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This article engages with the shift towards an emphasis on 'resilience' in local government discourses. Using the London Borough of Newham as a case study, it will argue that contradictory definitions of the term have, until recently, been used to justify the erosion of the third sector in the borough, specifically groups who support religious and linguistic minorities. Interviews and documentary analysis are used to consider how the concept of resilience had a racializing effect in this borough, and we argue that as a facet of policy resilience risks treating plurality as a threat rather than a strength. This is highlighted through an examination of how the third sector was characterised as retarding individuals' resilience and promoting 'ethno-centrism' in official resilience discourse. We offer three distinctive insights on the problem of resilience as a feature of policy, firstly, that resilience has a symbolic power that makes it difficult to securitize; secondly, resilience discourses risk instituting racism within policy; and thirdly, that resilience is built against collective forms of resistance and is therefore incapable of harnessing the resources and capacities of local populations. To conclude, we discuss the evolving political situation in the borough and the demise of the administration promoting resilience, through collective forms of resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: To determine how levels of case finding differ between general practices in England by level of population socio-economic deprivation. Method: Observational analysis of data from the Quality and Outcome Framework in England for 2005/06. It covered 8339 primary care practices. Reported prevalence and estimated prevalence for coronary heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stroke and hypertension were compared. Results: The gap between estimated and reported prevalence increased with population deprivation and was higher among practices in more deprived areas (defined as Spearhead areas) for all four conditions after adjustment for practice level variables. Conclusions: There is some evidence of unmet need in areas of social deprivation. Existing financial incentives in the Quality and Outcome Framework may be insufficient to promote active case finding by practices serving deprived populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the value of photography walking tours for exploring meanings and experiences of community. The work is part of a larger visual research project which sought to examine the everyday lives of residents in a neighbourhood identified as ‘disadvantaged’, with the tour being organized as an opportunity for residents to identify what they valued about their local environment and what they considered to be problematic. The dynamics involved in gathering this photographic record are one element of the discussion as is analysis of the ways in which the participants constructed and re-constructed their sense of community through the different examples they selected for photographing. The paper is thus concerned with the ways in which visual data bring different insights to understandings of which practices, services and resources are embedded in meanings of community in working-class neighbourhoods and, in turn, how such data might have value for informing policy and practice about the experiences of inequality in contemporary England. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]