Talking about Hillsborough: ‘Panic’ as discourse in survivors' accounts of the 1989 football stadium disaster
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Popular representations of crowd behaviour in disasters are often characterised by irrationalist discourses, in particular ‘mass panic’ despite their rejection by current scientific research. This paper reports an analysis of four survivors' accounts of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster to investigate if and how they used the term ‘panic’. Reference to ‘panic’ occurred frequently, but more detailed analysis found that their accounts did not match the classic criteria for ‘mass panic’ (e.g. uncontrolled emotion and selfish behaviour). Indeed, participants referred to ‘orderly’ behaviour, and cooper...
Source: Journal of Community - May 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chris Cocking, John Drury Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Extending Contact Across Generations: Comparison of Direct and Ancestral Intergroup Contact Effects on Current Attitudes Toward Outgroup Members
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There is a growing body of evidence that intergroup relations are affected not only by direct contact with outgroup members, but also by extended contact: the mere knowledge that an ingroup member has a positive relationship with an outgroup. The present article focuses on the transgenerationally transmitted effects of contact, namely the impact of knowledge about ancestors’ contact with outgroup members on descendants’ attitudes toward the outgroup. A correlational study in the Polish–Ukrainian borderland region (N = 288) shows that ancestral intergroup contact – independently from direct intergroup c...
Source: Journal of Community - May 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katarzyna Stasiuk, Michal Bilewicz Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Coping with Age‐related Threats to Role Identity: Older Couples and the Management of Household Money
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As more couples live together into old age, difficult decisions have to be made about money matters, including the financing of late‐life care. This paper analyses in‐depth qualitative data from six older heterosexual couples, part of a wider study concerning money management in later life. Research when these cohorts were younger found that the organisation of money management within households was specialised and highly gendered, leading to substantive imbalances of power and access to financial resources, while also being core to the formation and maintenance of gendered role identities and couple identitie...
Source: Journal of Community - May 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dinah Bisdee, Debora Price, Tom Daly Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
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Source: Journal of Community - April 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcy R. Dupuis, Claire Baxter, Jennifer Dobson Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Developing Praxis: Mobilising Critical Race Theory in Community Cultural Development
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Race remains a significant issue in the lives of many people in Australia. For example, Indigenous Australians lives continue to be marked by social and economic disadvantage and everyday experiences of exclusion. Within this context, the Community Arts Network Western Australia (promote social change and the empowerment of Indigenous groups through community cultural development. With an emphasis on community strengths and resources, community arts practice is employed to create, promote, and improve opportunities for participation, network development and empowerment. In this article, we explore these projects f...
Source: Journal of Community - February 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christopher C. Sonn, Amy F. Quayle Tags: Praxis Source Type: research
Motivational Effects of the Perceived Image of Non‐governmental Organisations
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The motivational effect of the perceived image of non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) was analysed in two studies. Results from the first study, comprising two samples (N = 314 and N = 220), point to three dimensions of the perceived image of NGOs (solidarity, misleading and instrumentality). These dimensions have different effects on intention to collaborate and to recommend others to collaborate. In the second study, with a sample of N = 485, confirmatory analysis confirmed the three‐factor solution as appropriate. The misleading image emerged as a source of reactance to NGO campaigns. Results ...
Source: Journal of Community - February 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Pinazo, Rosana Peris, Anna Ramos, Javier Brotons Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
The Mutually Constitutive Relationship between Place and Identity: The Role of Place‐Identity in Discourse on Asylum Seekers and Refugees
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Recent discursive research has shown that constructions of place may function to regulate social relations and reinforce particular notions of belonging. However, extant discursive research on place‐identity has so far neglected the mutually constitutive relationships between constructions of place and identity in legitimising people's presence. To address this gap, this study, undertaken in Scotland, applies the notion of place‐identity to the discursive analysis of interviews with asylum seekers and refugees, people who work in organisations that support asylum seekers and refugees and locals who live in are...
Source: Journal of Community - January 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Kirkwood, Andy McKinlay, Chris McVittie Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Pro‐Diversity Beliefs and Everyday Ethnic Discrimination on Grounds of Foreign Names
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The paper examined the effect of positive beliefs about the value of ethnic diversity (i.e. diversity beliefs) on discrimination due to foreign sounding names. It was hypothesized that pro‐diversity beliefs reduce discrimination. Results from two studies (N = 29 and N = 104) confirmed this hypothesis. Practical implications of our results are discussed. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Source: Journal of Community)
Source: Journal of Community - January 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mathias Kauff, Christian Issmer, Johannes Nau Tags: Short Research Note Source Type: research
