Association announces a new annual award for a study that has made a significant contribution to ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a culture or sub-culture.
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Are you involved in social science research and completing or will have completed an ethnography this year? The Award is open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution of higher education.
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An entry should be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research project which provides a detailed description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole authored book or peer reviewed research article published during the calendar year of the award will be eligible.
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The judges for the Award are Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly).
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