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This paper presents some related processes in Turkey which have been initiated or influenced by the World Bank's execution of the Social Risk Mitigation Project (SRMP). It argues that the Justice and Development Party (AKP), as a party that redefined social assistance as charity by incorporating Islamic values with neo-liberalism, benefited from the SRMP for increasing its public support. It also demonstrates how the AKP's use of this project for its political aims led to some unintended consequences, causing the production and spreading of discourses about the poor, the Kurdish population and the emergence of a culture of poverty in the country. Adapted from the source document.

In 2009, the New York City Department of Education determined that Brandeis High School would be closed. Far from an anomaly, Brandeis is one among more than a hundred schools that have been closed since the recentralization of the City's school system under Mayoral Control. Education activists and critical scholars of education have described such "sweeps" of school closings and the broader constellation of projects and technologies associated with them as indicative of neoliberal education reform and of the ways that "accumulation by dispossession" (Harvey, 2005) plays out on the U.S. "home front." Despite an increased galvanization of resistance in recent years, the authors interrogate what else we might learn about neoliberal education restructuring (and how we might contest it) by attending to the last years of Brandeis in order to specifically explore the following: 1) how the conditions of dispossession impact resistance from the perspective of school workers, and 2) how the process of dispossession was accompanied by an investment from those with privilege in the public good of education that was contingent upon race- and class-based exclusions. Adapted from the source document.

This paper shows the results of the research, "Quality of Higher Education in Colombia in the New World Order", which intended to make an approach to the problem woven around the fact that higher education has structural problems related to quality, due to its submission to the logic of the market, and specifically this paper tries to solve the question: Why the logic of the market generates structural problems related to quality of higher education in Colombia? In order to achieve this goal, we used the critical discourse analysis methodology, which allowed us to propose an approach to the quality in higher education concept, and also to propose some contradictions that lie when governments try to implement this concept. Finally, we made some proposals and conclusions about this topic. ; Este texto muestra los resultados de la investigación, "La calidad de la educación superior en Colombia en el nuevo orden mundial", la cual pretendía hacer una aproximación a la problemática que se teje en torno al hecho de que la educación superior tiene problemas estructurales relacionados con la calidad, debido a que está sometida a la lógica del mercado; y, específicamente, dar una solución a la pregunta:¿cómo es que la lógica del mercado genera problemas estructurales relacionados con la calidad en la educación superior en Colombia? Para lograr el cometido anterior, se utilizó como metodología el análisis crítico del discurso, lo que permitió plantear una aproximación al concepto de calidad de la educación superior, así como también, mostrar algunas de las contradicciones que subyacen cuando los gobiernos tratan de llevar a la práctica este concepto. Por último se plantearon algunas propuestas y conclusiones alrededor del tema.

The political economy of ecological conflict in the Brazilian Amazon is analyzed to explore potential networks with indigenous peoples to stop deforestation. Asymmetric relations (Jeong, 2001) exist between polluters and indigenous peoples. Changing views toward land and indigenous peoples may help expand networks against asymmetrical power relations that cause deforestation. These networks include environmental groups and possibly landless peoples' movements. Ecological conflict resolution promotes sustainability by developing networks with groups that are interested in stopping deforestation and bring new groups into sustainable practices. Nonetheless there is a complexity of identifying groups that should be involved in conflict resolution (Carpenter and Kennedy, 2001) especially with changing positions in environmental conflict and global support for imperialism (Hardt and Negri, 2005) and neo-liberalism (Klein, 2008; Harvey, 2007). Adapted from the source document.