Showing papers by "Damian Tambini published in 2001"
TL;DR: The authors examines the historical and conceptual background to the current discussion of post-national citizenship and argues that concepts of nation and citizenship took on new meanings and became closely connected with the rise of the modern nation-state.
Abstract: This article examines the historical and conceptual background to the current discussion of post-national citizenship. It is argued that concepts of nation and citizenship took on new meanings and became closely connected with the rise of the modern nation-state. Nation and citizenship became key institutions determining access to resources, patterns of solidarity and the active participation that we call citizenship. As the economic and cultural structures upon which national citizenship depend are undermined, it is necessary to review the different ways in which citizenship depends upon the identity, homogeneity and culture which constructions of the nation have in the past provided.
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01 Jan 2001TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges of political and economic Citizenship in an age of Structural Inactivity and propose a model of political Citizenship through Direct Democracy, which can be seen as a form of Social Movement Organizations.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: Dilemmas of Citizenship PART I: THE MARKETIZATION OF CITIZENSHIP 2. Romancing the Market, Reviling the State: Historicizing Liberalism, Privatization, and the Competing Claims to Civil Society 3. Poor Citizens. Social Citizenship versus Individualization of Welfare 4. Redesigning the Canadian Citizenship Regime: Remaking the Institutions of Representation 5. The Marketization of Public Services 6. Citizenship and Markets in Recent British Education Policy 7. Prospects for Effective Social Citizenship in an Age of Structural Inactivity PART II: THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP 8. Citizenship through Direct Democracy? The Broken Promises of Empowerment 9. Institutions, Culture and Identity of Trans-National Citizenship: How Much Integration and Communal Spirit is Needed? 10. Social Movement Organizations and the Democratic Order. Reorganizing the Social Basis of Political Citizenship in Complex Societies 11. The Civic Networking Movement: The Internet as a New Democratic Public Space? 12. Conclusions. The Future of Citizenship
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The League of Nationalism as mentioned in this paper is an example of a group of Nationalists that has been active in the UK since the early 1990s, from the Lombard League to the Northern League.
Abstract: 1. Virtual Nationalism? Understanding the League 2. The League in Context 3. The Rise of the League 4. The Dilation: from Lombard League to Northern League 5. The League in Government, 1994 6. The League: Leader, Activists and Organisation 7. The Uses of Nationalism: Identity and Action in the League 8. A Smaller Tougher Movement? the League since 1995
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19 Jan 2001
TL;DR: All the relevant issues around the 2005 target set by the Government are discussed, and a coherent strategy to ensure that the benefits of the digital age reach all citizens is proposed.
Abstract: This is the first in a series of ippr/Citizens Online papers which explore the social and democratic role of new media. This paper discusses all the relevant issues around the 2005 target set by the Government, and proposes a coherent strategy to ensure that the benefits of the digital age reach all citizens. The full text can be downloaded from the IPPR website.
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01 Jan 2001
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: In this article, the authors map out the key challenge to governments and communications regulators posed by the digital revolution and argue that the changes taking place are revolutionary but that there is a set of radical reforms that will ensure that communications regulation continues to protect the public interest.
Abstract: Mobile communications, digital media, the internet and the convergence of television, personal computing and telecommunications are all transforming traditional notions of broadcasting, telephony and radio. The papers in this collection map out the key challenge to governments and communications regulators posed by the digital revolution. They argue that the changes taking place are revolutionary but that there is a set of radical reforms that will ensure that communications regulation continues to protect the public interest.
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01 Jan 2001
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01 Sep 2001
TL;DR: The authors argue that the government needs to develop a deeper understanding and more coherent approach to the complex policy issues raised by ICT in education, and outlines steps that should be taken to ensure policy success in this area.
Abstract: At a time when the government is considering major reforms to the National Grid for Learning, this pamphlet asks: How can the next stage of investment in ICT most benefit learners and teachers? What are the particular concerns of commercial partnerships in this field? How might we ensure that the UK develops an innovative market in the best quality educational content in the world? The authors argue that the government needs to develop a deeper understanding and more coherent approach to the complex policy issues raised by ICT in education, and outlines steps that should be taken to ensure policy success in this area. The full text of this pamphlet can be downloaded from the IPPR website.
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TL;DR: In this paper, media stakeholders gather for a day in a windowless room beneath the Department for Trade and Industry in Westminster to debate the future of media and communications regulation in the UK.
Abstract: July 2000, London. One hundred invited`media stakeholders' gather for a day in a windowless room beneath the Departmentfor Trade and Industry in Westminster. These representatives from thebroadcasting, telecoms and multimedia industry have been summoned to debate the future of media and communications regulation in the UK.
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