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Punk came into being in London and New York in the 1970s. As with any youth culture, it involves a specific form of self-expression and protest. How differently these forms must turn out when they transplanted from global centres to a place on the edge of civilization, to Vorkuta, in Russia's far north, a city that emerged from a Stalinist labour camp and has been marked by a dramatic decline since the end of the Soviet Union. Adapted from the source document.

With the advent in the UK of a new Labour government in 1997 and the publication of the Macpherson report in 1999, public debate over race and racism was reactivated after a long period when such concerns had remained dormant. In this article, I shall draw upon an ethnographic study of one university in the UK over a ten year period (Pilkington, 2011a). Here I shall focus on the early part of that period, predominantly 1999-2003 when arguably issues relating to race and racism were at their height. I examine how Midshire University responded in turn to the Commission for Racial Equality's (CRE's) leadership challenge; the government's strategies for higher education relating to widening participation and equal opportunities; and the race relations legislation. The story is not a happy one, with the institution constantly subsuming race under a more general agenda and in the process failing to address the specificities of race. Midshire University is unlikely to be the only university to do this. For universities in the UK are typically characterised by the 'sheer weight of whiteness' which blinds senior managers and academics to racial inequalities in their midst.

In this paper, I argue that it is possible to enrich world-systems analysis with a heterodox Keynesian monetary theory of production known as the Theory of Money Emissions, based on the views put forward by the French economist Bernard Schmitt. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, I aim to rehabilitate and adapt the old Keynesian proposal of an international clearing union to the modern world-system by providing a rationale behind a common world currency and a renewed perspective on money and transnational production.