Networking Europe
Essays on Regionalism and Social Democracy
Published on 1. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-85323-941-3 (ISBN)
Description
Based on papers given at annual symposia held at Freudenstadt throughout the 1990s, this book contributes to a view of the future of the European Union which stresses the need for more democracy and for a conception of Europe that emphasises its diversity. A wide range of issues are explored: inter-regional partnerships; working-class experience in the regions; questions of heritage and identity; European policies such as the Social Chapter and the Single Market; women's work and life; and issues stemming from racism such as the integration of refugees.
Reviews / Votes
The book is a rich mine of information and ideas... essays which collectively have a good balance of theory and empiricism, and individually sustain interest more than enough to make the reader wish to have been there to hear them delivered in their original form. * Regional and Federal Studies *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85323-941-3 (9780853239413)
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Content
Preface
Introduction
Networking Europe: Understanding the Union from Below
Five Poems
Part I
The Future of Europe: Federalism-Regionalism-Centralism
A Europe of the Markets or A Europe of the Peoples?
The Wales-Baden-Wuerttemberg Accord
The Forward March of Europe Halted?
Unitary Britain and Regional Europe
Interstitial Sovereignty, or Fleas and Elephants: Micro-sovereignty in the New World Order
Part II
Women in Wales Without Miners
Women and Work in Catalonia: Is Catalonia still a Working Society?
Towns Fit for Women, Towns Fit For People
Female, Old and Poor? German Unification and the Financial Situation of Older Women: A Short Survey in 15 Figures
Female Emigration from Ireland
Part III
The Federal Republic of Germany - A Melting Pot?
Growing Old in a Strange Country: Some Results and Reflections
Can We Compare Racisms? Nations, Regions and Europe
Part IV
Why the Social Democrats do badly in the South West of Germany
The Culture and the Economy of the Gaeltacht
Multiculturality in Wales
A Degenerate View of Re-generation, or Side-stepping the Heritage Question
Imagining Scotland: A Heritage Industry Examined
Developing Cultural Tourism in the European Regions
Part V
The Welsh Assembly 1979-1997
The Scottish Electorate and the Scottish Parliament
After the 1997 Elections: A Regional Britain in a Regional Europe
The 1998 Belfast-Agreement: Peace for a 'Troubled' Region?
A Region in a Region is a Region - is it?
Beyond the Sovereign State: An Afterword to Networking Europe
Contributors
List of Maps
Introduction
Networking Europe: Understanding the Union from Below
Five Poems
Part I
The Future of Europe: Federalism-Regionalism-Centralism
A Europe of the Markets or A Europe of the Peoples?
The Wales-Baden-Wuerttemberg Accord
The Forward March of Europe Halted?
Unitary Britain and Regional Europe
Interstitial Sovereignty, or Fleas and Elephants: Micro-sovereignty in the New World Order
Part II
Women in Wales Without Miners
Women and Work in Catalonia: Is Catalonia still a Working Society?
Towns Fit for Women, Towns Fit For People
Female, Old and Poor? German Unification and the Financial Situation of Older Women: A Short Survey in 15 Figures
Female Emigration from Ireland
Part III
The Federal Republic of Germany - A Melting Pot?
Growing Old in a Strange Country: Some Results and Reflections
Can We Compare Racisms? Nations, Regions and Europe
Part IV
Why the Social Democrats do badly in the South West of Germany
The Culture and the Economy of the Gaeltacht
Multiculturality in Wales
A Degenerate View of Re-generation, or Side-stepping the Heritage Question
Imagining Scotland: A Heritage Industry Examined
Developing Cultural Tourism in the European Regions
Part V
The Welsh Assembly 1979-1997
The Scottish Electorate and the Scottish Parliament
After the 1997 Elections: A Regional Britain in a Regional Europe
The 1998 Belfast-Agreement: Peace for a 'Troubled' Region?
A Region in a Region is a Region - is it?
Beyond the Sovereign State: An Afterword to Networking Europe
Contributors
List of Maps