Fascism at Future's End

boundary 2 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-247
Author(s):  
Chris Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Ecological Catastrophe

This essay provides a critical review of Shane Burley's Fascism Today. Studies of fascism, it argues, are always necessarily an inquiry into phenomenologies of historical time and a reflection on historiographical method. Engaging with Burley's account of contemporary fascist movements, this essay aims to identify the effects of a lacuna that underwrites approaches to fascism that, following Roger Griffin's The Nature of Fascism (1991), prioritize the ideological and metapolitical over materialist engagements with political, economic, and ecological processes. Situating contemporary fascist movements within the twin forces of emerging ecological catastrophe and ongoing economic contraction, this essay argues that contemporary fascisms are best understood as racist technologies for living in a world without a future.

Critical Review of SME Regulation Optimization in Serbia

2020 ◽  
pp. 1623-1645
Author(s):  
Olgica Milošević
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Theoretical Base ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Political Economic

The European Union (EU) and the Republic of Serbia have recognized the importance of SMEs and are developing accordingly the institutional framework of this sector. In the process of EU accession, Serbia has to fulfil political, economic and legal requirements by implementing systemic reforms of its legal system in order to align it with the EU acquis. Some of these requirements have a direct or indirect impact on SME regulations, to which our chapter has been dedicated within a series of our papers on developing the SME regulatory framework. This paper will try to present the importance of innovating legal development of these companies. Furthermore, modern concepts will be introduced together with very important tools of legal forms of SME organization. The intention is to clearly define specific legal goals of SMEs, expressed through targeted legal forms. The modern regulatory framework relating to SMEs should combine the existing solid theoretical base and innovative models from the practice.

The Urbanization of Capital and the Production of Capitalist Natures

2018 ◽  
pp. 538-556
Author(s):  
Erik Swyngedouw
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Creative Destruction ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
Political Economic

In the corpus of Marxist thought as well as in mainstream socialist strategies and politics, the theoretical and politically strategic position and role of space, nature, and the urbanization process in the expanded production and reproduction of capitalism, and in the transformation to socialism, remains—with a few notable exceptions—largely marginal and residual. Nonetheless, cities are hotbeds of anti-capitalist struggles and socio-ecological conflict, offer experimental spaces for emancipatory socio-ecological transformation and action, and remain pivotal for the organization and management of the creative destruction that animates a continuously revolutionizing capital circulation process. This chapter explores how emancipatory-egalitarian political movements, in conjunction with urban political-economic and political-ecological transformation, demonstrate the vital role of space, urbanization, and socio-ecological processes both in sustaining the expanded reproduction of capitalism and in choreographing the dynamics and configuration of class struggle.

scholarly journals Reimagining the terrain of liquid times: Reflexive marketing and the sociological imagination

2020 ◽  
pp. 146954052095520
Author(s):  
Paul Hewer
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Political Economic

This paper has three objectives. The first is to deliver a critical review of the work of Zygmunt Bauman on Liquid Modernity and Liquid Times. I argue that Bauman’s work can provide a useful starting point for analysing the ‘unruly’ forces of contemporary society. Bauman’s work, as I have sought to reveal, takes us to the heart of liquid modern darkness. It forces us to take seriously the import of the sociological imagination and the insight that personal troubles are best understood as emerging public issues stemming from structural processes. The second objective, is to explore how consumer culture theorists have taken and in dialogue with these ideas sought to expand upon his initial ideas. Here I review the value of the concept of ‘liquid consumption’ and the ‘fresh start mindset’. The third and final objective, is to demonstrate how reflexive marketing practitioners are responding to such liquid times through rethinking their practice and thereby extending the terrain of marketing. Here I detail how the promise marketing imagination starts not with the darkness of liquid modern times but rather with a far more hope inspired tale to enchant new markets and new audiences on the possibilities and ‘solutions’ of being future oriented and technologically savvy. Finally, it argues that the task of reimagining appears essential given the current zeitgeist, where the climate of anxiety, fear and uncertainty whether it be political, economic, environmental or social threatens to engulf us.

Christian Landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula

2019 ◽  
pp. 622-644
Author(s):  
Alexandra Chavarría Arnau
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The Political ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Material Evidence

This chapter traces the material evidence for the spread of Christianity in the Iberian peninsula (including Spain and Portugal) between the third and seventh centuries, focusing on a critical review of traditional interpretations and identifications frequently based on inconsistent chronological references, fragile and poorly surviving materials, and often contradictory textual and archaeological evidence. The result is a new perspective on the subject that is much more comparable to that seen in other areas of the Mediterranean. The chapter will analyze the development of Christianization in cities and the countryside, taking into account when churches were built, who built them, and the political, economic, and social context in which Christian topography was created.

scholarly journals The Four Ways of Eco-global Criminology

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Green Criminology ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Study ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Global Criminology ◽  
International Social

In charting out the ‘four ways’ of eco-global criminology, this paper discusses the importance of recognising and acting in regards to the differences evident in (1) ways of being (ontology), (2) ways of knowing (epistemology), (3) ways of doing (methodology) and (4) ways of valuing (axiology). The paper assumes and asserts that global study of environmental crime is essential to the green criminology project, and particularly an eco-global criminology approach. Specific instances of criminal and harmful activity therefore need to be analysed in the context of broad international social, political, economic and ecological processes. The article outlines the key ideas of eco-global criminology, a perspective that argues that global study must always be inclusive of voices from the periphery and margins of the world’s metropolitan centres, and critical of the social relations that sustain the epistemological as well as material realities and legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Yet, in doing so, there arise many paradoxes and conundrums that likewise warrant close attention.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND INCLUSIONS: Inaugural Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 001 (001) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Kamrul Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Life Support ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Proactive Measures ◽  
Stockholm Conference ◽  
Political Economic

The environmental agenda encompasses a relatively large number of issues having multiple actors involved in and around them. Environmental problems are diverse and complex, both in local as well as in international settings. The complexity of environmental problems often involves exploring various solution approaches. The regulatory process is one of them; and the policy process complements regulatory developments. They guide human behaviour. Given that human interactions with nature and ecological processes are central to environmental problems, law and policy regulations suggest changing human behaviour in order to be in harmony with nature and to better cope with natural processes. Coping with natural processes does not mean seeking the adoption of preventive measures only. Rather, positive and proactive measures are necessary to recover from environmental harm, as we have already caused significant damage to our environment. We must recover from the injury caused to our planet in order for it to exist in its unique condition and to continue with life support systems that are sustainable. Law and policies are some of the tools we employ to recover from the damages caused to our environment. Since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, the environmental agenda has predominantly captured our attention on all decision-shaping and decision-making levels, including political, economic, scientific, and cultural spheres both in academic and non-academic contexts. The actors' joint efforts have provided us with a mutual understanding of environmental problems, a set of agreed-upon norms and principles, and procedural practices to respond to such problems.

‘India calling to the far away towns’

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Taylor ◽  
Peter Bain
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Economic

In recent years prominent companies have migrated call centre services to India provoking much-publicized fears for the future of UK employment. This article challenges the widely-held assumption that offshoring voice services is a seamless undertaking, principally through an investigation of the Indian call centre labour process. This enquiry is informed initially by an analysis of the political-economic factors driving offshoring and shaping the forms of work organization to have emerged in India. A critical review of literature on call centre work organization provides a conceptual framework, through which Indian developments are analysed. Data comes from fieldwork conducted in India and a complete audit of the Scottish industry, through which UK trends can be evaluated. We conclude that the Indian industry reproduces in exaggerated and culturally-distinctive forms, a labour process that has proved problematical for employers and employees alike in the UK and elsewhere.

Technological Trends in Adult Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
John K. Hope
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
To Come ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Review Ofthe

The purpose of this article is to provide a critical review ofthe past two decades of technology use in adult education.The article begins with a brief summary of technologicaltrends, such as the introduction of the Internet and theWorld Wide Web, that have influenced adult education overthe past two decades. Political, economic, social, andpedagogical issues that have influenced the use of technology in adult education are also discussed andpossible solutions to these issues are outlined. The article concludes with an attempt to extrapolate futuretechnological trends that could influence the direction ofadult education in the decade to come.

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