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This chapter examines the response of the United Kingdom (UK) to the Covid-19 pandemic during the first wave of infections from January to October 2020. In Western Europe, the UK was one of the worst affected countries during the first wave of the pandemic, registering more than 46,000 deaths by the end of October 2020. Taking into account the UK's devolved constitutional framework, this chapter highlights the territorial dynamics in play during the first wave of the pandemic. It traces the evolution of the UK response, from a coordinated effort between all four governments in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland to curtail the spread of the virus at the beginning of the pandemic, to a disjointed approach in relation to lifting restrictions in early summer 2020. The findings demonstrate how the pandemic raised the profile of devolution more than any other event since the establishment of the devolved legislatures in the late 1990s. They point also to a limp federal spirit, particularly in the context of collaboration at both national and local levels, and consider the ramifications of the pandemic and perception of government responses for the future terrain of territorial politics in the UK.

In this contribution to Text Matters, I would like to introduce gender into my feminist response to Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology of the capable subject. The aim is to make, phenomenologically speaking, "visible" the gendering of this subject in a hermeneutic problematic: that of a subject's loss of confidence in her own ability to understand herself. Ricoeurian hermeneutics enables us to elucidate the generally hidden dimensions in a phenomenology of lost self-confidence; Ricoeur describes capability as "originally given" to each lived body; but then, something has happened, gone wrong or been concealed in one's loss of confidence. Ricoeur himself does not ask how the gender or sex of one's own body affects this loss. So I draw on contemporary feminist debates about the phenomenology of the body, as well as Julia Kristeva's hermeneutics of the Antigone figure, in order to demonstrate how women might reconfigure the epistemic limits of human capability, revealing themselves as "a horizon" of the political order, for better or worse.

This paper looks at refugee children in Germany, drawing on results of an interview-based research project. Areas covered include how the children learn German & the role of bilingual skills; friendships & contacts at school; the degree of integration in the local neighborhood; how traumatic experiences are dealt with; the effects of lack of secure residential status; the specific situation of unaccompanied minors. One of the salient features of refugee children's lives is the state of constant uncertainty as regards the future & life planning. It increases the psychological pressure inherent in life stories already characterized by flight, social dislocation, & social & cultural uprootedness. 9 References. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractThis paper describes an assessment, which was carried out during 1994, of demands and resources for public water supplies in Scotland from 1991 to 2016. The assessment is the third in a series published by The Scottish Office – the two previous studies being carried out in 1973 and 1984. In the 1994 study, demands were assessed on a component basis from 1991 to 2016 in five‐year steps for each of the nine mainland and three islands councils. These were aggregated to give the all‐Scotland picture, and a sensitivity analysis was carried out to determine what effect any changes in underlying assumptions might have on the forecast demands; and a demand envelope was constructed.

The test of the Thatcher era stimulated theoretical debate and led to the development of post-Marxism centred around the reconverted Marxism Today. There was also an unmistakable radicalisation of Centre opinion. Examines changes in left sociology brought about by Giddens and Michael Mann, in cultural analysis by Gellner and in anthropology by Goody. (SJK)

Examines the drift to aesthetics and changes that have taken place in philosophy over the last 20 years. Reflects on the prolific output of the Analytical Marxist school, the break-up of the Keynesian economic consensus, and the impact of feminism. Argues that the traditional framework of the Ukanian state is now defunct. (SJK)

BASED UPON PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, A THEORY OF FORMATIVE CONTEXT IN HISTORY, AND A GENEALOGY OF THE MODERN WORLD, ROBERTO UNGER'S POLITICAL THEORY IS ESSENTIALLY CONCEIVED AS A RADICAL POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE TO BOTH MARXISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. IN THIS ESSAY, THE AUTHOR WEIGHS THE THEORETICAL CLAIMS OF UNGER'S WORK AND CRITICALLY EXAMINES THE MAIN LINES OF ITS PROGRAMMATIC AGENDA.

Reviews the claims of Unger's Politics: a work in constructive theory, 3 volumes, incomplete, a radical political alternative to both Marxism and social democracy. (PFB)

THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE WORK OF POLITICAL THEORIST NORBERTO BOBBIO, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBERALISM AND SOCIALISM, AND THE CRITERIA OF BOBBIO'S DEMOCRACY. HE ALSO COMPARES BOBBIO'S IDEAS WITH THOSE OF MILL, RUSSELL, HOBSON, AND DEWEY.

Argues that Bobbio's work represents an original fusion, with borrowings from the sociology of power as well as from the liberal and socialist mainstreams. Born out of the hopes inspired by the anti-fascist resistance, it has involved major debates with the theorists of Italian Communism, helping to push the PCI towards Euro-Communism. A close reading of the different strands in Bobbio's work leads to the suggestion that while his attempted synthesis was bold and creditable, it has not ultimately achieved coherence. (Abstract amended)