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The chapter lays the foundations for perhaps the strongest and most interesting chapter of the entire book, when the author outlines six different types of national business systems, each characterized by different roles of the state, different financial systems, varying forms of skill development and control, and differing relations of trust and authority. [...] The final chapters of this volume look at the specific characteristics and changes in the composition of business systems in Asia and the newly liberalized economies of Eastern Europe. [...] They contrast the French notion of corps with the British one of profession, the former largely the product of state regulation and the latter of the market. [...] The following two chapters are case studies, of the experience of a Japanese multi-national in the UK, and of the transformation of regional governance in Baden-Wuertemburg in Germany. [...] The varying consequences of specific national institutional configurations, and the effects of relations of ownership, state interventions, and trust networks is of central importance in understanding the nature of contemporary capitalism.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The chapter lays the foundations for perhaps the strongest and most interesting chapter of the entire book, when the author outlines six different types of national business systems, each characterized by different roles of the state, different financial systems, varying forms of skill development and control, and differing relations of trust and authority. [...] The final chapters of this volume look at the specific characteristics and changes in the composition of business systems in Asia and the newly liberalized economies of Eastern Europe. [...] They contrast the French notion of corps with the British one of profession, the former largely the product of state regulation and the latter of the market. [...] The following two chapters are case studies, of the experience of a Japanese multi-national in the UK, and of the transformation of regional governance in Baden-Wuertemburg in Germany. [...] The varying consequences of specific national institutional configurations, and the effects of relations of ownership, state interventions, and trust networks is of central importance in understanding the nature of contemporary capitalism.
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It draws on the ideologies of >environmental justice= and of green politics to emphasise the importance of linking the struggle against social injustice and the exploitation of people with the struggle against the abuse of the environment. [...] An example is the construction of environmentally damaging infrastructure such as a road to the port area of the Coega Project in the Eastern Cape before the completion of the EIA. [...] This lack of implementation of the participatory clauses of NEMA and the spirit of CONNEPP and the act reflect a weakness in state capacity, a lack of political will, the enhanced influence of the private sector over the state, and the demobilisation of popular sectors in civil society. [...] The siting of the World Commission on Dams in Cape Town led to the involvement of a local NGO, the Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) in leading the worlds= NGO submissions to the commission. [...] Various explanations stress a lack of resources and capacity, the lack of political will on the part of governments, and the impotence of governments in the face of many current environmental problems and macro-economic policies.
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At the core of Africa's crises is lack of modem knowledge and capital flows, which reach the majority of the populations. [...] Tenders and propositions to act on behalf of the African Information Society should contemplate the breadth of information needs, and the potential for the global development and financial institutions to make constructive contributions to building digital bridges among knowledge domains for development. [...] Therefore the Digital Bridge should aim to begin the process of narrowing the gap in human development and environmental security by providing the full power of the tools for all children, regardless of space. [...] Capitalising the African Knowledge Bank On the issue of concepts, programmes, and projects related to rural African connectivity that are bereft of start-up money, it could be suggested that the key 'knowledge gap' is actually a 'funding gap.' Multi-lateral development groups often may be too remotely conversant of the micro- environments that constitute the communities of interest, to develop the. [...] The major multi-lateral institutions could facilitate the construction of the digital bridge by redeploying their vast human resources and financial backbones to help meet the following 'knowledge needs': (1) the need for financial support by worthwhile programmes which have already identified information/knowledge needs and developed approaches to serving them; (2) the need for development of loc.
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The orientations and persuasions of the wider public are crucial to the politics of democratic transition in Kenya and need to be used to critique the process and participants in the struggles. [...] In very broad strokes, he jumps from Meru North where he was born in the heat of the colonial state of emergency and repression of Mau Mau to the authoritarian politics of the Moi regime. [...] In part II of the text, the author revisits the question of human rights arguing that it involves a total focus on the economic and social being of citizens. [...] However, one would wish broadly to include the inherent unfairness, inequality and inequity of the global system, internal ethno-regional socio-economic differences, the obstinacy of the sitting KANU government, plus the dishonesty, greed and lack of vision and strategy in the opposition as an alternative government. [...] Mjoset argues that the performance of corporatism is partially about shifts in the domestic balance of power, and the relative position of export led versus protected sections of the economy.
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The barbaric civil war in the former Yugoslavian federation, Sri Lanka, and the uneasy calm in the Fiji Islands among the indigenes and emigrants citizens of Indian descent are equally a reminder of the import of the national question. [...] Louise Meintjes's Sound of Africa! takes the reader into the heart of the studio and effectively captures the tedium of the recording process, page by page. [...] She demonstrates the multifaceted ways in which the idea of 'Zuluness' is negotiated and constructed by those involved in the production of the final product. [...] By sitting in on the recording sessions she 'eavesdrops' on the music making process, and captures the quarrels, the joking and the experimentation integral to any recording process. [...] This ranges from the use of the ngoma drum, the actual timbre of the drum, the poetics and narratives of the lyrics and the Mahlathini-style growling vocals to the Zulu costumes worn by the musicians in the album cover photographs and the performance of Zulu dancing in the group's concerts.
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Its main focus is on the problematical theorising of language and the social and on the utility of Gramsci's understanding of hegemony in the analysis of languages of contention such as those of class, ethnicity and nation. [...] As a contribution to understanding the West's responses to these events, and especially its lukewarm response to the bloodshed in Yugoslavia, the authors attempt to uncover and describe the ideology of the West in terms of which ethnicity and ethnic conflict are thought about and dealt with. [...] Capitalising on the strengths of the nation-state, the nations of Europe imposed their form of the state on the territories they seized during the era of colonialism. [...] In the last essay of the book, John Comaroff deals with the awkward questions raised by the intensification of ethnic and national struggles in the contemporary world and the failure of social science to predict this development or offer an adequate explanation for it. [...] The stress on the fluid nature of ethnicity and the advocacy of approaching ethnicity historically which characterises this volume calls to mind the idiographic-nomothetic distinction of the last century with most of the contributors opting for the idiographic.
Author: R. Sooryamoorthy Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197608493 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 585
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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa presents to a broad readership an accessible, comprehensive, up to date, and topical comparative analysis of sociological thinking in Africa. Sociological discourse about African societies has been challenging and difficult, due to a lack of both comprehensive analyses and holistic sociological evidence that covers Africa from past to present times. This Handbook brings together latest analyses of sociological phenomena from the best scholars working on numerous thematic areas. It provides contributions that locates African sociological thinking in historical context and takes a critical look at its current manifestations across the continent. This collection builds upon an existing body of literature which has demonstrated that while the analysis of African societies has long been an item on the agenda of sociologists worldwide, advances of the decolonial critique made notably by African scholars in Africa enhances the scholarship of the sociology of Africa. Thus, the collection is premised upon the understanding that in order to understand the sociology of Africa as significant intervention, the participation and representation of African ways of knowing and doing is a critical starting point. This Handbook comprises a series of scholarly and interdisciplinary perspectives on current debates over how best to unpack sociological imaginations in African context. The scholarly contributions, therefore, are based on both perspectives illustrating the importance of specificity in sociological phenomenon. The Handbook is arranged in seven parts: Context and Perspectives; Race, Ethnicity, and Religion; Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality; Medical Sociology: Political Economy and Development; Crime and Violence; and The Family and Education. Premised on the importance of African ways of knowing and doing, these chapters offer sociologists, researchers, and students an invaluable starting point for a fuller understanding of African sociology.
Author: Nimi Wariboko Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030364909 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 634
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This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa’s ethical life and thought.
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