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Robin Biddulph & Alexandra Kent, éd., Cambodia’s Trials, Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery
No full textL’ouvrage collectif Cambodia’s Trials, Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery dirigé par Robin Biddulph et Alexandra Kent est le dernier livre publié par les éditions de l’Institut nordique des études asiatiques (NIAS) qui a fermé ses portes à l’université de Copenhague. Cet ouvrage paraît alors que s’est achevée au Cambodge l’ère de la justice transitionnelle prise en charge, depuis 2006, par les Chambres extraordinaires au sein des tribunaux cambodgiens (C..
Is the Geographies of Evasion hypothesis useful for explaining and predicting the fate of external interventions? The case of REDD in Cambodia
No full textThe key question addressed by the paper is whether the ‘Geographies of Evasion hypothesis’ provides a worthwhile theoretical contribution to overcoming this practitioner-academic impasse. The Geography of Evasion concept was first coined in a study of property rights interventions in Cambodia (Biddulph, 2010) and first articulated as a hypothesis as follows: If the development industry attempts to extend rights which host nation governments are not prepared to enforce, the result will not be a rejection of the industry’s programmes. Rather they will be welcomed, but channelled to places where those rights do not make a difference. This ‘geography of evasion’ will be concealed by policy facades which measure success according to outputs and do not acknowledge the process of spatial marginalisation” (Biddulph, 2011 forthcoming) This paper will present early results of the application of the ‘Geography of Evasion’ hypothesis to the case of REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). It first analyses the global climate negotiation and the implementation discourse parallel to the negotiations, and explains how this discourse invites geographies of evasion. It then presents fieldwork from a REDD pilot activity Cambodia where existing community forestry initiatives are being linked to the voluntary carbon market as a means to pilot REDD. The case of the REDD pilot northwest Cambodia provides early evidence of how deforestation is being prevented in places where the major drivers are least present suggesting that Geographies of Evasion might indeed have predictive power in explaining how REDD might fail. However, more evidence than this is required to make a convincing case for REDD as an evasive/evaded intervention internationally. Geographies of Evasion will gain more purchase in development theory-practice dialogues if it is tested in other contexts than that of rural Cambodia. However, by presenting clear, simple questions to relatively accessible data it promises to be of readier practical import than many currently prominent theorizations of development practice
Happy Hour with Robin Sacks
No full textRobin Sacks is the author of Get Off My Bus!: How to Get Clarity, Get in the Driver\u27s Seat, and Get Moving in Your Life! Introduction by Kristen Kuhlman, LSW, LHNA, MBA/HCM DHA Candidate
Limits to mass tourism’s effects in rural peripheries
No full textAbstractEconomic linkages between mass tourism cores and rural peripheries are widely proposed as developmental. This article adopts a livelihoods approach to investigate the influence of a major Cambodian tourism destination on its rural hinterland. A quantitative pre-study of three rural villages indicated that links were mainly indirect, through labour migration. The qualitative main phase found villagers adapting skills and social networks to a range of employments in diverse locations. Poor households in the rural periphery were thus already connected to wider economies with tourism playing a distinctive low-risk, low-return role in their livelihood strategies. Policy on poverty and tourism should be informed by an understanding of rural households’ existing livelihood portfolios and the strategic contingent decisions which shape them
Public management : Reinventing Government: a symposium. by Robin Butler
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tag=10 data=The author indicates how the major themes of the book [Reinventing Government] can be seen to correspond with many of the recent management initiatives in UK government.
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tag=13 data=CABThe author indicates how the major themes of the book [Reinventing Government] can be seen to correspond with many of the recent management initiatives in UK government
Robin Becker, 16th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRobin Becker is the author of Giacometti’s Dog, published in 1990 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her previous books are Backtalk and Personal Effects, both published by Alice James Books She has received fellowships in poetry from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems appear in many journals including Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. She has published book reviews in Belles Lettres, The Boston Globe, The Boston Review, Prairie Schooner and The Women’s Review of Books She teaches in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year she is Visiting Poet at Pennsylvania State University. Robin Becker serves as Poetry Editor for The Women’s Review of Books and as a member of the board of directors of Associated Writing Programs
Author Robin Silbergleid reads from her memoir "Texas girl," and her soon to be published book of poetry, "The baby book" at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Robin Silbergleid reads from her memoir "Texas girl," and her soon to be published book of poetry, "The Baby Book." Introductory remarks are provided by MSU Professor Telaina Eriksen and MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library and sponsored by the MSU Department of English and the Center for Gender in Global Context
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