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the TEN-T vision of a seamless Europe. Images of HGVs snarling up the roads of Kent thus became a key motif in Brexit debates, mirroring the anxiety about TIR ( Transports Internationaux Routiers ) juggernauts that Patrick Wright notes was prominent in the years immediately before the 1973 European vote. As he details, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, campaigners in villages including Boughton, Bridge and Harbledown near Canterbury became increasingly vociferous about the menace of lorries bound for Dover and Europe careering through what were inevitably described
haunted Shipwright's Arms on Faversham's Hollowshore, threatening the landlord with his air rifle in scenes eerily reminiscent of the TV series. In 2017 the 75-year-old BAFTA-nominated Shakespearean actor John McEnery likewise walked into the local Wetherspoons pub brandishing an imitation handgun, flamboyantly demanding after-hours service from startled bar staff. A star in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet in the 1960s, McEnery was acquitted of possessing an imitation firearm, but died the following year, being described in obituaries as a ‘troubled’ actor who
Lena Mohamed writes in her essay ‘The stateless artist’ that, from the 1940s to the early 1960s, Britain was contending with the remnants of a once dominant empire, and found the need to reinforce a national identity through focusing on the significance of place, particularly London. During this period many people both from abroad and from other parts of Britain ‘were drawn to London as the centre of the world’ ( 2012 : 78). References
living on planet earth but rather as human civilisation, characterised by a range of shared and common beliefs, ethics, and principles (such as liberty, solidarity, social relationality, principled equality, and civic rights). As Maurice Blanchot already argued in the early 1960s, this view is predicated upon the fantasy that ‘humanity’ (in the civilising sense) actually exists
inclusive democratic experimentation were largely forgotten. If considered at all, Dewey was characterised as naïve, out-of-date and out-of-keeping with the rising currents in analytical philosophy, positivist social theory and calculative social science. A challenge to this ascendant worldview and its renewed quest for certainty did not arise until the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s broke through the barricade of prevailing ideas by demanding greater creative and political freedom for women, people of colour and sexual minorities. These rising social movements
1960s (Keith, 2019 ). For Guyer, an unintended consequence of the forms of neoclassical economics reason deployed in late twentieth-century Africa shifted mainstream economics thinking from a conventional taxonomic distinction between the short term and the long term to a privileging of the importance of the long term and diminution of short-term considerations. She then highlighted how this shift complements and mirrors a framing of fundamentalist Christianity which privileges the millennial and rewards in the hereafter over the contemporary moment. Both monetarism
value in situations of cardiac arrest. For many decades defibrillation was used only in hospital, and while some mobile devices were trialled as early as the 1960s in Belfast, it was only in the 1990s in the more affluent parts of the globe that defibrillators were installed in ambulances. And only in the last decade has technological innovation created devices that are cheap enough to be considered for wider use and rapidly proliferated across multiple locations in cities of much of the globe. The reason for this was the combination and trade-offs of city speeds: the
institutional rooting, and slips down an economic platform open to mediations that encourage the conversion of slave-property into an intensely exploited work force-commodity, in environments that lack economic, social, civil and political rights, and that are marked by the predominance of racist, authoritarian and hierarchical (whether patrimonial or class-led) cultural formations. One should remember that (limited) labour guarantees were applied only in the 1960s – and came at the same time as the political repression imposed by the dictatorship and by oligarchic violence
the recent emergence of inpatriation obscures more complicated histories and has political effects. Management literature documented ‘inpatriation’ as early as the 1960s – however, inpatriates were then often labelled expatriates (see Borrmann 1968 ; Lesher and Griffith 1968 ; Franko 1973 ; Perlmutter and Heenan 1974 ). Rather than new, the inpatriate seems a new ‘category invention’ to differentiate and devalue South-North movements, possibly precisely because they present a growing challenge to the inherited institutionalised inequality of corporate management
. Female Shell employees in locations such as the Netherlands, UK and Canada had actively lobbied for more equal opportunities since at least the 1960s. The Group's Committee of Managing Directors had already declared in 1973 ‘that more efforts should be made to recruit women’ into graduate positions up to top-management levels, and Shell Netherlands hired a woman, M. C. Endert-Baylé, to focus solely on this task in 1971. A 1973 report titled Career Possibilities for Women in Shell in the Netherlands , prepared by Endert-Baylé, critiqued the exclusion of women from