Networking Europe
Essays on Regionalism and Social Democracy
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
400 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2001
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 that stresses the need for more democracy and for a conception of Europe that emphasizes 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.
"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
"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
Contents
Preface - Eberhard Bort and Neil Evans
Introduction: Networking Europe: Understanding the Union from Below - Eberhard Bort and Neil Evans
Five Poems - Keith Armstrong
I
The Future of Europe: Federalism-Regionalism-Centralism - Alfred Geisel (1991)
A Europe of the Markets or A Europe of the Peoples? - Neal Ascherson (1992)
The Wales-Baden-Württemberg Accord - Phil Cooke and Kevin Morgan (1991)
The Forward March of Europe Halted? - John Williams (1991)
Unitary Britain and Regional Europe - John Osmond (1995)
Interstitial Sovereignty, or Fleas and Elephants: Micro-sovereignty in the New World Order - Tom Nairn (1995)
II
Women in a Wales Without Miners - Jane Aaron (1993)
Women and Work in Catalonia: Is Catalonia still a Working Society? - Muriel Casals (1992)
Towns Fit For Women, Towns Fit For People - Beate Weber (1993)
Female, Old and Poor? German Unification and the Financial Situation of Older Women: A Short Survey in 15 Figures - Gotlind Braun (1993)
Female Emigration from Ireland - Patricia Conlan (1993)
III
The Federal Republic of Germany - A Melting Pot? The Integration of Refugees after the Second World War - Mathias Beer (1994)
Growing Old in a Strange Country: Some Results and Reflections Based on a Research Project in Stuttgart - Friederike Hohloch (1994)
Can We Compare Racisms? Nations, Regions and Europe - Neil Evans (1994)
IV
Why the Social Democrats do badly in the South West of Germany: An Essay on Regional Political Culture - Horst Glück (1992)
The Culture and the Economy of the Gaeltacht - Frank Conlan (1996)
Multiculturality in Wales - Robin Reeves (1994)
A Degenerate View of Re-generation, or Side-stepping the Heritage Question - Dai Smith (1992)
Imagining Scotland: A Heritage Industry Examined - David McCrone (1995)
Developing Cultural Tourism in the European Regions - Brian Jones (1997)
V
The Welsh Assembly 1979 and 1997 - John Osmond (1997)
The Scottish Electorate and the Scottish Parliament - Paula Surridge, Lindsay Paterson, Alice Brown and David McCrone (1998)
After the 1997 Elections: A Regional Britain in a Regional Europe - Kenneth O Morgan (1997)
The 1998 Belfast Agreement: Peace for a 'Troubled' Region? - Eberhard Bort (1999)
Beyond the Sovereign State: An Afterword to Networking Europe - Christopher Harvie (1998)
Contributors
List of Maps
Introduction: Networking Europe: Understanding the Union from Below - Eberhard Bort and Neil Evans
Five Poems - Keith Armstrong
I
The Future of Europe: Federalism-Regionalism-Centralism - Alfred Geisel (1991)
A Europe of the Markets or A Europe of the Peoples? - Neal Ascherson (1992)
The Wales-Baden-Württemberg Accord - Phil Cooke and Kevin Morgan (1991)
The Forward March of Europe Halted? - John Williams (1991)
Unitary Britain and Regional Europe - John Osmond (1995)
Interstitial Sovereignty, or Fleas and Elephants: Micro-sovereignty in the New World Order - Tom Nairn (1995)
II
Women in a Wales Without Miners - Jane Aaron (1993)
Women and Work in Catalonia: Is Catalonia still a Working Society? - Muriel Casals (1992)
Towns Fit For Women, Towns Fit For People - Beate Weber (1993)
Female, Old and Poor? German Unification and the Financial Situation of Older Women: A Short Survey in 15 Figures - Gotlind Braun (1993)
Female Emigration from Ireland - Patricia Conlan (1993)
III
The Federal Republic of Germany - A Melting Pot? The Integration of Refugees after the Second World War - Mathias Beer (1994)
Growing Old in a Strange Country: Some Results and Reflections Based on a Research Project in Stuttgart - Friederike Hohloch (1994)
Can We Compare Racisms? Nations, Regions and Europe - Neil Evans (1994)
IV
Why the Social Democrats do badly in the South West of Germany: An Essay on Regional Political Culture - Horst Glück (1992)
The Culture and the Economy of the Gaeltacht - Frank Conlan (1996)
Multiculturality in Wales - Robin Reeves (1994)
A Degenerate View of Re-generation, or Side-stepping the Heritage Question - Dai Smith (1992)
Imagining Scotland: A Heritage Industry Examined - David McCrone (1995)
Developing Cultural Tourism in the European Regions - Brian Jones (1997)
V
The Welsh Assembly 1979 and 1997 - John Osmond (1997)
The Scottish Electorate and the Scottish Parliament - Paula Surridge, Lindsay Paterson, Alice Brown and David McCrone (1998)
After the 1997 Elections: A Regional Britain in a Regional Europe - Kenneth O Morgan (1997)
The 1998 Belfast Agreement: Peace for a 'Troubled' Region? - Eberhard Bort (1999)
Beyond the Sovereign State: An Afterword to Networking Europe - Christopher Harvie (1998)
Contributors
List of Maps
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