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This article examines correspondence in the archives of the South African National Parks relating to a television film, "All Africa within us", that Sir Laurens van der Post made for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in various South African nature reserves in 1974. The correspondence reveals that The South African Department of Information, supported by Dr Piet Koornhof, who was friendly with Van der Post, helped arrange the visit, expecting that Van der Post would provide favourable coverage of South African conservation efforts and thus, indirectly, of the National Party. The article reveals the complex interplay of motives between the Parks Board, Van der Post, the Department of Information and the BBC. It shows that the Kruger Park authorities were suspicious of filmmakers and wished to control the products by, for example, asking for scripts in advance. Van der Post's letters and later commentary by his producer suggest that he changed his emphasis and focus considerably from the outset to the final production. The most fruitful approach to such productions may be in Actor-Network theory which tries to show the importance of different agents in controlling, or failing to control, a cultural product. Attempts to see conservation films as simple propaganda or political statement, the article argues, are misplaced and simplify the complexities.

This article explains how the liberation of finance from the Bretton Woods constraints imposed after World War II has shaped the resulting &ldquo ; neoliberal&rdquo ; political economy into a political economy that is inhospitable, if not hostile, to the kind of regulation and public investment necessary to address the climate emergency and other environmental problems, and has contributed to levels of inequality that constitute a social crisis in their own right. Using the United States as an example, the author explains how mobile finance and the accompanying neoliberal ideology impose &ldquo ; checks&rdquo ; on a range of governmental policies, and moreover, have led to inadequate levels of public and private investment, both generally and in areas crucial to reduce carbon emissions. The article concludes with a discussion of how a new set of international monetary and financial arrangements along the lines that Keynes originally envisioned could support a &ldquo ; Green New Deal&rdquo ; sustainability strategy or, absent such an international agreement, how capital controls imposed nationally could constitute a temporary solution to the problems of insufficient regulation and investment.

In a neo-liberal era concerned with discourses of responsible individualism and the 'selfie', there is an increased interest in personal lives and experiences. In contemporary life, the personal is understood to be political and these ideas cut across both the social sciences and humanities. This handbook is specifically concerned with auto/biography, which sits within the field of narrative, complementing biographical and life history research. Some of the contributors emphasise the place of narrative in the construction of auto/biography, whilst others disrupt the perceived boundaries between the individual and the social, the self and the other. The collection has nine sections: creativity and collaboration; families and relationships; epistolary lives; geography; madness; prison lives; professional lives; 'race'; and social justice and disability. They illustrate the inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of auto/biography as a field. Each section features an introduction from a section editor, many of whom are established researchers and/or members of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Auto/Biography study group. These sections provide the reader with cutting-edge research from authors at different stages in their careers, and will appeal to those with an interest in auto/biography, auto-ethnography, epistolary traditions, lived experiences, narrative analysis, the arts, education, politics, philosophy, history, personal life, reflexivity, research in practice and the sociology of the everyday.

The literature on accounting, land and Indigenous people has universally portrayed accounting as a tool of devastation, destruction and dispossession of Indigenous people. Accounting has been employed as a technology of the state to advance the imperialist agenda. While there exists a rich history of studies on accounting, land and Indigenous people, there is a dearth of literature that examines this relationship in contemporary settings. Furthermore, some authors have argued that the extant literature has been overly negative and that there is a need for a plot change in the narrative of accounting and Indigenous people. I respond to this call by seeking to understand how accounting can be used to empower Indigenous people in the management of their customary land. This thesis comprises three papers that have either been published or accepted for publication in internationally ranked peer-reviewed accounting journals. The first publication is based on Papua New Guinea (PNG) and describes the case of accountants of a foreign company who use their economic capital, knowledge of accounting and power to alienate customary land from Indigenous Papua New Guineans. The second paper examines the role of accounting in a recent neoliberal reform in Fiji. Both these papers highlight the malleable and political nature of accounting as it is employed for different purposes by the state, Indigenous landowners and activists. Finally, the third paper imagines the future of social and environmental accounting research in Pacific Small Island Developing States. The first two publications employ a qualitative methodology with data collected from semi-structured interviews and analysis of publicly available documents. The publications are informed by the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu. The third publication conducts a literature review and suggests possible interventions for a social and environmental agenda for the Pacific. Together, these three papers highlight how accounting has been used, how accounting is used and ...

AbstractCases of leakage and misuse of personal data continue to increase in Indonesia along with the increasing activity of the digital economy, especially in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the existing laws and regulations, or what is called as the ius constitutum relating to the protection of personal data are still sectoral in nature so that they are not centralized and there are no regulations at the level of law, so that criminal sanctions are not maximally applied to criminals in this sector. Now, the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) is drafting a Personal Data Protection Bill ("PDP Bill"), which in general follows the standards set out in the GDPR, which in the near future is expected to become an ius constitutum that can solve problems related to the protection of personal data in Indonesia. In this article, the author will discuss what are the shortcomings of the existing ius constitutum and also discuss new things and criticisms of the provisions in the ius constituendum, namely the PDP Bill. The research method used by the author is normative legal research by examining, primarily, the existing laws and regulations in Indonesia relating to the protection of personal data along with the PDP Bill. The author then also provides several recommendations to the Government, Electronic System Administrators, and also the general public regarding the development of the PDP Bill and the status quo of personal data protection in Indonesia. Keywords: Personal Data Protection, Ius Constitutum, Ius Constituendum AbstrakKasus kebocoran dan penyalahgunaan data pribadi terus meningkat di Indonesia seiring dengan meningkatnya aktivitas ekonomi digital, terlebih di era pandemi COVID-19. Namun, peraturan perundang-undangan yang sudah ada, atau disebut ius constitutum terkait pelindungan data pribadi masih bersifat sektoral sehingga belum terpusat dan tidak ada pengaturan di setingkat undang-undang, sehingga sanksi pidana pun masih belum maksimal diterapkan kepada para pelaku kejahatan di sektor ini. Kini, DPR sedang menyusun RUU Perlindungan Data Pribadi ("RUU PDP"), yang secara garis besar mengikuti standar yang ada dalam GDPR, yang dalam waktu dekat diharapkan akan menjadi ius constitutum yang dapat mengatasi permasalahan terkait pelindungan data pribadi di Indonesia. Dalam artikel ini, Penulis akan membahas apa saja yang menjadi kekurangan dari ius constitutum yang ada dan juga mengupas apa saja hal-hal baru beserta kritik terhadap pengaturan dalam ius constituendum, yaitu RUU PDP. Metode penelitian yang dipakai Penulis adalah penelitian hukum secara normatif dengan mengkaji, terutama, peraturan perundang-undangan yang sudah berlaku di Indonesia terkait dengan pelindungan data pribadi beserta draf RUU PDP. Penulis lalu juga memberikan beberapa rekomendasi kepada Pemerintah, Penyelenggara Sistem Elektronik, dan juga masyarakat umum terkait perkembangan RUU PDP dan status quo pelindungan data pribadi di Indonesia.Kata Kunci: Pelindungan Data Pribadi, Ius Constitutum, Ius Constituendum

Every year, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) surveys employees throughout the federal government on how they view their organizations. This survey, called the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, or FedView Survey, asks federal employees a variety of questions about their views of their organization, managers, supervisors, and senior leaders; whether the employees believe they have the training and tools they need to do their jobs; overall how satisfied they are with their organization; and several other important questions related to employee engagement. The Partnership for Public Service then analyzes the results of the survey and ranks the government organizations on employee engagement, as reflected by these scores.

Since I began, in the early 1980s, to research Muslim-Christian cohabitation of religioussites, I have been convinced of the political importance of making practices of intercommunal 'sharing'ethnographically visible. Thirty-five years of that work, spread across the Eastern Mediterranean (Israel/Palestine, Yugoslavia and its successor states, and both sides of the Cyprus divide), have not onlyrevealed contemporary and historical choreographies of cohabitation but also their disintegration andthe forces which bring it about. While I was carrying out this research, an accelerating resurgence ofethnic, religious and nationalistic politics was taking place not only throughout the areas I was studyingbut also in the global arena. This 'identitarian' politics, its philosophical grounding, and its shaping ofacademic and popular thought and practice is the focus of the first half of this paper; in the second partI look theoretically and empirically into examples of sharing and its refusal so as to show not only howcohabitation with alterity works but also to make visible the processes which sabotage it.

In recent years, the city of Davao has been experiencing floods all throughout the year. Things like flooded streets, overflowing of rivers, stranded commuters, and residents fleeing to evacuation centres are now considered normal especially if an heavy rain will continue for more than an hour. The positive economic growth of the city is attributed to its strategic location and favourable climate since it is considered to be typhoon free unlike the national capital region Manila and other major cities in the Visayas region. But these changing climate patterns can affect these upward economic growth if the local government units will not act on these issues promptly. An up- to- date spatial information is needed to support authorities for a timely evidence-based decisions in disaster management. This study will assess the vulnerability of the exposed population and other entities of Talomo District in Davao City, Philippines. Emphasis on the vulnerability component of the United Nations framework on Risk which is Hazard x Vulnerability and the factors affecting vulnerability are exposure, susceptibility and capacity. An open source software (QGIS and MapWindow) where used to process digital elevation models (DEMs) in combination with other spatial data (OpenStreetMap) can be an important database for topography-related analyses.

In November 2016, I gave a speech at the annual conference of the Association of Inspectors General about key principles that help to make Inspectors General (IGs) effective. After the speech, Jennifer Rodgers from the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School asked me to convert the speech into an article, which I did. The article entitled, "Seven Principles of Highly Effective Inspectors General," explained seven principles that I believe apply to the work of IGs at every level of government.

It is common to discuss multinationals as though they constitute a unified, single entity. This chapter unpacks that conception in two ways. Firstly it shows that multinationals have become very complex organizational entities. The nature of their internationalization varies greatly in terms of the location of their assets, their people, their supply chains and their sources of funding. The impact of financialization and the drive to minimize tax liabilities by taking advantage of tax havens and legal arbitrage has created a shadow reality based on shell offices, opaque trust funds and special purpose financial vehicles which are connected to the MNC in various ways. Secondly the chapter shows that this complexity leads to the formation of different interest groups within the MNC, especially between those actors embedded in the corporate headquarters and those in local subsidiaries. The ability of local actors to resist, adapt or conform to HQ demands drawing on a range of political and institutional resources is explored in the chapter.

Obesity is preventable but there is still no single model for prevention and no country has managed to convincingly reverse the growing trend, estimated in 2016 to be 650 million adults. Globally, the increase in obesity will have catastrophic consequences for the economy and for population health. &lsquo ; Desperate times breed desperate measures&rsquo ; and this paper outlines the shift that many governments are being forced to make to halt the growth of obesity. Moving to the extremes means that the planning and coordination of strategies places an equal emphasis on top-down (policy, regulation, and taxation) and bottom-up (local actions, self-help groups, volunteerism) interventions. There is still an important role for communication, the middle-ground between the extremes of bottom-up and top-down, but governments must use &lsquo ; power-over&rsquo ; measures to take control of the causes of obesity. Bringing the public with them will be crucial to success and can be achieved through a sharing of resources, a &lsquo ; power-with&rsquo ; to combine top-down and bottom-up interventions in the future.

In the wake of 2014's global collapse in oil prices, Alaska continues to struggle with a hugedeficit. Fortunately, the state has over $60 billion in savings to finance its fiscal gap, but Alaskanscontinue to fight over the need for spending cuts and new taxes. Outside of state governmentrevenue, Alaska's economy remains relatively unaffected by low oil prices, and the state'sreserve funds are growing. So far, though, Alaska's legislature has not generated a coherent solutionto the state's unbalanced budget for the long term.

As the Acting Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Defense (DoD), and the former IG of the Department of Justice (DOJ), I am often asked about general principles that apply to the work of IGs. IGs occupy some of the most important but least understood positions in the federal government. There are IGs in most federal agencies – 73 IGs in total – and IGs are different in many ways. However, based on my experience in the IG community, I believe several basic principles apply to the work of IGs on the federal as well as the state and local levels. This article is my attempt to summarize these key principles.

In the study of international business as a specific field within management, multinationals are conceptualized as rational economic actors taking decisions about locational strategies on the basis of issues of efficiency and profitability (Rugman, 2009). In the process, they diffuse capital, technology, knowledge and skills across the world. These investments are perceived to have positive spill-over and learning effects which help draw locations into the global economy and gradually shift populations out of poverty. This perspective supports in general the principle of free trade, the removal of barriers to free trade and the development of a global structure that reinforces free trade through the World Trade Organization (WTO) and associated inter-governmental treaties. It supports the rights of multinational corporation (MNC) management to decide on firm strategy and assumes that these decisions will lead in the end to a trickle-down effect of economic and social benefits. It dismisses the actions of employees and governments to resist and reshape these policies as ineffective and counter-productive. Critical management studies of the MNC have challenged this view from a variety of perspectives (see the discussion of the different perspectives in Collinson and Morgan, 2009). It is not unusual for critiques to simply reverse the mirror – in other words to argue that MNCs are primarily about senior management decisions but contrary to the proponents of globalization's benefits the consequences of this process are negative – the exploitation of employees and environments, the extraction of value into the hands of financial capital. In this chapter, the aim is to suggest something different from both these perspectives by emphasizing that the multinational as an organization is the site of ongoing struggles between, on the one hand, actors in the MNC headquarters, who control access to key financial resources, and on the other hand local actors in subsidiaries who exercise power over the process of production of goods and services for markets. The chapter explores this struggle which is embedded in the degree to which actors inside MNC subsidiaries are able to strategize on their own account against the demands of the MNC HQ. Is it possible for subsidiaries to resist, and what are the consequences of this resistance?

This article disputes academic accounts of Afro-pessimism, which see it as a product of ideological or discursive bias in the viewer, or as a crude generalisation across very different countries and cultures by examining the context for and major themes of Afro-pessimism after 1994. In particular, it shows that modern Afro-pessimism is largely a product of liberal concerns and liberal media. It demonstrates the salience of these themes by showing how they permeate and influence former US President Barack Obama's African outlook by a close reference to his speech to the Ghanaian parliament in 2009 and suggests that they may provide the context for the views of current US President Donald Trump.