Author: Magali Talandier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1789451019
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Spatial planning has embraced the idea of dealing with territorial inequalities by focusing on equipment logic on a national scale, and then economic development on a local scale. Today, this issue is creating new angles of debate with strong political resonances (e.g. Brexit, French gilets jaunes movement). Interpretations of these movements are often quick and binary, such as: the contrast between metropolises and peripheries, between cities and the countryside, between the north and the south or between the east and the west of the European Union. Territorial Inequalities sheds light on the social, political and operational implications of these divergences. The chapters cover the subject at different scales of action and observation (from the neighborhood to the world), but also according to their interdependences. To deal with such a vast and ambitious theme, the preferred approach is that of territorial development in terms of public policy, namely spatial planning.
Territorial Inequalitie
Author: Magali Talandier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1789451019
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Spatial planning has embraced the idea of dealing with territorial inequalities by focusing on equipment logic on a national scale, and then economic development on a local scale. Today, this issue is creating new angles of debate with strong political resonances (e.g. Brexit, French gilets jaunes movement). Interpretations of these movements are often quick and binary, such as: the contrast between metropolises and peripheries, between cities and the countryside, between the north and the south or between the east and the west of the European Union. Territorial Inequalities sheds light on the social, political and operational implications of these divergences. The chapters cover the subject at different scales of action and observation (from the neighborhood to the world), but also according to their interdependences. To deal with such a vast and ambitious theme, the preferred approach is that of territorial development in terms of public policy, namely spatial planning.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1789451019
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Spatial planning has embraced the idea of dealing with territorial inequalities by focusing on equipment logic on a national scale, and then economic development on a local scale. Today, this issue is creating new angles of debate with strong political resonances (e.g. Brexit, French gilets jaunes movement). Interpretations of these movements are often quick and binary, such as: the contrast between metropolises and peripheries, between cities and the countryside, between the north and the south or between the east and the west of the European Union. Territorial Inequalities sheds light on the social, political and operational implications of these divergences. The chapters cover the subject at different scales of action and observation (from the neighborhood to the world), but also according to their interdependences. To deal with such a vast and ambitious theme, the preferred approach is that of territorial development in terms of public policy, namely spatial planning.
Dynamiques territoriales. Éloge de la diversité
Author: Olivier Bouba-Olga
Publisher: Atlantique - Editions de L'Actualité scientifique Poitou-Charentes
ISBN: 2911320638
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 14
Book Description
Alors que le débat public est dominé par les discours sur la métropolisation, cet ouvrage propose une autre lecture des dynamiques territoriales, à partir de travaux de recherche menés pendant deux ans sur cinq territoires français. La capacité de création de richesses et d’emplois ne se limite pas à quelques métropoles, des opportunités de développement existent sur de nombreux territoires, encore faut-il repérer les ressources spécifiques qui y sont localisées, s’interroger sur le positionnement des entreprises dans des chaînes de valeur de plus en plus fragmentées, prendre acte du poids de l’histoire ainsi que de l’importance des dynamiques démographiques. Il ne s’agit donc plus de rechercher le modèle générique de développement économique, mais de se nourrir de la diversité des territoires français et de mettre en œuvre les politiques publiques adaptées aux problèmes spécifiques qu’ils rencontrent. Olivier Bouba-Olga, économiste de formation, est professeur des universités en aménagement de l’espace et urbanisme à l’Université de Poitiers. Il est l’auteur de deux ouvrages parus au Seuil, L’économie de l’entreprise (2003) et Les nouvelles géographies du capitalisme (2006), et de nombreux articles scientifiques. Table des matières Avant-propos Introduction L’obsession du modèle – Les limites des PIB régionaux par habitant – Des écarts faibles et stables de productivité régionale – L’importance des effets de composition – La géographie des très hauts salaires : les effets Piketty – Croissance de l’emploi et territoires : l’absence d’effet taille Un discours de la méthode – Une typologie des ressources mobilisées par les acteurs – Les opérateurs de changement – Repérer les spécialisations des territoires – Brève revue des troupes Des petits bouts de petits mondes – Du Made in France au Made in Monde – Plateau de Millevaches : à la recherche de la valeur perdue – Le positionnement stratégique de PSA Peugeot-Citroën – Industrie du futur, territoire de demain – Une forte conséquence méthodologique Les territoires de la mobilité – Mobilités durables – Mobilités domicile-travail – Croissance de la population, croissance de l’emploi et chômage Les trajectoires historiques des territoires – Des trajectoires basées sur les ressources – La difficile reconversion du sillon lorrain – Petite histoire d’une reconversion réussie : le territoire de Pau Conclusion. Ce que cachent les frontières Bibliographie
Publisher: Atlantique - Editions de L'Actualité scientifique Poitou-Charentes
ISBN: 2911320638
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 14
Book Description
Alors que le débat public est dominé par les discours sur la métropolisation, cet ouvrage propose une autre lecture des dynamiques territoriales, à partir de travaux de recherche menés pendant deux ans sur cinq territoires français. La capacité de création de richesses et d’emplois ne se limite pas à quelques métropoles, des opportunités de développement existent sur de nombreux territoires, encore faut-il repérer les ressources spécifiques qui y sont localisées, s’interroger sur le positionnement des entreprises dans des chaînes de valeur de plus en plus fragmentées, prendre acte du poids de l’histoire ainsi que de l’importance des dynamiques démographiques. Il ne s’agit donc plus de rechercher le modèle générique de développement économique, mais de se nourrir de la diversité des territoires français et de mettre en œuvre les politiques publiques adaptées aux problèmes spécifiques qu’ils rencontrent. Olivier Bouba-Olga, économiste de formation, est professeur des universités en aménagement de l’espace et urbanisme à l’Université de Poitiers. Il est l’auteur de deux ouvrages parus au Seuil, L’économie de l’entreprise (2003) et Les nouvelles géographies du capitalisme (2006), et de nombreux articles scientifiques. Table des matières Avant-propos Introduction L’obsession du modèle – Les limites des PIB régionaux par habitant – Des écarts faibles et stables de productivité régionale – L’importance des effets de composition – La géographie des très hauts salaires : les effets Piketty – Croissance de l’emploi et territoires : l’absence d’effet taille Un discours de la méthode – Une typologie des ressources mobilisées par les acteurs – Les opérateurs de changement – Repérer les spécialisations des territoires – Brève revue des troupes Des petits bouts de petits mondes – Du Made in France au Made in Monde – Plateau de Millevaches : à la recherche de la valeur perdue – Le positionnement stratégique de PSA Peugeot-Citroën – Industrie du futur, territoire de demain – Une forte conséquence méthodologique Les territoires de la mobilité – Mobilités durables – Mobilités domicile-travail – Croissance de la population, croissance de l’emploi et chômage Les trajectoires historiques des territoires – Des trajectoires basées sur les ressources – La difficile reconversion du sillon lorrain – Petite histoire d’une reconversion réussie : le territoire de Pau Conclusion. Ce que cachent les frontières Bibliographie
Theories and Models of Urbanization
Author: Denise Pumain
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030366561
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book provides a thorough discussion about fundamental questions regarding urban theories and modeling. It is a curated collection of contributions to a workshop held in Paris on October 12th and 13th 2017 at the Institute of Complex Systems by the team of ERC GeoDiverCity. There are several chapters conveying the answers given by single authors to problems of conceptualization and modeling and others in which scholars reply to their conception and question them. Even, the chapters transcribing keynote presentations were rewritten according to contributions from the respective discussions. The result is a complete “state of the art” of what is our knowledge about urban processes and their possible formalization.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030366561
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book provides a thorough discussion about fundamental questions regarding urban theories and modeling. It is a curated collection of contributions to a workshop held in Paris on October 12th and 13th 2017 at the Institute of Complex Systems by the team of ERC GeoDiverCity. There are several chapters conveying the answers given by single authors to problems of conceptualization and modeling and others in which scholars reply to their conception and question them. Even, the chapters transcribing keynote presentations were rewritten according to contributions from the respective discussions. The result is a complete “state of the art” of what is our knowledge about urban processes and their possible formalization.
Homo Anthropologicus
Author: Jean-François Chanlat
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 103533433X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Skilfully analysing the challenges posed by management practices to the human condition, Jean-François Chanlat examines the sociological evolution of modern management. This book acts as a crucial pedagogical guide to the history and essence of managerial operations.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 103533433X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Skilfully analysing the challenges posed by management practices to the human condition, Jean-François Chanlat examines the sociological evolution of modern management. This book acts as a crucial pedagogical guide to the history and essence of managerial operations.
Inventing Equal Opportunity
Author: Frank Dobbin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ultimately defining what discrimination is, and is not, in the American imagination. Dobbin shows how Congress and the courts merely endorsed programs devised by corporate personnel. He traces how the first measures were adopted by military contractors worried that the Kennedy administration would cancel their contracts if they didn't take "affirmative action" to end discrimination. These measures built on existing personnel programs, many designed to prevent bias against unionists. Dobbin follows the changes in the law as personnel experts invented one wave after another of equal opportunity programs. He examines how corporate personnel formalized hiring and promotion practices in the 1970s to eradicate bias by managers; how in the 1980s they answered Ronald Reagan's threat to end affirmative action by recasting their efforts as diversity-management programs; and how the growing presence of women in the newly named human resources profession has contributed to a focus on sexual harassment and work/life issues. Inventing Equal Opportunity reveals how the personnel profession devised--and ultimately transformed--our understanding of discrimination.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ultimately defining what discrimination is, and is not, in the American imagination. Dobbin shows how Congress and the courts merely endorsed programs devised by corporate personnel. He traces how the first measures were adopted by military contractors worried that the Kennedy administration would cancel their contracts if they didn't take "affirmative action" to end discrimination. These measures built on existing personnel programs, many designed to prevent bias against unionists. Dobbin follows the changes in the law as personnel experts invented one wave after another of equal opportunity programs. He examines how corporate personnel formalized hiring and promotion practices in the 1970s to eradicate bias by managers; how in the 1980s they answered Ronald Reagan's threat to end affirmative action by recasting their efforts as diversity-management programs; and how the growing presence of women in the newly named human resources profession has contributed to a focus on sexual harassment and work/life issues. Inventing Equal Opportunity reveals how the personnel profession devised--and ultimately transformed--our understanding of discrimination.
Affirmative Exclusion
Author: Jean-Loup Amselle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801487477
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Jean-Loup Amselle explores the issue of multiculturalism by delving into the history of France's confrontation with ethnic difference. Amselle analyzes France's relationship to Egypt, Algeria, and Senegal to show how ideas about difference and assimilation played out in French colonial policies and how these same tensions continue to be problematic as France grapples with cultural pluralism.Amselle's book has timely and wide-ranging implications. Arguing against the "liberal communitarian state" as it exists in the United States, Amselle contends that an overemphasis on difference can lead to what he calls "affirmative exclusion"--the flip side of affirmative action. The recognition of a multiplicity of ethnic groups in France, he asserts, creates an environment that fosters racism. "Despite an outward appearance of generosity, supporters of French-style multiculturalism, by promoting 'affirmative action, ' run the risk of creating as many difficulties as there are 'target groups, ' which they have helped identify and hence produce."Calling on theories of racial difference devised by early anthropologists--most notably, Louis Faidherbe--and on the work of political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Amselle makes historical and sociological sense of the debates over multiculturalism and the violence they engender. Toward a French Multiculturalism proposes directions for the future.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801487477
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Jean-Loup Amselle explores the issue of multiculturalism by delving into the history of France's confrontation with ethnic difference. Amselle analyzes France's relationship to Egypt, Algeria, and Senegal to show how ideas about difference and assimilation played out in French colonial policies and how these same tensions continue to be problematic as France grapples with cultural pluralism.Amselle's book has timely and wide-ranging implications. Arguing against the "liberal communitarian state" as it exists in the United States, Amselle contends that an overemphasis on difference can lead to what he calls "affirmative exclusion"--the flip side of affirmative action. The recognition of a multiplicity of ethnic groups in France, he asserts, creates an environment that fosters racism. "Despite an outward appearance of generosity, supporters of French-style multiculturalism, by promoting 'affirmative action, ' run the risk of creating as many difficulties as there are 'target groups, ' which they have helped identify and hence produce."Calling on theories of racial difference devised by early anthropologists--most notably, Louis Faidherbe--and on the work of political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Amselle makes historical and sociological sense of the debates over multiculturalism and the violence they engender. Toward a French Multiculturalism proposes directions for the future.
Postethnic America
Author: David A Hollinger
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786722282
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing to stop the fragmenting of American society into competing ethnic enclaves, each concerned primarily with its own well-being. Hollinger argues instead for a new cosmopolitanism, an appreciation of multiple identities -- new cross-cultural affiliations based not on the biologically given but on consent, on the right to emphasize or diminish the significance of one's ethnoracial affiliation. Postethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise as a haven for all peoples. While recognizing the Eurocentric narrowness of that older universalism, Hollinger makes a stirring call for a new nationalism. He urges that a democratic nation-state like ours must help bridge the gap between our common fellowship as human beings and the great variety of ethnic and racial groups represented within the United States.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786722282
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing to stop the fragmenting of American society into competing ethnic enclaves, each concerned primarily with its own well-being. Hollinger argues instead for a new cosmopolitanism, an appreciation of multiple identities -- new cross-cultural affiliations based not on the biologically given but on consent, on the right to emphasize or diminish the significance of one's ethnoracial affiliation. Postethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise as a haven for all peoples. While recognizing the Eurocentric narrowness of that older universalism, Hollinger makes a stirring call for a new nationalism. He urges that a democratic nation-state like ours must help bridge the gap between our common fellowship as human beings and the great variety of ethnic and racial groups represented within the United States.
Cultivating Differences
Author: Michèle Lamont
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226468136
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality? In this pioneering collection of original essays, a group of leading scholars helps set the agenda for the sociology of culture by exploring the factors that push us to segregate and integrate and the institutional arrangements that shape classification systems. Each examines the power of culture to shape our everyday lives as clearly as does economics, and studies the dimensions along which boundaries are frequently drawn. The essays cover four topic areas: the institutionalization of cultural categories, from morality to popular culture; the exclusionary effects of high culture, from musical tastes to the role of art museums; the role of ethnicity and gender in shaping symbolic boundaries; and the role of democracy in creating inclusion and exclusion. The contributors are Jeffrey Alexander, Nicola Beisel, Randall Collins, Diana Crane, Paul DiMaggio, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Joseph Gusfield, John R. Hall, David Halle, Richard A. Peterson, Albert Simkus, Alan Wolfe, and Vera Zolberg.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226468136
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality? In this pioneering collection of original essays, a group of leading scholars helps set the agenda for the sociology of culture by exploring the factors that push us to segregate and integrate and the institutional arrangements that shape classification systems. Each examines the power of culture to shape our everyday lives as clearly as does economics, and studies the dimensions along which boundaries are frequently drawn. The essays cover four topic areas: the institutionalization of cultural categories, from morality to popular culture; the exclusionary effects of high culture, from musical tastes to the role of art museums; the role of ethnicity and gender in shaping symbolic boundaries; and the role of democracy in creating inclusion and exclusion. The contributors are Jeffrey Alexander, Nicola Beisel, Randall Collins, Diana Crane, Paul DiMaggio, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Joseph Gusfield, John R. Hall, David Halle, Richard A. Peterson, Albert Simkus, Alan Wolfe, and Vera Zolberg.
Shrinking Cities
Author: Karina Pallagst
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135072213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack the precision of systemic analysis where other factors now at work are analyzed: the new economy, globalization, aging population (a new population transition) and other factors related to the search for quality of life or a safer environment. This volume places shrinking cities in a global perspective, setting the context for in-depth case studies of cities within Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Germany, France, Great Britain, South Korea, Australia, and the USA, which consider specific economic, social, environmental, cultural and land-use issues.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135072213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack the precision of systemic analysis where other factors now at work are analyzed: the new economy, globalization, aging population (a new population transition) and other factors related to the search for quality of life or a safer environment. This volume places shrinking cities in a global perspective, setting the context for in-depth case studies of cities within Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Germany, France, Great Britain, South Korea, Australia, and the USA, which consider specific economic, social, environmental, cultural and land-use issues.
The Mauritian Novel
Author: Julia Waters
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786949490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786949490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.