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Technocratic Visions

Author : J. Justin Castro
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822989204
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Technocratic Visions written by J. Justin Castro and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technocratic Visions examines the context and societal consequences of technologies, technocratic governance, and development in Mexico, home of the first professional engineering school in the Americas. Contributors focus on the influential role of engineers, especially civil engineers, but also mining engineers, military engineers, architects, and other infrastructural and mechanical technicians. During the mid-nineteenth century, a period of immense upheaval and change domestically and globally, troubled governments attempted to expand and modernize Mexico’s engineering programs while resisting foreign invasion and adapting new Western technologies to existing precolonial and colonial foundations. The Mexican Revolution in 1910 greatly expanded technocratic practices as state agents attempted to control popular unrest and unify disparate communities via science, education, and infrastructure. Within this backdrop of political unrest, Technocratic Visions describes engineering sites as places both praised and protested, where personal, local, national, and global interests combined into new forms of societal creation; and as places that became centers of contests over representation, health, identity, and power. With an eye on contextualizing current problems stemming from Mexico’s historical development, this volume reveals how these transformations were uniquely Mexican and thoroughly global.

Technocratic Visions of Empire

Author : Janis Anne Mimura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Technocratic Visions of Empire written by Janis Anne Mimura and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of European Technocracy

Author : Andrew Wallace
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9197781312
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Journal of European Technocracy written by Andrew Wallace and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Network of European Technocrats (N.E.T.) is an autonomous research organization comprised of volunteer members from around the world. The main objective of N.E.T. is to explore sustainable and novel economic, technical and social paradigms with the aid of theory and empiricism as guides.The journal presents some of the thoughts and writing of NET in 2006 and 2007. The articles cover areas such as alternative socioeconomic systems for a future sustainable society, ecology and and alternative to money. More information can be founf at http://www.eoslife.eu

The Molecular Vision of Life

Author : Lily E. Kay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195111435
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Molecular Vision of Life written by Lily E. Kay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study examines the rise of American molecular biology to disciplinary dominance, focusing on the period between 1930 and the elucidation of DNA structure in the mid 1950s. Research undertaken during this period, with its focus on genetic structure and function, endowed scientists with then unprecedented power over life. By viewing the new biology as both a scientific and cultural enterprise, Lily E. Kay shows that the growth of molecular biology was a result of systematic efforts by key scientists and their sponsors to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society. She analyzes the motivations and mechanisms empowering this vision by focusing on two key institutions: Caltech and its sponsor, the Rockefeller Foundation. Her study explores a number of vital, sometimes controversial topics, among them the role of private power centers in shaping scientific agenda, and the political dimensions of "pure" research. It also advances a sobering argument: the cognitive and social groundwork for genetic engineering and human genome projects was laid by the American architects of molecular biology during these early decades of the project. This book will be of interest to molecular biologists, historians, sociologists, and the general reader alike.

Spatial Justice in the City

Author : Sophie Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351185772
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Justice in the City written by Sophie Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of increasing division and segregation in cities across the world, along with pressing concerns around austerity, environmental degradation, homelessness, violence, and refugees, this book pursues a multidisciplinary approach to spatial justice in the city. Spatial justice has been central to urban theorists in various ways. Intimately connected to social justice, it is a term implicated in relations of power which concern the spatial distribution of resources, rights and materials. Arguably there can be no notion of social justice that is not spatial. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos has argued that spatial justice is the struggle of various bodies – human, natural, non-organic, technological – to occupy a certain space at a certain time. As such, urban planning and policy interventions are always, to some extent at least, about spatial justice. And, as cities become ever more unequal, it is crucial that urbanists address questions of spatial justice in the city. To this end, this book considers these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Crossing law, sociology, history, cultural studies, and geography, the book’s overarching concern with how to think spatial justice in the city brings a fresh perspective to issues that have concerned urbanists for several decades. The inclusion of empirical work in London brings the political, social, and cultural aspects of spatial justice to life. The book will be of interest to academics and students in the field of urban studies, sociology, geography, planning, space law, and cultural studies.

Critical Theory and Methodology

Author : Raymond A. Morrow
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452254036
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Critical Theory and Methodology written by Raymond A. Morrow and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Theory traces its roots from Marxism, through the renowned Frankfurt School, to a wide array of national and cultural traditions. Raymond Morrow's book traces the history and outlines the major tenets of critical theory for an undergraduate audience. He exemplifies the theory through an analysis of two leading social theorists: J[um]urgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens. Unique to this volume is the emphasis on the link between Critical Theory and empirical research and social science methodology, often thought to be incompatible.

Governing Systems

Author : Tom Crook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520290348
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Governing Systems written by Tom Crook and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook re-examines this key question in the context of Victorian and Edwardian England, long regarded as one of the 'homes' of modern public health. The modernity of modern public health, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of a centralized, bureaucratic and disciplinary State, but in the contested formation and intricate functioning of systems of governing, from the administrative to the technological. Equally, we need to embrace a dialectical understanding of modern governance, one that is rooted in the interaction of multiple levels, agents and times. Theoretically ambitious, but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity"--Provided by publisher.

International Organization As Technocratic Utopia

Author : Jens Steffek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192845578
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book International Organization As Technocratic Utopia written by Jens Steffek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the development of the idea of 'technocratic internationalism': the promotion of the involvement of experts in the workings of international relations, especially in international organizations such as the United Nations and European Union.

Religion and the Global City

Author : David Garbin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474272444
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Global City written by David Garbin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions. David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies in a diversity of urban settings, in both Global North and Global South contexts. These case studies are drawn from both 'classical' global cities such as London and Paris, and also from large cosmopolitan metropolises - such as Bangalore, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Singapore and Hong Kong – which all constitute, in their own terms, powerful sites within the informational, cultural and moral networked economies of contemporary globalization. The chapters explore some of the most pressing issues of our times: globalization and the role of global neo-liberal regimes; urban change and in particular the dramatic urbanization of Global South countries; and religious politics and religious revivalism associated, for instance, with transnational Islam or global Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity.

Research Handbook on Public Affairs

Author : Arco Timmermans
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803920289
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Public Affairs written by Arco Timmermans and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative Handbook, Arco Timmermans brings together a diverse range of experts to scrutinise the current field of public affairs, what can be learned from it and its compatibility with democracy and open society. Through this multidisciplinary focus on knowledge and competencies, the Handbook aims to closely connect the spheres of research and practice within public affairs.

Made in Mexico

Author : Susan M. Gauss
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074450
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Made in Mexico written by Susan M. Gauss and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there are those who believe that state-led development might be worth trying again. Susan Gauss’s study of the process by which Mexico transformed from a largely agrarian society into an urban, industrialized one in the two decades following the end of the Revolution is especially timely and may have lessons to offer to policy makers today. The image of a strong, centralized corporatist state led by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) from the 1940s conceals what was actually a prolonged, messy process of debate and negotiation among the postrevolutionary state, labor, and regionally based industrial elites to define the nationalist project. Made in Mexico focuses on the distinctive nature of what happened in the four regions studied in detail: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla. It shows how industrialism enabled recalcitrant elites to maintain a regionally grounded preserve of local authority outside of formal ruling-party institutions, balancing the tensions among centralization, consolidation of growth, and Mexico’s deep legacies of regional authority.

Labor Market Institutions in Europe: A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Performance

Author : Gunther Schmid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315483327
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Labor Market Institutions in Europe: A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Performance written by Gunther Schmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the Social Science Research Center Berlin, these seven contributions were originally presented at a conference in December 1992 before a group of experts i

The Rise of Professionalism

Author : Magali S. Larson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520029385
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Professionalism written by Magali S. Larson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marktwirtschaft / Beruf / Geschichte.

Hubris and Hybrids

Author : Mikael Hård
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136729321
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Hubris and Hybrids written by Mikael Hård and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among people, as well as between human societies and the natural world. Only through successful cultural appropriation can we manage to control the hubris that is fundamental to the innovative, enterprising human spirit; and only by becoming hybrids, combining the human and the technological, will we be able to make effective use of our scientific and technological achievements. This broad cultural history of technology and science provides a range of stories and reflections about the past, discussing areas such as film, industrial design, and alternative environmental technologies, and including not only European and North American, but also Asian examples, to help resolve the contradictions of contemporary high-tech civilization.

The New Technocracy

Author : Esmark, Anders
Publisher : Bristol University Press
ISBN 13 : 1529200873
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The New Technocracy written by Esmark, Anders and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, this book shows that a solution to the challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic innovation. Esmark examines the development since the 1980s of a new 'post-industrial' technocratic regime and its complicity in the populist backlash against politics and political elites that is visible today. The new technocracy – a combination of network governance, risk management and performance management – has, the author argues, abandoned the overtly anti-democratic sentiments of its industrial predecessor and proclaimed a new partnership with democracy. The rise of populism, however, is a clear sign that the inherent problems of this partnership have been exposed and that technocracy posing as democracy will only serve to exacerbate existing problems.

PISA, Power, and Policy

Author : Heinz-Dieter Meyer
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1873927967
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book PISA, Power, and Policy written by Heinz-Dieter Meyer and published by Symposium Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past ten years the PISA assessment has risen to strategic prominence in the international education policy discourse. Sponsored, organized and administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA seems well on its way to being institutionalized as the main engine in the global accountability regime. The goal of this book is to problematize this development and PISA as an institution-building force in global education. It scrutinizes the role of PISA in the emerging regime of global educational governance and questions the presumption that the quality of a nation’s school system can be evaluated through a standardized assessment that is insensitive to the world’s vast cultural and institutional diversity. The book raises the question of whether PISA’s dominance in the global educational discourse runs the risk of engendering an unprecedented process of worldwide educational standardization for the sake of hitching schools more tightly to the bandwagon of economic efficiency, while sacrificing their role to prepare students for independent thinking and civic participation.

Forms of Hatred

Author : Leonidas Donskis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004493468
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Forms of Hatred written by Leonidas Donskis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes such symbolic designs of the modern troubled imagination as the conspiracy theory of society, deterministic concepts of identity and order, antisemitic obsessions, self-hatred, and the myth of the loss of roots. It offers, among other things, the unique East-Central European materials incorporated in a broad, imaginative synthesis and critique of contemporary social analysis.