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(En)Gendering Capacity: Neoliberalism, Empowerment, And Responsibility For Women In The Un’S Capacity Building Agenda, Sabrina K. Harris
(En)Gendering Capacity: Neoliberalism, Empowerment, And Responsibility For Women In The Un’S Capacity Building Agenda, Sabrina K. Harris
Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis
This article analyzes how the UN constructs capacity building as an element of its development agenda. It theorizes that the UN operates as a governmental actor, adopting and pursuing a political rationality of good governance, while also navigating structural limitations to its organizational authority in implementing this agenda imposed by the liberal international order. As such, this article argues capacity building emerges as a valuable technology of development for several reasons: firstly, it operates as an individual-level intervention, circumventing UN limitations on authority in mandating state action, and secondly, it is framed as demand-driven and empowering while delivering on the …
Entropy Economics And American Politics In A Multipolar World. An Interview With James K. Galbraith. (Interviewed By Lillian Cicerchia), Lillian Cicerchia, James K. Galbraith
Entropy Economics And American Politics In A Multipolar World. An Interview With James K. Galbraith. (Interviewed By Lillian Cicerchia), Lillian Cicerchia, James K. Galbraith
Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis
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