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This paper explores the relationship between the increasing emphasis on the integration of social, economic, democratic and environmental objectives within planning practice and the emergence of new forms of networked governance. Using a framework which stresses the hybridity and tensions that characterise current governance arrangements, the article investigates attempts to create `sustainable communities' in the Thames Gateway, England. The analysis reveals the tensions and contradictions arising from governing the Gateway, including those between the conflicting goals of economic competitiveness and social and environmental sustainability, between horizontal, networked governance and forms of and requirements for hierarchical direction and between a focus on delivery and participatory governance. The paper concludes by reflecting on the implications of the hybridity and complexity in governance forms for the search for sustainable communities and the forms of governance `fit for purpose' in their realisation.

This article provides a 'long history' of the renvois, an 18th century antecedent of hyperlinked text featured prominently in Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1791). It describes the emergence of renvois in the encyclopedias of early modern Europe, traces its expansion over the course of the 20th century through the work of such pioneers as Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson and Tim Berners-Lee, and looks forward to the potential of renvois as a key component of the semantic web and the growing use of folksonomies online. The article reveals how the use of renvois — both in the 18th century and today — leads to unsettling juxtapositions, contradictions and unexpected meanings, allowing readers to relinquish their position as passive receivers of pre-organized information, to subvert traditional knowledge structures and hierarchies, and to become active and integral participants in the production of knowledge.

This article explores a paradox revealed by our research on the democratic practices of women's groups in Québec. In focus groups and interviews, grassroots members active in these groups suggested that formal decision making structures had little meaning to most grassroots members. Workers and board members also identified a significant distance between members' participation and formal democratic structures. However, these same informants spoke eloquently of the meaning of democracy and its importance in these groups. This article analyses the meaning of democracy and democratic structures for the members of these women's groups. The analysis sits at the intersection of feminist theory on democracy and Alain Touraine's theory of the emergence of the subject through participation in democratic processes. The article explores the nuances, contradictions and richness of the different meanings of democracy for the members of these women's groups.

International audience ; A critical overview of French migration studies (1960-2009). Migrations and their interpretations are strongly related to the social, economic and political situation of the country in which they take place. In particular, migration studies often appear as a pensée d 'Etat, revealing vital information on the social issues of the societies that generate them and on the interpretations, evolutions and contradictions that mark them. In this paper we will analyze the French social sciences' publications on migration, from the moment they start, in the sixties, to the present. Following their evolution, observing the concepts and analyses that develop over time, as well as recurrent topics and research streams, will allow us to identify, in a Well-established scientific tradition, some important tools for analyzing and understanding issues in contemporary Italian society. ; Revue critique des études migratoires en France (1960-2009)

В связи с тем, что в современных условиях, когда Кавказ приобретает важное геополитическое значение, недопустимо существование и возникновение межэтнических конфликтов, в статье сделана попытка выработки путей и форм разрешения межнациональных конфликтов и предупреждения тех противоречий, которые находятся в латентном состоянии. Автором также показана важность учета этнополитической специфики каждого субъекта Федерации Северного Кавказа при выработке национальной политики РФ.At present conditions when the Caucasus is acquiring an important geopolitical significance, the existing and arising of the interethnic conflicts are impossible. So, the article contains some attempts to work out the ways and forms of control of the international conflicts and prevention of contradictions in the latent status. The author also underlined the importance of the ethno-political specificity of each subject within the Federation in Northern Caucasus while working out the national politics of the Russian Federation.

Feminist movements have played contrasting roles in the public controversy over regulation of the assisted reproductive technology sector. While adopting a similar critical discourse, the feminist problematization of the issue actually achieved its ends in very different ways in France and Switzerland. In France, feminist movements were faced with a public controversy mainly focused on the legitimacy of the desire for children. This left the French feminist movements with their own internal contradictions regarding women's mothering vocation and thus severely impaired their capacity to influence the debate. In Switzerland, on the contrary, the alarmist feminist discourse on reproductive technology coincided with the critical stance adopted by left-wing parties and, to some extent, pro-life movements. This discursive resonance gave the Swiss feminist movements greater leverage in the public debate. Adapted from the source document.

This paper examines the global securitized subprime crisis through the lens of core general principles of political economy. The principle of historical specificity is used to situate the crisis in cycles and historical time. The principle of circular and cumulative causation scrutinizes the role of multiple factors and how they cumulatively impact on the system. The principle of contradiction explores the relationship between finance and industry through deregulation and changing industrial leadership at the global level. The principles of financial innovation and heterogeneous agents link to the intricacies of the different roles of economic agents in the circuit of mortgages and securitization. And finally the principle of risk and uncertainty examines the contradictory role of complex institutions and calculative models of risk in the generation of high systemic uncertainty during booms in the cycle.

Несмотря на то что органы местного самоуправления создаются для реализации общественных потребностей граждан и функция этих органов заботиться о повышении благосостояния населения, существуют противоречия интересов представителей органов власти и общественных организаций, которые определяются в данной статье. Выявлены возможности и формы участия общественности при принятии управленческих решений социально-экономического характера на уровне муниципального образования. This article is devoted to the process of current development of cooperation between local administration and civil society in Russia. Contradictions in their interests are pointed out. Possibilities of noncommercial organizations' legislative initiative are described, and forms of their participation in decision-making by local administration are viewed. The process and tendencies of noncommercial organizations' foundation in Russia are analyzed along with the important problems of developing effective partnership relations. The article proposes some measures to improve these problems.

In an interview after his release from prison, Breyten Breytenbach describes himself, at the time he became involved in underground politics, as a Zen Communist. He returns occasionally to this interaction of Marxist ideas of social revolution and Buddhist ideas of non-attachment, but never attempts to explain the resulting synthesis systematically. Indeed, for Breytenbach, being a Zen Communist is to resist systematic positions, to accept contradiction as a constant source of surprise and invention disruptive of all systematic thought. This paper examines how this interaction of Marxist and Buddhist ideas and practices has informed Breytenbach's politics in three contexts: his initial exploration of a radical philosophy of history in his poetry ("Bruin reisbrief", "Brown travel letter"); his role in the underground politics of Okhela in the 1970s; his reflections on politics and social change in his prison and prison-related writings.

In an interview after his release from prison, Breyten Breytenbach describes himself, at the time he became involved in underground politics, as a Zen Communist. He returns occasionally to this interaction of Marxist ideas of social revolution and Buddhist ideas of non-attachment, but never attempts to explain the resulting synthesis systematically. Indeed, for Breytenbach, being a Zen Communist is to resist systematic positions, to accept contradiction as a constant source of surprise and invention disruptive of all systematic thought. This paper examines how this interaction of Marxist and Buddhist ideas and practices has informed Breytenbach's politics in three contexts: his initial exploration of a radical philosophy of history in his poetry ("Bruin reisbrief", "Brown travel letter"); his role in the underground politics of Okhela in the 1970s; his reflections on politics and social change in his prison and prison-related writings.

This study estimates the trends of school segregation in Catalonia (Spain) between 2001 and 2006. Currently, new immigration has reopened the debate about the 'Other Catalans' triggered by concern with the integration of the incoming population. An 'intersectional approach' to social divisions suggests that class and ethnic school segregation responds to strategic parental choice and informal policy arrangements. School segregation indices report a more even distribution in most localities, reinforced isolation of 'foreign students' in a few public schools in some large cities and a persistent divide between more comprehensive public schools and selective private-dependent schools in a variety of towns. According to these findings, the analytical approach points at some clues to make sense of impact of distributive policies, the influence of policy contradictions and the success of mobilisation and lobbying political strategies.

В статье рассматривается отношение русской эмиграции к Генуэзской конференции, ее реакция на приглашение советской делегации, изучение русским зарубежьем противоборствующих тенденций в советском правительстве по вопросам внешней политики накануне и во время конференции. Цель работы - изучить позиционирование эмиграцией себя и советской стороны в ходе Генуэзской конференции. Подобный подход к советской внешнеполитической деятельности, а также к истории эмиграции ранее не применялся. ; The article examines the attitude of Russian emigration toward the Conference in Genoa, its reaction to the invitation of the Soviet delegation, study by Russians abroad the Soviet government contradictions in foreign policy before and during the conference. The purpose of the article is to study positioning by emigration itself and Soviets during the Genoa conference. Such approach to the Soviet foreign-policy activity and also to the history of emigration was not applied earlier.