City of an Old Europe : Nationalism and Binationalism in Strasbourg/Strassburg -- Prologue: Strasbourg, betwixt and between -- Alsace-Lorraine : the binational conundrum -- War & Remembrance -- Postwar : the "Thirty Glorious Years" -- The cosmopolitan Eurocrats and their hosts -- City of a Provisional Europe : Transnational Strasbourg? -- The EU's clever children : Graduates of the Erasmus program -- The invisible immigrants -- "Because you were there" : Shards of the Colonial Past -- "We are here"-- from Turkey, and from the world entire -- Who is a Strasburger? -- Envoi: The liveable city, in the youngest voice of all -- Appendix: The Questionnaire
This paper takes as its starting point the apparent chaotic nature of a great deal of social life in the final years of the twentieth century. The breakdown of many nation states in Eastern Europe, uncontrolled urban growth and the expanding number of homeless refugees all suggest reasons why "chaos theory" has been attractive to social scientists. Providing its metaphoric nature is realized it may be helpful in providing an organizing principle for research. The concept of social polarization on the other hand, while addressing a number of the same issues, has the advantage perhaps of being more empirically grounded.
Die Verfasser gehen der Frage nach, wie ein Land wie Australien, das zwischen den im Entstehen begriffenen Schwellenländern Asiens und den alten westlichen Kernländern liegt, mit der globalen Wirtschaftskrise umgeht. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen Trendanalysen der Beschäftigungs- und Einkommensdynamik der Bevölkerung des Landes. Es wird argumentiert, dass die relative Isolation Australiens von dem Weltmarktgeschehen, insbesondere seine Autarkie, ausschlaggebend für das geringere Ausmaß der Wirkungen der globalen Finanzkrise sind. Im Hinblick auf seine Position im Weltsystem lässt sich Australien mit Ländern wie Kanada und Norwegen vergleichen. (ICB)
"Following the increasing impact of globalizing economic forces worldwide, Australia, like many other liberal democracies, moved to adopt neoliberal economic policies with an emphasis on increasing deregulation of economic markets. The economic changes instituted since the 1980s have fundamentally restructured the economy and created a more flexible labor market. Jobs growth has been concentrated in industries that rely heavily on casual and part-time workers. Consequently, the proportion of all jobs that are permanent and Full-time has declined. In this chapter, the authors are interested in how these changes have affected the level of income and wealth inequality within Australian society. Although there is a general agreement amongst researchers that there has not been a significant increase in inequality in regard to either income or wealth between the 1980s and the 2000s, some researchers argue that earnings inequality has increased. There is also evidente of a mismatch between objective measures of inequality and the perceptions of the Australian people, with a significant majority of respondents in a national survey conducted in 2005 believing that Australia had become a more divided and less fair society since the 1980s. The present chapter examines these disparities and attempts to account for them." (author's abstract)
