Looks really good, congrats too. I’d love to come, I have been many times in Athenes in the 70s and 80s. But in october I am in residence with an art project in Nantes (France)…
Wish you all well, esp the ‘Greeks’!
Make Success!
patrizio & Diiiinooos!
The word ‘regulation’ has two main sets of meanings.
(i) in ordinary speech, the rules and constraints upon actions; in our context the collective / municipal / governmental rules and laws which define and limit individual private rights and corporate rights etc. This is the sense of ‘regulation’ used by Margaret Thatcher in ‘de-regulation’ of banking, markets, city planning and so on. This is also the sense which the Athens group used when they wrote the headline for the meeting, since much of the important history of Athens (and Greece) is of the city growing with minimal rules, or rules which are ignored…..
however
(ii) among social scientists etc there is also a body of thinking called ‘Regulation Theory’. Many people find it useful, but there is often some confusion with the common-sense term because in Regulation Theory the ‘regulation’ of social relations is maintained through a whole set of arrangements which don’t just include the STATE and its RULES but also MARKET RELATIONSHIPS, welfare regimes and so on. David Harvey and Alain Lipietz are the 2 main writers in this field in urban studies I suppose, and Bob Jessop in Sociology…. It’s useful version of marxist analysis and puts a lot of emphasis on how old regimes of accumulation (truces or settlements between capital and labour) can work well for a while and then break down, like fordism breaking down through falling profitability. There’s a good coverage at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_theoryI mention all this to try and stop us getting confused before we start. If everyone is very clear what they mean we should be OK.
Dimitra and others,
great website and you are so early, congratulation!!!
Daniela
Looks really good, congrats too. I’d love to come, I have been many times in Athenes in the 70s and 80s. But in october I am in residence with an art project in Nantes (France)…
Wish you all well, esp the ‘Greeks’!
Make Success!
patrizio & Diiiinooos!
The word ‘regulation’ has two main sets of meanings.
(i) in ordinary speech, the rules and constraints upon actions; in our context the collective / municipal / governmental rules and laws which define and limit individual private rights and corporate rights etc. This is the sense of ‘regulation’ used by Margaret Thatcher in ‘de-regulation’ of banking, markets, city planning and so on. This is also the sense which the Athens group used when they wrote the headline for the meeting, since much of the important history of Athens (and Greece) is of the city growing with minimal rules, or rules which are ignored…..
however
(ii) among social scientists etc there is also a body of thinking called ‘Regulation Theory’. Many people find it useful, but there is often some confusion with the common-sense term because in Regulation Theory the ‘regulation’ of social relations is maintained through a whole set of arrangements which don’t just include the STATE and its RULES but also MARKET RELATIONSHIPS, welfare regimes and so on. David Harvey and Alain Lipietz are the 2 main writers in this field in urban studies I suppose, and Bob Jessop in Sociology…. It’s useful version of marxist analysis and puts a lot of emphasis on how old regimes of accumulation (truces or settlements between capital and labour) can work well for a while and then break down, like fordism breaking down through falling profitability. There’s a good coverage at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_theoryI mention all this to try and stop us getting confused before we start. If everyone is very clear what they mean we should be OK.