Richard S. Katz and Bernhard Wessels
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198296607
- eISBN:
- 9780191599620
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198296606.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
The idea of basing further progress towards European integration on a permissive consensus has been substantially challenged since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, primarily because of its ...
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The idea of basing further progress towards European integration on a permissive consensus has been substantially challenged since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, primarily because of its objective of establishing a single European currency. The Euro has strong implications for increasing the visibility of the lack of democratic accountability, and of the lack of a European demos. In the light of these developments, the chapter brings together a number of conclusions suggested throughout this volume.Less
The idea of basing further progress towards European integration on a permissive consensus has been substantially challenged since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, primarily because of its objective of establishing a single European currency. The Euro has strong implications for increasing the visibility of the lack of democratic accountability, and of the lack of a European demos. In the light of these developments, the chapter brings together a number of conclusions suggested throughout this volume.
Anne Power
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447327523
- eISBN:
- 9781447327547
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447327523.001.0001
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
Europe’s historic city centres look dense, busy, cared for, populated with cafes, small shops, monuments, churches, public squares and traffic. On the centre’s edge, even in smaller, poorer cities, ...
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Europe’s historic city centres look dense, busy, cared for, populated with cafes, small shops, monuments, churches, public squares and traffic. On the centre’s edge, even in smaller, poorer cities, there are often concrete towers, gestures to modernity, banking and internationalisation. However, there are also abandoned buildings and derelict spaces. It is easy to see the potential in Europe’s battle-worn cities and their multi-tongued people, just as it is easy to see the broad sweep of world-shaping history. However, many city cores around the centre have become run down, underinvested, unloved, with too many jobless youth and too few enterprising job creators. All of Europe’s cities were not long ago producers of goods. Today, most of those goods come from afar and too many hands, machines and spaces are idle.
This international handbook draws together 10 years of ground-level research into the causes and consequences of Europe’s biggest urban challenge – the loss of industry, jobs and productive capacity. The handbook explores the potential of former industrial cities to offer a new and more sustainable future for a crowded continent under severe environmental constraints and extreme, economic and social pressures. It focuses on cities that not only were the most productive and wealth creating in the not too distant past, but the most reliant on major industries and therefore the hardest hit by their demise. These cities have lived through many phases of growth and decline, and they are experimenting in alternative futures. So they may show us new ways forward.Less
Europe’s historic city centres look dense, busy, cared for, populated with cafes, small shops, monuments, churches, public squares and traffic. On the centre’s edge, even in smaller, poorer cities, there are often concrete towers, gestures to modernity, banking and internationalisation. However, there are also abandoned buildings and derelict spaces. It is easy to see the potential in Europe’s battle-worn cities and their multi-tongued people, just as it is easy to see the broad sweep of world-shaping history. However, many city cores around the centre have become run down, underinvested, unloved, with too many jobless youth and too few enterprising job creators. All of Europe’s cities were not long ago producers of goods. Today, most of those goods come from afar and too many hands, machines and spaces are idle.
This international handbook draws together 10 years of ground-level research into the causes and consequences of Europe’s biggest urban challenge – the loss of industry, jobs and productive capacity. The handbook explores the potential of former industrial cities to offer a new and more sustainable future for a crowded continent under severe environmental constraints and extreme, economic and social pressures. It focuses on cities that not only were the most productive and wealth creating in the not too distant past, but the most reliant on major industries and therefore the hardest hit by their demise. These cities have lived through many phases of growth and decline, and they are experimenting in alternative futures. So they may show us new ways forward.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804760638
- eISBN:
- 9780804770989
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804760638.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
Alternative nuclear futures do not come along in a vacuum or by happenstance. Nor can the future be masterfully engineered by deliberate choice. The countervailing trends are reviewed here and the ...
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Alternative nuclear futures do not come along in a vacuum or by happenstance. Nor can the future be masterfully engineered by deliberate choice. The countervailing trends are reviewed here and the major events that could well arise are also described, the fulcrums on which the nuclear future may turn. States possessing the bomb could instruct contrary lessons from the first limited nuclear exchange in history. The protecting nuclear materials that can be employed in acts of nuclear terrorism are then discussed. Additionally, five alternative pathways to the nuclear future, and the keys to achieving or foreclosing these outcomes are assessed. These pathways include abolishing nuclear weapons, nuclear anarchy, stabilizing proliferation, arms control, and dominance. The alternative nuclear future of abolition is the worthiest end state for U.S. nuclear policy, but it remains a long-term vision, many steps away.Less
Alternative nuclear futures do not come along in a vacuum or by happenstance. Nor can the future be masterfully engineered by deliberate choice. The countervailing trends are reviewed here and the major events that could well arise are also described, the fulcrums on which the nuclear future may turn. States possessing the bomb could instruct contrary lessons from the first limited nuclear exchange in history. The protecting nuclear materials that can be employed in acts of nuclear terrorism are then discussed. Additionally, five alternative pathways to the nuclear future, and the keys to achieving or foreclosing these outcomes are assessed. These pathways include abolishing nuclear weapons, nuclear anarchy, stabilizing proliferation, arms control, and dominance. The alternative nuclear future of abolition is the worthiest end state for U.S. nuclear policy, but it remains a long-term vision, many steps away.
Sara L. Friedman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520286221
- eISBN:
- 9780520961562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520286221.003.0008
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
The epilogue describes the tumultuous events of 2014 that revealed deep unease in Taiwan and Hong Kong about relations with China: the Sunflower Movement, the Umbrella Movement, and Taiwan’s local ...
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The epilogue describes the tumultuous events of 2014 that revealed deep unease in Taiwan and Hong Kong about relations with China: the Sunflower Movement, the Umbrella Movement, and Taiwan’s local elections. Rejecting the binary of reunification versus independence, the chapter asks what these conflicts teach us about the potential of shared intimacies to generate new paradigms for resolving old animosities and imagining alternative futures. It argues that the challenges of “as if” sovereignty and “not quite” belonging require new models of sovereignty and national inclusion.Less
The epilogue describes the tumultuous events of 2014 that revealed deep unease in Taiwan and Hong Kong about relations with China: the Sunflower Movement, the Umbrella Movement, and Taiwan’s local elections. Rejecting the binary of reunification versus independence, the chapter asks what these conflicts teach us about the potential of shared intimacies to generate new paradigms for resolving old animosities and imagining alternative futures. It argues that the challenges of “as if” sovereignty and “not quite” belonging require new models of sovereignty and national inclusion.
Jack Linchuan Qiu
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040627
- eISBN:
- 9780252099069
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040627.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
This chapter concludes the volume with reflections on our past, present, and future. Three circular models are discussed as a way to summarize the structural similarities between iSlavery and the ...
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This chapter concludes the volume with reflections on our past, present, and future. Three circular models are discussed as a way to summarize the structural similarities between iSlavery and the seventeenth-century system of triangular trade, while proposing a tentative model of collective action toward an alternative future, a model in which gadgets serve people and promote global justice. Linking up continents, peoples, and technologies, these models are all about circuits of capital accumulation, structural domination, and endless struggle. They bring about cultural change, from far-flung communities to everyday practices and mundane social relations. Ultimately, the chapter considers our possible future, as we move on from iSlavery and the capitalist world system.Less
This chapter concludes the volume with reflections on our past, present, and future. Three circular models are discussed as a way to summarize the structural similarities between iSlavery and the seventeenth-century system of triangular trade, while proposing a tentative model of collective action toward an alternative future, a model in which gadgets serve people and promote global justice. Linking up continents, peoples, and technologies, these models are all about circuits of capital accumulation, structural domination, and endless struggle. They bring about cultural change, from far-flung communities to everyday practices and mundane social relations. Ultimately, the chapter considers our possible future, as we move on from iSlavery and the capitalist world system.
Ian Lowe
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447312673
- eISBN:
- 9781447312703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447312673.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Although it receives little explicit attention, population policy is extremely important. The size and age structure of the population critically influence policies for education, housing, transport, ...
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Although it receives little explicit attention, population policy is extremely important. The size and age structure of the population critically influence policies for education, housing, transport, health care, energy and water supply. Australia has a much higher rate of population growth than most affluent countries, promoted by decision-makers who believe it provides economic benefits. While an increasing population grows the economy overall, there is contention about the per capita benefit. One consequence of rapid growth is a serious problem of providing the expanding infrastructure needs of Australian cities, leading to social stresses and declining support for large-scale migration. The short-term economic appeal of rapid growth is producing serious social and environmental issues for the future.Less
Although it receives little explicit attention, population policy is extremely important. The size and age structure of the population critically influence policies for education, housing, transport, health care, energy and water supply. Australia has a much higher rate of population growth than most affluent countries, promoted by decision-makers who believe it provides economic benefits. While an increasing population grows the economy overall, there is contention about the per capita benefit. One consequence of rapid growth is a serious problem of providing the expanding infrastructure needs of Australian cities, leading to social stresses and declining support for large-scale migration. The short-term economic appeal of rapid growth is producing serious social and environmental issues for the future.
George Jaroszkiewicz
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198718062
- eISBN:
- 9780191787553
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718062.003.0005
- Subject:
- Physics, Particle Physics / Astrophysics / Cosmology
This chapter starts with a discussion of the merits and problems of science fiction, a literary genre that frequently posits time travel, faster than light speeds and other currently unobserved ...
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This chapter starts with a discussion of the merits and problems of science fiction, a literary genre that frequently posits time travel, faster than light speeds and other currently unobserved phenomena. The advantages and disadvantages of reading science fiction are pointed out. This is followed by commentary on the work of H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and others, and how such authors explain away the unphysical aspects of their stories. The chapter ends with a critique of several popular plot devices, such as alternate universes, alternative futures, time machines, and hyperspace. These are plot devices used in science fiction to discuss the problems and paradoxes of time travel in an attempt to avoid the constraints of special relativity.Less
This chapter starts with a discussion of the merits and problems of science fiction, a literary genre that frequently posits time travel, faster than light speeds and other currently unobserved phenomena. The advantages and disadvantages of reading science fiction are pointed out. This is followed by commentary on the work of H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and others, and how such authors explain away the unphysical aspects of their stories. The chapter ends with a critique of several popular plot devices, such as alternate universes, alternative futures, time machines, and hyperspace. These are plot devices used in science fiction to discuss the problems and paradoxes of time travel in an attempt to avoid the constraints of special relativity.
Austin Sarat
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190456368
- eISBN:
- 9780190456399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456368.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter argues that the charismatic period of law and literature scholarship and the days when some turned to literature as a template for legal thinking are long gone. It identifies three ...
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This chapter argues that the charismatic period of law and literature scholarship and the days when some turned to literature as a template for legal thinking are long gone. It identifies three possible futures for law and literature. One would see the field emphasizing its distinctiveness and resisting incorporation into broader interdisciplinary explorations of law. The second would see the field embedded in broader analysis of the relationship of law and cultural production. The third involves pushing the boundaries of law and literary study beyond the humanities and culture. This law as performance perspective brings literary and cultural analysis together with social studies of the way law performs in a variety of domains. The chapter concludes that the brightest future for the field is one in which the distinctiveness of law and literature scholarship fades so that its contribution to broader understandings of law can be enhanced.Less
This chapter argues that the charismatic period of law and literature scholarship and the days when some turned to literature as a template for legal thinking are long gone. It identifies three possible futures for law and literature. One would see the field emphasizing its distinctiveness and resisting incorporation into broader interdisciplinary explorations of law. The second would see the field embedded in broader analysis of the relationship of law and cultural production. The third involves pushing the boundaries of law and literary study beyond the humanities and culture. This law as performance perspective brings literary and cultural analysis together with social studies of the way law performs in a variety of domains. The chapter concludes that the brightest future for the field is one in which the distinctiveness of law and literature scholarship fades so that its contribution to broader understandings of law can be enhanced.
