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In Search for a Decolonizing Actor: Contradictions Between Brazilian State Policies and Social Emancipation of Quilombolas
(2018)
This paper explores the articulations between the present social struggles of Quilombolas (Maroons’ descendants of those who escaped enslavement), state policies, coloniality and global inequality. Two case studies illustrate how the infiltration of global mining and overexploitation of eucalyptus have diminished natural resources in the region and encroached upon the land rights of black communities. This paper first provides a comprehensive review of the policy changes that paved the way for the recognition of the ...
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Bridging the postcolonial political-economy divide. Towards a Theoretical Framework.
(2020-04)
Points of contact between the postcolonial studies’ field of research and international political economy (IPE) are rare. On the one hand, one can note a reluctance in postcolonial scholarship to open up for economic analysis. On the other hand, IPE literature has been somewhat resistant to take up the postcolonial critique. This paper offers an interdisciplinary approach by merging the two discrete disciplines on poststructuralist grounds, suggesting principles for a postcolonial-political economy approach and ...
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The legitimation of expulsion in development discourse. A comparative analysis of World Bank projects in sub-Saharan Africa
(2019)
Comparing examples from Kenia, Ethiopia and Nigeria, the article examines how displacement through infrastructure projects is being legitimised in development discourse. Three typical justifications are the inevitability of progress, the greater common good and property rights. They are closely linked to elements of development discourse: the transformation of geocultural differences into historical stages, Othering of allegedly backward peoples, the concept of trusteeship and the assumption of the beneficial effects ...
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Partnership and cooperation in Haiti: Clashes of reality and construction
(2016)
This paper analyses existent and perceived rules and restrictions of the global development dispositif working to maintain inequalities in interactions of International NGOs (INGOs) and Haitian organisations. It does so by exploring constructions of partnership and their clashing realities. Development organisations and agencies have influenced the fabric of Haitian society and politics not only by their mere presence but also by the rules they impose. The paper approaches this by identifying positions of power and ...
Masterarbeit
The Sundarbans in Bangladesh
(2019)
Bangladesh is an agricultural-based country. Agriculture contributes 42.70% (BER) in the labor market through 4 categories namely crops, fisheries, livestock, and forestry. Forestry has the most significant role in renovation of infrastructures and balancing the natural environment. Due to human and natural induced threats, the forest resources are in danger and currently, the percentage of forest in Bangladesh is 13.22 % (BER). The sector is still mistreated on the basis of compared to the other three parts of ...
Aufsatz
Grounding IPBES experts’ views on the multiple values of nature in epistemology, knowledge and collaborative science
(2019-12-18)
This study identifies and analyses the underlying assumptions of experts involved in the first author meeting (FAM) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)’s Values Assessment, and how they shape understandings of the multiple values of nature. We draw from survey data collected from 94 experts attending the FAM. Respondents self-report the tendencies and aims they bring to the assessment (i.e. motivation), the type and amount of evidence they require for knowledge ...
Aufsatz
Alpha-Kurse für alle
(2019)
Unter Inklusiver Bildung verstehen wir hier den gemeinsamen Unterricht behinderter und nichtbehinderter Menschen. Die Teilnehmenden in Alphabetisierungskursen und in Kursen zum Nachholen von Schulabschlüssen (Zweiter Bildungsweg) sind sehr heterogen. Menschen unterschiedlichen Alters, Geschlechts, Herkunft etc. oder mit unterschiedlichen Beeinträchtigungen nehmen an diesen Kursen teil. Alle haben unterschiedliche Lernstände und Gründe für die Teilnahme am Kurs und somit auch unterschiedliche Bedarfe. Wie wird Inklusive ...
Aufsatz
Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability
(2019-08-24)
This paper concludes a special feature of Sustainability Science that explores a broad range of social value theoretical traditions, such as religious studies, social psychology, indigenous knowledge, economics, sociology, and philosophy. We introduce a novel transdisciplinary conceptual framework that revolves around concepts of ‘lenses’ and ‘tensions’ to help navigate value diversity. First, we consider the notion of lenses: perspectives on value and valuation along diverse dimensions that describe what values focus ...