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Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Other affiliations: Universities UK, University of Sussex, Coventry University  ...read more
Bio: Bhabani Shankar Nayak is an academic researcher from University for the Creative Arts. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 24 publications receiving 126 citations. Previous affiliations of Bhabani Shankar Nayak include Universities UK & University of Sussex.

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30 Oct 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the "impossibility theorem" of "development studies" and reject it based on essentialist perspectives and performative indicators of development studies, and conclude that it is imperative to reject the impossibility theorem.
Abstract: This article evaluates the ‘impossibility theorem’ of ‘development studies’. It is imperative to reject the ‘impossibility theorem’ based on essentialist perspectives and performative indicators of...

6 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reject the essentialist and neoliberal approach to public-private partnerships (PPPs) by critically evaluating both normative and empirical arguments within existing literature on PPPs.
Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reject the essentialist and neoliberal approach to public–private partnerships (PPPs) by critically evaluating both normative and empirical arguments within existing literature on PPPs. It explores different dynamics of PPPs in theory and practice within global public policy. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws its methodological lineages to nonlinear historical narrative around the concept and construction of the idea and language of “PPPs”. The paper follows discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2003) to locate the way in which the PPPs were incorporated within the language of global public policy. Findings The paper finds that most of the existing literature is looking at managerial, operational, functional and essentialist aspects of PPPs. Therefore, the paper argues that critical success of PPPs depends on its social value for common good with an emancipatory outlook. The study encourages future researchers to move beyond functional aspects of PPPs and locate emancipatory possibilities within the praxis of PPPs from a holistic perspective of global public policy. Research limitations/implications The existing literature on the concepts and history of PPPs locate its relevance for budgeting and development planning in developed countries and developing countries. Such literature often draws out the advantages and disadvantages of these concepts with a strong focus on the financial implications to the shareholders. However, there appears to be less emphasis on the effects of these concepts and gaps between theory and practice of PPPs. Originality/value The paper rejects the essentialist and neoliberal approach to PPPs and argues for an emancipatory approach to understand and implement PPPs.

6 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that critical success of PPPs depends on its social value for the common good with an emancipatory outlook, and move beyond managerial, operational, functional and essentialist aspects of PPs.
Abstract: Purpose The paper provides historical outlook on different trends in PPPs in global public policy. The purpose of this paper is to reject the essentialist and neoliberal approach to PPPs by critically evaluating both normative and empirical arguments within existing literature. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws its methodological lineages to nonlinear historical narrative around the concept and construction of the idea and language of “PPPs”. The paper follows discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2003) to locate the way in which PPPs were incorporated within the language of global public policy. Findings The paper finds that most of the existing literature looks at managerial, operational, functional and essentialist aspects of PPPs. Therefore, the paper argues that critical success of PPPs depends on its social value for the common good with an emancipatory outlook. Originality/value The paper argues to move beyond functional aspects of PPPs and locate emancipatory possibilities within the praxis of global public policy.

5 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that there is a bidirectional causality between financial development and economic growth in China, and that the Chinese state is making coordinated effort for the development of the financial sector for economic growth to address issues of local development.
Abstract: There are many burgeoning literatures dominate the debates on relationship between financial developments and economic growth in China. It has always been a contagious one. The Chinese state is making coordinated effort for the development of the financial sector for economic growth to address issues of local development. Since the reforms of 1978, the Chinese economy has witnessed rapid growth. This paper explores the relationship between financial development and economic growth in China. It argues that there is a bidirectional causality between financial development and economic growth in China.

5 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the democratic institutional responses to the problem of women and food insecurity as both are embedded together in Indian society and locate the responses and interventions in the issue of women, food insecurity from the different democratic institutions of India.
Abstract: This paper is trying to examine the democratic institutional responses to the problem of women and food insecurity as both are embedded together in Indian society. The paper tries to locate the responses and interventions in the issue of women and food insecurity from the different democratic institutions of India i.e. the government, judiciary, media and political parties. Although food insecurity affects people across the board but we are focusing only on women, as they are more vulnerable to it.

4 citations


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TL;DR: Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality by Aihwa Ong as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of transnationality. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

1,517 citations

01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

1,125 citations