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Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism

In recent decades, new public-private policing assemblages everywhere have constituted new forms of authority and political order in the contemporary world. Part of a broader project exploring the politics of multilateral policing in maritime space, this article examines the complex of regulatory practices governing maritime security companies in the Western Indian Ocean. While literature on private maritime security has largely focused on the regulatory mechanisms of a select few individual flag states, this article investigates how flags of convenience, international organisations and the commercial maritime community have interacted to produce a regulatory system that entrenches distinct forms of private power in multilateral policing governance on the high seas. While overwhelmingly, the regulation of private security on land has served to anchor multilateral policing in particular structures of sovereign authority and/or public good, this article argues that the assemblage of regulatory practices in the High Risk Area (HRA) is mutually constitutive of distinct forms of public-private relations and social ordering at sea.

Political ecology has often defined itself against Eurocentric conceptions of the world. Nevertheless, recent contributions have questioned the ongoing reproduction of an Anglo-American mainstream against 'other political ecologies'. Decentering Anglo-American political ecology has therefore forced a greater recognition of traditions that have developed under the same banner, albeit in different linguistic or national contexts. In addition, thinking more about the situatedness of knowledge claims has forced a deeper questioning of the Eurocentric and colonial production of political ecological research. In this report I begin by reviewing a range of political ecological traditions before going on to look at decolonial moves within the field. I conclude by considering how political ecologists might reframe their practice as one of relational comparison.

There is wide agreement among scholars that the shift from government to governance in security has seen unprecedented levels of cooperation (and competition) between private security actors (PSAs) and law enforcement agencies in the policing of public spaces, and the formation of fluid, diverse policing assemblages. With the overriding goal of investigating how the politics of security governance vary across time and space, this article seeks to explore security assemblage structures in counter-piracy operations on the high seas. Specifically, it studies the assembly of coercive force between public and private actors there, and compares this to the experience of multilateral security governance in other policing environments. On the back of this, it suggests that the formation of security assemblages in maritime space involves a configuration of public and private in which private actors have great prominence in (and authority over) the distribution of legitimate coercive force in 'public good' or 'civilised' security provision. Consequently, it argues that in this space, private interests (rather than those of the nation) may be central in the assembly of 'civilised' security interests.

This paper will suggest how a psychogeographical methodology can be developed as a new method for feminist psychologists, in the study of urban and rural environments. One of the limitations of situationist psychogeography is its grounding in the male gaze. In addition, men have had privileged access to and time to participate in such activities. Drawing on Feminist geography, Queer theory and Gay/Lesbian writing, core concepts such as embodied subjectivity and heteronormativity can be used to develop the theoretical base of a feminist psychogeographical methodology. In this paper, I will outline how feminist psychogeographical research might be conducted; the 'situationist' approach of using bodies as research 'instruments' means that innovative data may be gathered through the experience of walking and seeing the world through the situationist lens. Finally, the implications of this work for personal and political social transformation will be addressed.

Against authenticity -- Weimar Years -- In America -- Adorno's cultural criticism -- Return -- Aftermath -- Art and culture -- Adorno and popular music -- The aesthetics of music -- Modernism or avant-garde? -- History and truth-content -- The culture industry -- Aesthetic theory and ideology-critique -- Freedom and society -- Wrong life : Adorno's minima moralia -- Adorno and Kant -- Freedom and society -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The morality of thinking -- Living with guilt -- Philosophy and history -- Writing the disaster -- Crisis of reason -- Against historicism -- The task of philosophy -- Adorno and Marxism.

Introduction -- Part One: Democracy and Deconstruction -- 1. No Democracy without Deconstruction? -- 2. Deconstruction and Liberal Democracy -- 3. Deconstruction and Radical Democracy -- Part Two: Deconstruction as Political Practice -- 4. Deconstruction and Philosophical Nationalism -- 5. The Politics of Exemplarity: Derrida and Heidegger -- 6. Hospitality and the Cosmopolitical -- Part Three: Politics against Ethics -- 7. Economy of Violence: Derrida and Levinas -- 8. Against Community -- Part Four: Deconstruction and Depoliticization -- 9. The Spectrality of Politics -- 10. Depoliticization and Repoliticization -- 11. The Politics of Spectrality -- 12. Deconstruction and Depoliticization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index