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Technological parables and iconic illustrations: American technocracy and the rhetoric of the technological fix [PDF]
, 2016 This paper traces the role of American technocrats in popularizing the notion later dubbed the “technological fix”. Channeled by their long-term “chief”, Howard Scott, their claim was that technology always provides the most effective solution to modern ...
Johnston, Sean F.
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, European Union (EU) governance has become more tolerant towards national policy adaptation and experimentation. Right‐wing populist governments in East Central Europe (ECE) have used this increased flexibility amongst other things to develop various economically nationalist strategies to reassert ...
Gerhard Schnyder +2 more
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Religions, 2019 The ‘risk assessment’ in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals.
Mark Owen, Anna King
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On Legitimacy: Designer as minor scientist [PDF]
, 2013 User experience research has recently been characterized in two camps, model-based and design-based, with contrasting approaches to measurement and evaluation.
Blythe, Mark, Ghassan, Aysar
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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between cancer and capitalism from the perspective of political economy. It argues that this perspective is crucial for producing a critical agenda in the sociological study of cancer, which has otherwise and traditionally neglected the question of capital as social totality.
Faisal Al‐Asaad
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Digital Political Communication in Russia: Values of Humanism vs. Technocratic Approach
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2022 The massive spread of digital technologies has led to the transformation of practices related to communication and, in particular, political communication. The development of digital technologies in political communication results in the emergence of new
Ilya A. Bykov, Sergey V. Kurushkin
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American Ethnologist, 2019 ABSTRACTIn Sweden, an ostensibly secular‐majority society, urban planners facilitate the construction of new churches and mosques for minority religious groups. In this work, they typically perceive themselves as neutral professionals relying on a technical education.
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
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RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2009 A new ethics of technocracy is forming in a modern globalized society. Its main values are out of the theocentic or anthropocentric tradition. Separation of such values of technocracy as progress, possession, objectivity, substitutability, manageability,
A V Mironov
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Code vs. Code: Nationalist and Internationalist Images of the Code Civil in the French Resistance to a European Codification [PDF]
, 2012 French academics reacted to announcements about a possible future European civil code ten years ago in the way in which Americans reacted to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 1940: first with shock, then with rearmament, finally with attempted ...
Michaels, Ralf
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