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Uzbekistan – A Region of World Society (?) Variants of Differentiation in Agricultural Resources Governance
(2015-04)
This article studies the layered coexistence and mutual shaping of three forms of differentiation (functional, segmentary, hierarchical) in rural Uzbekistan, a region of world society that, since 1991, is undergoing ...
‘Functional’ governance as an alternative to ‘territorial’ governance? The case of the Kyrgyz irrigation sector and the implementation of Water User Associations (WUAs)
(2015-08)
International development organizations regard the concept of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) as the universal model for participatory water governance and thereby globally promote the installation of so called ...
Spatialities of Knowledge in the Neoliberal World Academy: Theory, Practice and 21st Century Legacies of Area Studies
(2015-04)
In order to develop adequate understandings and theories of global modernity it is essential to overcome the intellectual hindrances of Euro-Amerocentrism, which is both an intellectual legacy of imperialism and a very ...
Vartan bhanji-exchange practices and social (im-)mobility: Exploring the coping strategies of low-income households of different biraderis in rural Punjab
(2015-07)
This paper assesses whether vartan bhanji exchange practices are a boon or a burden, an enabling or disabling factor, a pass or an impasse for social mobility of the poor households of biraderis living in rural areas of ...
Off the Grid: Environmental Degradation and Citizenship at the Margins
(2015-05)
In this paper I have presented some preliminary thoughts on political repercussions of environmental degradations on the margins. In order to do that I have embraced two approaches derived from political theory. First, I ...
Mobility and Urban Conflict: A Study of Lyari, Karachi
(2015-06)
This paper […] focuses more closely on the transregional impacts of conflicts on local residents, most of whom are not themselves personally involved in these conflicts. For young Baloch men struggling to survive within ...
Tapping Potentials of Innovation for African Food Security and Sustainable Agricultural Growth: an Africa-wide Perspective
(2015-09)
While in the past, increased use of inputs and expansion of agricultural land accounted for a good part of agricultural growth in Africa, improvements in productivity will need to be a major driver of growth in the future. ...
Following the problems: das Programm der Nachwuchsforschergruppe "Entdeckung, Erforschung und Bearbeitung gesellschaftlicher Großprobleme"
(2015-09)
Das Verhältnis der Wissenschaft zu ihrer gesellschaftlichen Umwelt beschäftigt nicht
nur die Wissenschaftssoziologie seit geraumer Zeit. Während sich die öffentliche Debatte
um das Bild einer im Elfenbeinturm isolierten ...
Europäische Integration aus historischer Erfahrung: ein Zeitzeugengespräch mit Michael Gehler
(2015)
Monika Wulf-Mathies war von 1995 bis 1999 EU-Kommissarin für Regionalpolitik und Kohäsion in der Kommission unter Präsident Jacques Santer. Sie schildert die Geschichte der Kommission Santer im Kontext der Vorbereitung der ...