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Issue No. 1   March 2016

Attracting international investors while repelling undesirable migrants: since the Great Recession of 2009, these two preoccupations have dominated the European agenda. Given the havoc wrought by austerity programs and the ongoing ordeal of asylum seekers, what possibilities does the near future hold, for the European Union and for the left’s ability to challenge its current priorities?

EUROPE at a CROSSROADS

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  • Issue 01
    • Front Matter
    • Managed Inhospitality
    • Perennial Austerity
    • Trials of The Left

Michel Feher

Aurélie Windels

Wolfgang Streeck

Brigitte Young

Thomas Biebricher

Severin Reissl + Engelbert Stockhammer

Benjamin Lemoine

Claus Offe

Vincent Berthe

Yanis Varoufakis

Danae Stratou

Sonja Buckel

Éric Fassin + Aurélie Windels

Alessandro Penso

Charles Heller + Lorenzo Pezzani

Charles Heller + Lorenzo Pezzani

Laure Vermeersch

Bernd Kasparek

Alessandro Penso

Dace Dzenovska

Basak Yavcan

New Keywords Collective

New Keywords Collective

New Keywords Collective

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Leoluca Orlando + Simon Parker

Fabien Escalona

Jean-Michel De Waele

David Bailey

Costas Douzinas

Jeremy Gilbert

César Rendueles + Jorge Sola

Ludovic Lamant

Jordi Mir Garcia

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NEAR FUTURES ONLINE, the online companion of Zone Books’ Near Futures series, is a forum dedicated to the analysis of the challenges borne out of national governments’ and international institutions’ responses to some critical events – the financial crisis of 2008, the “Arab Springs” of 2011 – as well as ongoing developments such as climate change and soaring inequalities. Organized around a specific question, each issue of NFO brings together scholars, journalists, political activists, and artists, and includes contributions belonging to different genres and using a variety of media – essays and reportages, interviews and dialogues, photo essays and videos. Contributors are invited to address questions raised by NFO through an engagement with particular debates, histories, policies, and actors as well as to examine their possible trajectories in the near future.
Near Futures Online
Issue No. 1 (March 2016)
“Europe at a Crossroads”


Edited by Michel Feher, William Callison,
Milad Odabaei + Aurélie Windels
Consulting editor: Wendy Brown
  • Introduction by Michel Feher The Critical State of the Union
  • Timeline by Aurélie Windels Europe at a Crossroads

PERENNIAL AUSTERITY

  • Interview with Wolfgang Streeck The Life and Time of the European Consolidation State
  • Essay by Brigitte Young Imaginaries of German Economic Success: Is the Current Model Sustainable?
  • Interview with Thomas Biebricher Return or Revival: The Ordoliberal Legacy
  • Essay by Severin Reissl + Engelbert Stockhammer The Euro Crisis and the Neoliberal EU Policy Regime: Signs of Change or More of the Same?
  • Essay by Benjamin Lemoine The Politics of Public Debt Structures: How Uneven Claims on the State Colonize the Future
  • Interview with Claus Offe The Fate of an Impasse: Europe, Year 2015
  • Photo essay by Vincent Berthe The Marks of Austerity in Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Interview with Yanis Varoufakis Europe and the Specter of Democracy
  • Video by Danae Stratou Vital Space: Humanity – Athens

Managed Inhospitality

  • Interview with Sonja Buckel Welcome Management: Making Sense of the “Summer of Migration”
  • Essay by Éric Fassin + Aurélie Windels The German Dream: Neoliberalism and Fortress Europe
  • Photo essay by Alessandro Penso Onboard the Bourbon Argos: The Médecins Sans Frontières Search and Rescue Operation
  • Essay by Charles Heller + Lorenzo Pezzani Ebbing and Flowing: The EU’s Shifting Practices of (Non-) Assistance and Bordering in a Time of Crisis
  • Essay by Charles Heller + Lorenzo Pezzani Ebbing and Flowing: The EU’s Shifting Practices of (Non-) Assistance and Bordering in a Time of Crisis
  • Video by Laure Vermeersch Shoreline Visions: Lampedusa
  • Essay by Bernd Kasparek Routes, Corridors, and Spaces of Exception: Governing Migration and Europe
  • Photo essay by Alessandro Penso Passage Through the Balkans
  • Essay by Dace Dzenovska Eastern Europe, the Moral Subject of the Migration/Refugee Crisis, and Political Futures
  • Essay by Basak Yavcan On Governing the Syrian Refugee Crisis Collectively: The View from Turkey
  • Essay series by New Keywords Collective Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe”
  • Essay series by New Keywords Collective Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe”
  • Essay by New Keywords Collective Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe”
  • Essay series by New Keywords Collective Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe”
  • Essay series by New Keywords Collective Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe”
  • Essay series by New Keywords Collective Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe”
  • Essay series by New Keywords Collective Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe”
  • Essay by New Keywords Collective Europe/Crisis: New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe”
  • Interview with Leoluca Orlando + Simon Parker Palermo Open City: From the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis to a Europe Without Borders?

TRIALS OF THE LEFT

  • Interview with Fabien Escalona A Case of “Path Dependence”: Social Democracy in Western Europe
  • Interview with Jean-Michel De Waele Conspicuous Absence: Social Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Essay by David Bailey The End of the European Left? Social Democracy, Hope, Disillusion, and Europe
  • Essay by Costas Douzinas The Left in Power? Notes on Syriza’s Rise, Fall, and (Possible) Second Rise
  • Essay by Jeremy Gilbert Corbynism and Its Futures
  • Essay by César Rendueles + Jorge Sola Podemos and the Challenges of Political Change in Spain
  • Essay by Ludovic Lamant Occupational Options: The Political Trajectories of Social Movements in Southern Europe
  • Essay by Jordi Mir Garcia A Democratic Revolution Underway in Barcelona: Barcelona en Comú
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