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Bribed With Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era (and) Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
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Kommende artikler: Få indblik i nogle af de artikler, som udkommer i de næste numre af Samfundslederskab i Skandinavien
Get PDFDonald Trump er blevet langt farligere som præsident i sin 2. periode end det, som Francis Fukuyama advarede os om i 2024
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Voices of Green: Videotaped Island Encounters with Local Ownership in Transition Businesses
No full textThis is a companion piece to the “Voices of Green” film. Watch the film here:
Voices of Green
This companion piece to the ethnographic film Voices of Green by Hannah Birch examines local perspectives on green transitions in Denmark, focusing on how inhabitants on the Danish island of Bornholm organize and act on climate change through business development centered around local ownership. Drawing on fieldwork conducted at two field sites – a local renewable energy project and a regenerative farm – in the autumn of 2024, our initial analytical aim was to understand co-ownership between the locals and the nation-state. However, our interlocutors stressed that co-ownership could not be understood or practiced without local ownership, which they viewed as a form of organization in which residents themselves drive transitions in and from local businesses. Yet, they experienced multiple political and economic obstacles to develop these transition-oriented businesses based on local ownership. In this companion piece to the film, we argue that visual anthropology opens up the concept and practice of ownership, which is crucial for both understanding and supporting local action in developing businesses capable of contributing to the green transitions called for.
Technocracy Encounters Praxis in a World Bank Development Effort
No full textThis essay is based on an ethnography by Parker Shipton (2011) of a World Bank development effort in Africa which failed spectacularly. The reason for its failure – and all similarly conceived efforts – lies in its disregard of the ecology of social practices operating at different levels of the implementation. “Ecology of practices” is Isabelle Stengers’ (2010: 37) term for the complex of practices working symbiotically in a domain or locale. The program’s design instead embodied an a-social conception of participants as rational, self-interested economic actors. If there is a lesson to be learned beyond the need for a solid understanding of the interdependencies, it is to examine the motivation that prompts authorities to adopt an assumption that has been shown to be misleading (see, for instance, De Soto 2003). Reading between the lines of Shipton’s report, one gains the impression that there was a technocratic ideology at work behind the program’s explicit aspirations, which made it contra-indicated to consider local conditions and practices. The knowledge of local practices was available and might have made the program successful. However, it was ignored in order to promote globalization, a genuinely 1960s vision, which is today coming undone
