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Creating Policy That Supports Living Cultural Expression In Melanesia, Thomas Dick

Thomas Dick

In Vanuatu, communities have expressed a desire to continue leading lifestyles based on a traditional economic base. In the context of economic globalisation, however, this possibility is being ignored or denied by government policy decisions made on the basis of ‘economic rationalism’. There is growing concern that these government decisions are in fact destructive of ‘popular cultural expressions’, and do not respect the values of the community in relation to its development.

In 2006, an ‘Economic opportunities fact-finding mission’ to the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu was sponsored by NZAID and AusAID. The report that followed recognized that ‘many of …

Формирование Государственной Политики В Отношении Науки И Высшей Школы Во Второй Половине 30-Х Годов Xx Века, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

The Stalin scientific policy of second half 30th years was orientated on formation of the Soviet science as an element of mobilisation social and economic model that assumed: strengthening of command control system by scientific activity, nationalisation of all without an exception of elements of system of the organisation of science, priority of the texnocratic approach, applied science over fundamental, high degree of submission to control to machinery of state is social-humanities, Marxism as scientific methodology, the statement of scientific monopolism, science vulgarization - its simplification on purpose to make accessible to broad masses, admissibility of intervention of political management …

Circles Of Esteem, Standard Works, And Euphoric Couplets: Dynamics Of Academic Life In Indonesian Studies, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Indonesian Studies as a field is strongly influenced by its own social character as a community of competing and cooperating scholars. Outside individual universities, the dominant social form is not the powerful professor, but rather the “circle of esteem,” a cluster of scholars who respect each other, cite each other’s work, push each other’s ideas into the academic marketplace, and, occasionally, rise to each other’s defense. Circles of esteem arise because academic work has less to do with the industrial production of knowledge than with a constant search for novelty, which may arise from new sources or new uses of …