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CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological dynamics among Chinese and British negotiators and translators: A text-analytical study of translation manipulation in the English - Chinese translation of the Treaty of Nanking. [PDF]

PLoS One
Li M, Tian X.
europepmc   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

"These Conversations Shouldn't be Easy … You're Going to Have to Shift. It Means Reflection … It Means Change": Moving Anti-Oppression Beyond Incremental Changes in the GBV Sector. [PDF]

Violence Against Women
Rodney R, Forde A, Khan A, Bonilla-Damptey J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF ANGOLA'S REAL ESTATE FRONTIER: How Private‐led Housing Developments are Reshaping the Outskirts of Luanda

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Bias in AI systems: integrating formal and socio-technical approaches. [PDF]

Front Big Data
Ahmad A, Vallès Y, Idaghdour Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Garrett R, Meyfroidt P, de Bremond A, Wartenberg A, Barbieri L, Fernández-Llamazares Á, Acheampong E, Addoah T, Adeleye M, Alexander P, Brandão J, Coomes DA, Ellis EC, Fajardo J, Jacobi J, Leach M, Lele S, Llanque Zonta A, Lyons-White J, Martin A, Messerli P, Milner-Gulland EJ, Müller D, Mills M, Nantongo Kalunda P, Pascual U, Rueda X, Ryan C, Setty S, Pham TT, Zagaria C.   +30 more
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What is social science if not critical?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
wiley   +1 more source