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An idea whose time has come? : modern slavery, multiple streams approach and multi-layer policy implementation (2018)
Journal Article
Gardner, A. (2018). An idea whose time has come? : modern slavery, multiple streams approach and multi-layer policy implementation. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10(13), 461-481. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huy022

This article uses Kingdon’s multiple streams approach to analyse the implementation gap between anti-slavery legislation and front-line practice, with particular reference to emerging challenges in the implementation of the UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery... Read More about An idea whose time has come? : modern slavery, multiple streams approach and multi-layer policy implementation.

Lipstick on a pig?: appreciative inquiry in a context of austerity (2018)
Book Chapter
Gardner, A. (2018). Lipstick on a pig?: appreciative inquiry in a context of austerity. In K. P. Bartles, & J. M. Wittmayer (Eds.), Action research in policy analysis: critical and relational approaches to sustainability transitions (159-174). Abingdon: Routledge

This chapter reflects on the implications of constructing research which aims to be critical, relational and transformative in organisations under financial pressure due to austerity. It finds that apreciative inquiry can assist in establishing coll... Read More about Lipstick on a pig?: appreciative inquiry in a context of austerity.

The infrapolitics of cultural value: cultural policy, evaluation and the marginalisation of practitioner perspectives (2016)
Journal Article
Green, W., & Newsinger, J. (2016). The infrapolitics of cultural value: cultural policy, evaluation and the marginalisation of practitioner perspectives. Journal of Cultural Economy, 9(4), 382-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2016.1141791

This article is about the politics of cultural value. It focusses on the representations of value that exist in the epistemologies and methodologies of cultural impact evaluation and the discrepancies between these official discourses and the discour... Read More about The infrapolitics of cultural value: cultural policy, evaluation and the marginalisation of practitioner perspectives.

Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’ (2016)
Journal Article
Lowndes, V., & Gardner, A. (2016). Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’. Local Government Studies, 42(3), 357-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2016.1150837

Through their ambitious devolution programme, the Conservatives show a new assertiveness in relation to restructuring the local state, in contrast to the laissez-faire approach of the previous Coalition government. Although the Coalition piloted devo... Read More about Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’.

“The Lighthouse” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernández Cubas, 1997): from the “egocentred” to a “geocentred” analysis (2015)
Book Chapter
Garcia, P. (2015). “The Lighthouse” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernández Cubas, 1997): from the “egocentred” to a “geocentred” analysis. In B. Le Juez (Ed.), Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts (97-107). Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004298750

When Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 he left behind an unfinished text about a nobleman who accepts a position as a lighthouse keeper. The manuscript was later found and assigned the title of “The Lighthouse” (Woodberry 1909), which has since been accep... Read More about “The Lighthouse” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernández Cubas, 1997): from the “egocentred” to a “geocentred” analysis.