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The liberal peace and post-conflict peacebuilding in Africa : Sierra Leone
, 2012 This thesis critiques liberal peacebuilding in Africa, with a particular focus on Sierra Leone. In particular, it examines the interface between the liberal peace and the “local”, the forms of agency that various local actors are expressing in response ...
Tom, Patrick
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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The orphaned subject and moral debilitation: accounting for postcolonial pessimism
2024This dissertation investigates the concept of “moral debilitation” as it pertains to the “orphaned subject” in Korean society, a notion that denotes the diminished moral agency consequential to colonial and neocolonial legacies.
Hong, Hyebin
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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma +2 more
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Melting Snow: The changing roles of Iqaluit women in family, work and society. [PDF]
, 2010 My thesis is a detailed anthropological study of the experiences of women as a result of their changing gender roles in Inuit families, in the labour market and in Inuit society more broadly.
MATTHIJSSE, MATHILDE
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract To promote inclusivity, relevance and actionability of environmental research, scholars are engaging with rightsholders and stakeholders (Indigenous groups, governments and individuals) to co‐produce research. These transdisciplinary approaches represent diverse forms of ‘engaged’ research (e.g.
Jennifer M. Holzer +18 more
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PENSIONS IN THE CHINESE COMMUNITY [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis investigates and compares the development and characteristics of the pension systems in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. It uses a policy index to compare the inputs of these four pension systems as well as their social outputs ...
LIN, HUNG-YANG
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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, 2017 This recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover
Howe, Cymene (podcast host) +2 more
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