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Abstract This chapter outlines how the dismantling of China’s public health system from the 1980s to 1990s precipitated the country’s largest HIV outbreak. The Chinese Communist Party reduced public health to a mere moral issue, diminishing its political significance and forcing health bureaucrats to seek revenues independently.
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Your institution can't afford to ignore the needs of adult learners
Recruiting & Retaining Adult Learners, 2019ATLANTA — With more than a quarter of current American undergraduates classified as adult students (27 percent of undergraduates are 25 years old or older), it is more important than ever to consider how the needs of adult learners are — and aren't — being met by our current higher education landscape. That was the message from a session on the urgency
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Instituting the Intolerable: Shame, Ignorance and Schema of Monohumanist Man
Deleuze and Guattari StudiesFor Deleuze and Guattari, shame is what induces belief in a world, enabling a seeing of the intolerable as an exit from schemas of ignorance that institute sensorial and cognitive complicity with oppressive conditions. Distinct from guilt that can be localised upon a specific agent for something, shame compels accountability before the intolerable.
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Endogenous Ignorance: The Persistence of Institutional Traps in Captured States
Why do formal democratic institutions frequently fail to discipline corrupt politicians, allowing systemic rent-seeking to persist despite regular elections? This article develops a gametheoretic model to explain how state capture persists as an endogenous institutional trap.Tobias Casco, Mariano Cordeiro
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State Making, Knowledge, and Ignorance: Translation and Concealment in Mexican Forestry Institutions
American Anthropologist, 2008ABSTRACT Officials in the Mexican environmental protection agency, the Secretaria de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y de Pesca (SEMARNAP), deploy representations of agropastoral fires set by rural people to find urban allies, whereas officials and rural people in Oaxaca avoid mentioning fire and firewood cutting.
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Strategic ignorance and social Institutions
2017This doctoral thesis in Economics consists of three self-contained chapters in strategic behavior and social institutions.Do People Avoid Morally Relevant Information? Evidence from the Refugee Crisis examines whether people avoid information in an attempt to reduce the moral pressure to engage in prosocial behavior.Saving and Bequest in China: An ...
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Organizational Ignorance in the Educational Institutions: Reasons and Treatments
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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Recently, scholars have revitalized the study of race by exploring how ignorance epistemologically fortifies racial domination. To articulate terms of analysis, much of this literature invokes two recurrent modes of racialized ignorance—racist essentialism and racialized nonknowing. We introduce a third mode—racist agnotology.
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Recently, scholars have revitalized the study of race by exploring how ignorance epistemologically fortifies racial domination. To articulate terms of analysis, much of this literature invokes two recurrent modes of racialized ignorance—racist essentialism and racialized nonknowing. We introduce a third mode—racist agnotology.
Kushan Dasgupta +2 more
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How Institutional Investors Form and Ignore Their Own Expectations
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013Howard Jones, Jose Vicente Martinez
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