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Khamis, Lina. "Aspects of cultural policy in Jordan." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245994.
Full textDillon-Sumner, Laurel Dawn. "Cultivating Change: Negotiating Development and Public Policy in Southern California's Wine Country." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5007.
Full textVan, Zyl Marieke. "Heritage and change : the implementation of fishing policy in Kassiesbaai, South Africa, 2007." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11242.
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This dissertation looks at the Marine Living Resources Act of 1998, the manner in which it has been conceptualised and the way that this has influenced its implementation. The focus of the investigation is the historic fishing village of Kassiesbaai on the Cape's south coast, looking at the ways in which discursive differences play out between resident longterm fishermen, the government officials who introduced the new legislation and those who are tasked with implementing it, and a group of marine fisheries experts and researchers who have, or have had, influence over the policy process. Eight weeks of fieldwork were undertaken in Kassiesbaai January to March 2007, focussing on the longterm resident fishermen and their families. Observation, interviews, informal discussions and everyday interaction were the primary methods of data collection, supplemented by archival and publications research. The second phase of research involved further follow-up visits and interviews and correspondence with relevant parties in Marine and Coastal Management and scientists working in the marine fisheries sector. It is argued that the failure in this instance of these three groups to successfully engage with one another over the issue of marine resource management stems from the lack of trust between these groups, exacerbated by the variant ways in which central issues are framed by each. The primary difference concerns the manner in which the ocean is imagined. A filrther discrepancy concerns temporality, the manner in which time is conceptualised and actions scheduled or expected due to respective conceptions. The third main discrepancy which affects the process is the values that are attributed to the ocean by those who use it and speak of it. T heritage status of Kassiesbaai is discussed, and the conclusion drawn that while it is imperative to value the historical nature of the village and its residents, plans for their present and future must not suffer for it. From here, the possibility of dialogue is investigated in order to plot a path towards successful socio-ecological development that will both protect the biological stability of the sea and the socia-economic well-being of the impoverished community of Kassiesbaai.
Cuciurean-Zapan, Marta. "Aging Legibly: Policy and Practice Among Non-Profit Professionals." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/213113.
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In this study I utilize ethnographic research to explore how professionals working within non-profit organizations in the field of aging implement and navigate shifts in old age policy. I consider how these shifts are informed by changes in the political economy as well as the construction of knowledge about older adults through mainstream gerontology and the media. I explore how groups, such as older adults and caregivers, are produced and reproduced through policy, defined both as an exercise of power and the everyday practice of practitioners. This study is based on a combination of methods, including a year of participant observation and semi-structured interviews with members of an elder advocacy organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participant observation took place primarily in the offices of this organization. I attended meetings and events in other locations in Philadelphia, which usually dealt with other non-profit or government groups. Thirteen interviews with staff members at this organization, as well as with individuals in additional organizations in the field of aging, provided insight into the constraints and opportunities created by federal and state aging policy for those that work "on the ground." The interviews explored the goals of these programs, organizational understanding of the target population, and external factors that affect the trajectory of these programs. I argue that, (1) aging is increasingly depoliticized through the concept of "successful aging," which professionals alternately reproduce and resist; (2) this process facilitates the roll-back of social welfare programs, and; (3) that this "aging system" creates constraints and contradictions for those who work within it, which are rooted in the effort to simplify and define population groups or make them "legible," in order to utilize government and private resources.
Temple University--Theses
Kline, Nolan Sean. "Pathogenic Policy: Health-Related Consequences of Immigrant Policing in Atlanta, GA." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5864.
Full textTanner-Kaplash, Sonja. "The common heritage of all mankind : a study of cultural policy and legislation pertinent to cultural objects." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4478.
Full textHebert, Marc K. ""People...Do Not Come with Standardized Circumstances": Toward A Model for an Anthropology of E-Government." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4332.
Full textIsenhour, Cindy. "BUILDING SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE AGE OF HIGH CONSUMPTION." UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/1.
Full textHuman, Oliver. "Between policy and patients : protocols and practice in HIV/AIDS treatment." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2553.
Full textIn recent years the World Heath Organisation (WHO) has recomended standardising HIV/AIDS treatment. Standardisation is based upon a particular model of what occurs within the relationship between a doctor and a patient and is propogated through the application of protocols. This thesis aims to illustrate how a doctor deals with a protocol in the face of contexts over-laden with contingency and excess which the protocol does not account for and which standardisation excludes. In other words, it explores how doctors deal with the failures and restrictions of standardised medicine. The central question this thesis aims to answer is: How do doctors on the ground deal with the standardising demands of global, as well as national, institutions in the face of highly contingent daily realities? I aim to answer this question by critically analysing the relationship between global institutions and the effects of their policies on the ground level. I argue that global organisation such as the WHO attempt to limit the particularities and contingency of local contexts in order to ensure the internal coherence of their own policies. This is made possible through ‘interpretive communities’ of experts, as well as, the relative opacity of ground level actions. However, I also illustrate how doctors applying these protocols are not merely pawns in the state’s and global health organisations schemes but rather depend upon the opacity at ground level in order to ensure the well-being of those marginalised by protocols.
Machado, Perez Luis Daniel. "Developing Policy for a Tech Program Based on Understanding Organizational Practices." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849648/.
Full textDeVivo, Karen Fink. "The Wisconsin Hmong Resettlement Taskforce: An Ethnographic Analysis of Public Policy as a Cultural Process and Product." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/11.
Full textPenney, Lauren. "Mind the Gap: The Dynamics and Work of Aging and Caring at Home." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/301552.
Full textMandefro, Mehret. "Taking Care of Heroes: A Cultural Study of Health Policy Formation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/552666.
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This dissertation examines the formation of health policy as a cultural process in a large federal bureaucracy in the United States, namely the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The everyday experience of bureaucrats working in the VA is used to answer the question: why does the VA fail to meet veterans’ needs in the face of a sacred trust, available political will, and robust resources? To answer the question, this project employs ethnographic methods that draw on participant observation at the headquarters office of the VA in Washington DC, archival research, and interviews with current and former VA employees during the Obama administration. I argue that care of veterans during post-war periods are critical moments of intervention that not only improved the population health of veterans but also impacted the ways in which America conceives and responds to health challenges. I also argue that when the VA operates at its best, it is often the leading edge of health reform, setting new standards for care and effectively establishing alternative models of care. Finally, my findings show that institutional factors play an important role in the process of health policy formation in ways that contribute to new understanding about causal conceptions of health. I conclude with a framework that draws on the lessons the VA affords, for health reform and advancing just health for all.
Temple University--Theses
Yankovskyy, Shelly. "Mental health policy and services in Tampa, Florida." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001176.
Full textMead, Paula. "Understanding Appointment Breaking: Dissecting Structural Violence and Barriers to Healthcare Access at a Central Florida Community Health Center." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6898.
Full textFan, Rebecca C. "Governing indigenous knowledge? : a study of international law, policy, and human rights." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16538/.
Full textStephens, Crissa Lee. "Language policy and multilingual identity at home and in school." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6504.
Full textWinn, Justin P. "Vulnerability and Power| Exploring the Confluence of Politics and Climate Change in Cortez, Florida." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10980695.
Full textThis thesis describes how politics shape vulnerability to climate change at the local level, based on an ethnography in Cortez, Florida. Focusing on a “traditional” commercial fishing village on the Florida Gulf Coast, my research indicates that such vulnerabilities are created at multiple scales of the nexus between governance and commerce. Moreover, a key finding is that, as a community closely linked to the health of local environments, the village in Cortez is largely organized to protect their commercial industry from regional economic overdevelopment; not in recognition of its role in contributing to global climate change, but because such overdevelopment is perceived as unjust and destructive to local environments. Further, through qualitatively examining the environmental values of a “traditional” fishing community located in a large metropolitan coastal area, my thesis confronts the responsibility that broader society may have to reevaluate economic growth in effort to truly foster sustainability and justice. Finally, the thesis describes how communities like Cortez may be repositories for locally developed, ecologically grounded resilience strategies, rendering their voice all the more crucial, beyond conventional stakeholder approaches, in public discussions about regional economic development and marine resource management.
Michel, Thomas. "Visions and Violence of Policy: An ethnography of Indigenous Affairs bureaucratic reform in the Northern Territory of Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20510.
Full textVan, Dyke Melissa Kay. "Creating a Professional Pathway for the Women who Care for our Children: An Anthropological Study of an Early Childhood Workforce Development Policy." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5594.
Full textTucker, John McKinney Jr. "Technologies of Intelligence and Their Relation to National Security Policy: A Case Study of the U.S. and the V-2 Rocket." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/48056.
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Casely-Hayford, Leslie. "Education, culture and development in Northern Ghana : micro realities and macro context; implications for policy and practice." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302310.
Full textArmin, Julie. "Organizing Care: U.S. Health Policy, Social Inequality, and the Work of Cancer Treatment." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556839.
Full textMiles, Joy. "The impact of welfare policy on social workers : everyday practice in a fostering and adoption unit." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/6533/.
Full textHungwe, Emaculate. "Land transactions and rural development policy in the Domboshava peri-urban communal area, Zimbabwe." Thesis, Stellenbosch -- Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96059.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to the proliferation of peri-urban settlements close to cities. Development policy in these areas is multi-pronged. Residents with local tribal, as well as migrant backgrounds take land matters into their own hands. This leads to diverse land transactions and changing household survival strategies. My research investigates the complex interactions between land transactions, Rural Development Policy (RDP), and the emergent household survival strategies between 2002 and 2012 in the peri-urban communal area of Domboshava in Zimbabwe located northeast of Harare the capital city. Domboshava is classified as 'rural' and is administered by traditional authority as well as a local authority called Goromonzi Rural District Council. This Council considers RDP as a solution to increased individualized land transactions. My thesis is based on field research of a case study comprising four villages of Domboshava. Forty-one local residents, as well as a number of key informants such as Traditional Leaders and local government officials were sampled for the study. Qualitative data were collected through structured interviews, review of pertinent documents, as well as observation. The research findings reveal that the rapid pace of urbanization across Africa is widespread and poses key challenges to policies on rural development and land tenure more generally. Research evidence shows the changing practice in access to land rights in Domboshava by migrants from other parts of the country. As a result, land transactions shift from customary inheritance in the tribal line to individualized land transactions such as direct land sales and renting thereby privileging financially better-off households. Household survival strategies also shift from farm based to off-farm and non-farm activities because of the influence of land transactions and a multi-pronged RDP. Changes in household survival strategies of community residents of Domboshava were however not influenced by land transactions and RDP alone, but also by wider political and economic shifts and state interventions such as Operation Restore Order/Operation Murambatsvina and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme. The practice of a multi-pronged RDP as a solution to land transactions in Domboshava became part of the problem as land transactions proliferated unabated. This research is an important topic within the Sociology of Development, and provides useful insights regarding debates on land, policy, and survival strategies in peri-urban communal areas, not only in Domboshava in Zimbabwe, but in sub-Saharan Africa. Appropriate policies that address these peri-urban challenges in Zimbabwe are sorely needed.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Verstedeliking in Afrika het gelei tot die vermenigvuldiging van buite-stedelike nedersettings naby stede. Ontwikkelingsbeleid in hierdie areas het vele vertakkings. Inwoners van plaaslike stamsgebiede asook van migrante agtergronde neem grondsake in eie hande. Dit lei tot uiteenlopende grondtransaksies en veranderende huishoudelike oorlewingstategiëe. My navorsing ondersoek die komplekse interaksies tussen grondtransaksies, landelike ontwikkelingsbeleid (LOB), en die opkomende huishoudelike oorlewingstategiëe tussen die jare 2002 en 2012 in die buite-stedelike kommunale area van Domboshava in Zimbabwe, gelëe noord-oos van Harare, die hoofstad van Zimbabwe. Dombashava is geklassifiseer as 'landelik' en word geadministreer deur 'n tradisionele owerheid sowel as 'n plaaslike owerheid wat bekend staan as die 'Goromonzi Rural District Council'. Ontwikkelingsbeleid word deur hierdie Raad gesien as oplossing vir toenemende individuele grondtransaksies. Die huidige navorsing is gebasseer op veldwerk van 'n gevallestudie van vier dorpies in Dombashava. Een-en-veertig plaaslike inwoners sowel as 'n aantal sleutelinformante soos tradisionele leiers en plaaslike regeringsamptenare was deel van 'n steekproef vir die studie. Kwalitatiewe data is ingesamel deur middel van gestruktureerde onderhoude, bestudering van pertinente dokumente asook waarneming. Die navorsingsresultate toon dat die vinnige pas van verstedeliking deur Afrika 'n algemene verskynsel is en dat dit belangrike uitdagings bied vir beleid oor landelike ontwikkeling, en grondpag in die besonder. Navorsingsbevindinge wys die veranderende patrone in toegang tot grondregte van migrante van ander dele van die land. Dit toon dat grondtransaksies verskuif het van gewone oorerwing binne stamverband na geindiwidualiseerde grondtransakies soos bv. direkte grondverkope en verhuring om dan sodoende huishoudings wat finansieel beter daaraan toe is, te bevoordeel. Huishoudelike oorlewingstategiëe het ook verskuif vanaf boerderygebasseer na nie- boerderygebasseerde aktiwiteite as gevolg van die invloed van nuwe grondtransaksies en komplekse LOB. Die veranderings in huishoudelike oorlewingstategiëe van inwoners van Dombashava was egter nie slegs beïnvloed deur grondtransaksies en LOB nie, maar ook deur wyer politieke en ekonomiese veranderinge en deur intervensies deur die staat soos “Operation Restore Order/ Operation Murambatsvina” en die “Fast Track Land Reform Programme”. Die praktyk vangrondbeleid met vele vertakkings as oplossing vir grondtransakies in die Dombashava area het deel geword van die probleem soos wat grondtransaksies ongekontrolleerd toegeneem het. Hierdie navorsing is 'n belangrike onderwerp binne die Sosiologie van Ontwikkeling en gee bruikbare insigte in die debatte rondom grond, beleid en oorlewingstategiëe in buite-stedelike kommunale gebiede naby stede, nie alleenlik in Dombashava in Zimbabwe nie, maar ook elders in Afrika. Toepaslike beleid wat hierdie buite-stedelike uitdagings in Zimbabwe aanspreek is dringend noodsaaklik.
Gruvaeus, Axel. "Reko mat : Analys av REKO:s policy och nätverksstruktur ur ett antropologiskt-netnografiskt perspektiv." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-163281.
Full textThis bachelor level thesis examines policy and network structure for the Swedish food distribution network called REKO. A network which matches local producers with consumers through Facebook. The thesis discusses REKO as a cotemporally example of technoculture under influence of trends such as the digital transformation of social life and longer distances between producer and end consumer. The thesis also describes and discuss how policy is made and recreated in a flat network without legal bodies. The policy analysis shows how “simplicity” is a focal point loaded with different meanings and goals. In the nethnographic part of the study describes the shifting shape of the network. Lastly the thesis puts REKO in a general technocultural context where internet and social media still gets a bigger role for humanity.
Thoreson, Ryan R. "The politics of brokerage and transnational advocacy for LGBT human rights." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7882b813-7e5a-45a6-9058-9ea6974adffa.
Full textVargo, Amy Catherine. ""It Takes Time to Shift Historical Paradigms": Changes in Structure, Governance, Perception, and Practice During a Decade of Child Welfare Policy Reform in Florida." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5592.
Full textRaskin, Sarah Elaine. "Decayed, Missing, and Filled: Subjectivity and the Dental Safety Net in Central Appalachia." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/581303.
Full textDeiters, Maximilian. "Policy receptiveness as a determinant of policy effectiveness:German child care and women’s transition to first birth." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-152788.
Full textWebb, Jennifer Necole. "Engaging-Up: Compromised Spaces and Potential Partners." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5607.
Full textBlum-Ross, Alicia Lorna. ""It made our eyes get bigger" : youth filmmaking and citizenship in London." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:36f70f07-8747-4fd0-89b3-9fd733c04a03.
Full textParr, Amanda. "Parental Leave: Policy and Practice." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4382.
Full textAtshan, Sa'ed Adel. "Prolonged Humanitarianism: The Social Life of Aid in the Palestinian Territories." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11170.
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Tucker, Catherine May 1961. "The political ecology of a Lenca Indian community in Honduras: Communal forests, state policy, and processes of transformation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290609.
Full textMervis, Brett A. "Wrecking Recreation Center Relationships: How policy affects urban youth in Tampa, Florida." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4372.
Full textGarbow, Diane. "Crafting Colombianidad: The Politics of Race, Citizenship and the Localization of Policy in Philadelphia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/397439.
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In contrast to the municipalities across the United States that restrict migration and criminalize the presence of immigrants, Philadelphia is actively seeking to attract immigrants as a strategy to reverse the city’s limited economic and political importance caused by decades of deindustrialization and population loss. In 2010, the population of Philadelphia increased for the first time in six decades. This achievement, widely celebrated by the local government and in the press, was only made possible through increased immigration. This dissertation examines how efforts to attract migrants, through the creation of localized policy and institutions that facilitate incorporation, transform assertions of citizenship and the dynamics of race for Colombian migrants. The purpose of this research is to analyze how Colombians’ articulations of citizenship, and the ways they extend beyond juridical and legal rights, are enabled and constrained under new regimes of localized policy. In the dissertation, I examine citizenship as a set of performances and practices that occur in quotidian tasks that seek to establish a sense of belonging. Without a complex understanding of the effects of local migration policy, and how they differ from the effects of federal policy, we fail to grasp how Philadelphia’s promotion of migration has unstable and unequal effects for differentially situated actors. This becomes evermore salient as increased migration wrought through local policy efforts guarantees that Philadelphia will continue to uneasily shift away from its Black-White racial polarity. Second, I explore how the racialization of Colombians is transformed by the dynamics of localized policy in Philadelphia, where their experiences of marginalization as Latinos belies the construction of immigrants as a highly valued group, and shaped by the particularities of Colombian history, the imperial nature of US-Colombia relations, and shifting geopolitics among Latin American nations. The dissertation highlights how Colombians seek to meaningfully distinguish themselves from other Latinos by examining the ways changes in Latin America have shaped and continue to shape the politics of race in the US, and thus how Colombians navigate and produce the boundaries between groups. The dissertation contextualizes Colombian migration within three significant shifts in the contemporary US.: 1) the increasing attempts of states, municipalities and cities to craft their own immigration policies, specifically declining cities attempting to rebound from population loss and deindustrialization, 2) the emergence of Latinos as the largest demographic minority group and their increasing heterogeneity with respect to race, legal status, class and national origin and 3) heightened attention to citizenship as legal status and performances and practices of belonging. This research contributes to the theorization of racial formations and citizenship by providing critical information about local immigration policies as transforming intra- and inter-group relations, thus offering an analysis of Philadelphia as a new immigrant destination.
Temple University--Theses
Blalock-Wiker, Chloe Peru. "Over the counter care| Service provider perspectives on the application of harm reduction in a syringe exchange program." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1591591.
Full text"Harm reduction," or services aimed at reducing the negative effects of high-risk behavior, like drug use, is a fledgling social movement and relatively new type of service provision in the United States. Although it contains guiding principles, it also has many different manifestations. The varying ways in which harm reduction can be implemented reflect the numerous ways in which it can be defined, and this has been a major point of critique in recent literature. Although many sources speak about its definition, very few explore how harm reduction workers actually define their work, and I would argue that harm reduction is actually defined on a daily basis by those performing it. This study explores how service providers both define and practice harm reduction in their everyday activities at a syringe exchange program facility.
Banks, Carys. "Are people with learning disabilities really being empowered? : an ethnography exploring experiences of empowerment policies in UK social care support." Thesis, University of Bath, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760990.
Full textMagrath, Priscilla. "Moral landscapes of health governance in West Java, Indonesia." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10109027.
Full textThe democratic decentralization of government administration in Indonesia from 1999 represents the most dramatic shift in governance in that country for decades. In this dissertation I explore how health managers in one kabupaten (regency) are responding to the new political environment. Kabupaten health managers experience decentralization as incomplete, pointing to the tendency of central government to retain control of certain health programs and budgets. At the same time they face competing demands for autonomy from puskesmas (health center) heads. Building on Scott’s (1985) idea of a “moral economy” I delve beneath the political tensions of competing autonomies to describe a moral landscape of underlying beliefs about how government ought to behave in the health sector. Through this analysis certain failures and contradictions in the decentralization process emerge, complicating the literature that presents decentralization as a move in the direction of “good governance” (Mitchell and Bossert 2010, Rondinelli and Cheema 2007, Manor 1999).
Decentralization brings to the fore the internal divisions within government, yet health workers present a united front in their engagements with the public. Under increasing pressure to achieve global public health goals such as the Millennium Development Goals, health managers engage in multiple translations in converting global health discourses into national and local health policies and in framing these policies in ways that are comprehensible and compelling to the general public. Using the lens of a “cultural theory of state” (Corrigan and Sayer 1985) I describe how health professionals and volunteers draw on local cultural forms in order to render global frameworks compatible with local moralities. I introduce the term “moral pluralism” to describe how individual health workers interrelate several moral frameworks in their health promotion work, including Islam, evidence based medicine and right to health. My conclusion is that kabupaten health managers are engaging in two balancing acts. The first is between decentralization and (re)centralization and deals with the proper way to manage health programming. The second is between global health discourses and local cultural forms and concerns the most effective way to convey public health messages in order to bring about behavior change in line with national and global public health goals. This is the first anthropological study of how government officials at different levels negotiate the process of health decentralization in the face of increasing international pressure to achieve global public health goals.
Ferreira, Nicole. "Enduring "lateness": biomedicalisation and the unfolding of reproductive life, sociality, and antenatal care." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27691.
Full textNambiar, Divya. "Skill development and youth aspirations in India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:10b8396b-9101-46e4-ac7f-b720562fdec3.
Full textOsborne, Dana. "Negotiating the Hierarchy of Languages in Ilocandia: The Social and Cognitive Implications of Massive Multilingualism in the Philippines." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556859.
Full textNsengiyumva, Ladislas. "Supporting a Human Rights Agenda: A Three-Pillar Virtue-Based Personal and Social Anthropology of Public Health Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107471.
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Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the worst health care systems in the world. Besides, underdeveloped economies paired with political instability do not offer much hope for improvement. In fact, despite many efforts by local, international organizations and governments to help in this field, the majority of the populations in this region do not have access to basic health care. With this in mind, the aim of this research project is to develop a personal and social anthropology of the human rights language read through the lens of the common good in order to contribute to creating and developing sustainable healthcare systems. While agreeing that many efforts have been made using different frameworks in the sphere of public health ethics in the past two decades and aware of the possibility that other underlying causes may have contributed to the failure of health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, we will choose to address the human rights language as the main interlocutor for future contribution. This choice is motivated by the influence of human rights on public health policies that affect the lives of people in general
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
PRICE, Susanna. "The resettlement policy paradox: Prospects for reconciling rights, risks and sustainability for people displaced by development." Kyoto University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/259713.
Full textOwen, Oliver H. "The Nigeria police force : an institutional ethnography." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e824783a-8ba0-4d96-8519-0ee2b2090fc8.
Full textWinter, Alexis. "Making a Place for People at a Wildlife Corridor on Chicago's South Side." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6437.
Full textCamfield, Laura. "Measuring quality of life in dystonia : an ethnography of contested representations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6ac544f6-41a9-4eb6-8dda-9b7325ec1611.
Full textSmiley-Robinson, Karen E. "The Industrialization of Social Services: the Effects of a For-Profit Provider on Workfare." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/190835.
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The effects of neoliberal practices on social policy decisions continues to favor a form of privatization in which corporatized marketplace practices are the guide for social institutional operations. One effect of this has been an increase of marketplace organizations as operators of social services programs, including welfare-to-work programs. These organizations adhere to the prevailing trends in business community for profit making, while ostensibly following the principles of welfare-to-work regulations for service delivery. However, the practices introduced by pursuing profit can conflict with the recognizing all the goals of workfare as outlined in the federal policy of TANF or the Temporary Aid for Needy Families. Under these regulations, providers are charged with assisting welfare recipients receiving cash support in addressing personal barriers to economic stability and in gaining employment intended to provide a catalyst to economic stability. This research examines a corporate social services provider, the practices instituted by its leaders, and the effects that those practices have on the staff of the welfare-to-work center and their clients. Specifically, this examines how the links between profit making and the statistical performance assessments of state funding agencies influenced an operational model, analogous to the manufacturing center for cheap labor. The emphasis on quick workforce attachment strategies exceeded the state's performance measures and allowed the maximization of profit; however, this research determines that these strategies denied workfare clients the services that they and the state expected them to receive.
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Glendening, Cecile G. "Care of the Poor in Elizabeth River Parish, Norfolk County, Va 1749-1761." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625382.
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