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Published: 28 January 2011
..., and policies, which have influenced the coordinative and communicative actions of national and EU policymakers. It aims to highlight the prospects of future improvements in EU policymaking. discourses European Union Fortress Europe governance human rights institutions politics of migration citizenship...
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Subverting/Reinforcing Neoliberal Capitalism: The Complex Ambivalence of Anti-Austerity Activism
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Emma Craddock
Published: 11 March 2020
... they interact with the wider political context. It reminds us that resistance does not exist within a vacuum and that it is important to consider the multiple facets of political participation, and the implicit power relations that exist, in order to both better understand and change future political...
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Epilogue
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Sam Illingworth and Kirsten Jack
Published: 29 May 2024
.... • Strategies for sustaining momentum and future directions for poetry in education. • Final reflections on the transformative power of poetry in academia. Poetic journey Educational impact Sustaining innovation Future perspectives in higher education academic disciplines use of poetry in emotion...
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Governing the Future: Capitalism’s Early Modern Temporalities and the Origins of Growth
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Philipp Robinson Rössner
Published: 27 March 2023
...This chapter looks at a neglected conceptual history of capitalism’s temporalities. Knowing about the future has been one of the key ingredients of economic modernity. In modern capitalism the future is unknown but principally open, plannable and manageable. At least, that is the illusion...
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Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City
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Robert G. Hollands
Published: 26 July 2023
... sustainability. A final section concludes by focusing more broadly on the issues of decommodification, the commons, urban justice and sustainability. In doing so there is not only an emphasis on what needs to change but how we might best think of moving towards a more truly creative, just and sustainable future...
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Published: 28 July 2023
...This chapter examines policy options for employers which may make future workplaces fairer and more equitable. In particular, it considers how the use of CV de-identification or blind recruitment, bias training (with certain qualifications), targeted job advertisements and other strategies may help...
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Global Imaginaries of Knowledge Governance
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Tero Erkkilä and others
Published: 31 May 2023
... modernization movement. ‘Talents’ are important in this storyline and the chapter argues that transnational knowledge governance operates on the perceptions of futures. actors automation competition competitiveness digitalization digitization fourth industrial revolution global talent competition...
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Futurity: Changing Futures in a Changing World
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Carmen Leccardi and others
Published: 20 October 2023
... the relationship between past, present and future is thematized. This chapter finds its premises in these very redefinitions to then focus, in the first part, on the key element of modern temporal horizons: the ideology of progress. This ideology transforms the future into a time open to continuous...
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Exploring mothering in future biographical research: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and new research agendas
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Lisa Moran and others
Published: 14 September 2023
... contributes to existing literature, and, crucially, how it advances conceptual and empirical insights into mothers’ everyday lives, imagined futures and interconnecting past, present and future selves from the bottom-up perspective. The chapter brings the reader ‘full circle’ from the key question posed...
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Published: 14 September 2023
... to future generations and intergenerational justice. abuse of power adultism adult supremacy children’s rights Flasher J participation rights power capitalist economy CRC UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Germany household chores Nicaragua UNICEF working children ‘best interests...
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Ageing and the future of belief
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Peter G. Coleman
Published: 05 July 2011
...This chapter brings together the main points of this book in observations on the changing context of belief, the importance of finding meaning in life, and possible future trends in spiritual exploration. It argues that belief will become an increasingly important feature of identity...
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Socialising heritage/socialising legacy
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Martin Bashforth and others
Published: 05 April 2017
...’ and ‘the future’ – need themselves to be socialised and, through this, made more amenable to participation. The same methodologies were diagnosed for increasing participation in heritage for our own, equally relational, approach to legacy: to act, connect, reflect and situate. heritage decision making heritage...
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Future directions for a mature UK childcare market
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Philip Blackburn
Published: 20 June 2012
... and socioeconomic demand climate post-maturity. Such concerns are unlikely to centre on equity issues, the topic of this volume, but the sustenance of the private childcare market in the future will crucially highlight the incidence of equity for consumers. This chapter presents a macroeconomic perspective...
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Party Funding Futures
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Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie
Published: 07 May 2014
...’ Foundation Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition Transparency of Lobbying Non Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill 2013 Tyrie A McGuiness F Legislative framework Party funding Reform Future prospects The research reported in the preceding chapters has shown that money matters...
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Policy steps towards a better social future
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Michael Orton
Published: 31 May 2017
...This chapter presents a possible vision of a more progressive future, by focusing on a widely acknowledged contemporary problem — socioeconomic insecurity — and concrete, practical policy steps to seek its redress. Put more positively, it is about building a social and economic framework grounded...
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Conclusion – beyond austerity: critical issues for future policy
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Gemma M. Carney and others
Published: 25 March 2015
... of global population ageing. Using the single country lens, at a challenging time in Irish history, has allowed this book to raise new questions for future policy planning in ageing societies. By taking this in-depth approach, the extent of the challenge presented by demographic change in economic recession...
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The politics of early intervention and evidence
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Val Gillies and others
Published: 23 August 2017
... at contemporary understanding that poor parenting results in substandard future citizens who are not fit for the economy of today's world. brain development brain images neglect Perry Bruce Leadsom Andrea Allen Graham early intervention parenting Field report foundation years Preventing poor children...
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Men, prison and aspirational masculinities
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Jennifer Sloan
Published: 21 September 2016
...This chapter reflects on the findings from the author’s ethnographic study in a prison for adult males. The author’s focus is on the men’s changing visions and expectations of their futures as men, which she frames as ‘aspirational masculinities’. The experience of time in prison may encourage...
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Working together? Sharing personal information in health and social care services
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Val Baker
Published: 02 July 2008
...This chapter offers a window onto the fast-changing world of interagency information sharing in the ‘Joint Future’ of health and social services. Government has taken up the challenge to raise service standards right across the spectrum of service type and client need, and in this the effective...
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Afterword: the urban jungle or urban jigsaw?
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Anne Power and John Houghton
Published: 14 March 2007
...This section suggests that the urban future depends on thinking of cities as the human equivalent of trees, as Gaudi had envisioned in his great basilica – dense, diverse, light and dark, self-regenerating, strong, tall and small, life-supporting, and long-lasting. It explains that trees...