Matthew Wood

Matthew Flinders

Paul Fawcett

Colin Hay

There is a mounting body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies that add to this growing trend towards anti-politics by either removing or displacing the potential for choice, collective agency, and deliberation. This book examines the relationship between these two trends as understood within the broader shift towards governance. It brings together a number of contributions from scholars who have a varied range of concerns but who nevertheless share a common interest in developing the concept of depoliticization through their engagement with a set of theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical questions. This volume explores these questions from a variety of different perspectives and uses a number of different empirical examples and case studies from both within the nation state as well as from other regional, global, and multi-level arenas. In this context, this volume examines the potential and limits of depoliticization as a concept and its position and contribution in the nexus between the larger and more established literatures on governance and anti-politics.

Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance

Managing Passenger Logistics addresses the changes in passenger logistics and explores the ways in which it is planned and managed in the various forms of transport. Closely following the IOLT's syllabus, the book is aimed at students of the subject, as well as anyone involved in passenger logistical operations. Managing Passenger Logistics looks in detail at: the analysis and understanding of passenger needs; the management of the passenger logistics function; the role of both central (including EU) and local government; the economic management of financial resources; managing human resources; managing physical resources; transport, energy and the environment; quality controls and licensing; communication and information management. For studying or working in managing the transportation of passengers, the book will provide an invaluable guide to the practical issues and broader implications for commerce, society, the economy and the environment.

Paul Fawcett

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