The Struggle for Sports Commons

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
S. Janaka Biyanwila
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Global South ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
Good For ◽  
The Invisible

S.Janaka Biyanwila’s essay captures the trajectory of sports cultures in the Global South from their emergence in the aftermath of decolonization struggles with their democratization, but subsequent transformation post-1990s wave of globalization into sports consumers cultures. How can these new markets in sports cultures dominated by male oligarchies celebrating ‘sports spectacles’ be transformed to sports commons that encourage participatory democratic sports cultures? Focusing on the sports markets in cricket, badminton, football and even kabaddi and using a labour perspective, the presence of the invisible underside of sports workers is highlighted to reclaim sports as a public good, for local communities, and an accessible common cultural property.

14. Regime Security

2018 ◽  
pp. 206-220
Author(s):  
Andreas Krieg
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Security Affairs

This chapter focuses on regime security, the condition where governing elites are secure from violent challenges to their rule, and the unique insecurity dilemma facing many developing countries. The chapter shows that the insecurities that confront regimes in the developing world mostly emanate from internal rather than external threats and are linked to the inability or unwillingness of these regimes to provide security inclusively as a public good to local communities. This regime insecurity loop is explained by contrasting public and regime security, and how regimes in the developing world are trying to manage internal threats through accommodation and coercion. The Assad regime in Syria is used to illustrate the regime insecurity loop. The chapter concludes by outlining the prospects of regime security in the developing world amid an increased transnationalization of security affairs.

scholarly journals Increasing Access to Surgical Services for the Poor in Rural Haiti: Surgery as a Public Good for Public Health

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise C. Ivers ◽  
Evan S. Garfein ◽  
Josué Augustin ◽  
Maxi Raymonville ◽  
Alice T. Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Surgical Services ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Good For

The Power of Corruption

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 558-562
Author(s):  
Sandipto Dasgupta
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Global South ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Process Thinking ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Moral Economies

Abstract The central paradox of corruption in the political life of the global South is how such a widely despised phenomenon persists so untroubled by allthe negative attention. The two books under discussion—Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption and Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays—demonstrate that to make sense of that paradox, one needs to go beyond the dominant legal/technocratic understanding of corruption as either private acts of illegality or failures of the civic democratic process. Thinking further with the insights offered by those books, the article sugg ests that the phenomenon of corruption can only be made sense of when placed within the matrix of political and social power relations in the global South democracies. Corruptions appear not as distortions in an idealized democratic marketplace, but in the context of maneuvers of counter-democratic power to maintain existing hierarchies of dominations against tides of democratic mobilization, not merely as a subversion of the public good, but in reaction to attempts to make goods public.

scholarly journals Geospatial Land Price Data: A Public Good for Global Change Science and Policy

BioScience ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (7) ◽  
pp. 481-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver T Coomes ◽  
Graham K MacDonald ◽  
Yann le Polain de Waroux
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Land Price ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Price Data ◽  
Good For

The Wicked Problem of Scholarly Impact

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Behrend ◽  
Richard Landers
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scholarly Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternative Approaches

Academics sometimes forget that the purpose of a university is to educate: our students, our local communities, each other, and the world. Although each university is unique in its constituency, all share the charge to generate knowledge for the protection and benefit of the public good. The goal of an academic should be to beneficially impact society, broadly defined, with scholarly activity. As editor and columnist for The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, one publication highlighted by the focal article, we applaud the efforts of Aguinis et al. (2017) to put forth alternative approaches to defining impact. Like them, we are concerned that many of the measures of “impact” we currently use do not capture this charge.

scholarly journals Living with climate change: avoiding conflict through adaptation in Malawi

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 2417-2445
Author(s):  
H. Jørstad ◽  
C. Webersik
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Global South ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract. In recent years, research on climate change and human security has received much attention among policy makers and academia alike. Communities in the Global South that rely on an intact resource base will especially be affected by predicted changes in temperature and precipitation. The objective of this article is to better understand under what conditions local communities can adapt to anticipated impacts of climate change and avoid conflict over the loss of resources. The empirical part of the paper answers the question to what extent local communities in the Chilwa Basin in Malawi have experienced climate change and how they are affected by it. Further, it assesses one of Malawi's adaptation projects designed to build resilience to a warmer and more variable climate, and points to some of its limitations. This research shows that not all adaptation strategies are suited to cope with a warmer and more variable climate.

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