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Immigrants in Two Democracies
International migration is often considered a relatively new development in world history. Yet, while there has been a surge in migration since World War II, the worldwide movement of peoples is a longstanding phenomenon. So, too, are the fundamental issues raised by immigration. How do immigrants fit into and affect the polity and society of the country they enter? What changes can or must the receiving state make to accomodate them? What changes in culture and ethnic indentity do immigrants undergo in their new environment? How do they relate to the mix of peoples already present in their new homeland What determines the policies that govern their reception and treatment? In this volume, e...
Origins of Futuristic Fiction
For nearly two thousand years, the future was a realm reserved for prophets, poets, astrologers, and practitioners of deliberative rhetoric. Then in 1659 the French writer Jacques Guttin published his romance Epigone, which carried the subtitle "the history of the future century." Unlike the stories of space travel that were popular at the time, or the tales of travel to distant earthly lands which had long been a familiar literary genre, Guttin's romance described human societies displaced by time as well as by space and heroes not of his own day but of a future age. Paul Alkon's Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten wri...
The Study of the Future
This unique reference work - the companion volume to The Study of the Future- is designed to make the tools of future studies accessible to the general public as well as to professional futurists. Here for the first time in a single, convenient format are the organizations, individuals, books and periodicals, current research projects, educational programs, films, audio-tapes, and other resources that can help anyone concerned with exploring alternatives for the future.
Empire of Language
The relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for decades now, yet there is still much to be learned about the sheer force of language in the world in which we live. In Empire of Language, Laurent Dubreuil explores the power-language phenomenon in the context of European and, particularly, French colonialism and its aftermath. Through readings of the colonial experience, he isolates a phraseology based on possession, in terms of both appropriation and haunting, that has persisted throughout the centuries. Not only is this phraseology a legacy of the past, it is still active today, especially in literary renderings of the colonial experience—but als...
Utopia and Education. Studies in Philosophy, Theory of Education and Pedagogy of Asylum
Utopia and Education is an original contribution of the philosophy and theory of education, which also enters the fields of disciplines other than pedagogy and uses their approaches and achievements. The work is part of utopian studies and complements its discourse with a less marked path of philosophy and theory of education. Moreover, in the context of pedagogy and education, it takes up a number of issues whose significance goes beyond the conventional framework of a single discipline: utopia, ideology, social criticism, fundamentalism, democracy, populism, translation, transdisciplinarity and knowledge transfer, socialisation, school as one of the social institutions, etc. The work not o...
Quarante ans de politiques du travail et de l'emploi en France (1946-1986) : éléments pour un bilan critique
Depuis plus de vingt ans — c'est-à-dire dès avant « la crise » — s'élabore, en France, une vision volontariste des problèmes de l'emploi. Elle s'articule en politiques publiques, dont les points d'application changent à mesure qu'évoluent la structure et la conjoncture du marché du travail. Au-delà de leurs objectifs, des acteurs qui les ont animées depuis quarante ans, et de leurs champs d'intervention, André-Clément Decouflé analyse ces politiques à travers leurs formations historiques ; c'est à la lecture d'un bilan critique, que nous sommes conviés. Ce bilan de quarante ans de politiques publiques, est construit comme un itinéraire de réflexion qui, d'étape en étape, conduit de la disparition de l'illusion du plein-emploi, à l'émergence d'une crise — celle de l'emploi — qui en en révèle d'autres et, notamment, celle du travail, en tant que valeur fondatrice de l'ordre économique et social.
Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology
Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology explores the transatlantic journeys which have inspired American and European sociologists and contributed to the development of sociology in Europe and in North America. Furthering our understanding of the very complex processes which affect the diffusion of ideas, it sheds light on the diverse influences which come into play, be they on an individual, institutional or political level. With an international team of experts investigating the reciprocal influence of sociological thought on either side of the Atlantic, this volume will appeal to any scholar interested in the history of sociology, the mutual influence of systems of thought, and the migration of ideas.
