Search Results - subject:"postcolonial"

Reflecting upon the entrepreneurship initiatives in new emerging African nations: zooming the cultural lens on education systems in two former German colonies

April, Wilfred Isak - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 6 (2010) 3, pp. 163-174

This paper seeks to explore and develop an understanding why there are significant differences in terms of entrepreneurial development amongst the West African nation of Ghana and the Southern African nation of Namibia. More importantly, this paper aims to create understanding as to why Ghana...

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White Memories, White Belonging: Competing Colonial Anniversaries in 'Postcolonial' East London

Wemyss, Georgie - In: Sociological Research Online 13 (2008) 5, pp. 8-8

This paper explores how processes of remembering past events contribute to the construction of highly racialised local and national politics of belonging in the UK. Ethnographic research and contextualised discourse analysis are used to examine two colonial anniversaries remembered in 2006: the...

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Representational Approaches Matter

Khan, Farzad - In: Journal of Business Ethics 73 (2007) 1, pp. 77-89

This paper raises the question of how ethical issues arising out of social inequities involving international business in developing countries can be represented, and articulates a conceptual framework that identifies and maps four different approaches to representing or making sense of such...

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The Buck Stops Here: Fundraising Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations of Color

Fuentes, Claudia - 1997

This is an in-depth investigation of current fundraising issues for nonprofits of color. The aim is to explore why nonprofit organizations of color (those nonprofits that are headed by a person of color and serve a specific minority group) are not getting as many philanthropic dollars as their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449481

Colonial War and the Democratic Peace

Ravlo, Hilde; Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Dorussen, Han - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 47 (2003) 4, pp. 520-548

examined in colonial, imperialist, and postcolonial periods. Finally, a correct assessment of the democratic peace argument …

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GLOBALIZATION AND WOMEN'S PAID WORK: EXPANDING FREEDOM?

Koggel, Christine - In: Feminist Economics 9 (2003) 2-3, pp. 163-184

advocates for enhancing it. Recent work in feminist economics and postcolonial studies tests Sen's complex account of freedom …

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Contours of a non-modernist discourse: the contested space of history and development

Zein-Elabdin, Eiman - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 33 (2001) 3, pp. 255-263

Conventionally, postcolonial analysis has been confined to the field of literary criticism and history. More recently … conditions in formerly colonized regions, a postcolonial position has yet to be articulated in economics. This paper draws on … postcolonial thought to explore the idea of "history" and its expression in economics through the discourse on "development." The …

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Developing a Community Tradition of Migration: A Field Study in rural Zacatecas, Mexico, and California Settlement Areas

Mines, Richard - Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UC San Diego - 1981

This study sought to take a close-up look at cross-border Mexican migration by collecting detailed information about one binational migratory village-based community. five major findings have resulted from this investigation: 1. Migrants are generally poor rural or urban dwellers who depend on...

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Corporationalism: subjective creation of national identities and nation-brands.

Muratovski, Gjoko

In todays globalisation, countries compete with each other in the same manner as the multinational corporations do. Recently, the term nation-brand has appeared, together with a nation-brand index that tracks how a particular country's reputation responds to activities, promotions and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480616