http://hdl.handle.net/2173/684 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:16:23 GMT 2013-06-20T09:16:23Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238252 Title: The partnership approach – an assessment of the present and future Authors: Houghton, John Abstract: Purpose – This paper aims to offer an assessment of the partnership approach to reducing crime and disorder after 30 years of experience. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview of developments in the partnership approach, identifying shifts in the conceptual and operational frameworks over time, as difficulties emerged. The extent to which the partnership approach has been successful is discussed and the prospects for the future role of the partnership working are assessed. Findings – Despite continued problems in relation to information sharing and the identification of clear structures of leadership within partnerships, the overall balance sheet is a positive one. It is suggested that the development of “neighbourhood management” provides the partnership approach with a mechanism that will allow the partnership approach to play a key role in the future reduction of crime and disorder in a period of constrained public sector finance. Originality/value – The paper provides a rationale for the partnership approach remaining at the centre of the Ministry of Justice's programme for “Transforming Justice”. Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Safer Communities, published by and copyright Pier Professional Ltd. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238252 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/222014 Title: The partnership approach as a process in dealing with crime and disorder reduction Authors: Houghton, John Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Safer Communities, published by and copyright Pier Professional Ltd. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/222014 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/194870 Title: The concept of ruin: Sartre and the existential city Authors: Somers-Hall, Henry Description: Full-text of this article is available at http://urbisresearchforum.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/vol1_issue3_landscapes1.pdf Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/194870 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/196158 Title: Deleuze, Hegel and the rhizomatic model of thought Authors: Somers-Hall, Henry Abstract: One of the most influential notions of Deleuzian philosophy which shapes my aesthetic and artistic research is the idea of rendering visible invisible forces: in art, and in painting as in music, it is not a matter of reproducing or inventing forms, but of capturing forces. To paint for Deleuze means “the attempt to render visible forces that are not themselves visible” (Francis Bacon, The Logic of Sensation ). I extend this approach to digital technologies: with the digitalization of visual and sonic languages, and with the rise of the digital meta-language, data, sounds, vectors, shapes and pixels, are the minimal signifiers in the development of new hybridizations between micro and macro, tangible, intangible, natural, artificial. In a time where global warming, pan-toxicity, pesticide pollution, resource scarcity, and a host of environmental problems regularly appear in news headlines, the perennial question about what the relationship between humans and nature is and should be, is more pressing than ever. Our way of knowing and being in the world is the problem. As such, to address kinship imaginaries, is to approach the problem from the understanding that we must first change the way we think about nature and culture if we are to solve this problem. In this paper, I explore Hegel’s own analysis of the rhizome in the Philosophy of Nature. I show how Hegel’s analysis of the rhizome bears many similarities to that presented by Deleuze, but how ultimately, it is the difference between these accounts which is critical to understanding their relationship. I show how on the surface, Hegel’s analysis tracks Deleuze’s, showing that the rhizome presents a non oppositional structure that is governed by the logic of conjunction. Hegel argues, however, that such a decentred structure is unstable and ultimately collapses, leading dialectically to a centred arborescent structure. I show how Deleuze is well aware of this reading, and how his distinction between the decentred and the poly centred, and his characterisation of the multiplicity as an alternative to the many, allow him to avoid this implication. Description: Online video presentation available at http://www.hssr.mmu.ac.uk/deleuze-studies/journal/av-11/ Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/196158 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z