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Ökologismus
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 28

Ökologismus

Jährlich treffen sich die UN-Staats- und Regierungschefs zur Weltklimakonferenz und demonstrieren ebenso deutlich wie gebetsmühlenartig, dass einem globalen Phänomen nur global begegnet werden kann. Und doch brauchte es weltweite Schüler*innenproteste, um Ökologie wieder als Politikum ins Feld zu führen. Und ebenso unmittelbar riefen sie Klimaleugner und all jene auf den Plan, die die Dringlichkeit des Klimawandels im politischen Tagesgeschäft relativieren. Doch auch das klimabewusste Spektrum tritt ideologisch keineswegs geschlossen auf. Umweltschutz und Klimagerechtigkeit, grünes Wachstum und sozialökologische Transformation – die Mannigfaltigkeit der Themen und Schlagworte verbietet es, hinter ihnen eine geschlossene ideengeschichtliche Strömung zu vermuten. Indes, gerade darum lohnt es sich, nach den Ursprüngen und Konfliktlinien, Motiven und Widersprüchen, Kontinuitäten und Brüchen der Ideologie des Ökologismus zu fragen.

Against Borders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Against Borders

This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders. These dogmas persist in face of the human suffering caused by border controls and in spite of a global economy where the mobility of goods and capital is combined with severe restrictions on the movement of most of the world’s poor. Alex Sager argues that immigration restrictions violate human rights and sustain unjust global inequalities, and that we should reject these dogmas that deprive hundreds of millions of people of opportunities solely because of their place of birth. Opening borders would promote human freedom, foster economic prosperity, and mitigate global inequalities. Sager contends that studies of migration from economics, history, political science, and other disciplines reveal that open borders are a feasible goal for political action, and that citizens around the world have a moral obligation to work toward open borders.

The Great Recoil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

The Great Recoil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-31
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

What comes after neoliberalism? In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societies are forced to turn inward in search of protection. Neoliberalism, the ideology that presided over decades of market globalisation, is on trial, while state intervention is making a spectacular comeback amid lockdowns, mass vaccination programmes, deficit spending and climate planning. This is the Great Recoil, the era when the neo-statist endopolitics of national sovereignty, economic protection and democratic control overrides the neoliberal exopolitics of free markets, labour flexibility and business opportunity. Looking back to the role of the state in Pla...

Does Immigration Increase Crime?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Does Immigration Increase Crime?

The supposed link between immigration and crime is a highly contentious issue. This innovative book examines the evidence.

The Rise of Duterte
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

The Rise of Duterte

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region. As China's power in the Pacific grows rapidly, nations that have traditionally been US allies, such as the Phillipines, are experiencing political convulsions; Duterte's open willingness to realign towards China (at the expense of America) in exchange for infrastructure investment is one of the clearest indicators of what China's rise might look like for nations around the world. Timely, precise, accessible and fast-paced, this book will be of value to scholars, journalists, policy-makers, and China watchers.

Right-Wing Populism and Gender
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Right-Wing Populism and Gender

While research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming, a systematic study of the intersection of right-wing populism and gender is still missing, even though gender issues are ubiquitous in discourses of the radical right ranging from »ethnosexism« against immigrants, to »anti-genderism.« This volume shows that the intersectionality of gender, race and class is constitutional for radical right discourse. From different European perspectives, the contributions investigate the ways in which gender is used as a meta-language, strategic tool and »affective bridge« for ordering and hierarchizing political objectives in the discourse of the diverse actors of the »right-wing complex.«

Feminist Dialogues on International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Feminist Dialogues on International Law

  • Categories: Law

In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in armed conflict from the ICTR/Y and the ICC, the creation of UN Women, and Security Council sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict. Contributing to the development of feminist and gender scholarship on international law, Gina Heathcote provides a feminist analysis of the central pillars of international law, noting the advances and limitations of feminist approaches. Through incorporating into mainstream international le...

The Global Financial Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

The Global Financial Crisis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Although banking and sovereign debt crises are not unusual, the crisis that has unfolded across the world since 2007 has been unique in both its scale and scope. It has also been unusual in being both triggered by, and mainly affecting, developed economies. Starting with the US subprime mortgage crisis, and the recession in 2007-2009, the problem soon erupted into financial crisis in Europe. A few of these countries came to the brink of bankruptcy, and were rescued by the EU and the IMF on the condition they adopt austerity measures. The detrimental social effects of the crisis in both the US and Europe are still emerging. Although there have been several studies published on the US crisis i...

Internal Migration in Contemporary India
  • Language: en

Internal Migration in Contemporary India

A comprehensive analysis of the diverse experiences of migration in contemporary India. This volume addresses the impact of migration on society, highlighting the interlinkages between individual and societal aspirations. It interrogates the role of the state and non-state agencies involved in various aspects of the life and livelihoods of migrant workers and provides a critical assessment of the policy frameworks and instruments affecting migration. Focusing on the diverse aspects and types of internal migration, the book studies the exploitation and marginalization of migrants on the basis of class, caste, religion, gender, ethnicity and regional location in post-reform India.

The Politicisation of Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

The Politicisation of Migration

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-03-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Why are migration policies sometimes heavily contested and high on the political agenda? And why do they, at other moments and in other countries, hardly lead to much public debate? The entrance and settlement of migrants in Western Europe has prompted various political reactions. In some countries anti-immigration parties have gained substantial public support while in others migration policies have been hardly controversial. The Politicisation of Migration examines the differences between seven Western European countries by developing a conceptual framework to empirically explain patterns of politicisation and de-politicisation. The analyses show that over the past decade immigration has b...