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The Russian Occupation of Melitopol, Ukraine Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Iryna Bukrieieva, Lyudmila Afanasieva
Since February 24, 2022, Ukraine has defended not only its sovereign territory, national identity, and democratic values but international law and the security of Europe. Russia’s military aggressi...
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Environmental Degradation and Collective Action in Ingeniero White, Argentina Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Valentina Viego
This article focuses on the ways in which environmental degradation occurs, is publicized and “managed” in urban areas. It examines the perspectives and the actions undertaken by the various social...
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Sanitize the Man, Sanitize the Car: COVID-19 Disease Control in Botswana Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Sunny Enow Aiyuk, Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa
COVID-19 has dominated global health since it became a global pandemic in early 2020. It has stressed global health systems and pushed many other health concerns to the back burner. There is an urg...
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Kerala Development and the Attapadi Adivasi Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Anu George
The development experience of the state of Kerala in southwest India is based generally on democratic principles of equality and popular participation. This article focuses on the lives of the Adiv...
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An Analysis of the Socio-cultural Implications of Orality in Iran Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Kia Hamid Yeganeh
This article relies on a leading line of anthropological research on the socio-cultural implications of orality in Iran. The analyses reveal that the prevalence of oral language in Iran is associat...
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Disability Empowerment in Kerala: A Status Analysis and Vision for the Future Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Suja K. Kunnath, Vinitha Mary George, K. G. Satheesh Kumar, Anithamol Babu
The opportunity to live and take part in community life is a basic human right, and persons with disabilities (PwD) often need additional care and support to achieve this. This becomes a real chall...
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The Peripheral State and Corruption in The Global South Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Corruption is a major enduring feature of the political economies of the states in the Global South. It finds expression in various illegal and unethical practices, including bribery, extortion, em...
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The Developmental Desire: The Crucible of Masculinity, from Nehru to Modi Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Jyotirmaya Tripathy
The recent boom in critical literature engaging with the development/masculinity nexus in contemporary India requires unpacking and further critique, not to over-emphasize the need for a grounded u...
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COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Special Focus on Perú, México, and Cuba Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Ronn Pineo, Carrie Shaver, Kelcie Creel, Chelsea Pritchard
This essay offers a summary of the impact of COVID-19 and efficacy of the responses in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on Perú, México, and Cuba. Because so much has alread...
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Budgetary Clientelism and Decentralization in Hungary and Romania Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Sergiu Gherghina, Clara Volintiru
The literature on clientelism covers the extent to which public budgets are politicized relative to specific groups of supporters. However, we know little about what drives the discretionary transf...
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Revolutionary Democracy: A Terminus or Way Station for Ethiopia? Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Abebe Zegeye
This special issue of JDS provides several critical perspectives on the federal Constitution, the state, and contemporary politics of Ethiopia. All the contributors agree that Ethiopia’s federal sy...
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Preface to Special Issue on Ethiopia: Beyond Ethnic Federalism and the Statehood Solution Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Abebe Zegeye, Brightman Gebremichael Ganta
This preface provides a brief introduction to this special issue on contemporary Ethiopia. It highlights the role played by land, ethnicity, federalism, and political ideology in the constitutional...
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Federalism and Land Rights in the Context of Post-1991 Ethiopia Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Brightman Gebremichael Ganta
The land rights question has always been at the center of the political–economic history of Ethiopia as a modern state. It serves as a means of political control and/or a cause for/of political str...
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The Making of Strangers: Reflections on the Ethiopian Constitution Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Adeno Addis
A constitution is an expression of a political community’s desire to establish a mode of politics for collective life. The normative underpinning of a well-designed and well-structured constitution...
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Shifting to Circular Manufacturing in the Global South: Challenges and Pathways Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Anil Hira, Henrique Pacini, Alessandro Sanches Pereira, Kweku Attafuah-Wadee, Amir Rashid, Faith Gara, Keru Munene
As the Global South shifts towards increased manufacturing, the negative effects on climate change and environmental pollution raise serious concerns. These global effects are increasingly felt loc...
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Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution Programme (SMEP): A Circular Economy Experiment in the Global South Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Anil Hira, Henrique Pacini, Kweku Attafuah-Wadee, Jonathan Hassall
The circular economy (CE) is a topic of growing interest, spurred by climate change and increasing recognition of the considerable costs of energy and materials waste, that reflect increasing stres...
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Mitigating Tannery Pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Anil Hira, Henrique Pacini, Kweku Attafuah-Wadee, Mehak Sikander, Richard Oruko, Amanda Dinan
The global leather market is worth more than $270 billion annually, and provides an important and accessible source of manufacturing exports for countries in the Global South. Leather is the source...
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Editorial Essay: Why Ukraine is Important Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Richard L. Harris
In February (2022), a few weeks before the outbreak of the current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, two scholars at one of the universities in Ukraine submitted a manuscript to this journal on territorial identity in the small polyethnic city of Melitopol, in southeastern Ukraine. Their names are Iryna Bukrieieva and Lyudmila Afanasieva, and they are researchers in the Center for Sociological
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The Markers of Territorial Identity in Melitopol, Ukraine Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Iryna Bukrieieva, Lyudmila Afanasieva
This article is about the territorial identity of the inhabitants of Melitopol, Ukraine. It focuses on measuring markers of this identity: emotional attachment (proud of the city; love for the city...
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Mapuche Transitions from Education to Work: Vulnerable Transitions and Unequal Outcomes Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Javier Castillo, Andrew Webb, Andrés Biehl
This article investigates vulnerabilities in transitions from secondary and tertiary education to work among the indigenous Mapuche youth in Chile. The study draws from a 2014 social survey and qua...
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The Political Potential of Urban Informality in the Global North: A Rancièrian Perspective Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Niek van de Pas, David de Kort, Martijn Koster, Toon van Meijl
In recent years, a growing number of scholars have highlighted the presence of urban informality in the Global North. Although we applaud this development, we deplore that this body of literature i...
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A Critical Analysis of the Conference on Sustaining Support for the Rohingya Refugees Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Palash Kamruzzaman
A major international donor conference for sustained support for the Rohingya refugees was convened on October 22, 2021. It was a virtual conference organized and co-hosted by the Secretary of Stat...
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A Case Study of Country Ownership Over Donor Aid: The Global Fund and the Ghanaian Country Coordinating Mechanism Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-03-27 John Chukwuemeka Onokwai, Sally Matthews
Country ownership ostensibly gives aid-recipient countries more control over donor-funded programs. However, there is much debate both over the utility of the concept and its implementation. This article examines the operation of the Ghanaian Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) to determine to what extent the CCM enables country ownership. The CCM is a governance instrument designed to promote country
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Nutrition Programs of Higher Education in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Descriptive Snapshot Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Miral Mansour, Basil H. Aboul-Enein, Ghadir Helal Salsa, Nada Benajiba
This report stresses the importance of promoting capacity building and training of nutritionists and dietitians as vital strategies in addressing nutrition-related health problems and improving health outcomes in occupied Palestinian territories (OPT). Higher education institutions play a vital role in this process. The report identifies degree-granting nutrition programs available in OPT in both Arabic
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Child Sex Tourism: A Case Study in Surabaya, Indonesia Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Yahya Muhammed Bah, Myrtati D. Artaria, Mein-Woei Suen
This article provides a case study of child sex tourism (CST) in Surabaya, Indonesia. CST cases are difficult to surface because the victims of CST are such vulnerable human beings. Victims of CST need a variety of forms of support for their recovery and reintegration. This article contends that social, economic, political, technological, and individual factors cause CST. It examines the negative impacts
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Politics of Manufacturing Consent in a Post-Truth Society Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2022-01-09 Biswajit Ghosh
This article critically examines how human life today is faced with issues of dishonesty and deception. Using the concept of post-truth in analyzing and understanding the context of change in a global society under neo-liberalism, it focuses on the way powerful people, groups, political parties, and media now take recourse to strategies such as falsification, manipulation, or deception to influence
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Toward Decolonizing Development Education: Study Tours as Embodied, Reflexive, and Mud-up Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-12-25 Yaso Nadarajah, Glenda Mejía, Supriya Pattanayak, Srinivas Gomango, D. N. Rao, Mayura Ashok
The relevance of development studies has come under intense scrutiny with increasing calls for development education to decolonize its materials, pedagogies, and discursive practices. This article draws on a short-term study tour to India, where co-building a mud house with a tribal community and local university became a creative, intercultural site, encouraging reflexivity and learning through embodied
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Private Military and Security Companies and The Militarization of Humanitarianism Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-12-25 Tom de Groot, Salvador Santino F. Regilme, Jr.
The widespread use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in United Nations peacebuilding missions often undermines the effectiveness of these missions. PMSCs tend to encourage, in unnecessary ways, what is called security risk management and promote the militarization of humanitarian efforts. They encourage humanitarian aid organizations to protect their personnel with barbed wire fences
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Second Special Issue on Pandemics: Introduction Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Ronn Pineo
This special issue is the second of a two-part series on pandemics for the Journal of Developing Societies. The first issue looked at the immediate aftermath of the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. This issue places pandemic concerns within a longer timeframe. The first two articles by Ronn Pineo and David Carey Jr., seek to place the battles with pandemics in historical context. Pineo reviews the
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Second Special Issue on Pandemics: Concluding Comments Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Ronn Pineo
When COVID-19 arrived in early 2020, many developing societies tried early on to impose severe social-distancing measures. In some instances, lockdowns were put into effect even before the first COVID-19 deaths had been confirmed.
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Four Flu Pandemics: Lesson that Cannot be Learned Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Ronn Pineo
This article explores the history of influenza, focusing on the four major flu pandemics in the last century and a half, outbreaks starting in 1889, 1918, 1957, and 1968. The article looks closely at flu etiology and the historical puzzles over which flu subtype was responsible for each major outbreak. Some mysteries regarding pandemic influenza remain, with core questions stubbornly refusing to yield
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Sub-Sahara Africa and COVID-19 Pandemic: Reflecting on Challenges and Recovery Opportunities Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-10-04 Billy Agwanda, Gershon Dagba, Prince Opoku, Mark Opoku Amankwa, Israel Nyaburi Nyadera
How has sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) experienced the COVID-19 pandemic? This article seeks to examine the challenges faced by a region that was earlier expected to be the epicenter of the pandemic. The study identifies three critical stages that pose challenges for governments and development partners operating in SSA trying to avoid mass infections and the subsequent negative socioeconomic impacts of the
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis in Malaysia: The Social Protection Program Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Sity Daud
The main objective of this study is to discuss the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable groups in Malaysia. The study used qualitative research method based on primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected through government documents already published and previous interviews conducted in 2018 by the author on poverty and social protection programs. This article concludes that relief
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“Between a Rock and a Hard Place”: The Coronavirus, Livelihoods, and Socioeconomic Upheaval in Harare’s High-Density Areas of Zimbabwe Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Eric Kushinga Makombe
For Zimbabwe, the confirmed Covid-19 deaths for 2020 numbered in the hundreds, not thousands. Still, Covid-19 could not have come at a worse time owing to a myriad of crises the country was going through. As a result, the Covid-19 pandemic was much more than a public health crisis as it threatened already vulnerable people, putting lives and livelihoods at risk. This article focuses on the socioeconomic
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Yellow Fever’s Historical Lessons for COVID-19: International Interventions and Disease Control in Early Twentieth-century Ecuador and Guatemala Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-07-08 David Carey, Jr
Throughout tropical urban Latin America, yellow fever wreaked havoc. Located at sea level, Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Puerto Barrios (Guatemala) were particularly susceptible to yellow fever; yet, Ecuadorians and Guatemalans enjoyed significant success in early twentieth-century campaigns against yellow fever. Reflecting international efforts that informed, collaborated with, and at times underwrote Latin
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Environment and its Forms of Knowledge: The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in India Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Aniket Aga
A fierce controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops has been raging in India for over two decades. Analyzing India’s regulatory regime for GM crops, this article focuses on the modes through which state bureaucracies know the environment. It argues that two epistemologies - scientific and legal-administrative – underpin environment protection. By unraveling the course of regulatory disputes,
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We Are All Environmentalists! Framing Life in the National Green Tribunal, India Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Sudha Vasan
India has set up one of the first national-level legal bodies, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), dedicated exclusively to address cases under environmental laws. My research follows a case filed in the NGT by an indigenous community against a hydel power project in the western Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, examining how diverse and opposing parties in this case represent themselves as environmentalists
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Environment and/(or) Development: Competing Narratives from Uttara Kannada District, Karnataka Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Manisha Rao
The Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka well known as the “Pepper Queen” during colonial times gradually declined in stature and came to be known as a backward, forest district in need of “development.” These concerns framed the post-independence debates on the development of the district in terms of forestry programs and hydroelectric power projects, to help in the growth story of India. In the post-liberalization
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The Environment as Disingenuous Trope: Tracing Waste Policy and Practice in a Medium Hill Town of the Himalayas, India Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Kaveri Gill
The environment is often invoked in the context of growing municipal waste, a result of rapid growth and burgeoning consumption in urban India, in a manner that would appear to be class and caste neutral, as well as accommodating of the interests of labor. In actuality, waste policy and practice have been contoured in distinctly opposite directions to that dictated by a genuine concern for the environment
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Environment as Land: Understanding Anti-displacement Politics in Jharkhand Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Vasundhara Jairath
While environmental claim-making is centered on nature as the object of protection or preservation, the invocation of land remains marginal to discussions on environmentalism. Land claims remain in the realm of agrarian or material discursive practices. This article analyzes an anti-displacement adivasi movement in Jharkhand in India to examine its environmental praxis. The movement articulates a distinct
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The Environment as a Meta-narrative: Introduction to a Special Issue Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-04-23 Sudha Vasan
Narratives about protecting, speaking/acting for the environment are ubiquitous in a wide variety of heterogenous social situations. The essays in this special issue examine the form, content, context and materiality of the discourse of environmental protection. Based on field studies in India, the essays each examine the discourses in and of the courtroom, logic of state bureaucracy, legitimating
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COVID-19 and the New normal in Developing Societies: An Appraisal of Nigerians’ Adaptation to Digital Life in Public and Private Spheres Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-04-20 John Moses Maikomo, Tordue Simon Targema, Maria Kisugu Obun-Andy
COVID-19 significantly altered individual patterns of interaction across the globe. The impediment on physical contact and emphasis on social distancing as measures of curbing its spread gave rise to new forms of interactions among individuals. In the ensuing new normal, digital life took the center stage, anchoring engaging and meaningful interactions of individuals in both public and private spheres
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Understanding the Relationship Between Sustainability and Ecofeminism in an Indian Context Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Lavanya Suresh
This article looks closely at the relationship between gender and environment in the context of sustainability. It has been seen that without the inclusion of feminist concerns for gender equality, most environment public policy approaches will be incomplete and may even threaten to intensify women’s subordination. This is illustrated in this article through a case study from Nilgiris district of Tamil
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Inequality in Contemporary India: Does Caste Still Matter? Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Susmita Sengupta, Sanat Kumar Guchhait
Are the issues of socioeconomic inequalities related to specific caste biases in Contemporary India? Why are some social groups in the socioeconomic ladder lagging compared to others? How much have the poor people living in rural areas in India achieved their esteemed goals in the present economic arena of development? Is it the limited educational attainment or lack of physical and social capital
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Social Risks and Class in the Baltic States: Insights for Social Investment Strategy Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Daiva Skuciene, Jurgita Markeviciute
The understanding of the distribution of social risks according to social classes can ensure more targeted social investment policies. This article aims to analyze the distribution of social risks according to the social classes in the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The micro data used in this analysis are collected from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions
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Ìdàgbàsókѐ: An African Notion of Organic Development Ethics Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola
Relevance and influence in the current world among nations and continents are largely measured in terms of development. Development is primarily viewed as economic and technological growth such that a country that is not advanced economically and technologically can hardly have “a voice” in the comity of nations. Development is so crucial to how a country is perceived internationally that it determines
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Social Disparities in Adopting Non-pharmaceutical Interventions During COVID-19 Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Jessica Dimka, Nan Zou Bakkeli
In the absence of vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 governments had to respond by rely on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Socioeconomic inequalities likely influenced the uptake of NPIs. Using Norwegian survey data, we study whether income was associated with increased handwashing, keeping 1 m distance, using facemasks increased use of home office, and less use of public transportation
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Insurgent Aztlán: The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Armando A. Arias, Jr.
This is a book review of Insurgent Aztlán: The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance, written by Ernesto Todd Mireles and published in 2020 by Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press in Berkeley, California. As the subtitle indicates, this book is about the liberating power of cultural resistance, and in this case the subjects of cultural resistance are Mexican Americans in the South West of the
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Reputation and Trust Within the Fair Trade Movement in Brazil Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Riccardo Da Re, Sergio Pedini, Fabio Maria Santucci, Bianca Maria Torquati
This article illustrates the trust relationships among the members of the Brazilian Association of Fairtrade Farmers Organizations (BRFair), which is a second-level network of coffee-producing cooperatives. Representatives of 19 cooperatives were interviewed in 2018 to verify their opinions about the other associations regarding several aspects. Through software specific for social network analysis
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International Development Volunteering as Transformational Feminist Practice for Gender Equality Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Rebecca Tiessen, Sheila Rao, Benjamin J. Lough
International and transnational commitments to gender equality require strategies that tackle root causes and prevailing attitudes that perpetuate disparities. In this article, we examine the role and impact of international development volunteers (IDV) as development actors who are well-placed for feminist transformational change, as they work in transnational spaces to influence, support, or reinforce
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How Equal is Access to Public Services? The Impact of Sociodemographic Background on Public Service Delivery in Sri Lanka Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-11-28 R. Ramesh
Existing evidence strongly supports the thesis that sociodemographic variables, such as ethnicity, various forms of identity affiliation (religion, caste, and language), social norms, and level of education, tend to influence citizens’ ability to gain access to public services in developing societies. This article explores the extent to which ethnicity, social identities, and level of education influence
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Social Change in Brazil Through Innovations and Social Movements Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Karina Maldonado-Mariscal
Social innovations and changes in educational systems are the cornerstones for success of emerging countries. Current developments in Brazil and heterogeneity of society make the country a perfect candidate to investigate these topics. Drawing on historical analysis and content analysis, the author builds a model that recognizes patterns of social change. This model enables to analyze social change
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Indigenous People and The Sustainable Development Goals in Brazil: A Study of the Kaingang People Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Neil Renwick, Darren R. Reid, Jorge Alejandro Santos, Leonel Piovezana
Indigenous Peoples continue to face substantial challenges. This article focuses on the Kaingang People in Southern Brazil and is contextualized by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) adopted by all the United Nations member states in 2015. The authors adopted an Indigenist research methodology to obtain oral evidence and provided an education-focused case-study. The research findings reveal that
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Geopolitics of Power and Knowledge in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Decolonial Reflections on a Global Crisis Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
This article offers a provisional decolonial reading of the crisis created by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The article performs five interrelated tasks. The first task addresses the question of knowledge and theorizing during exceptional moments. A decolonial case is made for seeking mitigations and solutions to COVID-19 based on the African knowledge and epistemologies from the Global
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Introduction: Journal of Developing Societies’ Special Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Anil Hira
In the introduction to this special issue, we point to the large-scale failure of existing corporate social responsibility systems to address ongoing global environmental and labor standards issues. Competing codes, absent harmonization, conflicted and limited auditing and transparency, and an almost complete lack of enforcement mean that the considerable efforts by corporations and their partner international
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Regulating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for Economic and Social Development Through Trade Rules Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Michèle Rioux, Christine Vaillancourt
Multinationals affirm corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a way to go further than national and international law to build a social compact. While CSR can contribute to an effective global labor governance scheme, we argue that national and international laws must be engaged to regulate CSR private governance schemes. We will support this argument and, furthermore, we will argue that international
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Transitioning to a Progressive Green Economy in the Philippines Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-04-26 David Michael M. San Juan
Informed by theoretical discussions and statistics on the Anthropocene and sustainable development, this article is focused on tackling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), primarily SDG 1 (“end poverty in all its forms everywhere”); SDG 7 (“ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”); SDG 10 (“reduce inequality within and among countries”); and related SDGs that
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Women’s Empowerment and the Well-being of Children in Nepal Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-04-09 Priniti Panday
This article examines the relationship between women’s empowerment and child well-being in Nepal. Various indicators of women’s empowerment and child well-being are presented and compared across the seven provinces in the country. A strong positive relationship between the two is established. In fact, women’s empowerment appears to have a stronger relationship to children’s well-being than wealth indicators
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Beyond Wishful Thinking: The Promise of Science Engagement at the Community Level in Africa Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-04-09 Jimoh Amzat, Jimoh Amzat
This article discusses the impediments to science-community engagement and identifies five forms of underdevelopment sentiments: primordial, mystical, ethnoreligious, conspiracy, and fatalistic. It also critically examines wishful thinking, which takes the form of superficial recommendations that do not hold any implications for society except on the paper on which they are written. This article argues
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Rural Transformation in India: Deagrarianization and the Transition from a Farming to Non-farming Economy Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2020-04-09 Koustab Majumdar
Rural transformation in general has been conceptualized as modernization, rural development, changes in economic structure, and the migration of the population from the farming sector to the non-farming sectors of the economy. Different theoretical approaches (unidimensional and multidimensional) have been applied to the study of rural transformation, and these approaches have involved different indicators