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The Impacts of the Movement against Neoliberal Globalisation. Institutional Reforms, a New Conception of Politics, and Postcolonial Questions
(2023-06)
This article discusses the protest movement against the neoliberal capitalist world order which emerged in the second half of the 1990s and was inspired by the Mexican Zapatistas. This movement was considerably globalised and, despite different currents, characterised by a pluralist and anarchist conceptualization of politics. The article argues that it partly succeeded in preventing further liberalisation of world trade and, above all, that it provoked numerous reforms in the global political economy institutions ...
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(How) can public policies enable transformation? - Theory and practice of Post-Development in relation to the state
(2023-04)
The Post-Development critique of ‘development’ has been around for more than 30 years now. While it is far from a homogenous school of thought, let alone practice, critical interventions of Post-Development proponents have been widely acknowledged and have punctuated mainstream debates. What is missing, however, is some closer engagement with how ideas and propositions can be translated to practice, and even more specifically, if and how they are reconcilable with logics, structures and institutions of states. In ...
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Land Rights for Change? On the Impasses of Cultural Politics for Economic Change
(2023-09)
Property relations have long been at the centre of social justice considerations and efforts for socio-economic change. Since the 1990s ethnic minorities who often happen to live in particularly biodiverse regions of the planet have started to challenge these often exploitative relations by claiming formal property rights based on territorially defined cultural identities. Originally celebrated by various critical schools of thought as a turning point in global neoliberal hegemony and a promising manifestation of ...
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Towards Post Development in India. Lessons of Community Resilience in Times of Crises
(2023-11)
DPS Activist Special I ssue is published alongside the standard academic issue to provide a perspective from an activist positionality on postcolonial and development issues.
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Theorising Postdevelopment
(2023-11)
The paper seeks to define and situate postdevelopment (PD) theory within the social sciences by discussing its relation to other theoretical approaches. It concludes that PD can be seen to a rather limited extent as a development theory, but rather as a sociology of knowledge of this discipline and a critiqu e of its foundation. PD shares the critique of capitalism with Marxism but also has a more negative view of industrial modernity, its relation to nature, economic growth and productivity. For some, PD is characterized ...
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To Stay or to Go? Outmigration of Nurses from Ghana. A GPN / UCC Project
(2024-02)
The Global Partnership Network (GPN) is a unique network of 12 universities and 18 civil society groups for research, teaching, and training in all continents around SDG 17 “Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. The GPN has been functioning since 2020, headquartered in Germany at the University of Kassel and funded by the German Federal Government. It aims to provide policy-relevant research in three areas: development cooperation, global economy, and knowledge production, keeping in mind that international ...
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To Stay or to Go? Recruitment and Outmigration of Nurses from India. A GPN / JNU Project
(2024-02)
The Global Partnership Network (GPN) is a unique network of 12 universities and 18 civil society groups for research, teaching, and training in all continents around SDG 17 “Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. The GPN has been functioning since 2020, headquartered in Germany at the University of Kassel and funded by the German Federal Government. It aims to provide policy-relevant research in three areas: development cooperation, global economy, and knowledge production, keeping in mind that international ...
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Is the Mafia a State Apparatus?
(2021-12)
Starting from the relations of production, this paper examines the role of mafia for the preservation of social power and class relations in Sicily. To this end, the concept of the informal state apparatus is introduced. Following the approach of Critical Grounded Theory, this paper proposes to fill explanatory gaps in conventional mafia research by means of Nicos Poulantzas’ historical materialist state theory. In-depth field research confirms the systematic generation of irregularity through conditions in which it ...
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Mercosur–EU Agreement: Impact on Agriculture, Environment, and Consumers
(kassel university press, 2020-05-06)
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Dualer Ausbildungsmarkt in der Corona-Pandemie und benachteiligte Gruppen
(2021-05)
Bevor wir uns im zweiten Abschnitt den Folgen der Corona-Pandemie widmen, möchten wir zunächst herausarbeiten, wie sich der duale Ausbildungsmarkt generell in den vergangenen Jahren entwickelt hat. Für das Zustandekommen von neu abgeschlossenen Ausbildungsverträgen spielt neben der wirtschaftlichen Gesamtentwicklung das Interesse junger Menschen an einem Ausbildungsplatz sowie die Ausbildungsbereitschaft von Betrieben eine zentrale Rolle.