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1	The economy of knowledge in migration policy : Understanding Georgia's migration policy within the modern world system Nadibaidze, Tamar January 2022 (has links) The study aims to analyze Georgia's Migration Strategy 2021-2030 and its elaboration process within a multi-stakeholder format. The Strategy along with the annual action plans and a logic framework, sets a state policy on migration. The development of migration policy and cohesive field management is a novel and largely understudied phenomenon in the local context. It also falls beyond the general research focus of migration policies within the Western liberal democracies. In addition, conditions related to Georgia's specific location, introduced by the thesis, give relevance to studying the contemporary manifestation of migration in the state policy. The research is interested in the knowledge paradigms and its sources that form the policy, and their role in creating salience of certain topics, while muting others. The research uses an ethnographic method and a poststructural policy analysis to interrogate the strategy and its development process. The results are assessed with the use of a conceptual framework assembled from Brown and Balibar's theorization of relationship between neoliberalism and democracy, and its consequent impact on democratic governance. The findings reveal the prominence of neoliberal rationality as a political and normative form of reason and display some of its sources of power. In this process, best practices function as perceived neutral forms of knowledge and further carry a legitimizing effect due to their intrinsic contingency on the European geopolitical space. In overall, the results reveal a certain 'disorganic' development of migration policy, dislocated from Georgia's historical and contemporary realities. migration neoliberal rationality knowledge paradigms truth claims best practices governance power democracy civil society Georgia EU. Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap
2	Remaking Iraq: Neoliberalism and a System of Violence after the US invasion, 2003-2011 Sommer-Houdeville, Thomas January 2017 (has links) After the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Saddam regime in 2003, the US administration undertook the complete remaking of Iraq as a national-state. The initial steps of the US administration were the quasi eradication of the old Iraqi State. Then, this nation-building endeavor has been based on a federal constitution promoting an Ethno- sectarian power sharing and the attempt to transform what was once a centralized economy into a comprehensive market driven society. However, the post-2003 period had been marked by the rising of identity politics, the constant delegitimisation of the new political order and successive episode of massive violence. Obviously, the question of violence and its apex in 2006-2007, is central to understand the post-2003 period in Iraq. For the first time in Iraqi history, waves of ethno-sectarian violence seriously challenged the possibility of a common life for all the diverse components of the Iraqi society. The Iraqi nation seemed to have been consumed in an existential conflict between components and communal identifications once relatively integrated. Therefore, there is a need to render an analytical account of the aggressive rise of identity politics, the outbreak of violence and finally the episodes of civil war in 2005-2007 in Iraq. This study aims to answer these questions by tracking the different political and social processes that have been at play during the American occupation of Iraq and that lead to the events of 2005-2007. In order to do so, I will consider the dynamical relations that link political institutions, violence and self-identifications in regard to the Iraqi society and Iraq as a National State. This research is built as a case study based mostly on qualitative analysis and the collection of empirical data, interviews, and fieldwork observations as well as primary and secondary sources. I set out to identify actors and processes and determine a complex chain of reactions (a trajectory) that led to the current state of affairs in Iraq. This trajectory could be summarized in few sentences: The destruction of the old Iraqi State and the brutal implementation of Neo-liberal rationality and re- regulations policies by the US occupation ended into a dystopian economy and the creation of an "absent state" (Davis, 2011). Since its very first day, this US lead nation-building endeavor has been flawed by a complete lack of legitimacy and its substitution with coercion by the US and the New Iraqi "State" security apparatus. Meanwhile, the imposition and the institutionalization of Ethno-sectarian affiliations as a principle of political legitimacy contributed to transform the different communities of Iraq into main avenues for access and control of scarce economic and political resources. In a way, US occupation and new Iraqi elites were deflecting the political question of right following a movement similar to what Mamdani and Brown describe as a "Culturalisation of Politics" (2004, 2006). The result was a failure to establish a legitimate and functional political and economic order. This led to the rise of a System of Violence, organized around networks of violence. Within the System of Violence, Culturalisation of Politics would be translated into Culturalisation of Violence. This would contribute to the sectarianisation of space in Baghdad and other localities of Iraq, as well as "manufacturing" (Gregory, 2008) and essentialising sectarian representations and identifications within the society. Iraq US Civil War Neoliberalism Neoliberal Rationality Muhasasah Sectarian Cleansing Culturalisation of Politics Depoliticisation Space Market State Sectarianism Identity Politics Essentialisation Ritualised Violence State Building
3	[en] AT THE MARGINS OF THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: AN ANALYSIS ON A RADICAL CONCEPT IN HENRI LEFEBVRE S WORK AND HIS CONTRADICTORY BANALIZATION-POTENTIALIZATION PROCESS / [pt] ÀS MARGENS DO DIREITO À CIDADE: UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE UM CONCEITO RADICAL NA OBRA DE HENRI LEFEBVRE E SEU CONTRADITÓRIO PROCESSO DE BANALIZAÇÃO-POTENCIALIZAÇÃO ALEX LAMONICA MAGALHAES 01 November 2019 (has links) [pt] A produção alienadora das cidades tem avançado mediante ações político-estatais cada vez mais alinhadas com a racionalidade neoliberal. Tal fato, dentre outras características, contribuiu para ampliar a contradição entre o processo de produção social do espaço e sua apropriação privada. Neste sentido, o direito à cidade tem sido um termo cada vez mais utilizado por diferentes sujeitos como possibilidade de reafirmar projetos de emancipação também contraditórios (emancipação política e emancipação humana) que sustentam modelos de democracia distintos. Portanto, partindo-se de uma análise (meta)geográfica, na qual consideramos o direito à cidade como um conceito radical em obra homônima escrita por Henri Lefebvre, estaríamos diante de um processo contraditório de banalização-potencialização deste conceito ainda fundamental para (re)pensar a alienação urbana. Nesse sentido, em relação à experiências concretas, ainda estaríamos à margem de formas de organização social e política que materializem toda a radicalidade contida e expressa neste conceito apresentado originalmente por Henri Lefebvre. Enquanto sujeitos históricos estaríamos (ainda) às margens do direi-to à cidade ao considerarmos os limites e as fronteiras dos diferentes projetos de democracia contidos nos contraditórios projetos de emancipação política e emancipação humana e suas relações com práxis comprometidas com a produção do espaço a partir da dialética entre o possível-impossível. Acreditamos que, a crítica radical proposta pela metageografia, nos proporcionaria pensar a produção do espaço através de um caminho teórico-metodológico comprometido com a reafirmação da radicalidade contida no conceito de direito à cidade desenvolvido por Henri Lefebvre. / [en] The alienating production of cities has advanced through state-political actions increasingly aligned with neoliberal rationality. This fact, among other characteristics, contributed to extend the contradiction between the process of social production of space and its private appropriation. In this sense, the right to the city has been a term increasingly used by different subjects as possibility to reaffirm also contradictory emancipation projects (political emancipation and human emancipation) that support different models of democracy. Therefore, starting from a (meta)geographical analysis, in which we consider the right to the city as a radical concept in a homonymous work written by Henri Lefebvre, we would be in the face of a contradictory process of trivialization-potentiation of this still fundamental concept to (re)think the urban alienation. In this sense, in relation to concrete experiences, we would still be at the margins of social and political organization forms that materialize all the radicality contained and expressed in this concept originally presented by Henri Lefebvre. As historical subjects we would be (still) at the margins of the right to the city when considering the limits and boundaries of the different projects of democracy contained in the contradictory projects of political emancipation and human emancipation and their relations with praxis committed to the production of space from the dialectic between the possible-impossible. We believe that the radical critique proposed by metageography would allow us to think about the production of space through a theoretical and methodological path committed to the reaffirmation of the radicality contained in the concept of the right to the city developed by Henri Lefebvre. [pt] DIREITO A CIDADE [pt] ALIENACAO URBANA [pt] RACIONALIDADE NEOLIBERAL [pt] EMANCIPACAO HUMANA [pt] EMANCIPACAO POLITICA [en] RIGHT TO THE CITY [en] URBAN ALIENATION [en] NEOLIBERAL RATIONALITY [en] HUMAN EMANCIPATION [en] POLITICAL EMANCIPATION
4	From the "rising tide" to solidarity: disrupting dominant crisis discourses in dementia social policy in neoliberal times MacLeod, Suzanne 26 March 2014 (has links) As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive. / Graduate / 0452 / 0680 / 0351 / macsuz@shaw.ca social determinants of health social exclusion crisis discourse Alzheimer's Alzheimer Society of Canada Suzanne MacLeod Susan Strega Donna Jeffery poststructural poststructuralism admission to long-term care funding for long-term care acute care aging demographic BC Psychogeriatric Association biomedical British Columbia Canada Health Act collective social responsibility competition corporate profit corporatization deresponsibilization elder friendly elderly citizens family caregivers Foucault found poetry genealogy of power knowledge incompetent Ministry of Health moral economics pharmaceutical bed blocker stigmatized tsunami absent-person action plan aging population alternative discourse apocalyptic demography appropriate archaeology archaeology of knowledge archaeological British Columbia burden Canada caregiver charity charitable collective collective car community community care condition of possibility conditions of possibility corporate counter-discourse dementia dementia care dementia policy dementia social policy dependent depoliticize discourse discourse analysis disruptive discourse economic burden economics economy elder emergency epidemic exclusion fear-monger Foucauldian found poem genealogy genealogical health authority health care health care staff health care system health policy document healthy lifestyle home and community care homogenization homogenize hospital imaginaries imaginary incapable individual responsibility individualism knowledge long-term care material effect materiality of discourse media moral panic national strategy neoliberal neoliberalism neoliberal rationality not prepared object objectification other person-centered people living with dementia person living with dementia persons living with dementia person with dementia poem poetic representation poetry policy policies political politics power power knowledge power relations private privatize privatization productivity of dominant discourse public health care residential care resistance responsibility responsibilization rising tide safety net shift costs to caregivers responsibility social policy imaginary social well-being social work social worker solidarity specialized stakeholder state stigma subject matter expert taxpayer threat unprepared unproductive voluntary volunteer wait time wave social policy
5	From the "rising tide" to solidarity: disrupting dominant crisis discourses in dementia social policy in neoliberal times MacLeod, Suzanne 26 March 2014 (has links) As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive. / Graduate / 0452 / 0680 / 0351 / macsuz@shaw.ca social determinants of health social exclusion crisis discourse Alzheimer's Alzheimer Society of Canada Suzanne MacLeod Susan Strega Donna Jeffery poststructural poststructuralism admission to long-term care funding for long-term care acute care aging demographic BC Psychogeriatric Association biomedical British Columbia Canada Health Act collective social responsibility competition corporate profit corporatization deresponsibilization elder friendly elderly citizens family caregivers Foucault found poetry genealogy of power knowledge incompetent Ministry of Health moral economics pharmaceutical bed blocker stigmatized tsunami absent-person action plan aging population alternative discourse apocalyptic demography appropriate archaeology archaeology of knowledge archaeological British Columbia burden Canada caregiver charity charitable collective collective car community community care condition of possibility conditions of possibility corporate counter-discourse dementia dementia care dementia policy dementia social policy dependent depoliticize discourse discourse analysis disruptive discourse economic burden economics economy elder emergency epidemic exclusion fear-monger Foucauldian found poem genealogy genealogical health authority health care health care staff health care system health policy document healthy lifestyle home and community care homogenization homogenize hospital imaginaries imaginary incapable individual responsibility individualism knowledge long-term care material effect materiality of discourse media moral panic national strategy neoliberal neoliberalism neoliberal rationality not prepared object objectification other person-centered people living with dementia person living with dementia persons living with dementia person with dementia poem poetic representation poetry policy policies political politics power power knowledge power relations private privatize privatization productivity of dominant discourse public health care residential care resistance responsibility responsibilization rising tide safety net shift costs to caregivers responsibility social policy imaginary social well-being social work social worker solidarity specialized stakeholder state stigma subject matter expert taxpayer threat unprepared unproductive voluntary volunteer wait time wave social policy

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