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Administering an Islamic Public Value by a Non‐Muslim Agency: The UNHCR Refugee Zakat Fund

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The post‐Arab Spring conflicts generated large‐scale displacement across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), producing acute humanitarian needs among predominantly Muslim refugee populations. The United Nations High Commissioner to refugees responded by opening the Refugee Zakat Fund, to be used to mobilize the Islamic philanthropic ...
Abdulfatah Said Mohamed
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Ethnicity, Nation, and (Neo)colonialism in Latin America

open access: yesAlternautas, 2015
The changes that have taken place in Bolivia since the year 2000, marked by massive and radical indigenous and popular mobilization, brought an indigenous cocalero president to power in the 2005 elections and unleashed a wave of hope and expectations ...
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Anne Freeland
doaj   +1 more source

The United States’ Congo and Ghana: Neo-Colonialism and Conflict with Pan-Africanism

open access: yes, 2021
: Historical study of Congo and Ghana during the period of decolonization with context of colonialism. The ideas of Neo-Colonialism and Pan-Africanism are explained and contrasted.

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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
wiley   +1 more source

Digitalization in the Global South

open access: yesTATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2019
What are opportunities and risks of ICT in a global context from an ethical and interdisciplinary point of view? This TATuP special topic addresses often neglected issues, like unequal power relations, neo-colonialism, (digital) illiteracy, general ...
Kerstin Schopp   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamiques coloniales et résilience dans le Pacifique : défis modernes et perspectives en Polynésie française

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes
This article explores the complex dynamics of colonialism in the Pacific, focusing on French Polynesia. It examines how modern forms of colonialism, including neo-colonialism and environmental colonialism, continue to influence the region despite the end
Anthony Tchékémian   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Gap

open access: yesPolitikon, 2005
The main argument of the following article is that the neo-colonial nature of international relations between the North and the South contributes to delayed or sometimes even reversed progress in the process of human development everywhere in the world ...
Rene Suöa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Energy Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: A Neo-Colonial Perspective

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations
The article examines the neo-colonial influence in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries’ energy transitions, relating energy neocolonialism with power asymmetries. Most CEE countries began to reduce their reliance on Russian energy after the Cold
PENGFEI HOU
doaj   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

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