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The deepening social and territorial divisions within Europe are examined in this comprehensive and authoritative book.
Using a global perspective, the contributors argue that social and territorial cleavages are inextricably linked, and that only a detailed examination of economic, political and geographical differences can lead to a clearer understanding of the social tensions and inequalities that exist across Europe. Topics covered include: gender; age; social integration; citizenship; and migration and race in Europe's complex and changing territorial system.
Sommario
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Re-shaping Europe - Ray Hudson and Allan M Williams
The Challenge of New Divisions within a Homogenized Political-Economic Space
PART TWO: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS
The New Economy of the New Europe - Ray Hudson
Eradicating Divisions or Creating New Forms of Uneven Development?
European Financial Integration and Uneven Development - Adam Tickell
PART THREE: POLITICAL DIMENSIONS
Nationalism and Its Derivatives in Post-1989 Europe - Colin H Williams
New Geographies of Democracy in Contemporary Europe - Joe Painter
PART FOUR: SPATIAL DIMENSIONS
The `Divided¿ Mediterranean - Russell King and Marco Donati
Redefining European Relationships
Transformation and Division in Central Europe - Allan M Williams and Vladimir Balaz
PART FIVE: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS
Deconstructing the Maastricht Myth? Economic and Social Cohesion in Europe - Diane Perrons
Regional and Gender Dimensions of Inequality
Ethnicity, Racialization and Citizenship as Divisive Elements in Europe - Paul White
Divided Responses to an Ageing Population - Anthony M Warnes
Apocalyptic Demography, Ideology and Rational Social Administration
Boundaries of Social Exclusion in Europe - Lila Leontidou and Alex Afouxenidis
PART SIX: CONCLUSIONS
A Divided European Future? - David Sadler
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Allan studied Economics and Geography at University College Swansea, 1969-72, before completing his PhD at the LSE. After completing his doctoral thesis, he worked as a Research Fellow at the LSE on a project on′Change in Urban Britain′, and in 1976-8 was Lecturer in Geography at the University of Durham. In 1978 he moved to the Geography Department at the University of Exeter, where he was successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and then, from 1995, Professor of Human Geography and European Studies. He was Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies 1987-95. He also jointly established, with Gareth Shaw, an MSc in Tourism, Development and Policy at Exeter in 2000. He was appointed to the Chair in European Integration and Globalization at London Metropolitan in 2006, in the Institute for the Study of European Transformations, and the Working Lives Research Institute. He joined the Tourism Group in the Faculty of Management at Surrey in January 2011.
Riassunto
An examination of the social and territorial divisions within Europe. Topics covered include: gendered and regional changes in employment; social integration and citizenship issues arising from migration and racial differences; and welfare state responses to the growing number of older people.
