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Markku Henriksson's Route 66. A Road to America’s Landscape, History, and Culture. Foreword by Susan A. Miller
Get PDFRegion Construction: The Dynamics of Cross-Level Networking in East Asia
Get PDFThis article seeks to explore the dynamics of region construction in East
Asia, through both formal regional institutions and informal regionalization
processes. Regionalism, particularly in Southeast and East Asia, is often
explained as a formal regionalist project. ASEAN serves as a prime example
but many other intra-regional processes, such as the ASEAN plus Three, the
East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum, are also cases in point.
These processes, representing state actors, do not necessarily work in autonomous
spaces and discrete spheres, but rather interact with non-state entities
through multi-level networking. This networking provides opportunities for
the development of either 'positive' or 'negative' regionalism. As such, this
article looks at the interplay of cross-level actor-networks and how they affect
the direction and scope of regionalization in East Asia. It aims to show the
dynamic interplay of multiple regional actors that can consciously or unconsciously
contribute to the strengthening or weakening of region construction
China's Experimental Pragmatics of 'Scientific Development' in Wind Power: Algorithmic Struggles over Software in Wind Turbines
Get PDFThis article presents a case study on the development of China's wind power market. As China's wind industry has experienced a quality crisis, the Chinese government has intervened to steer the industry towards a turn to quality, indicat-ing a pragmatist and experimental mode of market development. This increased focus on quality, to ensure the sustainable and scientific development of China's wind energy market, requires improved indigenous Chinese innovation capabili-ties in wind turbine technology. To shed light on how the turn to quality impacts upon the industry and global competition, this study adopts the micro-proces-sual, socio-technical, relational and empiricist lens of Science & Technology Stud-ies (STS). It illustrates how Sino-foreign collaborative relations around the core technology of software (in control systems and simulation tools) have become politicised, and how controversies unfold over issues associated with intellectual property rights (IPRs), certification and standardisation of software algorithms. The article concludes that the use of this STS lens makes a fresh contribution to the often path-dependent, structuralist and hierarchical China literature, offering instead a possibility- and agency-filled account that can shed light on the dynam-ics of China's fragmented governance and experimental market development
Narratives of Ethnolinguistic Bordering:Cultural Encounters of Philippine Nikkeijin Workers in Aichi, Japan
Get PDFBy virtue of Japan's 1990 Immigration Policy, the so-called 'nikkeijin' or descendants of Japanese nationals who emigrated and settled in American and Southeast Asian territories before the Second World War, have been allowed to 'return' to their ancestral homeland (Japan). As a consequence, thousands of Brazilians, Peruvians and Filipino nikkeijin have been granted residency status by the Japanese government, with the clear expectation that they demonstrate cultural proximity leading to integration. Within their workplaces, nikkeijin encounter various cultures and ethnicities whose social positions and images are shaped by perceptions and expectations of the wider Japanese society. This article explores the formation and modification of ethnic boundaries, accompanied by the fragmentation of identities, during the experience of migration. The dynamics of 'identity bordering', based on regionalistic affiliations, are not only ignited by cultural stereotyping or ethnic attribution, they are also underpinned by the mechanism of power politics within the workplace. This study utilized the life history interviews of 60 third generation (sansei) and fourth generation (yonsei) Filipino nikkeijin, who are currently working in manufacturing plants and factories in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Lynne Huffer, Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), ISBN: 978-0-231-16417-7
Get PDFThe Anthropology of Business Ethics: Worth Thinking about!
Get PDFThis article deals with epistemological thoughts about business ethics. My intention is to consider business ethics as a research subject in anthropology and not to judge the relevance of the morality or ethics: in other words, the integration of activities in a “common good” category. The article examines the philosophical ground of this notion and explores whether business ethics is related to this philosophical background. While, from an anthropological point of view, it is better to draw a value judgment from the notion of “business ethics” (applicability, truthfulness, intentionality, and so on), the argument presented here is that it is better to consider “business ethics” as a category of work management at the meeting point between theory and practice, and to observe in situ how this notion is used, articulated and circulated in the daily life of a workplace
Borgerne som modmagt i planlægningen
Get PDFArtiklen fremstiller en kommunikativ planteori, hvori borgernes magt anskues som en ressource, der fremmer langsigtethed i modsætning til kortsigtede investorinteresser i den offentlige planlægning. Først skitseres tre overordnede planparadigmer – traditionel synoptisk, inkrementel og deltagerorienteret planlægning. Hertil føjes en kritisk diskussion af forskellige teorier inden for det sidstnævnte. I lyset heraf hævdes det, at planlæggende myndigheder oftest ser borgerdeltagelsen som et problem frem for et potentiale. Artiklen gør op med et sådant syn og bestemmer a) planbegrebet ud fra en habermasiansk teori om den kommunikative handlen og magt, b) viser, at borgernes deltagelse er nødvendig for at sikre de etiske og æstetiske rationaliteters inddragelse i planprocessen, og c) at borgerne kan udgøre en modmagt til kortsigtede investorinteresser i planlægningen, ved d) at styrke hensynet til langsigtede løsninger og almene goder. Derved bliver kommunikativ planlægning en alternativ position hvad angår magt. Dette ses som en strukturel nødvendighed til sikring af bæredygtighed og demokratisk retfærdighed i planlægningen. Artiklen begrebsliggør forskellen på planlægning og politik og viser, hvorfor magt må begribes forskelligt i de to tilfælde, da magt i det førstnævnte konstitueres i den aktuelle proces og ikke er givet på forhånd. Det gør det muligt for borgerne at påvirke planprocessen på en meget mere direkte facon.
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Bo Elling: Citizens as a Counter Power in Planning
This article presents a theory of communicative planning in which citizens’ power is conceived of as a resource in long-term planning as opposed to the short-term interests of investors in public planning. Its point of departure is the presentation of three planning paradigms – traditional synoptic, incremental and participatory planning. There is also a critical discussion of different theories of the latter paradigm. The article argues that planning authorities often regard public participation as a problem rather than a potential. The article dismisses this conception and a) conceptualizes planning on the basis of Habermas’ theory of communicative action and power, b) shows that the participation of citizens is necessary to secure the inclusion of ethical and aesthetic rationalities in the planning process, c) shows how citizens may constitute a counter power to short-term investor interests in planning by d) strengthening the respect for long-term solutions and the common good. In this way, communicative planning is an alternative position on power. This becomes a structural necessity when it comes to securing sustainability and democratic justice in planning. With this in mind, the article conceptualizes the difference between planning and politics, and shows why power should be thought of differently in the two, since in the former, power is constituted in the actual process, not given in advance. This makes it possible for citizens to influence the planning process in a much more direct way.
Keywords: citizens participation, communicative rationality, planning actions, citizens power, legitimacy