Paving the Third Way by David Coates

Paving the Third Way by David Coates

After the twenty year hiatus of Thatcherism, the character and politics of the British Labour Party are again centre stage. In the UK itself, a new generation of students, intellectuals and political activists are turning both their scholarship and their politics back towards Labour. Abroad there is widespread interest in the substance and potential of New Labour's 'Third Way'. Yet that turn has so far very little to bite on. For one consequence of those twenty years has been a dearth of informed scholarship on Labour, 'old' or 'New'. Fortunately one such body of scholarship exists, and is reproduced here for the first time in an easily accessible form: the writings of a group of scholars inspired by Ralph Miliband. The 'Miliband' voice in Labour Party historiography has been a strong and permanent one since the publication of Parliamentary Socialism in 1961, so strong in fact that even its most strident critics continue to cite it in their publications, invariably distorting its arguments in the process. These writings constitute one of the richest sources of material and analysis of the continuing limits of Labour politics. These writers- John Saville, Colin Leys, Leo Panitch, Hilary Wainwright- have an immense role to fulfill debunking the wilder claims for novelty of New Labour. They constitute an insightful source on the true character of Old Labour; and exemplify the problems of reformism. In this edited collection, David Coates reproduces the best of difficult to obtain scholarship. His editorial comments act as a guide to the moments to which that scholarship was a response. His choice of extracts demonstrates the coherence of the approach that links them together; and his closing essay (written with Leo Panitch) makes clear their vital importance as a source of understanding of the contemporary Labour Party as well as of Labour Parties in the past.

Mike Acreman is Head of Hydro-ecology and Wetlands, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, and Visiting Professor of Hydro-ecology at University College London. He was freshwater management advisor to the IUCN-The World Conservation Union and has worked in numerous countries for DFID, World Bank, European Commission, IUCN, Ramsar Convention, Biodiversity Convention and national governments.

David Coates lead the work on biodiversity and water, food and energy at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), based in Montreal, Canada. He has extensive previous experience working in Africa and Asia, including for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Mekong River Commission.

Nick Davidson was Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands from 2000 to 2014. He is currently an environmental consultant based in the UK and Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Rob McInnes is an independent Chartered Environmentalist based in the UK, with over 20 years experience in wetland-related environmental reseach, consultancy and conservation. He serves on the Ramsar Convention's Scientific and Technical Review Panel and is currently Task Lead on Urban Wetlands.

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ISBN 13	9780850365122
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Titel	Paving the Third Way
Autor	David Coates
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The Merlin Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-03-25
Seitenanzahl	270
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