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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Developmentalist"”.
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Platonic Interpretation is Set in Wax, Not Stone: Evidence for a Developmentalist Reading of <i>Theaetetus</i> 151-187
… knowledge—Reading A and Reading B, Unitarian and Developmentalist interpretations respectively. Reading A claims Plato has accepted moderate versions of Heraclitean Flux (HF) and Protagoras’ Measure Doctrine (MD). Reading B finds Plato rejecting both theories. This thesis provides a brief history …
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A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
… discourses of available environmentalist and developmentalist videos and texts, I trace environmental conflict created by the establishment of a large-scale plantation in the Caynarachi-Shanusi Valley, on the San Martin-Loreto border. In addition, while area farmers make up a small fraction of …
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The neo-Roman conception of freedom in developmentalism: A historical perspective
… political and theoretical premises of the developmentalist tradition in economics and argues that it embeds a conception of freedom known as neo-Roman freedom, distinct from that of the liberal tradition and more recently, the capability approach. To this end, the writings of four key …
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Embryology and the evolutionary synthesis: Waddington, development and genetics
… of modem synthesis developmentalism; namely, the developmentalist syntheses of Waddington and Schmalhausen. The unforeseen implication of these moves by founding supporters of the synthetic theory, was that the disciplines upon which 1940s developmentalism rested--namely, Western chemical …
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The Great Consensus After the Great Recession: The Case of Jamaica
… approach with a case study of Singapore and the Developmentalist approach to economic development. The research provided a clear picture that the IMFSP did stabilize the Jamaica economy. However, it did so at the expense of stunting human capital development in Jamaica. Therefore, a different …
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The Integrated State: Architecture, Planning, and Politics in Mexico, 1938-1958
… presidentialism, and eventually the embrace of a developmentalist, technocratic and bureaucratic authoritarianism. An important faction of Mexican Architects argued their indispensability to political society and appealed to popular support via print journalism, but also public speeches, and use …
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A Ajuda Oficial pra o Desenvolvimento a partir de três perspectivas teóricas
… Moyo; and the critic from the structuralism developmentalist represented by the economist Erik Reinert.
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Subnational Developmentalism: Brazil in Comparative Perspective
… subnational actors to re-claim national ""state developmentalist"" roles through policy innovations at the state and local levels---giving rise to a new phenomenon I term subnational developmentalism. While situated within a common national context, I demonstrate that subnational actors have …
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The Visual Syntax of a Postcolony: Photographs in Zambia, 1930s – 1980s
… late colonial period to the concerted imaging of developmentalist spectacles in the early postcolonial period. The focus of the third chapter is on the politics of official images of Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of independent Zambia. This dissertation combines uses of photographs, archival …
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An implementation of the faith development model of James Fowler in religious education in South Africa
… in most RE classes has made the work of the developmentalist James Fowler particularly apposite. He has constructed a stage model that, he believes, describes the progression of faith or meaning through which individuals travel. During all the stages the modes of meaning-making follow a …
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“A (Re)turn to the Archive: Reading the Lives and Works of Yvonne Vera and Dambudzo Marechera”
… be universally therapeutic, and that underwrites developmentalist notions of improvement and inclusion. To demonstrate this, I read a form of silence in Vera’s archive and in her fiction that resists western oppositional hierarchies between silence and speech, and a parallel form of refusal, in …
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It's My Right to Fix the City: Women, Class, and the Postcolonial, Politics of Neoliberal Urbanism in Ibadan, Nigeria
… understanding of Ibadan that eschews a developmentalist and interventionist framework. Specifically, this dissertation investigates whether and how women’s lived experiences have been changed by, as well as have informed, neoliberal urban planning discourses and practices in Ibadan. I …
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The Overseas Missionary Fellowship, Africa Inland Mission and Decolonization in Malaya and Kenya, 1940-1966
… decades as they navigated the nationalist and developmentalist movements which were both reshaping the nature of the globe and local decolonization processes. From the 1940s onwards CIMOMF and AIM stances began to exhibit corresponding transitions away from a previously single-issue mentality …
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Greener pastures of home: an ethnographic study on everyday sustainable practices in Nyanga, Cape Town
… in low-income urban neighbourhoods, where developmentalist agendas dominate both academic and policy-related research. My thesis addresses this gap through an exploration of a wide range of everyday practices in a lowincome, peri-urban area, which happen to have sustainable effects. …
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Relations of power, networks of water : governing urban waters, spaces, and populations in (post)colonial Jakarta
… and its citizens, and to challenge conventional developmentalist and academic analyses of water supply access. Specifically, a conceptual triad of water, space, and populations – produced through, but also productive of government rationalities – is used to explain two apparent paradoxes: (1) the …
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Monster Mothers and the Confucian Ideal: Korean Horror Cinema in the Park Chung Hee Era
… under Park Chung Hee's leadership to facilitate developmentalist goals, have formed the roots that shape the mother-child relationship into one that both parties want to dissolve. Through placing the cinematic representation of the monstrous feminine within a historical understanding of Korean …
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(Im)possible childhoods: contesting healthcare for gender and sex diverse youth
… underpinning and regulating these ideas is a developmentalist discourse of ‘childhood’, which has depicted children as fundamentally naïve to matters of sex(uality), gender and the body, and defined gender and sex diverse knowledge, experience and expression as harmful to children’s …
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Seeing the State with Transgender People: Gender, Caste, and Neoliberal Development in Kerala, India
… tell us about the changing shape of postcolonial developmentalist governance and the welfare state in the late-capitalist era. In the past decade, Indian LGBTQIA+ politics has seen a distinct, if ambivalent, shift towards reckoning with neoliberal governance, leaving the national LGBTQ+ movement …
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Of engineers, rationalities, and rule: An ethnography of neoliberal reform in an urban water utility in South India
… sets of elitist disciplines, those of the old developmentalist and the new commercial bureaucracy, thereby silencing all alternative options within an overarching common sense. Yet the audit culture also engendered a vision of transformation in which engineers presented themselves as actively …
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