New Localism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Andrew Stables

   Pages 1-6

3. Globalisation and Dis-location: Theoretical Framework

   • Andrew Stables

   Pages 7-40

4. Localism and Protectionism

   • Andrew Stables

   Pages 41-56

5. Economic Localism

   • Andrew Stables

   Pages 57-66

6. Living in and for the Here-and-Now

   • Andrew Stables

   Pages 67-81

7. New Localism, Arts and Culture

   • Andrew Stables

   Pages 83-95

8. Going with the Flow of Human Aspirations

   • Andrew Stables

   Pages 97-112

This book examines “New Localism' – exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the motivations behind such changes for the benefit of individuals, communities and the more-than-human environment.

The book discusses human progress, both individual and collective, in terms of the interactions of the local and the global, the specific and the universal, and the concrete and the abstract. It also considers how forms of social progress can be understood and reconfigured in the context of the rejection of certain aspects of liberal intelligentsia orthodoxy over recent years.

Developing his arguments with specific reference to the evolving, political landscape, the author helpsreaders to understand major events such as the Trump presidency and the British vote to leave the EU from a fully semiotic perspective. He also explains how educational processes can use and respond to such events in ways that are locally grounded but nevertheless not at odds with more abstract formulations of progress such as sustainability and social justice.

• Globalisation
• Localism
• Semiotics
• New Localism
• More-than-human environment
• Liberal intelligentsia orthodoxy
• Sustainability
• Social justice
• Response to globalization
• European Union without Britain
• semiotic perspective
• social progress
• human progress

• (emeritus), University of Roehampton, London, UK

  Andrew Stables

Andrew Stables is currently Senior Researcher at the International Semiotics Institute, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Roehampton, London. He was previously Professor of Education and Philosophy at the University of Bath (2004-2013) and the University of Roehampton (2013-2017).

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