Constructing Costa Rica’s Inter-American Highway and Building U.S. Empire: Social, Economic, and Political Change at the Local Level, 1941-44

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-142
Author(s):  
Carmen Kordick
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Level

Pausanias’ Arcadia between Conservatism and Innovation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Baleriaux
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Religious Landscape ◽  
Of Greece

The vivid survival of traditional features in Arcadian religion under the early Roman Empire is striking. Despite the brutal conquest of Rome and the intrusiveness of its administration, cities were able to keep their most peculiar religious characteristics alive. This chapter investigates this seemingly uninterrupted religious continuity despite remarkable political change. In line with the studies of Alcock and more recently Spawforth, it aims to show that the attitude of Rome towards Hellenism, and in particular the antiquarian attitude to religion it promoted, triggered a cascade of changes in the human, social, economic, political, and religious landscape of Greece. The apparent conservatism of Arcadian religion during that period was not principally ‘resistance’—in the sense of asserting a distinct Greek identity through religion—but was rather largely promoted by the Romans themselves.

Maoism and Marxism in Comparative Perspective

1978 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-327
Author(s):  
A. James Gregor ◽  
Maria Hsia Chang
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Friedrich Engels

A great many curious things have befallen Marxism as an intellectual and political tradition, not the least of which was its adoption by the revolutionary forces under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung. Originally, the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was a eurocentric doctrine that addressed itself to a postindustrial revolution that would liberate society from the disabilities produced by intensive industrialization. For classical Marxism, industrialization produced not only the “idiocy of overproduction,” the inability to effectively distribute the abundance produced by capitalism, but generated restive populations that were “overwhelmingly proletarian.” Capitalist industrialization produced both the circumstances precipitating, and the historic agents responsible for, vast social, economic and political change.

scholarly journals Understanding Social, Economic, and Political Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-227
Author(s):  
Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday ◽  
Nicholas P. Carter ◽  
Melanie J. Kingsley ◽  
Sarah Newman ◽  
Alyce de Carteret
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic

Power dynamics and water reform in the Zimbabwean context: implications for the poor

Water Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Everisto Mapedza ◽  
Kim Geheb
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
African Region ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Water Reform

In Zimbabwe, the state has been reconfiguring the water sector since 1998, as has been happening more generally within the wider Southern African region. Within the water sector, as in broader environmental governance, decentralization is increasingly being proposed as an important step towards increased accountability, equity and positive social and environmental outcomes. Decentralization is defined as the devolution of powers to local level institutions which are downwardly accountable to their constituencies. This paper looks at the Zimbabwean case of decentralising water management and assesses whether or not this process has yielded positive social, economic and environmental outcomes. The paper views the reform process as a reflection of the power asymmetries that work against the interests of poor households in accessing water for both domestic and productive uses.

scholarly journals The Greek economic crisis as trope

Focaal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (65) ◽  
pp. 147-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Knight
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Greek Crisis ◽  
Social Turmoil

The Greek economic crisis resonates across Europe as synonymous with corruption, poor government, austerity, financial bailouts, civil unrest, and social turmoil. The search for accountability on the local level is entangled with competing rhetorics of persuasion, fear, and complex historical consciousness. Internationally, the Greek crisis is employed as a trope to call for collective mobilization and political change. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Trikala, central Greece, this article outlines how accountability for the Greek economic crisis is understood in local and international arenas. Trikala can be considered a microcosm for the study of the pan-European economic turmoil as the “Greek crisis“ is heralded as a warning on national stages throughout the continent.

Assessing ‘Institutional Thickness’ in the Local Context: A Comparison of Cardiff and Sheffield

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 975-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Raco
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Institutional Relations

Urban managers have been faced by growing problems in recent decades. Social and economic inequalities within cities have steadily grown, whereas shifting global economic relations have led to the polarisation of more and less successful local (urban) economies. At the same time many nation-states, such as Britain, have opted for greater deregulation and a resurgence of neoliberal strategies of governance, which have had the effect of disempowering local communities and managers just at the time when they would appear to be most vulnerable to the forces of change. In this context a range of authors have argued that the way forward for city authorities is through developing an institutionally based set of local networks and alliances in which a range of interests are represented politically and through which wider global economic forces can be better ‘held down’ at the local level. This ‘institutional thickness’ varies from city to city and this paper, in comparing Cardiff and Sheffield as two case studies, addresses the ways in which institutional relations have developed in those cities and the degree to which they represent effective forms of inclusive local political mobilisation and wider economic leverage. I argue that processes of ‘institutional thickness’ in cities does not necessarily create inclusive forms of local political representation and that institutional presence and interaction and the local policymaking processes they are part of, may in fact reinforce existing local social, economic, and political relations and divisions rather than leading to the encouragement of local corporatist relations.

scholarly journals Economic Impact of Research Results on Local Social and Economic Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 330-336
Author(s):  
Vo Hai Quang ◽  
Nguyen Dinh Binh ◽  
Nguyen Huu Xuyen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Social Economic Development

Science and technology (S&T) is the driving force of economic growth, this has been recognized by many countries around the world. In Vietnam, the results of S&T research at the local level (provincial level) have important implications for social, economic development. Promote application of S&T research results interested by the Party and the State, which are confirmed in many resolutions and legal documents of Vietnam. By the research method combining quantitative and qualitative, with the use of primary and secondary data, the paper clarifies the economic impact of S&T research results from S&T tasks (case study in Nghe An province of Vietnam), were accomplished from 2005 to 2015 and their impact from 2016 to 2020 on social, economic development of Nghe An province. From there, recommending solutions and policies to promote social, economic development of Nghe An province based on S&T development. Keywords: Economic impact, Nghe An S&T.

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