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Utopia Between Corrupted Public Responsibility & Contexted Modernisation - Globalisation & Social Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
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Utopia Between Corrupted Public Responsibility & Contexted Modernisation - Globalisation & Social Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
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In the present volume Cathal O'Connel looks at the retreat of the
public in the area of housing. The changing ownership structures
actually affect largely the entire modes of living together
societally and socially -- accommodation and settlement structures
are reconstructed under a certain aegis of privatised options -- of
which an enforced opting-out is one of the forms of the
de-civilising role of the 'regulated de-regulation', by which the
state is backing out public responsibility, creating space for a
new 'invisible hand', though this is highly visible in form of
multinational capital. The same shift of the 'individualisation of
the social' is pertinent in third level education which Deirdre
Ryan and Peter Herrmann are investigating. In the EU, the current
debate on what is called 'Services of General Interests' the focus
is on access and quality. Ryan/Herrmann clarify in a distinguished
way that in this educational context economy matters not only in
regard of accessibility, but as well in quality not least in the
meaning of 'trimming substance'. What in these cases is more linked
to individual policy areas, radiating and affecting indirectly the
entire societal and social fabric, is mirrored and coined by the
wider mechanisms of policy making and actually politics. Catherine
Forde points on respective mechanisms in local government, making
clear that formal restructuration actually does not open 'closed
systems'; instead they create a kind of black whole -- claims of
opening spaces for participation degenerate into unlevelled
playgrounds. Problems of balancing such 'open spaces' between the
formal openness and the actually available 'real living space' are
topical in Rosie Meade's contribution. It is getting obvious that
responsibility is both a question of rights and personal
commitment. Joe Finnerty in his contribution points on the most
important fact, that the role of scientific research and the
measurement of social and societal processes is as well not least a
matter of commitment -- it has to be guaranteed and clarified and
'objective reason' is not concerned with expelling subjective
factors and artificially reducing complexity by constructing
arithmetical constraints; instead, the development of
indicator-oriented methods has to sublate and supersede complexity.
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