INNOVATION - The European Journal of Social Science Research

Volume 9 Number 4 December 1996 ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY Issue Editors: Barbara Adam and Maarten Mentzel The final issue of this year’s Innovation deals with environmental issues. Guest editors are Barbara Adam of the University of Cardiff and Maarten Mentzel of the University of Leiden. Included are papers by Ian Welsh on the notions of risk and reflexivity in the context of the globalization of environmental politics; Colin Hay on the ‘ecological pathology’ of the liberal democratic state form; Colin Gill on the greening of industrial relations; Benno Galjart on sustainability; Jon Mulberg on environmental economics; Marian Deblonde on environmental economics and politics; Thomas Cordier on a comparison of cleavages in Green parties in France, the Netherlands and Germany and Masja Nas and Paul Dekker on the national variation in environmental attitudes. Papers Ian Welsh Risk, Global Governance and Environmental Politics Abstract Online Colin Hay From Crisis to Catastrophe? The Ecological Pathologies of the Liberal-Democratic State Form Jon Mulberg Modernity and Environmental Economics: A Sociological Critique Marian K. Deblonde Envriomental Economic Scientists and Politics Abstract Online Colin Gill Environmental Protection in Europe: The 'Greening' of Industrial Relations? Abstract Online Benno Galjart Sustainability as the Maintenance of Things: Analogies for an Environmental Sociology Abstract Online Thomas Cordier Cleavages in Green Parties: The Case of the Dutch, French and German Greens Abstract Online Masja Nas and Paul Dekker Envrionmental Involvement in Four West European Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Attitudes and Action Abstract Online

 

Volume 9 Number 3 September 1996 SOCIAL CONSEQUENCE OF TRANSITION Issue Editor: Helen Addison The third issue of Volume 9 of Innovation deals with the subject of the social impacts of the transition process in countries of Central Europe, namely, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic and is the result of an ambitious project on the subject launched in 1993 by the Institute for Human Sciences. The research on which the various articles report on was based on a survey of some 1,000 households per country in each country under consideration. Included in the issue are papers by Zsuzsa Ferge, Uwe Engfer, Endre Sik, Petr Mateju, Roza Milic-Czerniak and Rastislav Bednarik. The papers presented in this issue were first discussed at a workshop in the Lisbon conference of the European Association and the ICCR on the subject of social policy. Papers Zsusza Ferge Social Values and the Evaluation of Regime Change Abstract Online Uwe Engfer The Impactof Privatization and Change of Social Security Systems Upon Living Conditions of East German Households Abstract Online Roza Milic-Czerniak Coping Strategies and Changes in the Satisfaction of Consumer Needs in Poland Abstract Online Rastislav Bednárik, Silvia Valana, Jana Filipova, Silvia Rybarova and Zdenka Danekova The Social Consequences of Transformation in Slovakia Abstract Online Endre Sik The Social Consequences of Unemploament in Hungary - A Household Perspective Petr Matjeju Winners and Loosers in the Post-Communist Transformation: the Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective Abstract Online

 

Volume 9 Number 2 June 1996 The second issue of Innovation includes among others a select number of papers presented at the Europeanization conference of the European Association and the ICCR that took place in Vienna in early 1995: Martin Peterson discusses the role of federalism in a federal European context; John Crowley critically addresses the meaning of the role of European integration; Iain Begg and Ann Bartholomew discuss the structures of policy assignment in the European Union; Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins review the significance of the new media order in Europe, and Charles Husband attempts the conceive the multi-ethnic public sphere on the basis of the ‘right to be understood’. Also included in this issue is a paper by Maryam Kamali Miyamoto comparing the trends in asylum policies in Europe, North America and Australia and a paper by Joost van Loon on the work of Donna Haraway. Papers Martin Peterson What is the Relevance of Regionalism in a Federal European Context? Some Problematizing Aspects John Crowley European Integration: Sociological Process of Political Project? Abstract Online Ann Bartholomew and Iain Begg Policy Assignment in the European Union Abstract Online Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins Media Without Boundaries: Fear and Loathing on the Road Eurotrash or Transformation in the European Cultural Economy? Abstract Online Martin O'Brien and Sue Penna Postmodern Theory and Politics: Perspectives on Citizenship and Social Justice Abstract Online Charles Husband The Right to be Understood: Conceiving the Multi-Ethnic Public Sphere Abstract Online Maryam Kamali Miyamato Restricting Asylum: Trends and Prospects Abstract Online Joost van Loon Technological Sensibilities and the Cyberpolitics of Gender: Donna Haraway's Postmodern Feminism Abstract Online

 

Volume 9 Number 1 March 1996 MULTICULTURALISM AND POLITICAL INTEGRATION IN EUROPEAN CITIES Issue Editor: John Rex The first issue of Innovation of Volume 9 deals with the subject of multiculturalism in cities with John Rex as guest editor. It represents the result of a comparative project undertaken in the framework of the COST programme to investigate the politics of multiculturalism in urban centres, albeit not necessarily the capitals alone. It includes reports from England on the cities of Birmingham and Bradford (John Rex and Yunas Sammad); the Netherlands on the cities of Rotterdam and Enschede (George Muskens); Belgium on the cities of Liege and Antwerp (Marco Martinnielo and Jan Blommaert); Austria on the cities of Graz, Linz and Vienna (Fritz Betz) and Switzerland on the city of Bern (Annemarie Sancar-Flückiger). Included is also an article of Michael Bommes and Frank Olaf-Radtke on the problems inherent in the provision of ‘multiculturalism’ by the welfare state as well as an article by Catherine Delcroix on the role of women as mediators of multiculturalism in various French cities. Papers John Rex and Yunas Samad Multiculturalism and Political Integration in Birmingham and Bradford Abstract Online George Muskens Multiculturalism and Political Integration in the Netherlands: Rotterdam, Enschede Abstract Online Jan Blommaert and Marco Martiniello Ethnic Mobilization, Multiculturalism and the Political Process in Two Belgian Cities: Antwerp and Liège Abstract Online Michael Bommes and Frank-Olaf Radtke Migration into Big Cities and Small Towns - An Uneven Process with Limited Need for Multiculturalism Abstract Online Catherine Delcroix Stepping Forward to Help Communication: The 'Médiatrices Interculturelles' in Underprivileged Areas in France Abstract Online Anne-Marie Sancar-Flückinger Integration of Migrants - An Extraordinary Undertaking? An Analysis of Swiss Policy and Handling of Resident Immigrants; A Municipal Example - Bern Abstract Online Fritz Betz Cultural Production and the Politics of Identity: On the Strategic Use of 'Multiculturalism' in Two Austrian Cities Abstract Online