Living Together/Todo

Proposal

Get academic feedback on proposal

• Create list of people to send proposal to

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

• We will begin with the scenario of a world united in peace. Addressing diversity, choices and economic, social and environmental sustainability. In essence, what does "The Good Future" look and feel like? This story creates a hopeful vision for the future and aims to draw in the reader, by showing several stories or scenarios within a new society and showing how they are interrelated.

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)