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Kulturelle Konflikte in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 273

Kulturelle Konflikte in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-17
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  • Publisher: Springer VS

Judith von Heusinger untersucht aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive kulturelle Konflikte in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit am Beispiel der Länder Kambodscha und Kirgisistan. Sie analysiert diese aus der Perspektive von Entwicklungsexpertinnen und Entwicklungsexperten als rationalisierte Andere und der daraus folgenden Konfliktstruktur. Am Beispiel des Politikfeldes der „reproduktiven Gesundheit“ wird der konflikthafte Lokalisierungsprozess globaler Normvorstellungen durch entwicklungspolitische Maßnahmen und dadurch ausgelöste kulturelle Konflikte in diesen beiden Ländern dargestellt.

Localization in Development Aid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Localization in Development Aid

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This edited volume brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development aid. It examines theoretical and empirical implications of the diffusion and anchoring of world polity institutions at the local and global levels. The volume furthers the understanding of the dynamics of norm negotiation and glocalization processes in culturally varied societies in an era of globalization. Themes and topics covered include: children and human rights, gender mainstreaming, multi-level actor partnerships, anti-corruption programming, local ownership, land rights and corporate social responsibility. Bringing together expert contributors, this comprehensive volume will be an invaluable resource for all scholars of localization and globalization studies, as well as those in the field of international relations.

Localization in Development Aid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Localization in Development Aid

This edited volume brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development aid. It examines theoretical and empirical implications of the diffusion and anchoring of world polity institutions at the local and global levels. The volume furthers the understanding of the dynamics of norm negotiation and glocalization processes in culturally varied societies in an era of globalization. Themes and topics covered include: children and human rights, gender mainstreaming, multi-level actor partnerships, anti-corruption programming, local ownership, land rights and corporate social responsibility. Bringing together expert contributors, this comprehensive volume will be an invaluable resource for all scholars of localization and globalization studies, as well as those in the field of international relations.

Time, Globalization and Human Experience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Time, Globalization and Human Experience

This edited volume focuses on the intersection of time and globalization, as manifested across a variety of economic, political, cultural, and environmental contexts. Since David Harvey’s influential characterization of globalization as "time-space compression", ample research has looked at the spatial aspect of the phenomenon, yet few have focused on globalization’s temporal aspects. Meanwhile, other publications have analysed problems of speed, acceleration, and the commodification of time, but while it often serves as the implicit or explicit backdrop for these studies of time, globalization is not investigated as a problem or a question in its own right. In response, this volume deve...

Contested World Orders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Contested World Orders

World orders are increasingly contested. As international institutions have taken on ever more ambitious tasks, they have been challenged by rising powers dissatisfied with existing institutional inequalities, by non-governmental organizations worried about the direction of global governance, and even by some established powers no longer content to lead the institutions they themselves created. For the first time, this volume examines these sources of contestationunder a common and systematic institutionalist framework.In a series of rigorous and empirically revealing chapters, the authors of Contested World Orders examine systematically the majorconflicts that characterise some key contemporary international institutions, such as the UN Security Council, the World Trade Organization, the G7, and the UN Human Rights Council.

The New Global Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

The New Global Politics

Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America, to the Arab Spring, to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe, to democracy protests in China. This edited volume investigates the current status, nature and dynamics of the new politics that characterizes social movements from around the world that are part of this revolutionary wave. Spanning case studies from Latin America, North and South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America, this volume examines the varied manifestations of the current cycle of protest, which emerged fro...

Global Justice and Resource Curse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 185

Global Justice and Resource Curse

This book explores whether any theory alone is sufficiently capable of resolving the complexity of global justice, arguing that a combination of statism and cosmopolitanism is needed. In current times, xenophobia, nationalism and populism have amplified othering in both domestic and international politics. In global justice, the dichotomy between the ‘polis’ and the ‘cosmopolis’ separates statism from cosmopolitanism. Using resource curse as a complex case of global justice, the author demonstrates how neither statism nor cosmopolitanism alone are sufficient but goes on to argue that a combination of the two theories is simultaneously necessary and sufficient to resolve the complexit...

Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp

Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp, this book shows how risks prevail for refugees despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established to protect them, and hones in on the strategies used by people to protect themselves.

Transitional justice in process
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Transitional justice in process

Transitional justice in process is the first book to comprehensively study the Tunisian transitional justice process. After the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011, Tunisia swiftly began dealing with its authoritarian past and initiated a comprehensive transitional justice process, with the Truth and Dignity Commission as its central institution. However, instead of bringing about peace and justice, transitional justice soon became an arena of contention. Through a process lens, the book explores why and how the transitional justice process evolved, and explains how it relates to the country’s political transition. Based on extensive field research in Tunisia and the United States, and inte...

The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-08-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book represents an unusual intervention in debates about the nature of contemporary international development, where the majority of scholarship tends to concern itself with measuring or collating goal performance. Through a series of analyses of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this book explores development as a political construct, and is concerned with the kinds of epistemological, hegemonic, or politico-economic assumptions built into contemporary development policy, and the ensuing effectiveness the SDGs will have in terms of addressing or perpetuating the historical impoverishment of large groups of people living in poverty. The contributors to the book take issu...