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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past decade, industrial policy has had a resurgence across Africa as countries pursue catch‐up development, partly inspired by East Asia's state‐led transformation. With increased attention in the discussion given to learning by doing and learning by emulation at the government level, policy learning has invariably been advocated with
Jing Zhang
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The distribution of decision-making. The case of a flexible public transport system [PDF]
Instead of explaining the outcomes of a policy process with reference to a rational planning logic, this paper scrutinises the circumstances in which decisions actually are taken.
Roel Nahuis
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Essentialism in and about Development Discourse [PDF]
, 1996 DEVELOPMENT' AS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ? The nature of development discourse attracts growing attention. Various authors propose lists of basic features of this discourse or of some mainstream in it.
Gasper, D.R. (Des)
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Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract The paper examines the significance of translating sanctuary in an officially bilingual (and multilingual in practice) national polity. By examining the different meanings of the translation of 'sanctuary' into ‘lloches’ and ‘noddfa’ in Welsh, we outline the different openings for more nuanced understandings of ‘host’/‘guest’ relations ...
Catrin Wyn Edwards, Rhys Dafydd Jones
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Politicizing food security governance through participation: opportunities and opposition [PDF]
, 2018 Since the 2007/08 food price crisis there has been a proliferation of multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) devoted to bringing diverse perspectives together to inform and improve food security policy.
A Moragues-Faus +49 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how workplace fertility governance operates as a system of control, consent, and inequality shaped by organizational, cultural, and institutional forces. Drawing on feminist theory, we develop a multilevel framework of cascading accountability that integrates symbolic violence, biopolitics, chrononormativity, and ...
Meltem Yavuz Serçekman +1 more
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Opening Up a Space for the Political?: 'A study of diversity practitioners in Swedish academia'
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2015 Analysing interviews with diversity practitioners at three Swedish universities, this article explores how diversity is deployed and the ways in which the articulations of practitioners might contribute to politicising issues of ethnicity and race.
Maria Carbin
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history.
Andréa Delestrade
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Journal of Social Science EducationHighlights: - Identifies three combinations of civic identity and civic engagement among students. - Discusses the complexity of the relationship between civic identity and engagement.
Evy Jøsok +2 more
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Relaciones Internacionales, 2017 The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is a sparsely studied organisation, whose mandate includes, however, one of the most politicised issues currently present in Western countries.
Antoine PÉCOUD
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