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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"economism"”.
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Strategy, flexibility and human resource management: a study of the outsourcing of maintenance in UK petrochemicals
… as a deliberate formal plan, and the rational economism of Transaction Cost Economics. It also casts doubt on the existence of distinct strategic levels. The multinationals in the industry have been exposed as not using a sophisticated rationale to underpin their strategy, relying instead on …
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Women, development, and communities for empowerment: grassroots associations for change in Southwest Virginia
… community is presented as an alternative to the economism and individualism of conventional women in development analysis.
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Narrative, conflict and change : journalism in the new South Africa
… South Africa have been constrained by a narrow economism, the work sets out to broaden the scope of the debate by identifying news texts as more than informational artefacts but as narratives that reproduce and generate processes of making meaning and claiming identity in society. The study …
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ETHNOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCE POETICS: Power and Authority in Salale Oromo Folklore and Resistance Culture (Ethiopia, Northeast Africa)
… because it centers exclusively on “deterministic economism” and “pragmatic resignation” of the subordinate to the dominant class. Tradition is used as a subversive means of contra-posing cultural domination, political exclusion, and economic exploitation, particularly with respect to land and land …
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Towards a political economy of the sacred: a Marxist critique of the sacred dynamics of society
… many flaws and weaknesses; including idealism, economism and a productivist bias, that make it essential to re-think and to re-materialise the methodology. The product of this work is a unique conversation between two schools of though often thought to stand in opposition to one another, namely, …
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Basotho and the mines : towards a history of labour migrancy, c.1890-1940
… Africa in general. Its approach stands between economism which attributes the causes of labour migrancy solely to economic factors, and those paradigms which privilege ideas and culture over material factors. There is a dialectical interplay between material factors and ideas, although the …
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Open Access and Closed Discourses: Constructing Open Access as a 'Development' Issue
… Technologism and technological determinism, (3) Economism, (4) Scientific centralism and scientism, (5) Temporal distancing. It concludes with a discussion of the guiding metaphor, the divide. Chapter 5 investigates how open access is debated in the context of development. It draws on a two-week …
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Greening the EU : Power practices, resistances and agenda setting
Between 1970 and 1995, well over 200 directives dealing with environmental problems have been adopted by the European Community. The ambition in this study has been to understand the process whereby environmental concerns have been brought up on the Community agenda and how that agenda has …
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Ekonomistické paradigma a jeho vliv na životní prostředí
The diploma thesis in the field of environmental ethics "The Economistic Paradigm and Its Impact on the Environment" wants to introduce the pitfalls of economically oriented behaviour of contemporary society and the effects of such behaviour on the environment. In this generally accepted model of …
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Examen de la crítica de Karl Polanyi a la totalización económica de la vida humana
Karl Polanyi was not a usual anthropologist, but rather a critical historian of economy who, nevertheless, was committed to a heterodox anthropological reflection whose analysis was finally aimed at the historical development of modern industrial market-based societies; and certainly never avoided …