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01 Jan 2005TL;DR: In this paper, the state and the poor are seen and seen, and the state is seen as a technology of rule and the war on poverty, and they are seen as agents of the state.
Abstract: Part I. The State and the Poor: 1. Seeing the state 2. Technologies of rule and the war on poverty Part II. The Everyday State and Society: 3. Meeting the state 4. Participation 5. Governance 6. Political society Part III. The Poor and the State: 7. Protesting the state 8. Postcolonialism, development studies and spaces of empowerment 9. Postscript: development ethics and the ethics of critique.
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TL;DR: It is found that in all national policies myths of technological inevitability, a new and better government, rational information planning, and empowerment of the intelligent citizen can be discerned.
Abstract: In general, rhetoric and myth play important roles in policymaking. Myths may inspire collective action but may also mystify and blur views on reality. In this article we identify, analyze, and reflect on the myths underlying the e-government programs of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the Netherlands. We found that in all national policies myths of technological inevitability, a new and better government, rational information planning, and empowerment of the intelligent citizen can be discerned. Although the mobilizing powers of these myths are acknowledged, we conclude that existing empirical studies have generated little support for the inescapable telos of these myths, which makes canvas cleaning effects of e-government initiatives less likely.
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TL;DR: The authors assess a broad selection of the resulting literature and identify several key themes, such as how ruins may be used to critically examine capitalist and state manifestations of power, the way in which ruins may challenge dominant ways of relating to the past, and how they may complicate strategies for practically and ontologically ordering space.
Abstract: Scholarly interest in ruins and derelict spaces has intensified over the last decade. We assess a broad selection of the resulting literature and identify several key themes. We focus on how ruins may be used to critically examine capitalist and state manifestations of power; we consider the way in which ruins may challenge dominant ways of relating to the past; and we look at how ruins may complicate strategies for practically and ontologically ordering space. We speculate about the motivations for this surge of current academic interest, draw out resonances with current trends in geographical thinking, and suggest directions for future research.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the efforts of participants active in the capitalist market to reorient their knowledge in response to neoliberal reforms side by side with academic critics of capitalism to re-orient their critique, and bring to light contrasting views on where such a reorientation might lead.
Abstract: In this article, I respond to Vincent Crapanzano's recent call for attention to the category of hope as a term of social analysis by bringing it into view as a new terrain of commonality and difference across different forms of knowledge. I consider the efforts of participants active in the capitalist market to reorient their knowledge in response to neoliberal reforms side by side with the efforts of academic critics of capitalism to reorient their critique. These efforts to reorient knowledge as a shared method of hope bring to light contrasting views on where such a reorientation might lead.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual tool for noticing landscape structure, with special attention to what we call "modular simplifi ciency", is presented. But this tool requires spatial as well as temporal analysis.
Abstract: The Anthropocene deserves spatial as well as temporal analysis. “Patchy Anthropocene” is a conceptual tool for noticing landscape structure, with special attention to what we call “modular simplifi...
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