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Intergovernmental Relations in the UK
Intergovernmental Relations in the UK provides a timely and up-to-date analysis of a turbulent decade in British politics and presents a fascinating case study of intergovernmental relations and territorial power in a devolved unitary state. As over time a widening range of powers has been transferred from the Westminster Parliament to the devolved legislatures in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, intergovernmental relations have become increasingly important to deal with the corresponding overlaps of legislative and fiscal authority. However, leaving the European Union has exposed the weakness of the intergovernmental architecture and challenged the functionality of the UK’s multileve...
Local Government in the European Union
This book addresses the ‘bigger picture’ of local-European relations and adds a new dimension to existing studies on multilevel governance and the Europeanisation of local government. Drawing from a combination of European integration theories and operational approaches, it introduces the idea of an integration cycle in which local government responds to the top-down impact of the EU internally, horizontally and vertically. This volume presents a wide range of empirical examples to demonstrate how local authorities across Europe have changed their practices, orientation and preferences, and adapted their institutions and organisation. Not only do cities, towns and counties cooperate with each other across borders and through transnational networks and partnerships, but by mobilising formally and informally, local actors participate in and influence European governance and contribute to the future trajectories of European integration, thereby completing the integration cycle.
Contested Britain
A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, motivations and interconnectedness of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics in the Britain. Bringing together case studies and perspectives from an array of international researchers across the social sciences, it dissects the ways that Britain has become increasingly contested with profound difference of geography, generation, gender, ‘race’ and class, and considers the emergence of a range of practices, institutions and politics that challenge the hegemony of austerity.
Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash'
Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20, 1968. Never has a politician received so much written support in so short a time. This book takes a thematic approach to investigate the way British whites used Powell’s speech to vent their frustrations, anger, hostility against (non-white) immigrants and the evolution of British society in the late 1960s. Each chapter unpacks one facet of a 10,000-letter sample, out of the approximately 100,000 letters Powell received: Race, State, War, Empire, America, Class, Gender, Elites, Parties, ...
Affective Polarisation
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Europeanization and Territorial Politics in Small European Unitary States
The book addresses the impact of the European Union (EU) on subnational mobilization in small unitary states. Located at the intersection of contributions from the literatures on multilevel governance and Europeanization, this book offers a new theoretical framework to account for state rescaling processes in small unitary states. By means of a comparative analysis of eight small unitary states in Europe, this book shows that the impact of the EU on subnational mobilization is filtered through domestic mediating factors which can lead to three possible outcomes: decentralization, recentralization or no change. The book offers a balanced combination of analytical clarity and the richness of e...
Imperial Middlebrow
The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, takes middlebrow studies further in two ways. First, it focuses on the role middlebrow writing played in the popularisation and dissemination of imperial ideology. It combines the interest in the wider function of literature for a colonial society with close scrutiny of the ideological and socio-economic contexts of writers and readers. The essays cover the Girl’s Own Paper, fiction about colonial India including its appearance in Scottish writing, the West Indies, the South Pacific, as well as illustrations of Haggard’s South African imperial romances. Second, the volume proposes using the concept of the middlebrow as an analytical tool to read recent Black and Asian British as well as Nigerian fiction.
Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship criticizes the Westphalia system of international relations and, as an alternative, proposes cosmopolitan citizenship. The book offers a critique of the theory of international relations based on the Westphalian system and the principle of national sovereignty. At the end of the Second World War, the two superpowers agreed on a new international order that, to this day, has prevented a new world war. This era is over. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic and political affirmation of new international powers – such as China, India and Brazil – have generated a multipolar world, in which growing tensions between great and small powers ...
Umkämpfte Kunst
Marie Rosenkranz‘ Monografie ist in das expandierende Feld sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Analysen der Kunst einzuordnen, die über eine immanent kunstwissenschaftliche Untersuchung von künstlerischen Werken hinausgehen. Das Kunstfeld ist in der Spätmoderne durch Phänomene geprägt, welche die Grenzen zwischen der Kunst und anderen gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen porös werden lassen. Häufig ist argumentiert worden, dass Versatzstücken aus dem Kunstfeld – etwa der kreativen Arbeit – eine Modellfunktion für die Gesellschaft zukomme. Marie Rosenkranz setzt hier auf originelle Weise anders an: Sie interessiert sich in ihrer kultursoziologisch ausgerichteten Monografie für ...
英国文明史．总论
本书是《英国文明史》（多卷本）的首卷。《英国文明史》将英国文明的发展划分为融合、成长、释放、回归四大阶段，从崭新角度全景呈现英国文明的生命周期，在总体结构与内在品质上呈现出中国学人的话语体系、基本特征与中国风格。本书从总体上坚守以下品质：第一，英国文明史应该以英国文明内在的思想文化、以英国的民族精神为主线来书写，而不总是停留在英国的诸多社会现象的描写；第二，英国文明史必须对诸多英国文献、英国问题和英国现象拥有批判意识；第三，英国文明史是内涵多元、时域交叉、形态重叠式演进的历史；第四，英国文明史突出书写长时段与大趋势，也注重历史细节问题研究。
