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Do Electronic Services Improve Students’ Satisfaction among Public Sector Organizations? The Case of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institutions Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Yuslida John
This study examines the influence of e-services on students’ satisfaction in higher learning institutions. Although many studies have investigated e-services in education systems, many of them do not associate satisfactory e-services application in administrative activities in ensuring students’ satisfaction. The surveyed data collected from 257 university students was analyzed by the structural equation
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The Intersection of Identities: Access to Primary Education in Kamrup District of Assam Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sikha Das, Sambit Mallick
Access to primary education is often interpreted as access to school education, resources inside and outside the school, the way different children are treated by teachers and peers, and even access to distinct types of schools. However, different resources are not accessible to all members of a particular social system based on their intersectional identities. The intersection of identities may be
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Neo-Luddism in the Shadow of Luddism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Yusuf Erdem Tunç, Aslan Tolga Öcal
Technology is adopted regardless of its results; however, technology does not always result in absolute progress. The Luddites, the first movement to resist the effects of technology, made a series of uprisings in the nineteenth century, and even today they represent anxiety against technology. Neo-Luddism, as the successor of Luddism, peacefully opposes technology’s adverse effects with a distinct
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Partisans and Participants: Democracy, New Media, and Nigerian Diaspora in New Zealand Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Muhammed Musa, Osman Antwi-Boateng
This article argues that in the era of neo-liberal globalization there has been intensification in the movement of goods, people, and capital across national boundaries. Our ethnographic studies of Nigerian immigrants in New Zealand point to the dispersal of Africans with very active partisan roles in their homeland democratic developments. This African transnationalism, as will be seen in the case
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The Politicization and Militarization of Migration: The Eco-Socio-Historical Origins of Capitalist Terminal Crisis Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Florence Molk
The politicization and militarization of migration, currently instituted to prevent the growing movement of people from the periphery, are symptomatic of the unprecedented terminal crisis of historical capitalism. Oblivious to the fact of entering the realm of its dissolution for some time, the capitalist system follows a familiar playbook and calls for, among other things, increased control and militarization
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Abolishing the War on Climate: Pathways for Collective Ecological Security Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Dafne Yeltekin, Zainab Koli, Lizander Oros
The climate crisis has been increasingly approached by powerful global actors as both a national and international security threat, rather than a matter of ecological security. This article categorizes false solutions behind the climate security approach and presents three intersecting ways forward for climate justice. By highlighting the work of social movements, this article aims to center truly
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Beleaguered City, Beleaguered Planet Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Leslie Sklair
This article sets out to analyze the connections between three different but related phenomena (capitalist globalization, the Anthropocene, and the coronavirus epidemic) through the lens of iconic buildings and spaces and the cities in which they are mostly found. I argue that the transnational capitalist class uses cities as competitors in a global system of lucrative investment opportunities. Capitalist
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The Dangers of Ecofascism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Jerry Harris
Neoliberalism and evangelical theocrats want to create an authoritarian capitalism that maintains a political, social, and environmental dictatorship. Green capitalism offers only limited change unable to solve the environmental crisis. Building alternative hegemony around a Green New Deal will be the best oppositional force to ecofascism.
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Entangled Futures: Big Oil, Political Will, and the Global Environmental Movement Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Eve Darian-Smith
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified a lack of “political will” by national leaders as the main obstacle to mitigating the climate emergency in its 2022 report. However, the report makes no mention that contributing to this political deficiency has been rising antidemocracy over the past two decades, furthered by the support of the powerful fossil fuel industry. This article
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Growing Divides between Establishment and Climate Justice Proponents: A View from the Extremes of South Africa Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Patrick Bond
The failure of elites negotiating global public goods – e.g., ending COVID-19 “vaccine apartheid,” forging geopolitical stability, reducing inequality, regulating international financial flows, and avoiding world recession – is nowhere more dangerous than the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s refusal to cut greenhouse gas emissions deeply and fairly. “Climate Justice” principles
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Integrating Degrowth and World-Systems Theory: Toward a Research Agenda Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Mariko Lin Frame
This short conceptual article seeks to integrate world-systems theory and degrowth. It suggests that an ecological rendering of world-systems theory can clarify some of the most important quandaries of the degrowth movement in regards to global justice, decolonialism, the excessive material throughput of the Global North, and globalization. The article reframes these concerns from a world-systems framework
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Neglecting the Marginalized: Corporate Valuation Discourses in Environmental Struggles Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Marcel Llavero-Pasquina
The unequal distribution of environmental goods and pollution burdens is determined by valuation decisions dependent on the values present in the public sphere. Accordingly, corporations and movements of resistance adopt strategies to influence public value systems to prioritize their interests. However, pre-existing asymmetric relationships of power grant corporations a dominant position over the
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Post-Disaster Scenarios: Towards Environmental Alternatives of the Global South Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Marek Hrubec
While it is also relevant to address the Earth crisis using reformist approaches, this article analyzes a worse-case scenario. It deals with a post-disaster scenario that looks for ways out of a deeper environmental crisis or disaster. But this does not mean a scenario of a total global apocalypse. It addresses the topic in four steps: first, by stressing an importance of post-disaster scenarios between
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Racial Capitalism and the Ecological Crises of the Anthropocene Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Carmen G. Gonzalez
The concept of racial capitalism has been embraced by scholars and activists as a means of exploring the common roots of contemporary social and ecological crises. These include unprecedented environmental degradation, extreme economic inequality, the resurgence of authoritarian ethno-nationalism, increasingly militarized and racialized policing and border control, and the expulsion to the margins
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Radical Ecological Economics: Decolonizing Our Work Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 David Barkin
Who are the peasants/Indigenous people and what is their role in the history and future of Mexico? Questioning the dominant version of the socio-political dynamics, I start with corn, a grain created in Mesoamerica, to develop one of most admired agroecological systems in the world. It contributes to good nutrition and health, (re)shaping social structures and the territory itself. Today’s communities
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The Socio-ecological Question, the Global Environmental Justice Movement and Anti-systemic Environmentalism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Zehra Taşdemir Yaşın
This article makes two central arguments: i) we can understand the current phase of anti-systemic movements predominantly through the globally expanding forms of resistance centered on environment, food, climate, soil, water, and so on as a collective socio-ecological critique and confrontation of the global capitalist relations of production; and ii) we can conceptually specify the global environmental
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Rejecting Green Colonial Solutions: Towards Decolonial Solidarity with Mother Earth’s Revolt Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Marlene Brito-Millán, Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Janin Guzman Morales, Emma Harrison, Jessica Ng, Leslie Quintanilla, Amrah Salomón J, bt werner
We reframe climate crises as Mother Earth’s fevers and revolts against an anthropocentric, patriarchal, and racial colonial order of domination and extraction by undertaking a decolonial feminist, anti-capitalist complexity science, and Indigenous re-examination of how the scientific enterprise engages with climate politics. As the patriarchal state-centric technocracy and imperial mode of living that
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Dilemmas Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Zimbabwe Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Shingirai P. Mbulayi, Abigail Makuyana, B. Zindi, Simon M. Kang’ethe
Public hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccines stands out as an obstinate barrier to Zimbabwe’s ability to stamp out the ongoing pandemic and steer the country back to socioeconomic normalcy and stability. This qualitative study unpacked the hesitancy factors associated with the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe. The study used an exploratory research design and collected its data from social media
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The Effectiveness of the “Top-Down, Bottom-Up” Approach for Understanding the Implementation of Regional Autonomy in Batu City Tourism Development Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Purbayakti Kusum Wijayanto, Luqman Hakim, Soesilo Zauhar, Abdullah Said
Community involvement in determining the direction of autonomous region development is still rare. Regional autonomy, conceptualized as the local government’s freedom to take care of domestic affairs, is the best way to implement a decentralized governmental approach. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of implementing regional autonomy in the development of Batu City tourism using a
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Financial Inclusion Expectation Gap Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Peterson K. Ozili
The objective of this article is to define the financial inclusion expectation gap, offer some insight into the nature and the causes of it, and suggest ways to reduce the gap. The discussion in the article provides helpful insights into this problem towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It is hoped that such an attempt can provide insights to understand the expectation
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Users’ Experiences of a Web-Based Suicide Prevention Program for College Students: a Mixed Methods Approach Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Freyana Shinde, Rekha Wagani, Kalyan Sasidhar
The current pandemic has remarkably increased the dependence on digital interfaces for mental health. This dependency calls for a strong need to check the efficacy of such digital platforms under various contexts. An evaluation study was conducted with participants in an online web-based suicide prevention intervention program named Happetite. The program was found to be not only accessible, but also
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Fault Lines in Financial Inclusion Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Peterson K. Ozili
Financial inclusion has been a global development policy priority over the last two decades. Financial inclusion involves providing access to basic financial services and the use of basic financial services to improve the welfare of individuals, households, and businesses. This article identifies the fault lines or vulnerabilities in the way financial inclusion is achieved. These fault lines or vulnerabilities
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Improved Supply Chain Crisis Response: A Study of Modular Design Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Ryan L. Skiver
In 2020 COVID-19 caused global disruptions in the supply chain that are still showing ripple effects in mid-2022. Pandemics are not the only form of crisis that causes supply chain disruptions. With increasing instances of natural disasters, organizational misconduct, economic instability, and political unrest, crisis management has become a growing issue within businesses and the supply chain field
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M-Wallet Adoption in Emerging Markets: A Combination of Technological, Behavioral and Financial Aspects in a Rational Choice Model Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Long Hoang Le, Giang Huong Duong, Sang Minh Nguyen
The adoption of mobile wallets can help to advance financial inclusion and human development in emerging countries. Current literature on mobile wallet (m-wallet) adoption focuses on technological and behavioral aspects, but neglects the financial aspect, which highly influences the decision-making of low-income people. This study identified the impacts of all three aspects on m-wallet adoption behavior
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Non-Inclusive Trade Unionism in the Tea Estates in Assam Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Mridusmita Duara, Sambit Mallick
The state of Assam alone produces nearly 53 percent of the total tea production in India. Around one million workers are engaged in the tea industry in India. Tea – as a commercial product first cultivated and expanded by the British – is an outcome of the toil and struggle of the Adivasi workers or indigenous people of central and east India who were made to migrate to Assam under extremely brutal
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Anxiety Management among Non-Clinical Society towards COVID-19 Pandemic in the Iranian Context Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Vadood Javan Amani, Hamid Akbari
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on our lives. Many of us are facing challenges that can be stressful and overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children. The purpose of this study was to measure the level of anxiety of non-clinical individuals in the Iranian community towards COVID-19 in Tehran. The present study is a descriptive correlational method with 308 individuals
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Handloom and Powerloom Industries in Odisha: A Historical Analysis Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Jnana Ranjan Prusty, Sambit Mallick
The handloom industry in India is an ancient cottage industry with a decentralized setup that provides jobs to about 35 million people. Handloom established its reputation in the global market long before the industrial revolution. Today, India’s handloom and spinning wheel produces the largest variation of designs. It continued to flourish despite the oppression of the British Government. In India
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Legal Origins, Governance and Bank Lending Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Azmat Gani, Almukhtar Al-Abri, Sami Salim Al Kharusi, Alya Al Foori
This article investigates if legal origins and governance impact lending by banks in a large sample of low- and middle-income countries for 2004 to 2017. The results revealed that countries with British legal origin, the strength of the legal systems, the rule of law, and regulatory quality are positively and statistically significantly correlated with the credit provided by the banks, among other
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Technology Transfer and Everyday Life among Smallholder Farmers: Notes on the Small Inconveniences that Slow the Transition to Industrial Agriculture in Ethiopia Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Selam Esayas Negatu, Elizabeth Holzer, Ezana Amdework Atsbeha, Kristen Kirksey
Global technology transfers reshape agriculture with profound influences on everyday life. Substantial research has documented broader constraints that influence technology transfer among farmers, yet existing theories give us a narrow view into how wider dynamics manifest in everyday life. Using tractor farming in Ethiopia as a case study with ethnographic and historical data, we contribute an account
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Unpacking South African Institutions of Higher Learning Efforts and Hurdles to Respond to COVID-19: Social Service Professionals’ Lenses Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Simon Murote Kang’ethe
Incontrovertibly, COVID-19 has overwhelmed institutions of learning in a big way with various institutions in South Africa endeavoring to surmount the challenges in different ways. This article has reviewed various sources of secondary literature from mainly journals. Findings established that institutions of higher learning need to strengthen their institutional modus operandi of communicating coronavirus
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Coffee in the Global Economy Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-02-11 John Redden
This article describes the origin of coffee, and how it became a globalized commodity leading into the current global landscape of coffee exchange. Significant contours of coffee production taking place in the various geographies are examined. Then notable organizations that influence global coffee markets are referenced. Finally, I state a few suggestions for progressive action with respect to global
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Encampment of Refugees in Kenya and the Failure of Economic Integration Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-02-11 John Bosco Ngendakurio
This article demonstrates how Kenya’s refugee encampment practice undermines refugees’ potential and fails local, regional, and global economy. It limits refugees’ integration and access to opportunities outside the refugee camps, rendering the benefits of globalization irrelevant. This article specifically looks at the impacts of the refugee encampment on participation, health, wellbeing, skills,
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Farmers against Fascism: How India’s Farmers’ Protests Cultivated Alternatives to Neoliberal Hindu Nationalist Dystopia Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Sarang Narasimhaiah
In this article I analyze the mass mobilizations mounted by Indian farmers against three pro-corporate agricultural bills passed by the far-right government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I argue that the discourse of civil protest is insufficient to understand these mobilizations. On the contrary, they embody the principles of mutual aid, direct action, and intersectional and international solidarity
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Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Conflict Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Jerry Harris
Integrated global capitalism has emerged over the past forty years as the dominant economic system. This world system was constructed by the transnational capitalist class, which established hegemonic political and cultural power in both the Global North and South. Nevertheless, competition and contradictions characterize global capitalism, within and between classes as well as nation states.
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Decolonization of Higher Education in South Africa Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Ali Arazeem Abdullahi
Western education still dominates the education terrain across Africa. For some people, the dominance is nothing but ‘academic imperialism,’ which is believed to have relegated African scholars to mere conduits of knowledge through which European and American scholarship and interests are protected and promoted. Consequently, a dissident voice is resonating in the African educational system, particularly
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Diversification and Industrialization in the Economic Development of Turkmenistan Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Hoyoung Kwon, Jai S. Mah
In the early stages of its transition, Turkmenistan pursued a gradualist path. Diversification, industrialization, and market-based reforms led to very rapid economic growth particularly since the late 2000s. This article investigates the role of Turkmenistan’s economic development policy in diversifying industries and promoting the manufacturing sector. The government has diversified the destinations
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Exploring Visitor Perceptions towards Urban Park Design and Levels of Enclosure: A Case Study from the UAE Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Amna Gargoum, Ali S. Gargoum
As cities transition towards urbanization and sustainability, designing attractive green spaces and urban parks is an important issue to planners and urban designers. One factor believed to have some impact on a park’s attractiveness is level of enclosure. Despite the importance of such a factor in identifying types of park visitors and frequency of visits, a limited amount of research has attempted
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FM Stations’ Role in Rural Development: The Case of Northern Ghana Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Mu-azu Iddirisu Andani, Osman Antwi-Boateng
Over the past two decades, Ghana’s media landscape has undergone radical transformation, leading to the emergence of hundreds of frequency modulation (FM) stations across the country. These stations have become the country’s most powerful mediums of communication, carrying an array of programs aimed at diverse audiences. With northern Ghana as a case study, this research examines FM stations’ role
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Movers, Motives, and Impact of Illegal Small-Scale Mining: A Case Study in Ghana Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Osman Antwi-Boateng, Mamudu Akudugu
This research unravels the agents and driving motivation behind the rise of illegal small-scale mining in Ghana and its impact. This is accomplished via a qualitative study using illegal small-scale mining in the Talensi and Nabdam districts of Ghana as a case study. At the forefront of this phenomenon are rent-seeking elites, whereas structural factors such as rising unemployment and high population
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Assessing the Sustainability of Urban Water Supply Systems in Shillong, India Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Bankerlang Kharmylliem, Ngamjahao Kipgen
This article examines urban water supply systems by using indicators such as quantity, quality, accessibility, and reliability. Shillong city is divided into numerous localities, each governed by both formal (municipal) and informal (non-municipal) institutions. This study focuses on domestic water aspects in non-municipal areas and argues that water inequity is more prominent and widespread, and the
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Semi-Systematic Review of the Perceived Cost of Mobile Payment in Sub-Saharan Africa Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Cephas Paa Kwasi Coffie, Hongjiang Zhao
Financial technology offers convenience, security, and affordability. In sub-Saharan Africa, mobile money is the flagship offering hypothesized to promote financial inclusion. Nonetheless, the persistent complaints from end-users about the cost associated with mobile money usage in the sub-region have gone under the radar. Therefore, using the semi-systematic review of news articles and blogs’ in direct
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Social Distancing During the Sars-Cov2 (COVID-19) Pandemic: Interpretations and Implication in the African Context Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Robert Mutemi Kajiita, Simon Murote Kang’ethe
In absence of vaccine or a well-known treatment at onset of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), public health measures such as social distancing, washing hands, and wearing face masks were implemented as the most effective strategies to combat the spread of the virus. This article explores the perceptions and interpretations of COVID-19-related regulations and implications of the disease to human life
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South Africa in the Installation Phase of a New Techno-economic Paradigm Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Peter Stewart
South Africa’s situation of financialization, low growth, unemployment, and inequality is linked here to the ‘installation phase’ of a new technology as described by Carlotta Perez. South Africa’s informational economy is examined, and the role of the financial sector is summarized. The article then considers the strengths and weaknesses of the manufacturing and service sectors, and the embeddedness
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Students’ Perceptions Concerning Emergency Remote Teaching During COVID-19: A Case Study between Higher Education Institutions in Thailand and Finland Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Kevin Fuchs
The sudden shift from physical classroom education towards emergency remote teaching (ERT) in higher education during the unprecedented global pandemic SARS-CoV-2, or more commonly known as COVID-19, caused an abrupt change in the learning environment for students and educators alike. The disruptive overnight change to convert entire courses to emergency remote teaching caused distress for not only
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Africa from Post-Colonialism to Multilateralism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Marek Hrubec
This article deals with a differentiation of the historical phases of African trajectories in the global context from independence to the present day in order to overcome colonialism and global capitalism. It explains how to understand the historical trajectories from post-colonialism to unilateralism, multilateralism, and finally, the potential of polylateralism. It focuses on the problems and tendencies
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African Continental Free-Trade Area: Key Challenges Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Ifeanyi Ezeonu
On March 21, 2018, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement was signed in Kigali, Rwanda by an overwhelming majority of African states. This Agreement, which was designed to create a free-trade area across the African continent, came into force on May 30, 2019, following its ratification by twenty-two African states as provided for in the agreement. The resultant free-trade area is intended to
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At the Intersection of Eco-Crises, Eco-Anxiety, and Political Turbulence: A Primer on Twenty-First Century Ecofascism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Cassidy Thomas, Elhom Gosink
This article explores the concept of ecofascism during the twenty-first century. In the midst of worsening ecological crises, a revival of ecofascist rhetoric and action has been observed. Despite this resurfacing, there is a lack of theorizing around the topic. This discussion will explore how the ecofascist label has been applied in different contexts historically, and the ways it may manifest in
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Biopolitics in the Time of Pandemic: Populism and Neoliberalism in the Light of COVID-19 Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Rafal Soborski
Populism is at the center of many debates about socio-political aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, pondering questions such as, “Is coronavirus bad for populism?” or “How do populist leaders respond to it?” is unlikely to bring significant insights into the distribution and operation of power in the context of COVID-19, or more generally. The populist label is used by elites to describe any
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Oh Britannia: Great Britain’s Exit from the European Union and Its Impact on Globalism and Nationalism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-03-25 John P. Williams
Globalization unleashed trends such as the free movement of capital, people, and goods; trickle-down economics, and diminished stature of nation-states. While largely embraced by most countries in the WTO, a growing tension within the European Union to push back went largely ignored until recently. Britain’s exit represents such a push back, a rejection of a single banking system, a single budget,
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Power and Globalization in Africa: Perceptions of Barriers to Fair Economic Development in Kenya Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-03-25 John Bosco Ngendakurio
This article seeks to reveal the primary barriers to fair economic development based on Kenyans’ perceptions of power and globalization. This search was initially sparked by the seeming disinterest of First World scholars to understand the reasons why poor countries benefit so little from the global market as reflected in a subsequent lack of a wide-ranging existing literature about the subject. The
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Capitalism Has No Clothes: the Unexpected Shock of the Covid-19 Pandemic Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Jaime F. Cárdenas-García, Bruno Soria De Mesa, Diego Romero Castro
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or COVID-19 has undeniably changed the world forever. Capitalism in the United States and Europe can no longer feel immune from the effects of epidemics that were at one point in time the concern of minor countries, such as the recent (2014–2016) Ebola epidemic in Western Africa. This article examines how COVID-19 not only showed that Capitalism
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Contribution of Business Entities in the Fight against COVID-19 in South Africa Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Samkelo Bala, Simon M. Kang’ethe
Unequivocally, South Africa, amid an environment of paucity of resources and ever-increasing cases of coronavirus, faces an arduous challenge of fighting the scourge of coronavirus. This has necessitated the need to assess the role of business entities as complementary stakeholders. This article applied qualitative paradigm and case-study design that allowed an investigation of 13 postgraduate participants
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From Social and Development Banking to Digital Financial Inclusion: the Journey of Banking in India Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Kaustav K. Sarkar, Rukmini Thapa
The Indian banking and financial sector has endured a long journey from social and development banking to digital banking and financial inclusion. In recent years, there has been a growing consensus in support of digital financial inclusion. Several influential international entities argued strongly in favor of digitization of banking and expansion of digital finance. We tried to understand the journey
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From the “Pink Tide” to “Soft Coup d’État” in Latin America: the Case of Bolivia Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Martha I. Chew Sánchez
This article addresses the impact of settler colonialism by the Spanish and United States in the American continent in forming the base, development, and power of capitalism in the West. It provides a general overview of the United States’ unequal economic relationships with Latin American countries since the end of the nineteenth century to the present. It highlights the role evangelist groups have
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Joining the Global Environmental Protection Movement: an Exploration of Public Environmental Concern in the UAE Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Madalla Alibeli, Satish Nair
This study explores levels of concern about the environment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Data for the study were obtained from the 2019 ‘Levels of Concern about the Environment in the UAE’ survey. A convenience sample of 1520 respondents were selected, contacted and interviewed by research assistants. Per the study’s findings, respondents did endorse three out of five dimensions of the Revised
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Oman’s Trade Potentials with Indian Ocean Rim Countries Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Azmat Gani, Haslifah M. Hasim, Nasser Al-Mawali
Oman’s regional trade flow, especially with the Indian Ocean Rim countries, is examined within a gravity model framework. The analysis is based on the generalised method of moments (GMM) estimation procedure. The findings show that Oman’s exports are strongly determined by the Indian Ocean Rim countries’ populations, gross domestic product, infrastructure, Oman’s trade policy and a common border and
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Psychosocial Impacts of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic in Zimbabwe: Citizens’ Perspective Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Shingirai P. Mbulayi, Abigail Makuyana, Simon M. Kang’ethe
The outbreak of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic altered the social, economic, and public health landscape across the world, and unleashed a plethora of negative psychosocial impacts on society. This qualitative study used an online based case study design to explore the psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 among a few selected citizens of Zimbabwe. The study was conceptualized around an orienting question
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Reading Graffiti in Naples and Reading Naples in Film Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Jonathan Gross
This article examines graffiti in Naples between 2016 and 2018, arguing for its political importance. My thesis is that erasing graffiti from garbage trucks does not remove the social problems that caused it. Though sometimes seen as an eye-sore by tourists, graffiti offers vital information about the struggles and passions within the city itself. Under Silvio Berlusconi, rubbish became gold, as Camorra
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Accessing the Right to Basic Education in South Africa: Four Years after the Ratification of the Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Sicelo Makapela, Pius Tanga
This article examines access to the right to basic education enshrined in the South African Constitution. Underpinned by the human rights-based approach, the study employed survey questionnaires and in-depth interviews as methods of data collection. The results of the study revealed that the majority of the survey respondents contend that the post-apartheid state has fulfilled the right to basic education
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The Coping Mechanisms Employed by Grandparent-Headed Families in Addressing Juvenile Delinquency in Hill Crest, Alice Township, Eastern Cape Province Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Samuel Mugedya, Simon M Kang’ethe, Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya
Literature studies have shown that older persons face an array of challenges, among them parenting a delinquent grandchild. This study adopted both a qualitative approach and paradigm, supported by an explorative and a descriptive case study design. The study sampled eleven participants, and data were collected using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with grandparents, a community committee