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Formatting patient knowledge and channelling participation: how patient organisations work under authoritarianism
Patient experiential knowledge is important for the quality and responsiveness of healthcare systems. However, it is not rare for patients to...
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How do representatives from sporting organisations understand primary prevention of violence against women?
Sports settings have been identified as important locations for the prevention of violence against women, with numerous prevention initiatives...
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Disputes over intellectual rights in Brazil: interest organisations and their impacts on copyright law
Previous studies on lobbying outlined that business groups are more influential on low salient issues due to their organisation, unity, and...
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Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma
Individuals who reside in a country without regular authorisation generally find it difficult to access public medical services beyond emergency...
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What Features Distinguish the Rural Nongovernmental Organisations that Implement Social Innovations? Evidence from Postcommunist Poland
Social innovation (SI) solves social problems. What features distinguish NGOs that are experienced in implementing SI? This article employs a survey...
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Supporting People Seeking Asylum in the Australian Community: A Service Provider Perspective
Deterrence of asylum seekers, including via restrictive refugee determination processes, is increasingly common in many countries. In Australia,...
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In whose pockets? How small Danish patient organisations balance legitimacy, representation and dependency in collaboration with public sector medical researchers and the life science industry
It is a commonly accepted idea that complex structural challenges can be solved if private actors, NGOs, and the public authorities collaborate...
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Gig Economy Riders on Social Media in Thailand: Contested Identities and Emergent Civil Society Organisations
The emergence of the gig economy has generated a new class of workers who are categorised as independent “partners” instead of employees with rights...
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Future-Proofing Indigenous Self-Determination in Health: Goals, Tactics, and Achievements of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations in New South Wales, Australia
In this chapter I examine some of the ways that Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) have responded to recent federal policy...
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Global feminisms: a mega social analysis of confidence in women’s organisations in Europe and the MENA Region
This article aims at defining the concept of global feminisms within the framework of a mega-sociology of emotions that allows us to compare people’s...
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Adapting Community Development Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Community Practice in Trinidad and Tobago
The COVID-19 pandemic and the related public health restrictions have had a dramatic impact on the lives of people in communities. Public health...
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Is partnership working? Complexities and barriers in the development of community safety practice in Wales
Community safety in England and Wales underwent significant change a quarter of a century ago when community safety partnerships (CSPs) were...
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The contributions of international organisations towards socio-economic development: the experience of UNICEF in the Northern Region of Ghana
This study aims to analyze the contributions of International Organizations (IOs), particularly UNICEF towards the socioeconomic development of the...
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How organisations regulate Muslim body practices: a comparison of schools, hospitals, and swimming pools
In a comparison of three human service organisations in which the human body plays a key role, we examine how organisations regulate religious body...
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Criminalisation and Care: Indonesian Muslim Mass Organisations’ Perspectives on LGBT People
This chapter examines the attitudes of MuhammadiyahMuhammadiyah and Nahdlatul UlamaNahdlatul Ulama (NU) toward LGBTLGBT people who have been facing...
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Insights from Community Development for Strengthening Landcare in Queensland
The Landcare movement in Australia, initiated in the 1980s, grew through the 1990s as local communities gained financial and technical support from...
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Supporting Community Participation
Many people with intellectual disabilities remain excluded from communities and socially isolated despite decades of policies aiming at furthering...
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Community Question: Classical Debates
The chapter provides an overview of the classical debates on community question. It discusses various approaches to community, comprehended as a...
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Reflections on Community Development in the Asia–Pacific: A Researcher’s Perspective
This chapter presents insights from the author’s field observations about community development in the Asia–Pacific. While engaged in research for...