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This Could Be the Start of Something Big
For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the country, urban coalitions, including labor, faith groups, and community-based organizations, have come together to support living wage laws and fight for transit policies that can move the needle on issues of working poverty. Just as striking as the rise of this progressive resurgence has been its reception among unlikely allies. In places as diverse as Chicago, Atlanta, and San Jose, the usual business resistance to pro-equity policies has changed, particularly when it comes to issues like affordable housing and more efficient transportation systems. To see this change and its possibilities requires that we recognize a new thread running through many local efforts: a perspective and politics that emphasizes \"regional equity.\"
Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka offer their analysis with an eye toward evaluating what has and has not worked in various campaigns to achieve regional equity. The authors show how momentum is building as new policies addressing regional infrastructure, housing, and workforce development bring together business and community groups who share a common desire to see their city and region succeed. Drawing on a wealth of case studies as well as their own experience in the field, Pastor, Benner, and Matsuoka point out the promise and pitfalls of this new approach, concluding that what they term social movement regionalism might offer an important contribution to the revitalization of progressive politics in America.
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National innovation efficiency during the global crisis : a cross-country analysis
What effect did the Great Recession have on national innovation? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in current economic literature to measure and compare the effect of GDP and GDP per capita on the efficiency of 58 countries' national innovation systems during the Great Recession. A total of 18 different models are applied to different groupings of the data, including data envelopment analyses and time lag effects. The result is a rich comparative resource for policy makers and economists alike.
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Rebuilding the economy from the Covid crisis: time to rethink regional studies?
The Covid-19 pandemic is the latest in a series of cascading crises of global capitalism that have both exposed and intensified a systemic problem of social and regional inequality that has in fact been unfolding in the advanced economies for more than four decades. There are growing calls for 'rebuilding back better' from the pandemic, for redesigning capitalism to make it more equitable and sustainable. This paper argues that regional studies has a key role to play in shaping and informing such an agenda, but that to do so requires a rethinking of our research priorities, theoretical frameworks and normative commitments. As part of such a rethinking, the paper calls for a progressive-melioristic turn in regional studies, for a transformative vocation committed to the pursuit of equitable and just regional outcomes.
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Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities examines how legality and other sources of authority intersect in the regulation of human mobility. The book focuses on the ethnographic exploration of the experiences and views of mobile subjects in the vast and rapidly changing continent of Asia. The contributors analyze tensions between the letter of the law and social legitimation, territorial boundaries and commodity flows, state practices and migrant subjectivities, and labour brokerage and national and international organizations. This volume offers key insights for students of globalization and transnationality and policy relevance for development practitioners, governments, and NGOs.
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The War on Rescue
The War on Rescue documents
how governments block assistance to people in times of crisis.
Focusing on the European Migration Crisis of 2015-2022 to address
the reasons why governments do this, William Plowright discusses
the strategies employed that prevent suffering people from
receiving help.
The European Migration Crisis motivated people around the world
to offer assistance to needy refugees and migrants across Europe,
the Mediterranean, and North Africa. Both large and small
organizations rushed to bring food, medical care, and rescue to
those stranded at sea. However, many European governments sought to
prevent humanitarian assistance and deny safe haven to the
desperate. Boats filled with those rescued were blocked from
harbors, activists were arrested, and staff were threatened; some
faced violence. The War on Rescue adds to social science
understanding of and explanations for humanitarian assistance and
the reasons why governments obstruct rescue efforts.
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The teaching and study of Islam in western universities
\"This book examines the teaching of Islam and the issues that raises inside universities for the academic community having to negotiate between competing cultural and philosophical demands\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Immigration and Social Systems
Michael Bommes was one of the most brilliant and original migration studies scholars of our time. This posthumous collection brings together a selection of his most important work on immigration and the welfare state, immigrant integration, discrimination, irregular migration, migrant networks and migration policy research.
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