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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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Ordoliberalism Out of Order? The Fragile Constitutionality of Greek Austerity (Part Two)
(2020-06)
This is the second part of a two-part post. The first part, available here, considered the historical background of the concept of constitutional order and its relation to the ordoliberal project. Judicial independence was examined in parallel with central bank independence, with each understood as a means of insulating policy from social and democratic pressures and also as a means of enacting and maintaining fiscal discipline and market-conforming order. It also included some preliminary observations on the relation ...
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Ordoliberalism Out of Order? The Fragile Constitutionality of Greek Austerity (Part One)
(2020-05)
The architecture of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has often been understood to be built on a fundamentally ordoliberal framework. [1] The precise characteristics of what constitutes an ordoliberal framework are often not clarified, and they have been widely debated in contemporary scholarship. But a crucial characteristic of ordoliberalism, and one that has received comparatively little attention, concerns the importance of grounding economic policy in a “constitutional order”: ordoliberal political economy insists ...
Dissertation
Professionalisierungsprozesse im Lehr-Lern-Labor Sportpädagogik
(2024-03-13)
Mit der Konzeption und Einrichtung des Lehr-Lern-Labors (LLL) Sportpädagogik verfolgt der Arbeitsbereich Erziehung und Unterricht am IfSS der Universität Kassel die Zielsetzung, unterrichtsrelevante Themen an universitären und schulischen Lernorten einer pädagogischen Begründung, didaktischen Erprobung und gemein-samen Reflexion zu unterziehen. Theoretische Bezugspunkte sind zum einen die professionelle Handlungskompetenz und zum anderen die Unterrichtsqualität. Pädagogisches Handeln sollte sich auf wissenschaftliche ...
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Ordoliberalism and the Making of the Economic Constitution: State, Law, and Money in the Market Economy
(2023)
The aim of my research is to explore the political economy of ordoliberalism in its historical trajectory. Beginning from the years of its inception during the interwar period, the dissertation focuses on the specific conditions and political economy of the Weimar Republic as the framework within which the ordoliberal framework was developed. Moving on to the postwar period, the dissertation examines the attempts of operationalization of the ordoliberal framework within the context of West Germany and the social ...
Dissertation
The effect of physical activity on motor cognition in elderly people
(2021-12)
For the presented doctoral thesis, four cross-sectional studies and a longitudinal study were conducted to examine the correspondence between physical activity and motor cognition in older adults. A total of six hypotheses were tested. Forty older adults between 65 and 80 years of age (subdivided into an active and an inactive subgroup based on Freiburg Physical Activity Questionnaire) and 20 sports students as a control group participated in the cross-sectional studies. Eighty-two seniors aged between 65 and 80 years ...
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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)