A5066388349- Innovations in Educational Methods
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- International Development and Aid
- Accounting Education and Careers
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- African history and culture studies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Mining and Resource Management
- School Choice and Performance
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Yale University
2024
Media Design School
2024
University of Alabama
2023
University of California, Berkeley
2012-2021
University of South Carolina
2020
University College London
2004-2018
Auckland Institute of Studies
2013-2018
University College Hospital
1988-2018
Royal London Hospital
1999-2018
Oxford Policy Management
2017
What might it mean to say that resources, and resource-dependency, have consequences for the conduct of politics? This article explores research conducted under sign resource politics associated with work Michael Ross, Paul Collier others through a detailed examination political economy oil in Nigeria. Much suffers from either too strong commodity-determinism or an insufficient attention ways which specific characteristics matter analytically respect politics, rule conflict. I approach...
The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela. FERNANDO CORONIL. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xviii + 447 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
The subjectivity of individuals, the so‐called speakers and hearers political discourse, who actually, or even ideally, populate a state, needs to be understood in terms enunciative modalities ‐ statuses, sites, positions their existence as subjects. Enunciative refer ways discursive practice is attached bodies space (Clifford, 2001:56).Governmental thought territorializes itself different ways… We can analyze which idea territorially bounded, politically governed nation state under...
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, crisis-prone. This text, however, highlights the changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems focusing on contract farming. A relatively new increasingly widespread way organising peasant agriculture, farming promotes production a wide variety crops - from flowers to cocoa, fresh vegetables rice under agribusinesses, exporters, processers. The proliferation African growers...
Introduction: The Manufacturing of Dissent This article addresses the changing nature farm work in a peasant society Gambia, West Africa. practice labour has been transformed most palpable way by advent radically new technical and social relations production associated with mechanised double-cropping irrigated rice. Technical change, agricultural intensification process are, however, all built upon bedrock household production, since growers are socially integrated into scheme as contract...
Recent debates within political ecology have motivated new field. In the introduction to this special issue, we vital challenges faced today, and present a set of studies that respond these concerns. We conceptualize power as social relation built on asymmetrical distribution resources risks locate in interactions among, processes constitute, people, places, resources. Politics, then, are found practices mechanisms through which such is circulated. The focus here politics related...
Community is a fundamental modality for the conduct of modern politics. This paper explores antinomies community in an oil nation: Nigeria. Oil states stand relation to particular sort capitalism (what I call petro‐capitalism) which key resource (petroleum) and logic extraction figure centrally making breaking community. pose following questions: how are communities imagined (or not), territorialized identified not) ruled at multiplicity scales natural resource, namely oil? Each imagined, so...
(1993). Introduction: Development Theory and Environment in an Age of Market Triumphalism. Economic Geography: Vol. 69, Theme Issue: Development, Part 1, pp. 227-253.
Recent analyses of the restructuring agro‐food system draw uncritically on industrial literature, notably regulation theory and Fordism/post‐Fordism debates capitalist transition. We question extension this periodisation conceptual framework to political economy agrarian restructuring. also interrogate theoretical foundations several related literatures concerned with international food regimes, 'new internationalisation' agriculture, repositioning agriculture‐industry relations,...
Of the 400,000–500,000 permanent pacemaker leads implanted worldwide each year, around 10% may eventually fail or become infected, becoming potential candidates for removal. Intravascular techniques removing problematic infected evolved over a 5‐year period (1989–1993). This article analyzes results from January 1994 through April 1996, during which were fairly stable. Extraction of 3,540 2,338 patients was attempted at 226 centers. Indications were: infection (27%), nonfunctional...
▪ Abstract One of the most important aspects rise post-1945 global capitalism has been call for transnational corporations to conform basic human rights principles. This chapter reviews efforts within oil industry (with a particular focus on their operations in less-developed countries) develop corporate social responsibility and related development voluntary, legal, statutory programs by governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civic groups, multilateral agencies ensure that is...
In spring 2000, we conducted a national survey of academic economists to determine how economics is taught in four different types undergraduate courses (Principles, Intermediate Theory, Statistics and Econometrics, other upper-division courses) at institutions the five Carnegie classifications (research, doctoral, master’s, baccalaureate, associate), as listed A Classification Institutions Higher Education, 1994 Edition. This new replicates our 1995 (Becker Watts, 1996). Therefore, can...
In 1995, 2000, and 2005, the authors surveyed U.S. academic economists to investigate how economics is taught in four different types of undergraduate courses at postsecondary institutions. They especially looked for any changes teaching methods that occurred over this decade, when there were several prominent calls instructors other fields devote more attention effort make greater use active, student-centered learning methods, with less direct instruction (chalk talk). By although standard...