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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
wiley   +1 more source

Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
wiley   +1 more source

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