Prometheus and Gaia explores two currents in contemporary politics: a Futurism which sees boundless technology as a salvific force and an Eco-Pessimism which sees human innovation as inherently destructive. While apparent opposites, these two currents share in common a rejection of Enlightenment humanism, or the idea that politics should fit the human frame.
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Meeting the food, feed, and fiber needs of a growing world population represents one of the signature challenges of this century. The UN FAO estimates that food production alone must increase by 70 percent by 2050 to meet the needs of a projected nine billion people. Demand will also increase for livestock feed, biofuel feedstocks, fiber for paper products, and construction materials. Meeting these demands will require implementation of advanced technologies, sustainable management of natural resources, and coordination of political forces. We must think beyond the boundaries of traditional agriculture, to integrate breakthroughs in plant science, engineering, environmental sciences, and other disciplines.
If we assume recession as being the starting point for policy challenges, then we can interpret these economic downturns as opportunities for change and the reshaping of society, landscapes and the latent mechanisms of growth. This book illustrates different aspects of local strategic development introducing a novel interpretation of the intimate relationship between demographic and economic aspects in complex socio-environmental systems. A specific approach investigating the mechanisms of local development, cultural and environmental values within a strategic territorial vision, is proposed. Coming from and appealing to diverse academic backgrounds, our book address paradigmatic visions about regional and urban dynamics, focusing on landscape transformations and socioeconomic disparities. Technical topics discussed in the book include: Urban management; Metropolitan governance; Landscape; Spatial planning; Applied economics; Regional demography.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- I The Nature of the Welfare State -- II Welfare State Principles and Policies -- III Social Attitudes in the Welfare State -- IV Equality and Affluence -- V Human Values in the Welfare State -- VI Growth and the Environment -- VII Economic Policy in the Welfare State -- VIII Achievement and Shortfall -- IX Conclusions: Welfare State and Welfare Society -- Index
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This is the final version. Available from Springer via the DOI in this record. ; This chapter describes two important groups relative to military service – reservists and veterans. Definitions are provided regarding who is a member of each group. A summary of past and current research findings for each group is provided. The summary is organized by investigative topics or themes, which provide the current scope of the field for reservists and for veterans. Finally, approaches to the study of reservists and veterans are described, along with challenges – both substantively and methodologically – for future research studies. These serve as fertile areas for improvements and investigations in future research studies.
In: Bajde , D & Gopaldas , A 2019 , ' What makes a good paper? Analytic and Continental ideals in Consumer Culture Theory ' , Qualitative Market Research , vol. 22 , no. 3 , pp. 270-277 . https://doi.org/10.1108/QMR-07-2017-0112
Purpose This paper aims to illuminate the characteristics of Analytic and Continental scholarship to generate a deeper appreciation for both writing styles in the consumer culture theory (CCT) community. Design/methodology/approach Two CCT researchers discuss the merits of Analytic and Continental scholarship in an accessible dialogical format. Findings Analytic ideals of scholarship, espoused by elite academic journals, include conceptual rigor, logical claims, theoretical coherence, researcher agnosticism and broad generalizability. Continental ideals of scholarship, more likely to be espoused by niche and/or critical journals, include creative writing, holistic interpretation, intellectual imagination, political provocation and deep contextualization. Originality/value This dialogue may build more understanding across variously oriented scholars, literatures, and journals in the CCT community.
In: In Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli, Juridical Perspectives between Islam and the West – A Tale of Two Worlds, Global Issue Series, Palgrave MacMillan (United Kingdom), Forthcoming 2023
This article focuses on the recent work of Slavoj Žižek and his extensive critique of poststructuralism and deconstruction from a Lacanian perspective. In this context, it examines Žižek's provocative approach to questions of social reality, ideology and nationalism, and explores the potential of such an approach for an analysis of crucial themes in British political culture. In addition, the article investigates the nature of the encounter between psychoanalysis and deconstruction — and especially where explicit referral is made to the terrain of politics — with a view to breaking the apparent deadlock that has emerged. Through the development of a post-Marxist critique, it is argued that an alternative perspective can be formulated which combines the insights of both psychoanalysis and deconstruction and, at the same time, is able to transcend the limitations of each.
In Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary, Jonathan Kahana paraphrases Hannah Arendt as follows: 'Public things do not just appear, in some quasi-natural event, but are the result and legacy of human fabrication, of work'. Through a detailed interpretation of Frederick Wiseman's Central Park (1990), this essay asks what it means for a film to register and document this fabrication, and how the fact of provision can be made present and meaningful in such a film. It brings together three distinct but related critical ideas – the commons, infrastructure and the everyday – to examine the formal and aesthetics means by which Central Park depicts urban phenomena not as an immanent condition, but rather as something which has deliberately and actively been made available to a public.
The ballot is typically thought to be the least interesting and most unproblematic political institution. Nevertheless, the pervasive assumption, that secret voting keeps elections free of corruption and intimidation, is erroneous. Through a discussion of the debates and issues surrounding the passage of the Ballot Act of 1872, and of the ballot in general, a new interpretation is developed of the background and consequences of secret voting. It is shown that particular emotions are crucial in support for the ballot, and, more important, that a major impact of the ballot is the production of a characteristic set of emotional patterns that have consequences not just for the act of voting itself, but for the wider structure of the political system and its operations.
Direct communication between parties is impossible in some conflict situations, and interactants must employ other means of conveying messages to deescalate the conflict or to sucker their opponents into costly maneuvers. Strategic interaction occurs when action displays by one party are to be taken as meaningful communications by the other. Interpretation of these displays depends on cultural or experiential background expectancies, which must be taken into account in the production of strategic displays as well. An Arab-Israeli paradigm illustrates the ways in which display sequences and interpretive procedures are manipulated by interactants to affect the dominant strategy of the fully interdependent games and ultimately affect the outcome of the conflict for the players.