An exploration of the recent financial crisis which argues that the hitherto dominant intellectual and policy paradigm of neo-liberalism has been fatally weakened and will in due course be replaced. The implications of the crisis for politico-cultural identities and our sense of ourselves as members of an ordered society are explored.

P. W. PRESTON Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He has lived and worked in a number of different countries in Europe and East Asia and has published widely on the issue of complex economic and social change.

England: Place/Trajectory War and Memory: Shifting Recollection Down the Generations Changing Political Relationships: Europe and the USA in the Early 21st Century Freedom From Britain: A Comment on Recent Elite Sponsored Political Cultural Identities Cutting Scotland Loose: Soft Nationalism and Independence-in-Europe The Other Side of the Coin: Reading the Politics of the 2008 Financial Tsunami Downstream From the 2008/10 Crisis: Tracking the Economic and Political Effects England: Available Images, Imagined Futures Bibliography