Tag: Governing

Free Download Johannes Stripple, Harriet Bulkeley, "Governing the Climate: New Approaches to Rationality, Power and Politics"
English | 2013 | pages: 298 | ISBN: 1107046262, 1107624606 | PDF | 5,8 mb
Despite a growing interest in critical social and political studies of climate change, the field remains fragmented and diffuse. This is the first volume to collect this body of scholarship, providing a key reference point in the growing debate about climate change across the social sciences. The book provides a new set of insights into the ways in which climate change is creating new forms of social order, and the ways in which they are structured through the workings of rationality, power and politics. Governing the Climate is invaluable for three main audiences: social science researchers and advanced students in the field of climate change; the wider research community interested in global environmental politics and global environmental governance; and policy makers and researchers concerned more broadly with environmental politics at international, national and local levels.

Free Download Ivar Bleiklie, Mary Henkel, "Governing Knowledge: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education – A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan"
English | 2005 | pages: 286 | ISBN: 9048168821, 140203489X | PDF | 4,7 mb
In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their implications. Different contributions focus on different levels of higher education, the system, the institution and the academic practitioner, in different national and international contexts. However, strong common themes bind these contributions together. They include not only the significance of massification, globalisation, neo-liberalism and managerialism for the governance of higher education, its knowledge and values, but also the complexities of change processes, the importance of context and history and the strength of the stabilities that remain.

Free Download Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding
by Shelley X. Liu
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197696708 | 345 Pages | True PDF | 13.7 MB

Free Download Shelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding"
English | ISBN: 0197696708 | 2024 | 344 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Governing After War explores how wartime processes affects post-war state-building efforts when rebels win a civil war and come into power. Post-war governance is a continuation of war-although violence has ceased, the victor must consolidate its control over the state through a process of internal conquest. This means carefully making choices about resource allocation towards development and security. Where does the victor choose to spend, and why? And what are the implications for ultimately consolidating power and preventing conflict recurrence?

Free Download Trade Makes States: Governing the Greater Somali Economy
by Tobias Hagmann, Finn Stepputat
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197746217 | 312 Pages | True ePUB | 3.45 MB

Free Download Wan-chen Yen, "Governing Sex, Building the Nation: The Politics of Prostitution in Postcolonial Taiwan 1945-1979"
English | ISBN: 1443872385 | 2015 | 290 pages | PDF | 962 KB
Governing Sex, Building the Nation explores the sexual politics of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan between 1945 and 1979, focusing on the politicisation of prostitution and its role in the reproduction of postcolonial nationhood. This book examines the political struggle over prostitution policy that was framed within and through contested knowledge, rationales and tactics underpinning the nationalist project, constructing and policing prostitution as a social/national problem, yet also creating a market for prostitution and turning it into political opportunities that served a variety of nationalistic interests. Locating this in the larger Asian struggle with colonial influence on prostitution, the author provides interesting and rare accounts of official perspectives and tactics regarding prostitution in the Taiwanese context, in order to explore the interlinkages between post/colonialism, prostitution and nationalism. Featuring insights into Japanese and Chinese colonialism and the Eastern Asian experience of postcolonialism, this book shifts academic attention from mainstream postcolonial studies, which highlight Western colonialism and Indian and African postcolonialism. It thereby discovers more diverse approaches to postcolonial nation-building and a more intricate interaction between colonial powers and the colonised society, and, as such, adds new depth to postcolonial studies. Bringing the politics of nationalism and postcolonialism into the study of prostitution policies, this book also provides an understanding of prostitution in a once-colonised society in contrast to the broadly recognised gender and sexual politics of prostitution in the Western context.

Free Download Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones (Elements)
by Adam Fish
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1478025808 | 249 Pages | True PDF | 7.36 MB

Free Download The Business of Densification: Governing Land for Social Sustainability in Housing
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031490134 | 286 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe societal problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in old housing stocks planned to be densified, renovated, or upgraded with higher rents, are forced to leave the urban core centers because they can no longer afford to live in central locations, or because they experience unstable or insecure housing conditions. A scenario that is highly unsustainable.

Free Download A Relational Approach to Governing Wicked Problems: From Governance Failure to Failure Governance by Peeter Selg , Georg Sootla , Benjamin Klasche
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 392 Pages | ISBN : 3031240332 | 10.7 MB
The book initiates a relational turn in policy making and governance by developing further relational political analysis and by taking relational thinking to bear on not just analytic/descriptive issues, but also to normative/prescriptive issues. The need for such a turn, this book argues, comes from the ever-increasing relevance of addressing the so-called wicked problems of governance like climate change, COVID-19 kinds of pandemics, global economic recessions and refugee crises. The book argues for a need to rethink governance as a process from the relational point of view to spur its potential for addressing these problems. What needs to be rethought is not so much the specific tools or resources of governance, but the very issue of whether governance should be seen in terms of tools and resources in the first place. This book contributes to this discussion by consolidating the relational approaches to governance thus far and by taking them to a next – normative/prescriptive – level.

Free Download Governing Human Life: (Bio)politics, Knowledge and Borders in Global Drug Policy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031435516 | 174 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book presents an analysis tracing the operation of biopolitical mode of power in the global field of drug control. Through a series of theoretically framed investigations that relate current drug control policies to the broader frame of ‘vital politics,’ it attends to the relationship of drug control, democracy and authoritarianism and showcases these pressures on the case of the evolution of drug policy in the Czech Republic. Then, it turns attention to the relationship of power and knowledge, with a particular focus on ‘evidence-based’ policy that tends to more often sustain, rather than challenge coercive and punitive drug control policies. Last but not least, it looks at how the global drug control dispositif shapes those lives on one of Europe’s (internal) periphery, the Spanish Southern border. These investigations are intended to illuminate elements of the operation of the drug control dispositif and its far reaching (bio-)political effects in order to maintain and expand the space for thinking political alternatives.