The regulation of safety within the context of airports and airlines is complicated by the roles of both the CAA and the Health and Safety Executive (See the Health and Safety at Work Act).
explore an area of addiction and to review the current
organizations, governmental and/or non-governmental agencies responding to this issue.
Students may choose an area of addiction that interests them. This is a research
assignment which will require exploring both addiction and community resources. You
may include our course resources and will need to look beyond. Some of the research may
be academic in nature i.e. articles/textbooks and some may be more popular e.g. reliable
websites and governmental/community agencies/organizations.
Tasks:
rationale for your interest in an introduction.
o Populations of interest may include: adolescents, women, people
experiencing homelessness, Indigenous communities etc.
o Addictions may include: alcohol, caffeine, gaming, shopping, opioids,
gambling etc.
statistics on the prevalence of the issue; any key factors and/or concerns related
to this issue including but not limited to social determinants of health, economic
and/or social costs, the BPS+ model, intersections with other populations and/or
addictions etc.
In the essay “Panopticism,” Michel Foucault analyzes a model of a prison, developed by Jeremy Bentham, to explore questions of surveillance, visibility, discipline, and self-discipline. In the essay “How Censorship Works,” the Chinese artist A Weiwei writes about censorship and self-censorship in China. Write an essay in which you analyze the similarities between Panopticism and the situation in China that Weiwei describes. What insight can we come to by thinking about these texts together?