scholarly journals FinTech, economy and space: Introduction to the special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 1490-1497
Author(s):  
Eric Knight ◽  
Dariusz Wójcik
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Media Research

In the introduction to the first-ever special issue on the spatial dimensions of FinTech, we show that despite a FinTech fever in business and media, research on FinTech is still niche, particularly in social sciences. We describe FinTech as a research area full of controversies, ripe and in need of geographical research. As we outline, papers in this issue contribute to the debate primarily by examining the role of the state, financial centres and uneven development in FinTech.

The State: A Research Agenda

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1191-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Dear
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Capitalist State

This essay is intended as an informal introduction to the papers and commentaries on the state contained in this special issue of Environmental and Planning A. It is presented in the form of a research agenda, which itself may provoke further debate on the role of the state in sociospatial processes. Two main themes are identified. The first concerns the form of the capitalist state and its historical evolution. The second addresses the functions of the state apparatus.

Introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Judith Keene
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
International Justice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
Contemporary Issue ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Status ◽  
State Protection

Abstract This special issue of The Public Historian will examine what is a pressing, pervasive, traumatic, and very public contemporary issue in which history and historians are heavily involved in many countries around the globe. Authors will investigate a range of issues around the state involvement in death, including the role of the state as perpetrator and its responsibilities to the victims and their families; the process and significance of exhumation, of identification, and of repatriation; the status of refugees and displaced peoples who die when legally stateless and so without state protection; the differing transnational stances in tracing and punishing the perpetrators; the fraught issue of personal and official reparation; and the role and efficacy of international justice.

Precarization and Labor Resistance: Canada, the USA, India and China

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 469-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Chan ◽  
Manjusha Nair ◽  
Chris Rhomberg
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
India And China

Precarization, in its form and consequences, varies across workers, sectors and geographies. The five articles in this special issue examine ways that workers have struggled with and against precarious labor in different contexts, from low-wage retail and service workers in Canada and the USA, to manufacturing and construction workers in India and China. In particular, they show that the role of the state has been crucial in shaping the terrain of struggle at the workplace and in the wider community. They argue that against all odds protesting workers have repeatedly exercised some power to influence employer and government policies.

Comparing Legal Professions Cross-nationally: From a Professions-centered to a State-centered Approach

1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Education Organization ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Professions

Legal occupations vary dramatically from country to country—in scope of activity, education, organization, and institutional setting. This essay proposes to study legal occupations focusing on their relations to the state rather than on their character as “professions.” It builds on the recent renaissance of state-centered approaches in the social sciences. A review of the diversity of law work and legal occupations in different countries leads to state-centered conceptualizations that identify institutionally comparable features of law work. A sketch of the European historical background of modern legal professions yields theoretical principles that can inform the proposed approach. Variations in the role of the state and in the relation of lawyers to the state apparatus are then shown to be related to differences between national legal professions. Even where the law is primarily seen as a profession, the character of law work is better understood when related to the state.

scholarly journals A relação Estado e Educação: uma análise da produção acadêmica brasileira (1971-2000)

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (213/214) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Role Of The State

Apresenta resultados de pesquisa realizada sobre se e como o tema Estado e Educação foi abordado na produção acadêmica brasileira no período compreendido entre 1971 e 2000. Foram pesquisados cinco anais de Associações Nacionais de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa e 15 revistas das áreas de Economia, Administração, História, Ciências Sociais e Educação, sendo quatro títulos de cada uma delas na totalidade da produção do período. Buscou-se compreender as perspectivas das áreas (críticas, expectativas, entendimentos sobre a função do Estado em relação à Educação), considerando-se o contexto histórico das décadas em que os trabalhos foram produzidos e evidenciando seus nexos, contribuições e limitações. Palavras-chave: Estado; educação básica; políticas educacionais; produção acadêmica; contexto histórico. Abstract This article presents the results of the research about how the topic State and Education was dealt with in the Brazilian academic production between 1971 and 2000. We have researched five Proceedings of Post-Graduation and Research National Associations and fifteen journals in the areas of Economy, Administration, History, Social Sciences and Education, focusing on four titles in each one of them, considering the total production of the period. We tried to understand the perspectives of the areas which concerns criticism, expectations, understandings regarding the role of the State in Education. We have considered the historical context of the decades in which those works were produced, highlighting their contributions and limitations. Keywords: State; primary education; educational policies; academic production; historical context and education.

The Present and Future Meaning of the State and the role of the Federal Constitutional Court — Interview

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Di Fabio
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The State ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Legislative Authority ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Federal Constitutional

In this exclusive interview with Federal Constitutional Court Justice, Professor Udo Di Fabio, GLJ looks forward to some of the challenges the Court will face in next fifty years, especially the meaning for the Court of domestic (privatization) and international (europeanization) changes to the role of the nation state. The interview begins with an exploration of the nature and role of the Federal Constitutional Court in light of radical changes in the law as well as the social sciences. Justice Di Fabio also addresses the Court's narrow role as an interpreter of legal texts, noting that the Court performs this function while also exercising broader, quasi-legislative authority within a pluralistic and post-traditional society. The interview then turns to questions related to the role of the state and the traditional public structuring of societal authority as set against the general turn to societal self-structuring, especially in the context of the debate over the nature of the European Union's authority.

Vingt années de sciences sociales du vieillissement au Canada: un essai d'interprétation

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (S1) ◽  
pp. 25-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Lesemann
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The State ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
English Canada ◽  
Fiscal Policies ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Research

AbstractThis article is an essay, based on the attempted assessment ofresearch in the social sciences on aging in Canada and in Quebec during the last 20 years. It endeavours o t understand this area as based on institutional factors, including linguistic, cultural and political divisions between English Canada and Quebec, and the role of some major forces. Canadian research on aging is profoundly based on a social democratic vision of the role of the State that establishes the basic concept of citizenship, rights, liberties, justice and equality. It consequently contributes to maintaining the protective, redistributive, regulatory andcorrection ofinequalities that the State carries out through its social and fiscal policies. In the space of 20 years, the social sciences of aging in Canada have gone from a representation of aging characterized by decline, unavoidable physical and often psychic deterioration of capacities, impoverishment, and exclusion to a much more qualified vision of aging distinguished by the search for autonomy, adaptation, and growth in which seniors do not succumb passively to their condition but rather become responsible for their own development. At the same time, researchers, as well as experts and decision makers in the area ofaging, have turned progressively from an analysis of aging centred on social problems and the programs aimed to meet these problems, which encouraged the development of the state as provider, to an analysis of the forces and resources which seniors have or could obtain to rekindle family or community solidarities with the goal of maximum promotion of the autonomy of older persons.

Beyond the Sunan Model: Trajectory and Underlying Factors of Development in Kunshan, China

10.1068/a3567 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 1725-1747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yehua Dennis Wei
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
Southern Jiangsu ◽  
Model Trajectory

Since the launch of economic reforms in the late 1970s, some cities and regions in China have been growing much faster than others, stimulating scholarly research on the forces underlying uneven development. This paper, through a case study of the emergence of Kunshan in southern Jiangsu (Sunan), shows that the orthodox Sunan model centered on the development of township and village enterprises (TVEs) has become inadequate to account for the recent development and restructuring in Sunan. I argue that spatial development in China is a complicated process incorporating the role of the state, local development conditions, and foreign investment. Moreover, there are strong geographical foundations for the functioning of local states. The arguments are particularly relevant to the transitional nature of provincial China, where the state still plays a significant role in development while local and global forces have emerged as equally important forces.

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