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Chapter 1: Introduction – redeploying urban infrastructure -- Chapter 2: Water infrastructures, suburban living spaces and remaking socio-technical configurations in outer Stockholm -- Chapter 3: Engaging urban materialities of low carbon transformation in the green capital of Europe -- Chapter 4: Active infrastructures and the spirit of energy transition in Paris -- Chapter 5: Infrastructure integration and eco-city futures: permeability and politics of the closed loop of Hammarby Sjöstad -- Chapter 6: Smart grids and enhancing urban systems: reflections on ordering and disordering the city -- Chapter 7: Conclusion – infrastructure futures

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GLOBALIZATION -- 1 World Development: Globalization or Imperialism? -- 2 Aid and Adjustment: Policy Reform and Regression -- 3 Imperial Counter-Offensive: Challenges and Opportunities -- PART II: THE MACRODYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION -- 4 Denationalization of Mexico: The World Bank in Action -- 5 Restructuring Latin American Labour and the World Bank -- 6 Cuba and Venezuela in an Era of Globalization -- 7 Asia's Post-Crisis Regionalism: The State In, the US Out -- PART III: THE DYNAMICS OF ANTIGLOBALIZATION -- 8 Reflections on Power and Globalization -- 9 The Antiglobalization Movement: Juggernaut or Jalopy? -- 10 The Antinomies of Antiglobalization -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractThe left needs a fundamental rethinking of its politics for a new era. The first task is to understand the contemporary conjuncture: the dynamic combination of events and circumstances which structure a political settlement. Two such conjunctures have occurred in recent history. The first produced the postwar welfare settlement of 1945, which broke down in the economic crisis of the 1970s. The second took shape in the 1980s around the revival of liberal market economics and what became known as Thatcherism. It failed following the 2008 financial crash, and has begun to break apart with the vote to leave the EU. New political and cultural faultlines are confounding the orthodoxies of the governing class and cutting across the partisan loyalties of the main political parties. They herald the renewal of politics. But Labour is on the edge of an abyss. This article considers what the left can learn from Labour's previous periods of defeat and revisionism, and suggests where—if it survives—it should go next.

Through analysis of the orientations, conflicts and challenges of recent energy–climate policy in Stockholm, this paper interrogates how energy and climate become (translated as) a set of issues which come to matter in the local urban arena for different social and political interests. Drawing in particular on recent theoretical work on urban materiality, it is argued that ongoing, 'everyday' local struggles over the processes and practices of transformation of the urban fabric constitute repoliticised settings through and in which the orientations of urban energy transition are materially understood, experienced and performed in diverging ways. In 'mapping' the undulating politics of energy–climate matters, the paper outlines an alternative way of following and/or measuring energy and carbon flows through the urban environment.

Feminism was one of the most successful movements of the twentieth century, and the changes that have been achieved in women's lives over the last forty years have been massive. Feminism's cultural and social effects are seen everywhere, every day. But, as Tess Lanning points out in this issue, it is the liberal feminist strand that has been dominant in recent years - unsurprisingly, given the dominance of liberal discourses in all areas of life. In many ways what has happened to feminism has mirrored what has happened to social movements and socialism across the board during the neoliberal era: in the mainstream media and in political discourse more widely, the emphasis has been on individual empowerment at the expense of any recognition of structures of dominance, and on the promotion of celebrity spokeswomen; meanwhile activists have been turned into bureaucrats in the perpetual search for government grants, and for many choice has replaced equality. But Tess also argues that the last four decades of feminist thought and campaigning offer us a much richer range of resources if we take the time to revisit them - not just in the interests of helping to rebuild a more collective feminism but also of assisting in a wider democratic renewal. Adapted from the source document.

Labour is riding high in the polls, but let us be wary of false dawns and recognise the historical predicament Labour is in. What has Labour lost? It has lost five million voters and an election that fell just short of a catastrophe. It has lost touch with a generation of younger voters, many of whom will never vote Labour. Scores of thousands of party members, embittered, disillusioned and ignored, have left. Many people no longer trust that the party is on their side. What is Labour's historical purpose? The answer is unclear. And it has also lost its traditional values and an identity. In these predicaments Labour shares a political crisis of social democracy with its sister parties across Europe. But in England something more fundamental has been lost, and that is a Labour language and culture which belonged to the society it grew out of, and which enabled its immersion in the life of the people. Labour is at risk of losing large swathes of England, and it has lost the ability to renew its political hegemony within the class which gave it life. That hegemony was about community, work, country and a sense of honour. It was also about men. In the last three decades the meaning of all of these has been thrown into question and irrevocably changed. Labour's patrimony, the party loyalty and culture of work that fathers handed down to sons (and daughters too, but Labour has been a deeply patriarchal movement) is dying out. Adapted from the source document.