Rose Lindsey

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Exploring charitable resources in areas of affluence and areas of deprivation

From atrocity to data: historiographies of rape in Former Yugoslavia and the gendering of genocide

Patterns of Prejudice, Oct 1, 2002

The media response to the mass rape of women in Former Yugoslavia, and the subsequent setting up ... more The media response to the mass rape of women in Former Yugoslavia, and the subsequent setting up of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, have had a massive impact on the way in which these rapes have been represented, researched and analysed. The early conclusion that the rapes were part of a genocide, perpetrated by Serbs against Muslims, led to a demand for physical evidence to prove that the rapes were taking place, that they were systematic and were ethnically driven. The result has been an overarching emphasis on evidence that has dominated the description, analysis and theorizing of the rapes and has led to the marginalizing and silencing of a range of voices, particularly of those working with survivor communities and the survivors themselves. The evidence-led debate has created a genre in which there has been an almost casual use of survivor testimony by academics to illustrate the types of violence that have taken place. This appropriation of survivors' stories has degraded survivor testimony and led to a readership habituated to narratives of violence. The dominance of evidence and proof in writing on rape has fossilized the debate on sexual violence and genocide. If these debates are to be revived, new theoretical directions need to be developed. Lindsey argues that a feminist analysis of the social structures within societies that have experienced mass sexual violence alongside genocide can provide a new and enlightening contribution to the broader debate on gender and genocide.

Mixing science and intuition: the process of synthesising data from a longitudinal mixed methods study of volunteering

Using Mass Observation as a source of qualitative secondary data for interdisciplinary longitudinal research on voluntary action

Policy Press eBooks, Mar 21, 2022

This book chapter discusses the challenges of designing a longitudinal, mixed-methods research st... more This book chapter discusses the challenges of designing a longitudinal, mixed-methods research study on voluntary action, using Mass Observation (MO) material as a source of qualitative secondary data; and the anticipated challenges involved in carrying out this research. It draws on six years of interdisciplinary work on several longitudinal and cross-sectional research studies on voluntary action that have used both iterations of the MO Project (1937-1955; and 1981 to present day). It focusses on three key issues: the extent to which the MO panels are representative; the changing nature of MO writers’ contributions over time and; reflections on how qualitative secondary data analysis always involves the creation of new data.

Evidence briefing. The contrasting world of charities

Exploring local hotspots and deserts: investigating the local distribution of charitable resources

Voluntary Sector Review, Mar 1, 2013

This paper investigates whether regional patterns of uneven charitable distribution are evidenced... more This paper investigates whether regional patterns of uneven charitable distribution are evidenced at a local neighbourhood level. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative evidence of charitable resources in two case-study areas, one affluent and one deprived, it argues that there is a clear distinction between the case-study areas. Charities in the affluent area are more numerous, run by volunteers, and meet a broad range of social, community and cultural needs of that community. Charities in the deprived area are less numerous, meet urgent needs related to deprivation, and are more likely to be larger charities run by professionals with statutory funding. There is great concern, within the deprived area, about the impact of austerity cuts and measures, and what this will mean for the future of these charities, and the community which they support. Introduction: The question of the distributional effects of charitable activity is the central concern of a project at Southampton on quantitative and qualitative aspects of the geographical distribution of charities. It is well-known that the distribution of registered charities in the UK is uneven (Mohan and Rolls, 2006), but this tells us relatively little about where charitable activity takes place. Extensive work needs to be done on methods for apportioning expenditure by charities to geographical areas because it is unrealistic to assume that all expenditure can be allocated to the area in which an organisation is based. In a separate paper (Mohan, 2011) this topic is discussed in more detail. In this paper we argue for case-study research to investigate the flows of charitable resources, and of expenditure by charitable organisations, on a local scale. We explore the distribution of resources, the distinctive features of charitable activity, the barriers to organisational success and the challenges organisations are likely to face. A mixed method approach was taken, combining a desktop analysis of available accounts and annual reports of all the registered charities within the chosen case-study areas alongside up to 50 semistructured interviews with stakeholders and the managers/chairs of charities of a cross-section of registered charities in these areas. Two contrasting neighbourhoods that lie within 3 miles of each other in the same local government district were selected for study. One case-study area is a neighbourhood defined as one of the 20% most deprived areas in the country, dominated by social renting and high levels of reliance on state benefits, and characterised by relatively high population turnover. The other case-study area is one of the 20% least deprived areas in the country, a prosperous village with high levels of owner occupation

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Transformational Moments in Social Welfare: What Role for Voluntary Action?

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