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Implementing IT policy and the bedevilment of post-colonialism- A case study of Tanzania

, 2003
This chapter is concerned with how Tanzania has been socially and economically affected by post-colonialism at a policy level as well as at an ordinary (public) level during the IT policy development process in the country.
J Kabalimu (13292424), B Corbitt (13278471), T Thanasankit (13278474)   +2 more
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Race, intelligence and genetics: colonialism in the era of neurotechnology. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Pyrrho M.
europepmc   +1 more source

GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

AI ethics through a decolonial lens: what does AI ethics look like if we take seriously the push to decolonise it? [PDF]

AI Soc
Nemorin S, Bonami B.
europepmc   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Biopiracy to Sustainable Knowledge Governance: Epistemic Justice and the Reconstruction of Resource Sovereignty in the Global South. [PDF]

Sci Eng Ethics
Dong Q.
europepmc   +1 more source

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source

Converging crises and maternal and child health: colonialism, extreme weather, and COVID-19. [PDF]

Reprod Health
Valentín-Cortés M, O'Neill MS, Rodríguez-Díaz CE, Elliott MR, Fleming PJ, Handal AJ.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Barriers to Indigenous Fire Stewardship on Karuk Lands. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Cruz C, McCovey K, Russell G, David-Chavez D, Schneider L, Schultz C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source