Post Modern Public Administration in the Land of Promise: The Basic Ecclesial Community Movement of Mindanao

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Holden
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Basic Ecclesial Communities ◽  
Development Paradigm ◽  
Community Movement

AbstractRecent discussions of sustainable development have come to see the dominant neoliberal development paradigm receive criticism for creating environmental degradation coupled with increased inequality of wealth and power. In the developing world, sustainable development has increasingly come to be sought by postmodern public administration, which consists of efforts undertaken by the poor themselves to improve their conditions in life without changing power relations in society. This paper discuss the efforts undertaken by the Roman Catholic Church's Basic Ecclesial Communities, on the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines, to improve the conditions of the poor without changing power relations in society. The paper discusses the emergence of the Basic Ecclesial Communities, the programs they provide for their members, the successes, and failures of these programs in providing participatory sustainable development, and the outlook for the future.

scholarly journals Business opportunities and sustainable development

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ogunlade R. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Development Paradigm

The conventional development paradigm appears to have failed the poor regions of the world. It has led to a widening gap between rich and poor, while the world as a whole is getting richer. Attempts to integrate social and environmental concerns into the conventional development paradigm have led to the concept of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Business opportunities and sustainable development

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ogunlade R. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Development Paradigm

The conventional development paradigm appears to have failed the poor regionsof the world. It has led to a widening gap between rich and poor, while theworld as a whole is getting richer. Attempts to integrate social andenvironmental concerns into the conventional development paradigm have ledto the concept of sustainable development.

A Critique of Development in India’s Predominantly Adivasi Regions with Special Reference to the Hos of India’s Jharkhand

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhiraj Kumar ◽  
Antony Puthumattathil
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Mineral Wealth ◽  
Resource Accumulation ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Development Paradigm

This article seeks to look at the idea of development interventions (DI) in predominantly Adivasi regions that focus on the extraction of abundant forest and mineral wealth to benefit regions beyond Adivasi territories. While this process deprives Adivasis of their subsistence needs, it invokes resistance and resultant conflicts. Such interventions and consequent conflict need sociological elaboration. Hence, using two case studies, we explicate DI as a self-reproducing system embodying colonialism and racism as process and praxis. This article investigates how development facilitates resource accumulation and socio-economic differentiation of a few and pauperization of the rest. It further tries to find out how these systemic processes have historically found favour with political Brahmanism (PB), the dominant taken-for-granted socio-religious and political ideology (doxa) in India. In contrast to PB, Adivasis’ alternative imaginations based on their sacral polity (SP) are highlighted. Then, we contrast SP with PB and the dominant neoliberal development paradigm. SP has been contrasted with PB and the dominant neoliberal development paradigm. This comparison facilitates the conclusion that the secret of sustainable development rests with Adivasi social formations that adhere to SP-based self-restriction and egalitarian democratic principles. However, historical domination and co-option of Adivasi engender ambivalence of violence which helps to perpetuate ‘development’ as a colonial and racist system among Adivasi in forms of DI.

The Church as a Sacrament in a Time of Pandemic: The Philippine Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-280
Author(s):  
Rhoderick John Suarez Abellanosa
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The declaration of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in various provinces and cities in the Philippines did not impede the Catholic Church from celebrating its sacraments and popular devotions. Mired with poverty and various forms of economic and social limitations, the presence of God for Filipinos is an essential element in moving forward and surviving in a time of pandemic. Predominantly Roman Catholic in religious affiliation, seeking the face of God has been part of Filipinos' lives whenever a serious disaster would strike. This essay presents how the clergy, religious and lay communities in the Philippines have innovatively and creatively sustained treasured religious celebrations as a sign of communion and an expression of faith. In addition to online Eucharistic celebrations that are more of a privilege for some, culturally contextualised efforts were made during the Lenten Season and even on Sundays after Easter. This endeavour ends with a reflection on the Church as the sacrament of God in a time of pandemic. Pushed back to their homes, deprived of life's basic necessities and facing threats of social instability, unemployment and hunger, Filipinos through their innovative celebrations find in their communion with their Church the very presence of God acting significantly in their lives.

Barking Up the Wrong Trees

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Goodhart
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Scope Of Justice ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Ideological Context

This chapter shows that three of the central debates within global normative theory are afflicted by the three pathologies associated with the dominant approach. Constructivist methods for identifying principles of justice are both blatantly undemocratic and severely distortional; debates about the scope of justice are depoliticizing, question begging, and philosophically irresolvable; claims about how the global order affects the poor depoliticize and distort power relations in the global economy and ignore the ideological context in which the claims themselves operate. The argument is not that IMT gives problematic answers to these questions but rather that the questions themselves are unhelpful and unnecessary, artifacts of the approach. In making these arguments, the chapter continues the work of defamiliarization begun in the previous chapter.

The Influence of Social Class on Activity Preferences of Comunidades Eclesiais de Base (CEBs) in the Archdiocese of São Paulo

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The Self ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Activity Preferences

A number of interpretations have recently emerged which attempt to explain the nature and sociopolitical implications of Roman Catholic base Christian communities (CEBs) in Brazil. Most studies have tended to describe these small, informal lay groups as a predominantly lower-class phenomenon which is facilitating the self-liberation of the poor from the weight of centuries-old political and economic oppression.

scholarly journals Sustainable Public Administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6382
Author(s):  
Harald Heinrichs ◽  
Norman Laws
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Member States ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was agreed upon by 193 member states of the United Nations in September 2015 [...]

scholarly journals The Effect of the Characteristics and Activities of the Board of Directors on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Disclosures: Empirical Evidence from Southeast Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 8007
Author(s):  
Lintang D. Sekarlangit ◽  
Ratna Wardhani
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
One Year

This study aimed to analyze the board of directors’ commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by looking at the influence of the characteristics and activities of the board of directors and the existence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) committees on disclosures regarding the SDGs. The directors’ characteristics that were analyzed in this research included the board size, the proportion of independent directors, the presence of female directors, and the presence of foreign directors. The activities analyzed included the number of board meetings held in one year and the percentage of directors in meetings. The context of this study was companies in five Southeast Asian countries—Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines—during the 2016 and 2017 reporting years. This study was an initial research work aiming to empirically examine the effect of the board of directors on SDG disclosures in public companies from five countries in Southeast Asia. The study shows that the percentage of attendance of board directors’ meetings and the existence of CSR committees positively affected SDG disclosures. It also indicates that the presence of the board at the meeting can encourage more intensive SDG disclosures. Companies with a high commitment to sustainability, as shown by their forming of CSR committees, also tended to have a higher level of SDG disclosures.

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