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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Commensuration"”.
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Debtor's Empowerment: Muhammad Yunus and the Rhetoric of Microfinance
… in articulating a novel regime of commensuration. This line of reasoning culminates in an examination of the role Yunus' reconstitution of the poor through the logic of micro-enterprise played in implementing an increasingly neoliberal policy framework in apparatuses of …
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Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic
… of the forms of discrepant reciprocity and commensuration that underpin, and often foreclose, attempts to account for the Holocaust in contemporary Europe.
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Of engineers, rationalities, and rule: An ethnography of neoliberal reform in an urban water utility in South India
… Notions of efficiency based on radical commensuration and quantification reduced all value to standardized, measurable indicators. This culture of audit empowered financial managers and accountants over the traditionally powerful engineering departments. The reforms thus, in the name of …
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Well-Tempered Building: Michelangelo's full-scale template drawings at San Lorenzo
… tempering offers a method of in-progress commensuration between axiomatic proportions and those of material, sensibly present harmonies. The tempering power of templates is investigated in three parts that follow the transmutation of Michelangelo's templates between paper, tin, and stone. …
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Banking on offsets: a political ecological and eco-geomorphic analysis of Section 404 compensatory stream mitigation banking in Illinois and Missouri
… mitigation to streams in Illinois and Missouri. Commensuration, the comparison of different objects or qualities using a common metric, is fundamental to implementing no net loss policies. This is because the amount of compensation required to mitigate impacts is measured using district-defined …
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"A More Perfect Indian Wisdom": Transcultural Exchange in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
… to point the way down this path toward cultural commensuration and hybridity, Thoreau's Wild Fruits seems to step further toward a cosmopolitan sense of exploration and, by representing a broader confluence of social and biological intersections, succeeds to a greater degree than Cooper or Fuller …