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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
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The instabilities of expertise: remaking knowledge, power and politics in unsettled times
, 2017 In this article, we explore the implications of contemporary populist challenges to established forms of expertise in the UK, USA and elsewhere. Drawing on a Foucauldian conception of knowledge and power as always articulated, we argue for a conjunctural
Clarke, John, Newman, Janet
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The contested and contingent outcomes of Thatcherism in the UK [PDF]
, 2014 The death of Margaret Thatcher in April 2013 sparked a range of discussions and debates about the significance of her period in office and the political project to which she gave her name: Thatcherism.
Blair T +43 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The implications of sustainable development are far reaching, and yet many areas of academic scholarship were slow to deeply engage with it. This is a problem because, in practical terms, it can generate a false sense of calm, of business as usual, and a failure to rise to the integrative challenge of balancing the trade‐offs across ...
Fred Gale +5 more
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Beyond all reason: spaces of hope in the struggle for England's universities [PDF]
, 2011 England’s public university system has been groaning and lurching toward privatization for decades. Until recently, however, it was still possible to argue that “the attempt to close off and render impossible the experience of education as a ...
Amsler, Sarah
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The dominant neoliberal management model in major European cities has led to a growing trend toward socio‐economic inequality, with its spatial dimensions highlighting clear contradictions. These social contradictions affect over a quarter of the Spanish population, particularly in the region of Andalusia (Southern Spain), with certain ...
Ricardo Iglesias‐Pascual +3 more
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Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho, 2019 RESUMEN. Desde un análisis crítico del neoliberalismo hegemónico y de su peligroso efecto colateral en forma de populismos políticos, el texto plantea una alternativa normativa en clave universalista desde el campo de la filosofía política: la ...
Joan Alfred Martínez i Seguí
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Spain is currently in an initial phase of revision of teacher training curricula. Given the pressing ecosocial challenges of the present, the fundamental question arises as to what teachers should be like and the contribution that teacher education can make to this important collective challenge. In this context, this research, framed within a
Ángela Saiz‐Linares +2 more
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Bringing Unions Back In: Labour and Left Governments in Latin America [PDF]
, 2013 In the 2000s an unprecedented wave of left-party victories in presidential elections swept across Latin America. Although scholars have studied variation among left regimes and how these regimes differ from neoliberal-era predecessors, few have addressed
Bazler, Joseph C, Cook, Maria Lorena
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the concept of sustainability became mainstream in development discourses from its environmentalist origins, it increasingly came to resemble the unchecked capitalist logics that it was originally meant to critique: Rather than reorganizing the economy, sustainability could be achieved through the economy as philanthropy became modeled on ...
Caitlyn Bolton
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