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2025

The article is based on semi-structured interviews with Turkish viewers living in the single-channel era. In this context, 16 witnesses participated in this study. The basic structure of this study begins with the Turkish Radio and Television (trt) era, the first serious television broadcasting process in Türkiye, and attempts to make sense of the 'pioneering television broadcasting' period through the memories and opinions of Turkish viewers. In this process, in addition to the place and meaning of television in daily life, the impact of the political institution on television broadcasting from the single-channel period to the present day will also be emphasized.

2025, Indian Journal of Public Administration

The evolution of Public Administration saw emergence of
a number of issues and one of them was the public-private
dichotomy. The scholars and practitioners of the discipline
were of the view that the spheres of public organisations
were different from that of their business counterparts. This
holds true when the governments of the day were burdened
with the responsibilities envisaged to them in a welfare state.
The private firms practicing principles of management were
thought to be unsuitable for the people at large. But with
an increasing gap in the demand and supply of public
utilities, alternatives were sought. The trio of liberalisation,
privatisation and globalisation compelled the countries
(India also) to opt for change. Thus, public management
became a part of administration where both the principles
and techniques of management came to be applied in the
public domain.

2025, Journal of Political Ecology

Book review of Ondernemers in het wild: Het ontluisterende verhaal van een club witte weldoeners in Afrika. Van Beemen, O. 2024. Amsterdam: Prometheus.

2025, Social Movement Studies

The longest and largest student strike in Canadian history began in Quebec in
the spring of 2012 in resistance to proposed tuition hikes and the increasing
privatization of education and public services that this signaled. The symbol
of the student movement, the red square (denoting ‘squarely in the red’ or
‘squarely in debt’) quickly went ‘viral’. At its height, an estimated 300,000
students were striking – nearly 75% of Quebec’s post-secondary student
population; on May 22nd some 500,000 people marched in support. The
strike continued for six months, ending only after the government was
overturned and a new government cancelled the tuition increase. The
redeployment of local protest repertoires, including traditional tactics such
as picket lines combined with inclusive and creative tactics popularized
in alter-globalization movements. Formal student associations combined
with various ad hoc coalitions and organizations, as well as communitarian
groups, in an uneasy alliance to create a mass mobilization that some
commentators dubbed Québec’s ‘Maple Spring’. This article documents the
transformation of what Tilly has called ‘repertoires of contention’ within the
context of the Quebec student movement. In so doing, it highlights some of
the principle debates concerning social values and distributions of agency
that resurfaced in connection with the diverse tactics that formed the ‘new’
combinational repertoire.

2025, Ovo može svakom da se desi

Ovo može svakom da se desi je prvi priručnik Združene akcije Krov nad glavom o tome kako organizovati borbu protiv prinudnih iseljenja. Knjiga je zbornik aktivističkih tekstova koji obrađuju razloge iz kojih se ljudi u Srbiji iseljavaju iz jedinog doma, istoriju promena Zakona o izvršenju i obezbeđenju od 2011. godine koji je privatizovao izvršni postupak, taktike nenasilne odbrane od iseljenja, primere sličnih borbi koje su inspirisane aktivnostima Združene akcije, iskustva ljudi koji su se uz pomoć Krova nad glavom borili i ulozi solidarnosti u borbi za pravo na dom.

2025

This article is based on a recently completed review of mother and baby music programmes that draws mainly on the various written sources associated with those programmes. The review looked primarily at programmes in the United Kingdom with some examples from other English-speaking countries. The review process revealed that the rationales and theories that underpin these programmes are highly psychologized, drawing on a reinvigoration of attachment theory that has become interwoven with recent ideas from neuroscience. It also revealed that the written sources do not acknowledge or reflect upon the wider social, cultural and political context which drives and shapes this rapidly expanding area. Drawing on alternative theoretical perspectives from parenting culture studies, post-feminist theory, sociology, biological anthropology and feminist musicology, I develop a discussion that explores how mother and baby music resides on a powerful blend of mothering ideology and psychological theory. This blend and the practices it has given rise to, reinforce intensive mothering practices that do not ameliorate but rather perpetuate and reinforce gendered, racialized and classed

2025

J.Wallis 2 (1978) considera consilierea (sfătuirea) un dialog in care o persoana ajută pe alta care are dificultăţi semnificativ-importante. F.Inskipp şi H.John 3 (1984) arată ca sfătuirea (consilierea) este o cale de a relaţiona si de a răspunde unei alte persoane astfel încât sfătuitul este ajutat să-şi exploreze gândurile, emoţiile si comportamentul pentru a câştiga o înţelegere de sine mai clară şi apoi a învăţa să găsească şi să utilizeze părţile sale mai tari (resursele) încât să se poată confrunta cu viaţa mai eficient luând decizii adecvate sau acţionând corespunzător. Definiţia Asociaţiei Britanice de Sfătuire (1989) este -arată C.Oancea (2002) -cea mai completă: "sfătuirea este utilizarea cu abilitate si principialitate a relaţiei pentru a favoriza cunoaşterea de sine, autoacceptarea emoţională, maturizarea şi dezvoltarea optimală a resurselor profesionale. Scopul său este de a oferi ocazia de a lucra cat mai satisfăcător si cu utilizarea cât mai completă a resurselor(p.23). Selectând din definiţiile prezentate elementele descriptive specifice consilierii educaţionale putem arata că: a. problemele vizate de consiliere sunt: dificultăţi situaţionale, obstacole normale ale vieţii, auto-cunoaşterea, auto-înţelegerea, clarificarea, auto-acceptarea, maturizarea, dezvoltarea optimală a personalităţii, în relaţie cu mediul său; b. relaţia de consiliere este o relaţie de ajutor, de susţinere, de orientare, de mobilizare a resurselor proprii subiectului individual sau grupului, de adaptare la mediul de viaţă semnificativ pentru acesta; c. caracterul procesului de consiliere este predominant acţional ,,de creştere a eficienţei, de rezolvare a problemelor educaţionale, de punere la dispoziţia subiectului educaţional a tehnologiei specifice. În cazul prevenţiei şi reabilitării intervenţia ştiinţifică vizează prevenirea bolilor sau ameliorarea stării fizice şi psihice. Observăm faptul că prevenţia se adresează -în viziunea autorului care realizează această clasificare -bolii. Consilierea psihologică este relativ limitată în m ă sura în care specialistul ajută un subiect să vadă mai clar o problemă mai mult sau mai puţin specifică şi să decidă pentru o tentativă de rezolvare. Aceste probleme care apar la nivelul realităţii (de exemplu alegerea studiilor sau a profesiei) au legătură cu personalitatea în contextul în care trăieşte subiectul şi pot conduce la necesitatea unui sprijin sub formă de counseling (un sfat mai

2025, Análise Social

Covid-19 pandemic governance was widely characterized by an interpretation of the virus as an invisible enemy which states were at war with. This interpretation was accompanied by the implementation of unprecedented lockdown policies. The combination of-at least-these two points contributed towards questions around the potential complementary purposes and impacts of this type of governance. Moving in this same direction, this article focuses on the public space in Athens, Greece in order to produce insights from a case study. This aims to highlight if, how, and at what point in the pandemic-in terms of its governance-did these policies serve as an opportunity or an excuse to reinforce the dominant socio-spatial order, thus, boosting its pre-pandemic efforts to control the public space and suppress the latter's political role. In order to answer-at least to a certain extent-this research question, we carried out active participation and interviews as well as analyzing grassroots and mainstream media.

2025

Este articulo pretende un acercamiento al problema de la Hegemonia en la actualidad y como ha sido en el pasado, por lo que se revisa el proceso historico politico reciente en America Latina.

2025, 成癮時代：壞習慣如何變成大生意 (大衛．柯特萊特著，蔡明燁譯）

This book is a Chinese translation of The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business (David T. Courtwright, trans. Ming-Yeh Rawnsley)

2025

This dissertation interrogates the role of three international Non-governmental organizations (INGOs) -the Rockefeller Foundation, CARE International and Oxfam in Kenya's development process between 1924 and 2000. Based on secondary and primary research conducted in the United States and Kenya between 2002 and 2004, the dissertation historicizes INGOs in their tripartite paradoxical roles as agents of colonialism, globalization and development. It traces the role of these NGOs in Kenya's development in their various ways of 'performing development', assessing the various obstacles and successes they have encountered in the process. It explores development relationships in oppositional binaries, between NGO development workers and the project beneficiaries, between NGOs and civil servants, and the ensuing tensions in local structures and institutions. I! investigates how these NGOs strive to 'indigenize' their work developmentally in order to foster 'sustainable development' and how local dynamics and environments influence them, and vise versa. The dissertation de constructs the long-held myths about NGO inviolability, and opens ground for genuine dialogue and discourse on their strengths and weaknesses in Kenya. It interrogates sites of contestation, areas and spaces of negotiation, anxieties and possibilities that NGOs have created in the history of development in Kenya. It looks at structures of hegemony, power, class and gender that NGOs have created through their projects. It illustrates the extent to which

2025

The abstract, table of contents, and first twenty-five pages are published with permission from the Cornell University Press. For ordering information, please visit the Cornell University Press at http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/.[Excerpt] Democratization in the developing and post-communist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors to Working through the Past highlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor, focusing on East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Legacies from the predemocratic era shape labor’s present in ways that both limit and enhance organized labor’s power...

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Undocumented Mexican immigrants provide cheap labor for U.S. restaurants. In this paper, I deliver an ethnographic description of Mexican immigrant restaurant workers currently living clandestinely in the San Francisco Bay Area. Based on a sample of 29 informants (each arriving less than ten years ago), I explore the economic and social dynamics of Mexico-to-California immigration through: open-ended interviews, participant observation in work and social settings, a focus group discussion, and a twoyear case study of remittances to Mexico. This paper looks at the push and pull factors in transnational migration and the initial process of cross-border migration and settlement in the host society. It is also an exploration of how access to U.S. labor is acquired and maintained, how social networks function, and how identity is negotiated in a diasporic community. The major findings from this study suggest that repeat migration is inevitable, and thus support the circular migration theory. These findings are: 1) The earnings of immigrant restaurant employees working in the U.S. are at least double than their earning potential in Mexico. 2) Immigrant social status in Mexican households is positively affected by U.S. earnings remitted to Mexico. 3) Social networks absorb financial and work responsibilities for members who plan to visit Mexico and re-enter the U.S. III 'Xlpenness and cooperation over the last few years. I gratefully thank my thesis committee, Laurie Price, Laura Nelson and Peter Claus, for their thoughtful suggestions, Amy Franz for her warm encouragement, and my parents for their abiding support.

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2025, Impulspapier Zentrum für neue Sozialpolitik

Die Alterssicherung in Deutschland steht vor drei zentralen Herausforderungen: Altersarmut: Aufgrund variierender und unsteter Erwerbsbiografien zahlen Menschen weniger in die Rentenversicherung ein, was ihre monatlichen... more

2025, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

La question de la régulation des prix agricoles se pose dans toutes les sociétés humaines urbanisées depuis l'antiquité. Mais c'est au 18 ème siècle qu'elle apparaît en termes modernes, en particulier en France, avec les « physiocrates » (qui voulaient gouverner selon la loi naturelle), lorsque Les méthodes libérales de Turgot sont abandonnées sous la pression de la rue. Depuis cette époque, on assiste à la mise en place de doctrines politiques opposées qui se succèdent tous les dix ou vingt ans, parfois plus : en France, tandis que la Révolution est libérale, l'Empire est interventionniste. Après 1815, on institue en France un système de droits de douanes variables, tandis que l'Angleterre renforce les « Corn Laws » (qui avaient été initiées par Cromwell). Cela dure jusqu'à la période libérale inaugurée en Angleterre par l'abolition des Corn Laws, et en France par le second empire. Après 1870, on revient au protectionnisme agraire dans toute l'Europe. La première guerre mondiale conduit à une économie alimentaire administrée. Elle est partout libéralisée en 1920, jusqu'à la crise des années 1930. De 1945 à 1980, chez tous les grands pays producteurs, les prix sont administrés, et le lien entre l'agriculture et le marché coupé pour les produits de base. La mode libérale revient dans les années 1980, et triomphe en 1994, avec l'Accord de Marrakech. A chaque fois, le libéralisme argue du fait que les bureaucraties absurdes sont incapables de gérer convenablement l'offre et la demande. Le dirigisme revient peu après, au motif que les marchés libres conduise à des variations de prix sans rapport avec les coûts de production qui entraînent d'énormes gaspillages, et dont les pauvres sont les premières victimes.

2025

The author retains ownership of the copyright in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission. L'auteur a accorde une licence non exclusive permettant a la Bibliotheque nationale du Canada de reproduire, preter, distribuer ou vendre des copies de cette these sous la forme de microfiche/film, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format electronique. L'auteur conserve la propriete du droit d'auteur qui protege cette these. Ni la these ni des extraits substantiels de celle-ci ne doivent etre imprimes ou aturement reproduits sans son autorisation. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 1 Dyer-Witheford, p. 9. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. philosophical body o f literature that has provided a consistent, logical, critical, and thorough analysis of capitalism. Although this description and analysis of capitalism will be revealed in the following pages, in relation to the university, I will define capitalism here as a social system based on the imposition of universal commodification, including, centrally, the buying and selling of human life time. Its tendency is to subordinate all activity to the law of value-the socially imposed law of exchange. It relates a monological master-narrative in which only money talks. Such a system operates by process of massive reduction-Marx called it "abstraction"-that perceives and processes the world solely as an array of economic factors. Under this classificatory grid-this "classing" of the w o r ldhuman subjects figure only as so much labour power and consumption capacity, and their natural surroundings as so 'y much raw material. Since the university is an institution which is central to the reproduction of the capitalist system, it too must be subject to critique when the legitimacy of that system is in question. Moreover, because the pedagogical approach that I am proposing at the end of this paper is developed from the successful educational philosophy of Paulo Freire, a Marxist thinker, then it would seem only logical to use a Marxist approach to provide a background to Freire's pedagogy. Due to the fact that I will be describing a situation where the student is, according to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, allowed "a measure of liberty, but only so long as [she does not] challenge the basis o f university education: the preparation [to] return to the ranks of [capitalist society] from which [she has] taken temporary leave of absence,"3 I would be naive to assume that I am exempt from this pedagogical problem. Moreover, many of the theoretical sources that will be used in this project are also products of the institution that 2 Ibid., p. 9.

2024, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin

2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Les éléments contenus dans cette étude n'engagent que leur(s) auteur(s) et ne reflètent en aucun cas une position officielle des institutions Résumé Contenu des politiques : Qu'est-ce qui a été fait ? La question de la régulation des prix agricoles se pose dans toutes les sociétés humaines urbanisées depuis l'antiquité. Mais c'est au 18 ème siècle qu'elle apparaît en termes modernes, en particulier en France, avec les « physiocrates » (qui voulaient gouverner selon la loi naturelle), lorsque Les méthodes libérales de Turgot sont abandonnées sous la pression de la rue. Depuis cette époque, on assiste à la mise en place de doctrines politiques opposées qui se succèdent tous les dix ou vingt ans, parfois plus : en France, tandis que la Révolution est libérale, l'Empire est interventionniste. Après 1815, on institue en France un système de droits de douanes variables, tandis que l'Angleterre renforce les « Corn Laws » (qui avaient été initiées par Cromwell). Cela dure jusqu'à la période libérale inaugurée en Angleterre par l'abolition des Corn Laws, et en France par le second empire. Après 1870, on revient au protectionnisme agraire dans toute l'Europe. La première guerre mondiale conduit à une économie alimentaire administrée. Elle est partout libéralisée en 1920, jusqu'à la crise des années 1930. De 1945 à 1980, chez tous les grands pays producteurs, les prix sont administrés, et le lien entre l'agriculture et le marché coupé pour les produits de base. La mode libérale revient dans les années 1980, et triomphe en 1994, avec l'Accord de Marrakech. Quelles leçons pouvons-nous en tirer ? A chaque fois, le libéralisme argue du fait que les bureaucraties absurdes sont incapables de gérer convenablement l'offre et la demande. Le dirigisme revient peu après, au motif que les marchés libres conduise à des variations de prix sans rapport avec les coûts de production qui entraînent d'énormes gaspillages, et dont les pauvres sont les premières victimes.

2024

Public healthcare institutions in Kenya, including Kenyatta National Hospital, have been characterized by change management failure and poor customer satisfaction. Success of strategic change in other industries has been linked to management training. This study therefore sought to establish challenges facing strategic change management at Kenyatta National Hospital and to establish the role o f management training in overcoming these challenges. This was a case study employing qualitative data. Data was collected through interviews with the Chief Executive Officer and his two deputies, the Human Resources Manager and two randomly selected heads o f departments. Analysis was then done using content analysis and data presented in a descriptive fonnat.

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viii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background of the study 1 1.1.1 Management of strategic change 1 1.1.2 Management training 2 1.1.3 Kenyatta National Hospital 3 1.2 Research Problem 4 1.3 Research Objectives 5 1.4 Value of the Study 5 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.1 Concept of Strategic Change 6 2.2 Management of Strategic Change 7 2.3 Challenges of Strategic Change 9 2.4 Management Training 11 2.5 Management Training and Strategic Change Management 13

2024, Canadian Journal of Political Science

Depuis une dizaine d'annees qu'elles sont dans l'air du temps, les idees neo-liberales ont fait l'objet de nombreuses discussions mais rarement d'une critique d'ensemble exhaustive. Reunissant neuf textes de politologues, d'economistes, de sociologues et de philosophes, ce livre s'y emploie et s'acquitte remarquablement bien de sa tache. Tous les aspects de ce courant de pensee multiforme y sont presentes, analyses et critiques. Dans leur contribution, qui tient lieu d'introduction, Lucille Beaudry et Lizette Jalbert definissent d'emblee l'enjeu du debat. Le neo-liberalisme est, selon elles, une « reorientation ideologique » porteuse d'un projet politique. Elles exposent le contenu de cette ideologic, « la dissolution du politique », ses sources, « l'effondrement de l'hegemonie keynesienne » et la « disqualification du marxisme », et ses rapports avec la tradition liberale; le neo-liberalisme se rattacherait a un courant liberal-conservateur (Burke, Royer-Collard, Guizot). Dans une etude minutieuse, Francois Houle entreprend d'analyser les postulats de philosophes neo-liberaux (J. Rawls, R. Nozick, M. N. Rothbard) en les comparant a ceux du liberalisme classique et de la tradition conservatrice. II montre comment les valeurs d'egalite sont sacrifices chez les neo-liberaux au profit de la seule valeur de liberte. II en resulterait une redefinition de la structure sociale et du role de l'Etat: « On refuse a l'Etat tout caractere universel pour ne privilegier que le prive. Meme que la definition du social en est reduite a l'interaction des individus prives, interaction exclusivement structuree par les echanges marchands » (51). Dorval Brunelle, de son cote, souligne une faiblesse dans le mode d'argumentation de la « droite liberale » (F. Hayek en particulier). Celle-ci procederait par une « reduction methodologique » qui substitue a « une sociologie des systemes sociaux ou il serait question de mener une analyse critique de l'etat present » (77) la lecture et la critique de certains intellectuels (Platon, Hegel) qui seraient responsables de 1'evolution des societes actuelles. Le texte de Harold Chorney, Marguerite Mendell et Philipe Hensen offre, pour sa part, une analyse detaillee des elements neo-conservateurs et neo-liberaux qui sont a la base de la nouvelle droite aux Etats-Unis. La caracteristique de cette derniere residerait dans « sa capacite a mobiliser la population en faveur de programmes et d'idees contraires a leurs interets »(107), les femmes etant l'une de ses cibles favorites. Les contributions de Paul-Martel Roy et Jacques Peltier portent plus specifiquement sur les theories economiques du neo-liberalisme. Roy presente les theses d'un courant critique des neo-classiques, les institutionnalistes nord-americains (W. Dugger, J. K. Galbraith, M. J. Piore, Lester C. Thurow) qui ont l'interet d'offrir une critique non marxiste du neo-liberalisme. L'enjeu de ce debat est le caractere scientifique des theories economiques neo-classiques. L'absence de « realisme » de ces dernieres serait leur faiblesse. Peltier aborde egalement le theme de la scientificite des theories economiques neo-liberales en examinant les rapports entre l'ecole neo-autrichienne (F. Hayek, H. A. Shand) et les neo-classiques (Friedman). II souligne que la philosophic politique du liberalisme, en assurant l'unite ideologique des deux courants, est responsable, selon lui, de l'ascendant que les neo-classiques conservent sur le terrain scientifique. Dans un texte fort bien ecrit, Maurice Lagueux s'interroge sur I'inefficacite de la gauche face a la montee du neo-liberalisme. Les critiques de gauche

2024, Reimagining Radical Democracy in the Global South. Emerging Paradigms from Colombia and Türkiye

Radical democracy informs contemporary social movements both as critique of existing liberal democratic social orders and as inspiration for collective action to challenge power structures. However, existing approaches on the relationship between radical democracy and social movements often truncate complex sociopolitical issues, constraining political imagination and stifling ‘truly radical’ alternatives. This Element offers an analysis of contemporary social movements in Colombia and Türkiye to show the limits and potential of radical democracy to reimagine new expressions of citizenship and non-capitalist alternatives. It argues that there is a mismatch between the radical democratic paradigm as it is formulated within Eurocentric purview and the ways it has been articulated and practised by anti-austerity and pro-democracy movements of the twenty-first century. This Element proposes that radical democracy should be rethought in light of novel forms of political activism and visions emerging from these social movements as a response to the failures of liberal democracy.

2024, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

A mon sens, tous ces efforts pour réduire l'intentionnalité collective à l'intentionnalité individuelle se sont soldés par un échec » (Searle, 1998, p. 42). L'irréductibilité du fait monétaire : Réflexions sur la transcendance du social 1 André Orléan -070608 Texte pour les Actes du Colloque de Cerisy sur le thème : « Autour de Jean-Pierre Dupuy » Version « longue » du 070608 Au coeur des sciences sociales, garante de leur unité profonde, on trouve une même et perpétuelle interrogation : existe-t-il quelque chose comme une transcendance du social ? Certes la manière dont cette question est posée change avec les époques et les points de vue mais la substance du problème demeure toujours. Pour une bonne part, les sciences sociales ne sont qu'une méditation ininterrompue autour de ce même thème. Et, pour une bonne part, on peut mesurer la pertinence d'un auteur à la qualité de son apport à cette réflexion toujours poursuivie. L'époque contemporaine marquée comme elle l'est par l'hégémonie des conceptions économiques a fait jouer au formalisme de la théorie des jeux un rôle structurant dans la manière dont elle a élaboré cette question. Il s'agit alors de savoir jusqu'où la rationalité individuelle, telle que définie par cette théorie, peut rendre intelligibles les faits sociaux. Les réponses les plus diverses ont été proposées : à l'opposé de Searle, cité en exergue, Avner Greif, dans son livre Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy, poursuit très loin la piste réductionniste qui vise à penser l'institutionnel à partir du seul contractuel en mobilisant les outils proposés par la théorie des jeux non coopératifs. C'est cette même interrogation qu'on retrouve au centre des réflexions que nous propose Jean-Pierre Dupuy. On peut même dire qu'elle l'obsède et ne le laisse jamais tranquille, y compris lorsqu'il s'intéresse aux « origines des sciences cognitives » (1994) ou au « catastrophisme éclairé » (2002). Dans un texte de 1989 entièrement consacrée à cette question, « Convention et Common knowledge », il énonce avec force et clarté sa position : « le paradigme de la rationalité est radicalement incomplet » (p. 362). Il ajoute de manière plus explicite : « Si elles ne prenaient appui sur des références extérieures qui les guident en les « poussant », les interactions entre acteurs rationnels seraient en général incapables de produire à elles seules quoi que ce soit de déterminé » (p. 362). Cette position doit beaucoup à l'influence d'Émile Durkheim dont on se souvient qu'il pose l'extériorité à l'égard des consciences individuelles comme un des traits distinctifs du fait social. C'est là un héritage qu'assume pleinement Jean-Pierre Dupuy. Mais ce n'est pas le seul. Ce qui rend l'oeuvre de Jean-Pierre Dupuy si intéressante et si singulière est le fait que cet auteur n'est pas moins influencé par la pensée pragmatique d'origine anglo-saxonne. Cela apparaît clairement dans

2024

A conference paper on the pros and cons of indigenising the Zimbabwean economy. Originally prepared for: "Conference on Zimbabwe: macroeconomic policy, management and performance since independence: lessons for the 21 st... more

2024

This article aims to highlight the intersections between different forms of marginalisation at work in the management of migration and homelessness. Usually, for analytical purposes, these two phenomena are presented as distinct from each other, although the commonalities – in the experiences of the subjects, in the techniques of the management, in the forms of violence, in the agency of individuals – are several and relevant. Hence the reflection we propose as a contribution to the literature on homelessness and migration. Drawing on three ethnographic doctoral theses conducted in different contexts, the theoretical link between violence and vulnerability is explored. The aim is to analyse human suffering in its political dimension, the different anatomies of power enacted and experienced in everyday life. The article will also analyse the taxonomies of vulnerability and violence that have been established to regulate human complexity through the creation of categories, the techniques of managing mobility through borders and the margins of agency that are implemented on a daily basis by the actors of research. Finally, some concluding remarks will be presented on the traces in the corporeal and concrete dimension of the effects of structural violence.

2024, Akron Beacon Journal

This is a 1995 op ed I wrote for the Akron Beacon Journal in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. It focuses on the tone of political discourse that had contributed to such events. I recently reread the piece and, despite the change in protagonists' names, I was stuck by how little has altered over the past 30 years. For that reason, I was moved to post it today.

2024, Capitalism and Migration: Freeing and Hunting Labor Power Across the EU

This book explores the ways in which two seemingly different migratory categories – the “social benefit tourists” and the “refugee/economic migrant” binary – are delineated and formed in the interaction between conditions of production, the ways in which labor power is revitalized, and the coding of their migration by different ideologemеs. The aim is not to examine them as categories that belong solely to the field of migration, but to reveal their relation to differentiated modes of reproduction of labor power. One of the assumptions here is that migration apparatuses – the knowledge structures that code and are coded by different migratory categories, administrative procedures that differentially apprehend types of movement, physical localities such as refugee camps, borders, and homeless shelters, among others – emerge as a way to capture and disperse particular forms of movement of labor power with differentiated access to labor markets, housing arrangements, and welfare. My aim is to perform a historical reading of the political conjunctures and processes that have made movement imperative for one’s social reproduction. To find out how these processes have formed a class that has no other means of reproduction but by moving internationally, and how migration apparatuses are being formed and moulded as a response to these movements. When we position these formations in the temporal gap that exists between migration and labor apparatuses, that is, the moments between one’s crossing a border and the commodification of their labor power, we can explore the conflictual, tense relationship between migration and capitalism.

2024

Absenteismul scolar este un fenomen social ingrijorator de frecvent in ultimii ani, in special in mediile urbane defavorizate socioeconomic. Numarul elevilor care lipsesc zile intregi de la scoala este in crestere in aproape toate tarile. Absenteismul este diferit de fuga de la scoala (chiulul): in cazul absenteismului, elevul nu lipseste de la o ora anume din programa scolara, ci pleaca de acasa ca si cum ar merge la scoala, insa isi petrece intreaga zi in alte locuri.Cand este vorba despre absenteismul scolar, initial, elevul lipseste de cateva ori o zi intreaga de la scoala, cautand activitati mai placute: merge prin cafenele, baruri, sali de Internet, magazine, parcuri. De multe ori, el se integreaza intr-un grup de elevi care lipsesc si ei de la scoala, ceea ce face ca absenteismul sa devina din ce in ce mai frecvent. Principalul risc implicat de acest comportament il reprezinta activitatile pe care le face adolescentul in cadrul grupului: consum de alcool, tutun, chiar droguri. Exista o legatura directa intre elevii care absenteaza frecvent zile intregi de la scoala si cei care adopta diverse activitati delincvente, care pot fi mai placute sau profitabile: consum si trafic de alcool, droguri, furt, prostitutie. De asemenea, absenteismul poate conduce la abandonul scolar, care afecteaza incontestabil intregul viitor al elevului, intrarea sa intr-o institutie de invatamant superior sau pe piata muncii.

2024

mercado global requiere una ética global. José Luis Parada. Publicado en Revista Ethic, número 12 (http://ethic.es/2013/10/el-mercado-global-requiere-una-etica-global/) Siempre me gustó el título de este artículo de Hans Küng ("El mercado global requiere una ética global" en KÜNG, H. y KUSCHEL, K.-J.; Ciencia y Ética Mundial, Trotta, 2006): es conciso, directo y auto-explicativo. Más de una vez me he visto adaptando esta expresión en mis clases: "la sociedad global requiere una ética global", "la responsabilidad social requiere un análisis social" o cosas por el estilo que, en mi caso, carecen de originalidad y suenan redundantes. No sucede así con el artículo de Küng, cuya línea argumental es realmente interesante: Partiendo del hecho de la crisis del mercado global, Küng reclama una nueva valoración de la relación entre la Ética y la Economía. No lo hace por mera especulación filosófica sino a partir de la evaluación de algunos casos concretos como el...

2024, Croatica Chemica Acta

A broad overview is presented about the importance of molecular structure determination and about the structural considerations that come in view when molecular units build assemblies. Structural chemistry and crystallography constitute an integral part of today's supramolecular chemistry as demonstrated by various statements of giants of the field. The challenge of supramolecular chemistry to the structural chemist is in detecting and understanding the structural changes accompanyingmolecular recognition and assembly formation and in providing assistance for the design of new assemblies and molecular devices with desired properties.

2024, Anuario Latinoamericano

Through the analysis of the participation of the Amazonian indigenous peoples in the presidential elections of 2011, 2016, and 2021, this article illustrates how, two hundred years after Peru´s political independence, they are still excluded from full-fledged citizenship. In the first part, it addresses the main obstacles to defining and measuring the indigenous vote, as well as the reasons that hinder adequate indigenous electoral participation. It then discusses the relationship between the Amazonian peoples and the national political parties, the experience of MIAP, and the formal restrains for the creation of an indigenous party. Finally, it analyzes the participation and electoral results in 22 districts located in the Peruvian Amazon region with a majority of the indigenous population. The data used comes from the Peruvian electoral institutions: the National Elections Jury (JNE), the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), the official web portal Infogob of the JNE, and the National Censuses of 2007 and 2017. As part of an ongoing long-term research project, it includes data related to previous presidential elections as well as data from local and regional electoral processes. Moreover, it includes data from interviews with indigenous leaders and ethnographic observations.

2024

As Anderson has written, "...so often in the 'nation building' policies of new states one sees both a genuine, popular nationalist enthusiasm and a systematic, even Machiavellism, instilling of nationalist ideology through the mass media, the educational system, administrative regulations, and so forth, "(p. 104) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London 1983. 1 Front, whose recidivist politics are thinly disguised behind the reinvigorated rhetoric around issues of legitimacy. It will be one of major tasks of this discussion to analyse the material basis of these different strategies and their accompanying articulations of race and nationalism. Before proceeding with that analysis, however, it is necessary to interrogate some of the major attempts that have been made to articulate the relationships between race, class and nationalism in Zimbabwean. In the late 1960's a seminal Marxist analysis by Giovanni Arrighi. 3 on the 'Political Economy of Rhodesia,' sought to periodise the changes in the settler colonial state in terms of changes in the relations between different sections of the capitalist class. 4 5 In so doing he sought not only to understand the consequences of such changes for the accumulation process, but their effects on relations both between fractions of the dominant white elite and between the latter and the dominated classes amongst the blacks. Thus while Arrighi saw a communality of interests between the white classes as a whole in maintaining their economic position and avoiding "any sudden change in the economic base," he also examined the contradictions between settler and international capital over the creation of a black , middle class and a more stabilised working class. From this position he assumed the possibility of "a coincidence of the interests of the Africans and international capitalism since both would benefit from greater racial competition in the skilled labour market" Building on Arrighi's analysis, Stoneman and Cliffe posed the question of the extent of the reassertion of international capital in the Zimbabwean economy since 1980, and whether this has been at the "expense of the settlers, or national industrial capital and with the unambiguous collaboration of the African petty-bourgeoisie?" 6 They concluded that it is "not yet clear whether Arrighi's projected bloc based on the commonality of interests of the black petty-bourgeoisie and international capital has in fact emerged or whether there has been an alternative leaning of the petty-bourgeoisie. more towards national capital."7 Common to the approach of Arrighi, Stoneman and Cliffe was to present the possibility 3

2024, IQ Research Journal

This article explores the significant impact that curriculum holds in shaping thought processes and the consequent implications for developing a unique style of thinking. Focusing specifically on the absence of Zambian thinking in the country's educational curriculum, this study analyzes the intentional design flaws that favor the interests of imperial powers. By examining the perspectives of other nations such as the United States, India, and China, which have successfully cultivated distinct thinking styles, we highlight the missed opportunities and potential advantages that a well-designed curriculum could bring to Zambia. The findings contribute to the broader discussion on the role of curriculum in fostering national intellectual growth and counterbalancing the influences of dominant global powers. Legacy to Indigenous Identity.

2024, IQ research Journal

This research paper examines the influence of political ideologies on the development of Zambia's secondary school curriculum from the post-colonial era to the present day. The study focuses on how successive regimes utilized the education system to promote national identity, political loyalty, and social cohesion. By analyzing key political shifts and their implications for curriculum design, the study reveals the complex interplay between politics and education in Zambia. The findings contribute to the broader discourse on educational reform, emphasizing the need for a balanced approach that considers both national priorities and global educational standards.

2024

In order to fully encapsulate the tensions in post-conflict Guatemala, an evaluation of the country at a local level cannot capture the extent to which outside systems are contributing to violence, especially towards women. Femicide continues to increase and while laws are put into place to criminalize the act, the state struggles to protect women. This paper will analyze the colonization, Civil War, and post-conflict state of Guatemala in order to gain historical background. Then, the cultural and economic practices that contribute to violence against women will be explained. In addition, theories from Karl Marx and Slavoj Žižek will be used to lay a foundation for the connection between violence and capitalism. Then, drawing from these theories, this paper will demonstrate how current neoliberal policies are the main driving force behind femicide. I will argue that while masculine culture and extreme poverty influence femicide, neoliberal policies sustain violence against women in Guatemala.

2024, Journal of Asian and African Studies

Interventionists usually blame cultural factors and traditional attitudes for non-compliance of target populations, a framework Didier Fassin terms as culturalism. Despite their efforts, what the Roll Back Malaria employees find in southeastern Nigeria is a ‘troubling’ nonchalance towards the programme because target populations’ perceptions of malaria differ from the donor/programme perspective. The RBM employees cast the local attitude as culturalism, accordingly framing their exhortations in terms of this discourse. How the Roll Back Malaria employees deployed culturalism to fit with the neoliberal individualizing framework of current international health practices is one more nuanced analytical perspective the article brings to intervention literature.

2024

Resenha da semana A Amazônia é nossa Por Newton Cannito-31/05/2024 Amazônia, a Maldição da Tordesilhas, o novo livro de Aldo Rebelo é uma verdadeira revelação. Ele revela a história verdadeira e hoje esquecida da Amazônia brasileira,... more

2024

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2024

This article shows how Forum against Depression, 1 an online platform devoted to depression, creates awareness on depression in Poland. This qualitative study uses critical discourse analysis to interpret texts published by the Forum and a short film, Disappearing Children, devoted to "teenage depression." In this discourse, depression is presented as an object, the meaning of which is stable and dispersed. The article shows how the creation of this double semiosis of depression provides an invitation for auto-diagnosis and blurs the identity of the sender: the pharmaceutical company running the campaign, which is the subject of this article. Neuro-tivization of depression conceals the social context of distress and helps maximize drug sales. Ultimately, this article tracks the merging of complex psychiatrization and depsychiatrization processes. The article enhances discussion about issues related to biomedical framings of mental health, diagnostic reification of mental health diagnoses, and debate about conditions in which mental health knowledge is produced in Poland and globally.

2024, Populism and Conspiracy Theory: Case Studies and Theoretical Perspectives

This chapter suggests that much of what we recognize today as conspiracy theory involves a technical dimension stemming from its material embedding in new cybernetic media. It does so by bringing anthropologist Gregory Bateson’s ecology of mind approach to bear on a mixed-methods analysis of far-right publics in Brazil. Drawing on James Gibson’s ecology of perception, it proposes the notion of conspiratorial affordances in order to make sense of how the logic of algorithmic architectures feeds into conspiracy semiotics, and vice versa. It champions the ecological approach as a promising generative path toward bridging some of the “great divides” in conspiracy theory studies between conjunctural/historical/socio-cultural and structural/psychological/statistic analyses.

2024, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

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2024, Cahiers d'économie politique

Économie néo-libérale et économie néo-classique se distinguent par la priorité accordée respectivement à deux orientations opposées qui cohabitent au sein même de la pensée libérale, soit la valorisation du laissez-faire et la volonté d'ajuster l'économie réelle aux exigences d'une théorie idéalisée du marché. L'examen de quatre exemples (politiques sur la concurrence, théorie du bienêtre, théorie des externali-tés et intervention macroéconomique) permet de dégager les caractères propres du programme de recherche néo-libéral lequel postule que la théorie du marché peut permettre de rendre compte des marchés tels qu'ils sont. Une telle reconnaissance des dimensions scientifiques du noé-libéralisme ne signifie toutefois pas qu'on ait tord de voir en celui-ci un puissant véhicule idéologique mais, bien au contraire, permet de comprendre comme il peut exercer une telle fonction.

2024, Proceedings of International Forestry and Environment Symposium

2024, Indian Phytopathology

2024, Assessing the Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A focus on the 2002 NATSISS

The aim of this panel discussion is to get some diverse perspectives on the evidence. To do that we have arranged a panel of three people who will evaluate the evidence on socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians as articulated in the first day of this conference and then look at those with respect to their diverse professional and academic experiences. We thought it would be very useful at the end of Day 1 of this conference to have some discussions that would tease out how and, indeed, if statistical collections can add substantially to the debate on Indigenous policy. We are sure these statistics can do that, and I am sure the panel would agree with that. One of the main questions to be addressed is how large scale statistical collections can be improved to collect more accurate information about Indigenous circumstances so that policy can be better informed to address Indigenous disadvantage and need. What I will do is introduce my distinguished panel in the order that they will speak, and invite them to speak for up to 15 minutes on what they have heard today.

2024, Acta Physica Polonica Series B

Mesoscopic metal rings can carry persistent currents driven by a con stant magnetic field. The geometrical structure of a toroidal carbon nan otube can be characterized by four independent parameters. We derive the formula for persistent currents driven by a constant Bohm-Aharonov type of field perpendicular to the plane of the torus. The dependencies of the currents on the chirality, twist and circumference of the torus are discussed.

2024, IEEE transactions on image processing

We investigate several iterative numerical schemes for nonlinear variational image smoothing and segmentation implemented in parallel. A general iterative framework subsuming these schemes is suggested for which global convergence irrespective of the starting point can be shown. We characterize various edge-preserving regulafization methods from the recent image processing literature involving auxiliary variables as special cases of this general framework. As a by~product, global convergence can be proven under conditions slightly weaker than those stated in the literat ure. Efficient Krylov subspace solvers for the linear parts of these schemes have been implemented on a multi-processor machine. The performance of these parallel implementations has been assessed and empirical results concerning convergence rates and speed-up factors are reported.