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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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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 ...
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The World Bank Inspection Panel and civil society protest: Glocalization of accountability? The case of the Kwabenya landfill project in Ghana
(2015)
20 years ago, the Inspection Panel was founded as a mechanism of accountability for people negatively affected by projects funded by the World Bank. It allows them to call for an investigation if social and environmental standards of the World Bank have not been adhered to and. Its origin can be traced back to pressure exerted by a transnational NGO campaign on US congress in the wake of the Narmada Valley Development Project. While the Panel’s history since then shows that it usually does not have the power to ...
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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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Entwicklung resilienter und nachhaltiger Pflanzenbausysteme - Agroforstforschung am Fachgebiet Grünlandwissenschaft und Nachwachsende Rohstoffe Universität Kassel
(2023-11)
Beschreibung der Forschung zu Agroforstsystemen als Bestandteil der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung und Entwicklung von resilienten und nachhaltigen Pflanzenbausystemen.
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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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Mathematical Management
(2023-07-14)
Der Aufstieg des Fachgebietes Operations Research, das mathematische Modelle zur Steuerung von Wirtschaftsunternehmen bereitstellt, in der politischen Wissenskultur von Cold War Science der USA nach 1945 wird aufgezeigt und dann übergeleitet zur Institutionalisierung von Operations Research in den Universitäten von Europa und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Vorläuferorganisationen zur Deutschen Gesellschaft für Operations Research werden dargestellt und das Zusammenspiel der Jahrestagung dieser Gesellschaft mit ...
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Marktstudie zu regionalen Bio-Lebensmitteln in Hessen
(2022)
Die vorliegende Studie gibt einen ersten Einblick in die aktuelle Situation der landwirtschaftlichen Öko-Erzeugung, der Verarbeitung und des Handels ökologischer Lebensmittel in Hessen. Am Beispiel von ausgewählten Wertschöpfungsketten (WSK) wird untersucht, welche Schwächen und Stärken und welche Herausforderungen für regionale Produktion, Verarbeitung und Handel von ökologischen Lebensmitteln bestehen. Ziel der Studie ist es, die aktuelle Situation darzustellen, Schwachstellen zu identifizieren und Ansatzpunkte zu ...
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One Way Logistics in Freight Transport
(2022)
The European railroad companies founded the International Container Bureau in Paris in 1933. The Swiss company Hupac successfully developed container transport with transalpine freight transport by rail between Germany and Italy. In the 1930s, Europe and the U.S. had agreed on a common ISO standard for 20 foot containers and 40 foot containers, so that empty containers could be exchanged between the various shipping companies in the global supply chains. But this standard is not compatible with the metric system of ...