941 resultados para Development Underdevelopment Nation State
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"NSF 90-309."
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale.
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This paper studies the curriculum policy trajectories that have characterized the teaching of secondary school History as a subject that is historically enmeshed in the politics of nation-state making in post-independence Zimbabwe. Through content analysis, the paper examines the ways in which the post-independence History syllabi, namely 2166 and 2167, have drawn from recent historiographies to frame both the aims and content of school History. The argument developed is that both syllabi have been deployed to serve the envisaged nation-state project; with Syllabus 2166 associated with the socialist nation-state project of the 1980s and 2167 with patriotic history since 2000. The paper concludes that such (mis)uses of school are not unique to Zimbabwe, but represent the political instrumentalization of school History that has become prevalent throughout the world.
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With the premise that the tourism promotional video China, Forever provides a crucial access to understanding how tourism engages in a wider circle of socio-culture formation, this dissertation research approaches tourism by examining communicative practices initiated by China, Forever. In doing so, it seeks to reveal two dialogues firstly, between the discursive construction of tourism representational language and Chinas nation-state ideology; secondly, between interpretations from overseas Chinese audiences and nation-state narratives delivered via the tourism media. In analyzing the first dialogue, this dissertation reveals that the pursuit of collective and monolithic national imagery has caused a representational violence one that is committed by the nation-state ideology operated through the organization of tourism language. The very representational coercion itself, however, signifies the nature of tourism media as a vehicle mediating the global gaze and Chinas self-representation; illuminating the fact that Chinas nation-state building is only to be understood as deeply-grounded in the complexity of postcolonial politics. Furthermore, in a dialectic view, such finding consolidates the nature of China, Forever as a cultural product that actively exists as a component in the overall social fabric, co-creating a wider circle of culture politics together with other genres of media products; thus, calling for a more comprehensive understanding of tourism media at large. In the second approach, this dissertation seeks to understand how the tourism video China, Forever mediates the relationship between tourism narratives of the nation-state and overseas Chinese individuals; thus bridging together tourism media and ongoing life experiences of the audiences chosen. The analysis reveals that audiences interpretations heavily concentrate on resisting and fragmenting the hegemonic nation-state language in China, Forever. While some interviewees seek to decentralize the nation-state perspective from aspects of aesthetics, representational style, and representational subjects in China, Forever by incorporating their individual memories and past experiences, to some others, the over-polished glorification of China in the mediated tourism discourse is only coercive to Chinas social realities experienced by the individual interviewees - the disheartening contrasts of poverty and affluence as well as other social inequalities. From the perspective of the audience group, the Chinese scholars and students at the University of Illinois interviewed for this dissertation research constitute a cohort of exiled audiences for the tourism video China, Forever. The audiences subject themselves to voluntary interpellation, a process in which they find themselves defending, negotiating, and resisting the nation-state representation of China even though they are not its intended audience and have had no input into its production. Nevertheless, such process is one of identification, in which viewers articulate a subject position from which to speak of their own experiences, dilemmas and desires. The usefulness of tourism media discourse in mediating the nation-state narratives and the individual experience is amplified.
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In collaboration with G.D. SpA I attended an internship with the purpose of developing a filter for the position control of industrial machines during testing and maintenance operations. The filter elaborates a signal in position provided by an electonic handwheel, in order to enable the application to be controlled with a signal in velocity with arbitrarily dynamics chosen during the design phase. Limiting the dynamics of the filter provide a more stable and less demanding reference trajectory which reduce the vibrations and tracking errors of the motor controlled by it. It also prevents misusages of the handwheel from the technician which could end up in harmful interferences between the mechanical parts moved by the handwheel.
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Scholars have largely ignored the roles played by government and public sector institutions in the fair trade movement. This article addresses the knowledge gap through examining government involvement in fair trade networks in the context of European devolution and the localization of international development action. Proposing a relational view of fair trade networks, and considering the Fair Trade Nation as a social category for development, it highlights how power sources outside the centralized nation-state permit a political community to associate itself with fair trade. Research from Wales demonstrates that government acts in a leadership role rather than as regulator, conferring political voice and finance while enhancing its international credentials and contributing to the politics of nation-building. Our conclusion is cautious; campaigners celebrate political commitment to fair trade embodied within the category of the Fair Trade Nation, but evidence suggests that government reliance on the market as a vehicle for decentralized development action is limited by how the Fair Trade Nation is currently executed.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-03
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The forces surrounding the emerging economies of underdeveloped world, especially Africa has practically stifled its economic progress, growth, development and sustainability. This economic condition brings to the fore the massive onslaught of rural/urban poverty which the African continent grapples with since the post-world war II era to date. The economic misfortunes and incidence of mass poverty in Africa, vis--vis Nigeria is used as a point of departure in this study. The paper underscores the ideological and philosophical undertone of international capital manifesting in form of colonialism and imperialism as a major character in the historical process of underdevelopment and mass poverty in peripheral states of Africa, Asia and Latin America, respectively. Of particular interest in this study is the activities of domestic bourgeoisie elite class who have vigorously displayed some degree of lack of much needed vision and abject lack of desires to draw up workable plans to redeem the battered image of African/ Nigerian economic misfortunes. This state of affairs has practically engendered economic underdevelopment, misery and disturbing levels of poverty in the nation-state system. The paper concludes with the forward towards realizing the vision 20-20-20 objectives in the 21t century and beyond.
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Aps Fazer uma Reviso do Conceito de Crescimento Econmico como um Processo Histrico Iniciado com a Revoluo Capitalista e a Formao dos Modernos Estados-Nao, o Autor Procura Mostrar que o Crescimento Quase Sempre Constantemente o Resultado de uma Estratgia de Desenvolvimento Nacional. o Real Desenvolvimento Econmico Ocorre Historicamente Quando as Diferentes Classes Sociais so Capazes de Cooperar e Formular uma Estratgia Efetiva para Promover o Crescimento e Enfrentar a Concorrncia Internacional. Segue uma Discusso das Principais Caractersticas e das Tenses Bsicas que Tais Estratgias Enfrentam nos Pases Centrais que Primeiro se Desenvolveram, e nos Pases Subdesenvolvimento, Que, Alm dos seus Problemas Domsticos, Enfrentam Desafios Maiores em suas Relaes com os Pases Ricos
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Although an essential condition for the occurrence of human development, economic growth is not always efficiently converted into quality of life by nation-states. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to measure the social efficiency-the ability of a nation-state to convert its produced wealth into quality of life-of a set of 101 countries. To achieve this goal, the Data Envelopment Analysis method was used in its standard, cross-multiplicative and inverted form, by means of a new approach called 'triple index'. The main results indicated that the former Soviet republics and Eastern European countries stood out in terms of social efficiency. The developed countries, notwithstanding their high social indicators, did not excel in efficiency; however, the countries of south of Africa, despite having the worst social conditions, were also the most inefficient.
