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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors' Note -- Articles -- The Contextual Effects of Race, Racial Representation, and Elite Campaign Cues on Voter Behavior in Statewide Races -- Are Separate Struggles Really One? African American Clergy, Elite Messages, and African American Perceptions of Commonality with Latinos -- Fighting for African American Interests in City Politics: Local Political Organizations and Black Political Efficacy -- The Effects of Concentrated Poverty on Black and White Political Participation in the Southern Black Belt -- Reflections on the Presidential Election of 2012 -- Voter Identification Laws and Other Election Mechanisms in a Multiracial America -- Black Politics, as If Black Women Mattered -- The Re-Election of President Barack Obama: The Resilient Black Vote -- Works in Progress -- Analyzing Policies Intended to Redress Gender Inequality in the Developing World -- Uncharted Territory: Jim Crow Violence in Comparative Perspective -- Political Science Research on Afro-Latin America -- Four Guideposts for Doing Research in Black American Politics -- Book Reviews -- Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, reviewed by Melanye T. Price -- Liette Gidlow, ed., Obama, Clinton, Palin: Making History in Election 2008, reviewed by Edith Barrett -- Michael D. Minta, Oversight: Representing the Interests of Blacks and Latinos in Congress, reviewed by Matthew B. Platt -- Christian Grose, Congress in Black and White: Race and Representation in Washington and at Home, reviewed by Linda M. Trautman -- Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta, reviewed by Minion K. C. Morrison -- Fabio Rojas, From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social MovementBecame an Academic Discipline, reviewed by Claudia Nelson.

International audience ; The agroecological transition implies rethinking the way farmers are supported in their changes in practices. Farmer Field Schools are an effective mechanism in this respect, since they build farmers' capacity to experiment, to produce knowledge and to innovate independently. However, it is essential that these advisory services are correctly implemented, which has implications for the research and development community. A study conducted in sub-Saharan Africa shows that after taking part in Farmer Field Schools, farmers are more likely to make changes on their own farms if they have been involved in the decision-making process for the Farmer Field School. These changes can be highlighted by qualitative assessment methods centred on the contribution to impact. Farmer Field Schools also stand to gain from including women, young people and the poorest farmers, categories that are often excluded from conventional agricultural advisory services, but recognised as drivers of agroecological innovation. Finally, there must be room for the objectives of Farmer Field Schools to evolve over time, in order to adjust to local conditions, whether environmental or socio-economic.

International audience ; The agroecological transition implies rethinking the way farmers are supported in their changes in practices. Farmer Field Schools are an effective mechanism in this respect, since they build farmers' capacity to experiment, to produce knowledge and to innovate independently. However, it is essential that these advisory services are correctly implemented, which has implications for the research and development community. A study conducted in sub-Saharan Africa shows that after taking part in Farmer Field Schools, farmers are more likely to make changes on their own farms if they have been involved in the decision-making process for the Farmer Field School. These changes can be highlighted by qualitative assessment methods centred on the contribution to impact. Farmer Field Schools also stand to gain from including women, young people and the poorest farmers, categories that are often excluded from conventional agricultural advisory services, but recognised as drivers of agroecological innovation. Finally, there must be room for the objectives of Farmer Field Schools to evolve over time, in order to adjust to local conditions, whether environmental or socio-economic.

International audience ; The agroecological transition implies rethinking the way farmers are supported in their changes in practices. Farmer Field Schools are an effective mechanism in this respect, since they build farmers' capacity to experiment, to produce knowledge and to innovate independently. However, it is essential that these advisory services are correctly implemented, which has implications for the research and development community. A study conducted in sub-Saharan Africa shows that after taking part in Farmer Field Schools, farmers are more likely to make changes on their own farms if they have been involved in the decision-making process for the Farmer Field School. These changes can be highlighted by qualitative assessment methods centred on the contribution to impact. Farmer Field Schools also stand to gain from including women, young people and the poorest farmers, categories that are often excluded from conventional agricultural advisory services, but recognised as drivers of agroecological innovation. Finally, there must be room for the objectives of Farmer Field Schools to evolve over time, in order to adjust to local conditions, whether environmental or socio-economic.

One of the hallmarks of the last decade has undoubtedly been the rise to prominence of a group of five emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - that have come to be known collectively as the 'BRICS bloc'. As a direct result of the increasingly prominent role of the BRICS bloc in global politics and economics, there has been a consequent increasing demand for improved infrastructure within these rapidly industrialising powers. This has compelled multilateral development banks to develop innovative funding solutions. Among these mechanisms is project finance, a relatively novel legal and financial structure typically used to fund public and private capital-intensive facilities and utilities. Multilateral development banks' (MDBs) participation in large-scale public-sector infrastructure projects financing is primarily governed by the loan agreements they conclude with governments, other financial institutions, and private sector entities. However, projects of this nature have predictably widespread effects, particularly on stakeholders not party to the contractual scheme – they frequently involve resettlement of local populations, transformation of indigenous lands, deforestation, pollution, and employment of labour for heavy industrial tasks. This far-reaching impact has necessitated increased accountability for MDBs' financing practices, particularly where the actions of MBD lenders impact on human rights and have broader social and environmental effects. This thesis examines two mechanisms to achieve accountability. The first of these solutions lifts the veil and entails reconceptualisation of how MDBs are held accountable at domestic level by reconfiguring the role of domestic judicial forums. The second is the formation of what is termed an independent 'super mechanism', an international body which would be created by agreement among all participating multilateral development banks and would serve to provide effective oversight and enhanced accountability. This thesis ultimately focuses on advancing a novel contribution on the establishment of a super mechanism and it does so with reference to the interface between global administrative law principles and domestic administrative law principles. It addresses how supranational regulatory mechanisms should render the exercise of discretion and authority at the international level more transparent and accountable for the benefit of stakeholders in the developing world. The thesis formulates four benchmark criteria against which the development of an effective and successful super mechanism should be measured, it should: (i) be empowered with jurisdiction to conduct comprehensive investigations; (ii) provide remedies that are effective; (iii) be empowered to monitor and enforce remedies and corrective measures at MDBs; and (iv) operate in a manner that does not directly or indirectly contribute to undermining the national sovereignty of developing states. The thesis takes this further by examining how a super mechanism aligns with the core objectives and values of the BRICS bloc, and then advances a proposal to establish a BRICS super mechanism. It does this with reference to the practical challenges that may arise around the implementation of a BRICS-specific super mechanism, and it interrogates measures that the bloc has already implemented that may mitigate some of the theorised challenges.

This dissertation engages with the perennial question of 'how lecturers learn to teach' and 'students learn to learn', through engaging with the development of one lecturer in the process of learning how to teach undergraduate students to do research in Information Systems at a Higher Education Institution in South Africa. Teaching and learning stand at the core of Higher Education, yet at the University where this research was conducted, 86% of the academics in the Faculty have no formal qualification in teaching and only extended programme students are enrolled in academic literacy courses. Teaching and learning are also not typical competencies that are included in discipline-specific curricula. Because lecturers are appointed as educators, it becomes a moral imperative for them to become proficient in teaching and learning. This thesis takes the position that adult educators and learners are able to teach themselves under the right circumstances. The research was based on a case study of learning to teach three groups of third year students over a consecutive period of three years in a research methods and philosophy course in Information Systems at a historically disadvantaged University in SA. Political imperatives of free and open access to higher education and the associated growth in student numbers, together with constrained financial resources and increasing academic workloads provide the context for this research against the Universities strategy to transition from a teaching to a research-based institution. These imperatives require new and innovative ways of teaching large groups of underprivileged students with minimal resources for doing research. Furthermore, the widespread adoption of the internet by students as their primary source of information has exposed a critical need for these kinds of academic literacies in discipline specific curricula. It is suggested that these skills can only be developed through practical experience and not as a theoretical curriculum. Praxis is guided by the Greek concept of phronēsis; which is the moral disposition to do what is right depending on the circumstances. By analysing the course reflections of 60 students using Aristotle's dialectics, this dissertation provides empirical evidence of 'how students learn', 'how to teach' students to be self-directed as well as 'how' academics are able to learn to teach themselves. It is suggested that the current practice of prescribing to students what, when, where and why they should learn is harmful to their long-term self-directing capabilities. By fostering students' independence through enabling them how to learn, the lecturer reflexively becomes free to learn how to teach for him/herself. More importantly, this research has highlighted the absence of a knowledge component in contemporary models of experiential learning. These findings have implications for the broader sphere of teaching of research in Information Systems as well as developing students' critical and self-directed faculties. This is of value in preparing students for postgraduate research in any discipline, for developing students as lifelong learners, and in developing lecturers as critically reflective educators who know 'how' and 'why' to teach.

Globalisation is the penetration of the global market into the life of the countries, caused by the strengthening international financial markets, rising world trade, creation of multinational businesses and progress in telecommunications.The present analysis of globalisation and the new opportunities and challenges it presents to businesses and the population attempts to take a broader view of the issue. We have tried to take a look at both sides of the globalisation process and assess not only the huge changes it brings to the world but also to review the contradictory impact it makes on man and the world inhabited by him.The benefits of globalisation are obvious: it is faster growth, higher standards of life and new opportunities. Yet far from all countries and all people are able to use the advantages offered by globalisation.Globalisation does not give heed to borders; it progresses every day and involves an increasing number of people. President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, speaking at the World Summit for Sustainable Development held from August 26 to September 4, 2002, in Johannesburg, called the wealthy countries "islands of welfare", surrounded by an "ocean of poverty", and urged to stop the "global apartheid" of the poor countries. "Poverty, underdevelopment, inequality among countries and within countries together with the aggravating global ecological crisis throw a dark shadow on the whole world," said President Mbeki.In analysing the new environment and the changes that are brought about by the unstoppable phenomena of globalisation spread more or less throughout the whole world, we have only two possibilities: we may rejoice at the new breathtaking prospects of new discoveries, or cringe in fear of drowning.The experience of most developed countries clearly indicates that the speed of social and economic development in any country is directly dependent on the education of its people, on the focused and constructive, creative energy in developing business and accumulating financial expertise. This is why education should doubtlessly be the priority in Lithuania.While the results of the ongoing changes may become evident only in several months or even several years, we should be always prepared to new challenges. The time has come to make use of what we have already accumulated, assess our strengths and weaknesses and model our actions, our place and ability of our business and people to compete in the European Union and other markets of the increasingly globalised world. ; Straipsnyje nagrinėjama globalizacijos kaip naujos, nuolat besikeičiančios aplinkos ir jos teikiamų verslui bei žmonėms naujų galimybių ir iššūkių tema. Bandoma šią problemą apžvelgti plačiau, siekiant apčiuopti abi globalizacijos proceso esmės puses, ne tik vertinant pasauliui atnešamus milžiniškus pokyčius, bet ir bandant atsižvelgti į prieštaringą jų poveikį žmogui bei pasauliui. Jame plačiai apžvelgiami pasaulio finansų sektoriuje vykstantys pokyčiai ir Lietuvos finansų sektoriaus veiklos ypatumai. Straipsnio pabaigoje pateikiamos išvados, paremtos įsitikinimu, kad gilesnis globalizacijos ir jos įtakos aplinkai įvertinimo požiūris leidžia tiksliau įdentifikuoti vykstančius procesus, realiau vertinti jų keliamus pokyčius ir iššūkius bei geriau modeliuoti ir koreguoti savo veiksmus.

This article examines the motivations and dynamics of the donors and suppliers of the covid-19 vaccines to the global south countries in the context of public diplomacy to wield soft power. Thus, it investigates how the West and East use the vaccines as a public diplomacy tool to influence public opinion in other nations or continents in order to either enhance their global image and reputation or exert some form of international influence or have new allies. The article argues that covid-19 vaccines are a soft power asset; therefore, the manufacturing nations may use them to shape their target foreign publics opinion, maintain allies, and win enemies globally. The big players have used vaccines over the years to achieve foreign policy objectives in the history of international relations. As the article's findings indicate, soft power has been the implicit primary goal of supplying vaccine countries to the less-developed states. The article employs public diplomacy and soft power concepts as the theoretical frameworks underpinning the work. The literature on vaccine diplomacy is very scarce to the best of my knowledge in public diplomacy. Scholars in the field have not given much attention to this scarcity; hence, this article seeks to fill the gap. The paper concludes that human life must precede political and selfish national interests in pandemic matters and suggests future research in other health diplomacy areas as a significant soft power resource through public diplomacy campaigns.

Project files are comprised of 1 page pdf and presentation recording in mp4 format. ; Historically an international and regional power, Russia once more dominates the headlines with Russian influence seen from Ukraine to the United Kingdom and even Bolivia. For many, Russia's rise to prominence and the concurrent conservative wave that has swept many countries in Europe and beyond serves as a chilling echo of the Soviet Union. While a lot can be said about how the modern day Russia resembles the former Communist country, one thing stands out significantly; Russia's influence in its surrounding countries. One may recall the recent almost universally condemned annexation of Crimea in 2014 while others might even think back to the controversial takeover of South Ossetia in 2008. Though these events are notable for the violent conflict that followed them, they are far from being isolated incidents. For many years now Russia has been striving to exert control over the former Soviet Republics that crowd the Russian border. Though the international media tends to focus on Russian militaristic aggression, Russia also utilizes its significant soft power in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to further Russian influence over the countries in these regions and their peoples. This project looks at the past history of Russia in relation to its neighbors and the current tactics used to exert political, economic, and cultural influence over these former Republics in order to better understand how Russia's increasing global authority is a reflection of its dominance within its sphere of influence.

This thesis addresses the sociocultural dimensions of the ongoing debate over the management of the Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California. I used a social constructionist approach to qualitatively analyze discourse from 165 comments submitted to the Department of Interior in 2011 regarding the proposed removal of four dams on the Klamath River to develop typologies based on ideas of nature and preferred management outcomes. Analysis was informed by literature spanning environmental history, political ecology, historical geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and sociology. My analysis indicates that commenters drew on diverse and divergent ideas of nature, used competing problem framings, claimed science supported their preferred management outcome, and drew on larger cultural narratives. These ideas and narratives are both culturally embedded and meaningful. In defining nature and what it is good for, commenters invoked ideas of the democratic individual, virtuous pristine nature, deserving yeoman farmer, precisely managed resources, and sacred family heritage. These narratives help to shape the terrain upon which management actions are perceived, valued, and contested, and make management actions symbolic and meaningful beyond their immediate spatial and temporal context. Ultimately, the conflict in the Klamath Basin can be understood as a contest for social power to enact a particular vision for the landscape. I also argue that an appeal to scientific knowledge alone is inadequate to address complex socioecological controversies where factual and normative claims are entangled and management actions are understood not as true or false, but right or wrong.

In recent years, the articulation between the common core of the discipline and its local manifestations has become increasingly problematic. It might seem paradoxical that calls for more local sociologies appear at the very time of globalization. However, I argue that this double move — the internationalization of the scholarly community on the one hand and the localization of specific claims on the other — is not as ironic as it first appears. On the contrary, it has its foundations in the very history of the discipline, in the realities of its worldwide spreading, and in the forms of its international constitution that are marked by hierarchies and inequalities, especially with regard to South-North-relations.

Résumé. Récemment, l'articulation entre le corpus commun de la discipline d'un côté et ses manifestations locales de l'autre côté se trouve remise en question. Il peut paraître paradoxal que les revendications de sociologies plus « locales » émergent simultanément au processus de mondialisation. Toutefois, j'argumenterai que ce double mouvement vers l'internationalisation de la communauté scientifique d'un côté, et la localisation de ses réalisations spécifiques de l'autre côté, n'est pas aussi ironique que cela puisse paraître à première vue. Au contraire, il semble que ces développements récents trouvent leur origine dans l'histoire même de la discipline, dans les réalités de son expansion globale et dans les formes de sa constitution internationale qui sont marquées par des hiérarchies et des inégalités profondes, surtout en ce qui concerne les relations Sud-Nord.

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Este artigo oferece uma abordagem alternativa para analisar experiências sociais, políticas e culturais como Mahragan, localizadas em estruturas de poder assimétricas historicamente construídas, além das dicotomias epistemologicamente dominantes que contrastam entre o Islã e a modernidade. Por isso, proponho, com base em experiências etnográficas com grupos de jovens na cidade do Cairo desde 1999, um ensaio histórico-antropológico que nos permita entender, além da própria marginalização do universo cultural Shabi, as relações de poder estabelecidas na estrutura social Egípcio. Esses pontos de partida fazem o mahragan aparecer como um encontro histórico, uma resposta dos jovens egípcios que têm raízes nas tradições musicais passadas, para transcender o que identificamos como modernidade colonial, dentro dos contextos islâmicos. Através da análise da música Mahragan, analisaremos a dinâmica da dialética colonização-descolonização para aprofundar a compreensão dos espaços simbólicos da fronteira como os criados nas periferias de Cairo. *"Este articulo es resultado del proyecto TRANSGANG: Pandillas transnacionales como agentes de mediación: Experiencias de resolución de conflictos en organizaciones juveniles callejeras en el sur de Europa, el norte de África y las Américas (TRANSGANG). Unión Europea: HORIZONTE-2020, Consejo Europeo de Investigación - Subvención avanzada [H2020-ERC-AdG-742705]". ; This article offers an alternative approach to analyze social, political and cultural experiences located in historically constructed asymmetric power structures such as Mahragan, beyond the epistemologically dominant dichotomies that contrast between Islam and modernity. I therefore propose, based on ethnographic experiences with youth groups in the city of Cairo since 1999, an anthropological-historical essay that will allow us to understand, in addition to the marginalization of the Shabi cultural universe, the power relations established in the Egyptian social structure. These starting points make the Mahragan appear as a historical encounter, a response of young Egyptian who have roots in past musical traditions, to transcend what we identify as colonial modernity, within Islamic contexts. Through the analysis of Mahragan music, we will analyze the dynamics of the colonization-decolonization dialectic to deepen the understanding of the symbolic spaces of the border as those created in the Cairot peripheries. *"Este articulo es resultado del proyecto TRANSGANG: Pandillas transnacionales como agentes de mediación: Experiencias de resolución de conflictos en organizaciones juveniles callejeras en el sur de Europa, el norte de África y las Américas (TRANSGANG). Unión Europea: HORIZONTE-2020, Consejo Europeo de Investigación - Subvención avanzada [H2020-ERC-AdG-742705]". ; Este artículo ofrece un enfoque alternativo para analizar experiencias sociales, políticas y culturales como el Mahragan, situadas en estructuras de poder asimétricas históricamente construidas, más allá de las dicotomías epistemológicamente dominantes que contrastan entre islam y modernidad. Me propongo entonces, a partir experiencias etnográficas con grupos juveniles de la ciudad de El Cairo desde el año 1999, un ensayo antropológico-histórico que permitirá comprender, además de la propia marginalización del universo cultural shabi, las relaciones de poder establecidas en la estructura social egipcia. Estos puntos de partida hacen que el Mahragan aparezca como un encuentro histórico, una respuesta de las personas jóvenes egipcias que hunde raíces en tradiciones musicales pasadas, para transcender lo que identificamos como modernidad colonial, dentro de los contextos islámicos. A través de los análisis de la música Mahragan, analizaremos la dinámica de la dialéctica de colonización-descolonización para profundizar en la comprensión de los espacios simbólicos de la frontera como los creados en las periferias cairotas. *"Este articulo es resultado del proyecto TRANSGANG: Pandillas transnacionales como agentes de mediación: Experiencias de resolución de conflictos en organizaciones juveniles callejeras en el sur de Europa, el norte de África y las Américas (TRANSGANG). Unión Europea: HORIZONTE-2020, Consejo Europeo de Investigación - Subvención avanzada [H2020-ERC-AdG-742705]".