Living Together/Todo

Roadmap

Rough timeline for completing proposal and beginning work on research project

First draft (June 07)

• Complete entering notes, add notes from uni library research session
• Send to friends for feedback

Second draft (July 07)

• Incorporate friends' feedback
• Send proposal to list of academics around NZ

Proposal complete (Oct 07)

• Incorporate academic feedback
• Send to uni departments around NZ

Research contemporary ideas on World Government

• We need to find a good recent essay on the topic

Submit proposal to various NZ unis

• Create list of unis with political/social science departments

Main paper

• Write intro story/vision
• read The Ellsworth Declaration

Old notes

• how many % of pop in western societies live in cities?

first, what are you trying to compare? how are you defining "western", second?

guess there is no proper definition for it. so i might take europe. i just expect the number of urbanisation to be a lot higher. wanna establish the idea of a trend and compare it to the number you gave me.

• how did the us benefit from ww2? - reference needed
• difference between society and nation?
• get book on global government from library

check out

• Neutralizing Culture(Nikolas Kompridis)
• Social Integration across Communities of Belief(Lasse Thomassen)
• Stretching "The Political": Governmentality, Political Society, and Solidarity across Borders(Kathryn Trevenen)