Unquiet Time
Subtitle: Aotearoa/New Zealand in a fast-changing world
By: Colin James
Publisher: Fraser Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Masterton, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780994136015
Subjects: Globalization; Politics and government; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Foreign relations; Economic history; Manners and customs
Description: In Unquiet Time, Colin James describes a world in disorder as it rebalances politically, economically and demographically; a technology that is changing the way we live and 'work' and globalising us in new ways; looming environmental limits, climate change and biosecurity and pandemic threats; a need for new thinking; and likely major shocks. This is habitat tiny Aotearoa/New Zealand must navigate as it goes into the 2020s. Much has changed since the last big social and policy upheaval in the 1980s, in the way this country conducts itself internationally, in its bicultural makeup turning multicultural, in its management and mismanagement of a unique but threatened natural environment, in its economy and in its now unequal society. There are many challenges but also many opportunities in this highly attractive place. Who will we be? Unquiet Time poses the questions and suggests some answers -- Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Then and now; title: A world in transit (Disordered world : global issues; title: Refashioning globalisation; title: A life-changing technology comes of age; title: Planetary limits in the "Anthropocene"; title: Trust, inequalities and some big questions; title: Shocks and disruptions : more to come; title: Towards a new paradigm); title: Aotearoa/New Zealand in the independence era (Going independent; title: Looking outwards; title: Walking (or not) in two worlds; title: The natural environment : 'Yes' v 'Unless'; title: A flexible economy, but...; title: Justice as fairness; title: Power shift; title: Who will we be?