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The Role and Impact of Foreign Aid in Neoliberal Development

İktisat Politikası Araştırmaları Dergisi
The impact of foreign aid on development and economic growth in poor countries has been a subject of academic debate for many years. From the first years of the post-World War II period until today, many studies have been conducted to evaluate the impact
Yahya Gülseven
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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The Concept of Sovereignty in the US International Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century

Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика, 2020
At the turn of the millennium, as the Cold War ended and the United States were striving to build a unipolar world order, academic debates about the concept of sovereignty gained new momentum in the USA.
A. D. Katkov
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Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Kinship Beyond Borders: Relational Sovereignty and the Limits of Liberal Statist Secession

Constellations, EarlyView.
Elliot Goodell Ugalde
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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BEYOND THE PARALYSIS OF THE POST‐POLITICAL? The Micropolitical in Post‐Political Participatory Planning in Copenhagen, Denmark

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory planning is widely used for the purpose of democratizing urban governance. Yet, the literature on post‐politics largely depicts participatory decision‐making contexts as spaces devoid of the ‘properly political’. Scholars critical of post‐politics find this lens paralyzing, as the approach may disregard political moments arising ...
Stephanie Loveless
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Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
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