Performing Development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah C. M. Bulloch
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Local Government ◽  
International Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Parallel Structures ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economy Of Development ◽  
Development Initiatives

This chapter focuses on development as a “civic project.” It explores local symbols of orchestrated community-wide development, including infrastructure, ceremony and signage. The chapter argues that a defining feature of such symbols is a concern with development as a performative display. Tied as they are to clientelist politics, local government-led development initiatives are largely about “branding” both projects and people in their patron’s name, (re)producing webs of utang kabubut-on(debt of obligation), intended to reinforce the status quo. Entangled in this local political economy of development, are international bilateral and multilateral agencies, equipped with the latest international development orthodoxy and a remit to work in “partnership” with the local government. The incommensurability of these approaches is revealed when “partnership” morphs into a system of largely separate and parallel structures for implementing local development.

scholarly journals “There is no magic whereby such qualities will be acquired at the voting age”: Teachers, curriculum, pedagogy and citizenship

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna McLean
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Curriculum And Pedagogy ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Voting Age

This study asks: What did it mean to be a Canadian citizen in the late forties and fifties? Who were considered good citizens, what were their qualities, and how did the teaching of citizenship relate to notions of identity, nation(alism), belonging and international development within a postwar liberal democracy? Finally, how did educational and policy materials as reflected in the curriculum and pedagogy of the day represent citizenship? Recent studies of this period emphasize diversity and dissent among educators who challenged the status quo, despite pressures to conform to societal norms and to produce workers with skills and attitudes that would benefit the modern economy. This research on citizenship, youth, and democratic education suggests reasons to re-evaluate our understanding of what is considered the legitimate domain and purpose of citizenship education along with the possibilities of teaching citizenship within a school/classroom setting.

The violence of ideology

2018 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Anthony Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
The Status ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
As If

This chapter asks a simple question – if we know the problematic nature of capitalism and its attendant harms and inequalities, why can’t we fix it? The answer lies in an account of ideology which lies in action, not thought – we know there are problems but act as if we do not. The disavowal of problematic working conditions – and other significant issues such as environmental harm, migration and automation – makes it difficult to challenge the status quo and enact meaningful change. The search for human recognition and flourishing is hampered by the progressive search for change within the existing system rather than contemplating a different set of social relations and structures. The chapter concludes with some suggestions for ‘fixing the harms of work’ which centre around the need for social science to reconnect with analysis of political economy and problematise capitalism in a way that demands consideration of alternatives.

scholarly journals More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110227
Author(s):  
Stephanie Patrick
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Feminist Work

This article examines the media framing of and relations to the 2014 iCloud hack, wherein hundreds of female celebrities’ private photos were stolen and distributed online. In particular, I problematize the reading of this event as merely signalling the misogyny of ‘toxic’ online cultures and contextualize it as part of a larger political economy of female celebrity. I argue that, while the growth in feminist discourses emanating from both the mainstream media and celebrity women is encouraging, it perhaps occludes the broader power relations that extend across both new and traditional media, ensuring maintenance of the status quo. This event exemplifies problems with a popular form of feminism that seeks inclusion into these systems, rather than wider systemic change. Therefore, in addition to examining the celebrity and/or her audience as the site of political (feminist) work, I call for an excavation of the systems in which she is embedded and her relations to the means of media production and profit.

The Political Economy of Localism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ali
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Critical Regionalism ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Status ◽  
Policy Windows ◽  
Definition Of

In Chapter 6, the case studies are analyzed through the frameworks of critical regionalism and critical political economy. The first section describes how a political economy of localism has come to exist within media policy discourse. This system favors the status quo over alternatives, tethers local media exclusively to specific places, and impedes our ability to think through ways to bridge the spatial and social divides of localism. The second section reintroduces critical regionalism as an approach that tempers this political economy. The chapter argues that while the political economy of localism works to stifle policy alternatives, there are policy windows – “moments of critical regionalism” – that require our attention. The chapter offers a definition of media localism based on critical regionalism and the case studies.

scholarly journals What’s the Problem with Learning Analytics?

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Selwyn
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The Status

This article summarizes some emerging concerns as learning analytics become implemented throughout education. The article takes a sociotechnical perspective — positioning learning analytics as shaped by a range of social, cultural, political, and economic factors. In this manner, various concerns are outlined regarding the propensity of learning analytics to entrench and deepen the status quo, disempower and disenfranchise vulnerable groups, and further subjugate public education to the profit-led machinations of the burgeoning “data economy.” In light of these charges, the article briefly considers some possible areas of change. These include the design of analytics applications that are more open and accessible, that offer genuine control and oversight to users, and that better reflect students’ lived reality. The article also considers ways of rethinking the political economy of the learning analytics industry. Above all, learning analytics researchers need to begin talking more openly about the values and politics of data-driven analytics technologies as they are implemented along mass lines throughout school and university contexts.

scholarly journals Stuck with the car and all its harms? A public health approach to the political economy of the status quo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Macmillan ◽  
Katharine Cresswell Riol ◽  
Kirsty Wild
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Mode Shift ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
The Status

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scholarly journals MEMAHAMI PROBLEMATIKA HAK PENGELOLAAN TANAH KOTA BATAM Dalam Rangka Penetapan Batam sebagai Kawasan Ekonomi Khusus

Yurispruden ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Nur Hadiyati
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The State ◽  
State Control ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Land Condition ◽  
The Right

AbstractLand is part of the surface of the earth that plays an important role in the life of the people whose control is in the state, one of the forms of state control over land is the management rights. Batam Island is a sucessful example of management rights on land. However, with the presence of the local governemnt, many new issues about the management of law are feared to emerge. The Management Rights on Batam’s land is obtained directly by the President who delegated to the Board of Mastery, so that the status of Batam land is divided into three namely: (1) the land above the management right by  Enterprise (in Indonesian we called it Badan Pengusahaan); (2) land above the management of Batam City Local Government; (3) land managed by the state. Dualism of authority to manage Batam’s Land caused problems as follows: Establishment of Kampung Tua, Status quo on land in Rempang Galang area, mismatch of land condition in Batam City with letter of decision by Ministry of Forestry, and the complexity of permit process, which hampered the development of Batam City. So by understanding how the implementation of Management Rights on Land will be enlightment to find a solution to the problem of dualism of land management authority and formulate the right policy in the framework of determining Batam as a Special Economic Zone.Keywords : Batam, Management Rights, Agrarian, Special Economic Zone,  Abstrak            Tanah merupakan bagian permukaan bumi yang memegang peranan penting dalam kehidupan masyarakat yang penguasaannya diatur oleh negara, salah satu wujud penguasaan negara atas tanah adalah Hak Pengelolaan. Pulau Batam adalah salah satu contoh HPL “sukses”. Namun, dengan hadirnya pemerintah kotamadya Batam, dikhawtirkan banyak persoalan baru di bidang pertanahan yang muncul. Hak Pengelolaan Batam diperoleh langsung oleh Presiden yang dilimpahkan kepada Badan Penguasaan, sehingga status tanah Batam terbagi atas tiga yaitu : (1) tanah diatas Hak Pengelolaan Badan Pengusahaan; (2) tanah diatas pengelolaan Pemerintah Daerah Kota Batam; (3) tanah pengelolaan negara. Dualisme kewenangan pengelolaan lahan terjadi di Kota Batam dan menimbulkan permasalahan sebagai berikut : penetapan Kampung Tua, Status quo pada tanah dikawasan Rempang Galang, ketidakcocokan kondisi pertanahan di Kota batam dengan SK KEMENHUT, serta kerumitan proses perizinan, yangmana menghambat perkembangan Kota Batam. Maka dengan memahami bagaimana penyelenggaran Hak Pengelolaan dapat menemukan penyelesaian permasalahan dualisme kewenangan pengelolaan lahan dan merumuskan kebijakan yang tepat dalam rangka penetapan Batam sebagai Kawasan Ekonomi Khusus.Kata Kunci : Batam, Hak Pengelolaan, Tanah, Agraria, Kawasan Ekonomi Khusus.

scholarly journals Reason and Political Economy in Hume

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik W. Matson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Economic Liberty ◽  
Treatise Of Human Nature ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
The Status

This paper examines some connections between Hume’s epistemology in his Treatise of Human Nature and his political economy. I make three claims: (1) First, I argue that it is the development of Hume’s account of the faculty of reason in Book I of the Treatise that leads him to emphasize social science—including political economy—and the humanities over more abstract modes of intellectual inquiry. (2) Second, I argue that Hume’s conception of reason has implications for his methodology in political economy. His perception of human reason leads him to deploy a method of qualified generalization that emphasizes the by-and-large nature of theoretical statements. (3) Third, when it comes to policy matters, the method of qualified generalization in theory cashes out in terms of practical maxims. I suggest that two central maxims in Hume’s political economy derive from his views of the usefulness of economic liberty and the coordinating nature of the status quo.

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