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African migration to Europe : obscured responsibilities and common misconceptions

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

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African migration to Europe : obscured responsibilities and common misconceptions

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

The number of migrants from conflict regions in Africa has been increasing dramatically. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because it fostered over decades corrupt and autocratic regimes with dire disregard to principles of "good...

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Cultures and innovation of African poor : common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? ; on the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and black diasporas in La...

Kohnert, Dirk - 2006

The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...

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Social movements as agents of innovation : citizen journalism in South Korea

Kern, Thomas; Nam, Sang-hui - 2008

This article aims to further develop the field of innovation studies by exploring the emergence of citizen journalism in South Korea's social movement sector. To achieve this aim, the framework of innovation theory has been extended to innovations in social fields beyond technology and the...

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Civic organizations in Vietnam's one-party state : supporters of authoritarian rule?

Wischermann, Jörg - 2013

Associationalism under authoritarian rule is not automatically a good thing. The empirical findings laid out in this article indicate that authoritarian dispositions and practices are prevalent in all types of Vietnamese civic organizations, at least as far as internal decisionmaking processes...

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The reform of China's energy policies

Betz, Joachim - 2013

institutions ; international climate summits ; political system ; civil society …

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Gender politics, authoritarian regime resilience, and the role of civil society in Algeria and Mozambique

Lorch, Jasmin; Bunk, Bettina - 2016

contribute to regime resilience, focusing on the interactions between these regimes and civil society organisations (CSOs). …

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Negotiating political spaces : social and environmental activism in the Chinese countryside

Bondes, Maria - 2011

opening up to society in the realms of environmental and social politics. The study shows that while the party … concepts of "NGO" and "civil society" becoming increasingly relevant as frames of reference. While their practices remain … the formation of social networks according to their own self-image as members of a budding Chinese civil society. -- China …

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Civil society 2.0? : How the internet changes state-society relations in authoritarian regimes ; the case of Cuba

Hoffmann, Bert - 2011

In the debate over the role of civil society under authoritarian regimes, the spread of transnational web-based media …-socialist Cuba, a diachronic comparison analyzes civil society dynamics prior to the Internet - in the early to mid-1990s, and a … civil society debate is marked by autonomous citizen action. While this defies the socialist regime's design of state-society …

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Social movements as agents of innovation : citizen journalism in South Korea

Kern, Thomas; Nam, Sang-Hui - 2008

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