This largest-to-date study quantifies the extent of the substantial health disparities experienced by young people with intellectual disabilities compared with people without intellectual disabilities. The young population with intellectual disabilities have substantial health problems; therefore, transition between child and adult services must be carefully planned in order to ensure that existing health conditions are managed and emerging problems minimised.
There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. This is the peer-reviewed version of the following article: YoungSouthward, G., Philo, C. and Cooper, S.-A. (2017) MethodPRISMA/MOOSE guidelines were followed. Search terms were defined, electronic searches of six databases were conducted, reference lists and key journals were reviewed and grey literature was searched. Papers were selected based on clear inclusion criteria. Data was extracted from the selected papers, and their quality was systematically reviewed. The review was prospectively registered on PROSPERO: CRD42015016905. Results 15,985 articles were extracted; of these 17 met the inclusion criteria. The results of these articles were mixed but suggested the presence of some health and wellbeing issues in this population during transition to adulthood, including obesity and sexual health issues.3 ConclusionThis review reveals a gap in the literature on transition and health, and points to the need for future work in this area.
The transition from school needs to be better supported in order to ease anxiety for young people during this difficult period.
A shattered worldThrough and beyond the objects I see there are endless numbers -a myriad really -of tiny, shifting swarms of midges that make it hard for me to look at the objects themselves. Because of this swarm, I can't see the first letter of a word clearly. It doesn't come through clearly but looks like it's been plucked, gnawed around the edges, and what's left are scattered points, quills, or threads that flicker like a swarm. I can see this now with my own eyes -when I look out the window I have a very small span of vision, but in and around that span I see this swarm racing back and forth. (in Luria 1972: 38)
This paper looks at the production and shaping of the self via Ashtanga yoga, a bodily practice, growing in significance in Western cultures, which can involve a radical form of (re)shaping the self. In particular, it looks at the interaction of external and internal sources of authority, including the yoga student's own expertise of themselves (experiential authority), the authority of the practice and the authority of the teacher. This allows the paper to rethink standard models of authority in educational and 'spiritualities of life' literatures, which have generally imagined a top-down singular form of authority, essentially stamped onto the subjects being educated. The paper outlines what might enter into a more 'distributed' form of authority; being not simply the educator figure (their positionality, status, institutional location, contextualisation within prior fields of knowledge/belief), but also how their exertion of authority meshes (and sometimes conflicts with) the 'experiential authority' of the subjects being educated, articulating with their own 'self-authority' (what they know, expect and command from themselves , on the basis of countless prior experiences, encounters, interactions, times and spaces). The paper draws upon qualitative fieldwork carried out in Brighton, UK.
This is an extended book review essay considering Christian Abrahamsson's impressive 2018 monograph Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought. It argues that, rather than addressing 'a geography of position', this work explores 'a geography of preposition', showing how topographies of position (of identities, peoples and places in the world) are always inextricably shaped by topologies of preposition, elsewhere termed 'the shapes of thought'. The essay inquires into the intellectual framings of this 'prepositional geophilosophy', noting what it owes to Gunnar Olsson, the Swedish geographer, but also suggesting that its most distinctive moves are prompted by Michel Serres, the French philosopher. The abstract geometries of Olsson and the patchwork topologies of Serres mark complementary, if occasionally tensioned, 'passages' into the prepositional landscapes that Abrahamsson navigates through topoi ('topics') subjected to his graphein ('writing'). The essay emphasizes the scholarly and ethico-political significance of this compelling new addition to the literature of human geography and related fields.
A body of work from the 1980s by Ronan Paddison, Allan Findlay and colleagues on 'the post-colonial city' and 'the Arab city' is explored as a contribution to this Special Issue on 'Paddison Geographies'. Distinguishing between 'post-colonial' (as periodisation) and 'postcolonial' (as critical way of thinking), an attempt is made to trace elements of the latter permeating this body of work, demonstrating that in certain respects the readiness of these scholars to engage with urban histories and geographies beyond the Global North anticipates more recent moves to engage open-handedly with the possibilities of multiple 'other' urban trajectories, lives and capacities for change. Additionally, by tracing the influence of writing by Janet Abu-Lughod on their 'Arab city' inquiries, it is suggested that Paddison and colleagues lean across to the ethos of a postcolonial 'comparative urbanism'. KeywordsArab city; comparative urbanism; post-colonial city; postcolonialism; urban planning challenge what Spivak (1991) identifies as a problematic universalisation or 'worlding' of 'situated knowledge', and explore how new lines of inquiry in urban research -and new scriptings of cities in the Global South -can transform how cities, when and wherever, are understood. While Ronan and co-authors in the 1980s may never have utilised the language of postcolonial urbanism as such, we reflect here on the ways in which his writing bears certain hallmarks of this new sensibility for understanding the cities of the Global South.More broadly, certain claims and references in their writings suggest their valuing of a 'comparative' approach when studying the diversity of urban forms and processes, past and present, which coincides with more recent -more theoretically charged -calls for a 'comparative urbanism' wherein any pre-supposed hegemony or superiority of Global-Northern urban-analytical tools is dismantled (Robinson, 2006(Robinson, , 2011(Robinson, , 2014(Robinson, , 2016. We will seek to elaborate these remarks in what follows, interleaving a few reflections generously provided as a personal communication by Allan Findlay (2020 [unpaginated]). Ronan's interventions on 'the Arab city' emerged from a UK Social Science ResearchCouncil grant (HR7739), for which he worked alongside departmental colleague Allan Findlay, then a staff member in Geography at the University of Glasgow, and Anne Findlay, a Postdoctoral Researcher also based in Glasgow, as well as with Habib Abichou, an Urban Planner for the District of Tunis. While Ronan brought his urban expertise -as detailed elsewhere in this special journal issue (also -to bear on this project, Findlay and Findlay "came … with a primary focus on population and development," including reading "work of many social anthropologists who had written most of the seminal papers on Arab society and in particular on North Africa" (Findlay, 2020). Given concerns sometimes expressed about the status of Southern collaborators in research originating from the Global North (an early statement is Sidaway...
This paper introduces a special issue on ‘Histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland’, situating the papers that follow in an outline historiography of work in this field. Using Allan Beveridge’s claims in 1993 about the relative lack of research on the history of psychiatry in Scotland, the paper reviews a range of contributions that have emerged since then, loosely distinguishing between ‘overviews’ – work addressing longer-term trends and broader periods and systems – and more detailed studies of particular ‘individuals and institutions’. There remains much still to do, but the present special issue signals what is currently being achieved, not least by a new generation of scholars in and on Scotland.
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