Acts of European citizenship: how Britons resident in France have been negotiating post-Brexit futures

On 23 June 2016 a referendum decided that the United Kingdom (UK) would leave the European Union (EU) - a process popularly termed 'Brexit'. Withdrawal from the EU will revoke Britons of EU citizenship and its associated rights. For many Britons living in France, Brexit has brought uncertainty over their future rights and lives, with little assurance from the UK Government. This article argues that Brexit is a moment of rupture in taken-for-granted ideas about citizenship. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic research among Britons in France, the article examines how they have been responding to Brexit through 'acts of citizenship'. It demonstrates how Britons behave as active citizens, activist citizens and consumer citizens, who variously follow and write scripts as they make claims to future rights and lives in France. The boundaries between these subject positions are increasingly blurred as citizenship is negotiated. The article thus draws links between Brexit, everyday lives and geographical understandings of citizenship

Acts of European citizenship: how Britons resident in France have been negotiating post-Brexit futures

On 23 June 2016 a referendum decided that the United Kingdom (UK) would leave the European Union (EU) - a process popularly termed 'Brexit'. Withdrawal from the EU will revoke Britons of EU citizenship and its associated rights. For many Britons living in France, Brexit has brought uncertainty over their future rights and lives, with little assurance from the UK Government. This article argues that Brexit is a moment of rupture in taken-for-granted ideas about citizenship. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic research among Britons in France, the article examines how they have been responding to Brexit through 'acts of citizenship'. It demonstrates how Britons behave as active citizens, activist citizens and consumer citizens, who variously follow and write scripts as they make claims to future rights and lives in France. The boundaries between these subject positions are increasingly blurred as citizenship is negotiated. The article thus draws links between Brexit, everyday lives and geographical understandings of citizenship

Local electoral rights for non-French residents? a case-study analysis of British candidates and councillors in French municipal elections

The French Constitution restricts local electoral rights to French nationals and EU citizens. Third country nationals have long been excluded from suffrage as France has maintained a stronghold on nationality and republican values. Academics have called for expansive and liberal citizenships that would allocate political rights to all non-citizen residents, independent of nationality. This paper argues that Brexit and cessation of Britons’ electoral rights present a pivotal moment to discuss expansive citizenship and alien suffrage. Taking a bottom-up approach, the paper presents actual experiences of Britons as candidates and councillors in French municipalities. It demonstrates the importance of residency, representation, participation and inclusion, rather than nationality at the local level to underpin claims for expanding electoral rights. These findings foreground an empirical case for further promotion of theoretical ideas that propose expansive citizenship based on effective residency rather than nationality. Consideration is also given to third country nationals

Developing bus rapid transit

Writing on geographical development, James Sidaway (2012:49) asks "how useful is it to talk about the geography of development or of developing countries"? It is a topic that has been discussed at length by academics and practitioners in the field of development studies, yet reverberations seem not to have penetrated certain areas of transport studies despite links between transport, social mobility, poverty alleviation and international development (Hickman, 2014; Hickman et al., 2015; World Bank, 2002). This commentary is concerned with geographies of development conveyed in literature on bus rapid transit (BRT), a bus-based mode of urban transit that has been championed by academics such as Gilbert (2008) and Venter et al. (2018), and organisations such as the World Bank, 2002 ; World Bank, 2004 as a promising investment in poverty-oriented urban development strategies

Light rail

Light rail describes a range of urban rail transit systems running largely on exclusive rights of way within city centers and between city centers and their suburbs. Light rail is different from, though shares similar characteristics with other transit modes such as buses and heavy rail. Following mid-20th century decline of streetcars, light rail emerged in the 1970s as a response to growing traffic congestion and efforts to draw people and investment back into city centers. Light rail is a leading sustainable transport mode renowned for its high service speed, frequency, safety, and reliability. Light rail is recognized for its potential to facilitate and enhance urban (re)development to boost economic growth and property values. Light rail can help to improve environmental quality and social equity though the latter is a largely neglected part of light rail research

City boosterism and place-making with light rail transit: A critical review of light rail impacts on city image and quality

As an agent in the production of place, transport plays a key role in shaping cities and their wider urban regions. Light rail transit can contribute to city boosterism - helping to enhance a city’s image and quality towards broader development agendas such as economic growth and creation of sustainable and liveable cities. This paper examines the place-making role of light rail (supertrams, light metros and streetcars) through analysis of its material and meaningful impacts in relation to boosting city image and quality. It provides a critical synthesis of empirical ex-post evidence from a literature review of published and unpublished sources on wider economic impacts of light rail. Impacts include a modern image, reinforcement of cultural identity, prestige, social inclusion/exclusion, environmental quality, and physical transformations such as pedestrianisation and ‘greening’ the city. More positive impacts than negative impacts were found, though these vary with geographical location and over time. Some cities deliberately seek to maximise impacts through integrated transport and urban planning strategies. The paper complements existing cultural approaches to transport geography to shed light on the relationship between transit development and city boosterism. The paper makes recommendations for future research

Britons abroad or European citizens? The negotiation of (trans)national space and citizenship by British migrants in France

This paper uses the concept of 'ordinary citizenship' (Staeheli et al., 2012) to explore the relationship between mobility, citizenship and political space in the European Union. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Britons living in South West France, the paper examines the ways in which citizenship is meaningful to migrants as a complexity of legal frameworks, normative structures and everyday activities. While EU citizenship has been advanced to underpin the formation of a closer Union, we demonstrate that contemporary forms of citizenship among these lifestyle migrants are shaped to a large extent by performances of national belonging, and individual interactions with other people at the local or community level. We argue that a bi-national structure of citizenship, or one based on domicile better accounts for the experiences of these migrants than supranational EU citizenship

Implementation of STCW 95 Transitional arrangements

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Can self mutilation be seen as an addictive behaviour A preliminary study in adults

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Transport's historical, contemporary and future role in shaping urban development : re-evaluating transit oriented development

This paper reviews transport's historical, contemporary and future role in shaping urban development since industrialisation. Previous definitions of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) starting in the late 20th century are challenged. Three distinct eras of TOD are identified: from the mid-19th century to early 20th century; Planned TOD in the mid-20th century; and TOD for urban regeneration and/or urban expansion since the late 20th century, now featuring rail and bus rapid transit, cycling and walking, shared use mobility, and automated transport. Future links with disruptive transport technologies are highlighted as themes that must be examined for assisting TOD's further development. The authors make the case, using empirical evidence from selected TOD applications from around the world, that high frequency transit service is essential for successful contemporary and future planned TODs. TOD is then redefined for the 21st century and best practice policy recommendations are made