scholarly journals The politics of publishing: a case study from Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratyoush Onta ◽  
Ian Harper
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
South Asian Studies ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge ◽  
Commercial Publisher ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The Uk

In 1994-95 Nepali historian Pratyoush Onta put together a team of four scholars to start a journal about Nepal. They gave it the name Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS) and arranged for it to be published by a new commercial publisher based in Kathmandu, Nepal. First published in 1996, SINHAS is now entering its second decade of publication. The experience of editing SINHAS, doing research on the state of South Asian Studies in India (Onta 2001), and on the state of Nepal Studies in the UK (Onta 2004a, 2004b) have expanded Pratyoush's interests in the general politics of academic knowledge production, distribution and consumption. British anthropologist Ian Harper was interviewed by Onta in relation to this (Harper 2004) and shares similar interests around the politics of knowledge and questions of epistemology and ethics. Harper and Onta have been jointly thinking about the politics of knowledge generation about Nepal for some time now. In this piece, recorded as a conversation in Kathmandu in 2004, they start with the implications of publishing on Nepal in prestigious journals outside of Nepal. Issues arise over tensions around choosing where to publish, questions of quality and the review process, something about which there should be more empirical and academic discussion. Finally, Pratyoush recounts his experience of setting up, and maintaining SINHAS.

Power Working through/on Bodies in the UK

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 35-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janelle Reinelt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
The State ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The Uk

This statement started its life as part of the State of the Profession panel at the joint ASTR/CORD conference in Seattle (November 2010). I was asked to respond to the question of “how power has worked on/through/with bodies in the fields of dance and theatre studies, and in the academy at large.” I decided to speak about the serious crisis facing higher education in light of the economic recession and its particular challenges to the academy and our field, using my present context in the UK, where I have lived since 2006, as a case study.

scholarly journals Platform NHS: Reconfiguring a Public Service in the Age of Digital Capitalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392110556
Author(s):  
Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein ◽  
David Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
The State ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Function ◽  
Operational Logic

The platform is emerging as a key organizational form and operational logic of contemporary capitalism, intimately tied to financialization and assetization. However, discussions to date have focused on platforms and platformization in the context of the private, corporate, and technology sectors. In this paper, we develop an analysis of how platformization operates in the context of public policy. Using the UK’s National Health Service as a case study, we explore how platformization is altering the form and function of the state. The platformization of the NHS has its roots in the UK government’s strategic interest in the development of the bioeconomy. This led to the creation of a research infrastructure within the health service. Subsequently, the NHS has leveraged various assets into a range of data- and technology-focused initiatives. We argue that platformization has been a major form of neoliberalization within the NHS. The paper concludes with a discussion of what an analysis of public platformization can teach us about ongoing transformations of the state.

Marriage in the Marriage-Free State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The State ◽  
Free State ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Free Society ◽  
Divorce Law ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
The Uk

This chapter considers the extent to which the state should seek to regulate any private religious or secular marriages that citizens might enter into. In the marriage-free state citizens could still take part in religious or secular marriage ceremonies. This is why the marriage-free state is not a marriage-free society. It does not follow, however, that the state should take no interest at all in such marriages, since they may take place in the context of oppression or injustice. The chapter sets out the case for intervention in marriages that are not recognized by the state, drawing on the model of liberal intervention in cultural practices set out in Clare Chambers, Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice and also on the UK Equality Act 2010. The chapter includes a case study of the agunah problem in Orthodox Jewish marriage and divorce law.

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