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Author Archives: Farhad
Announcement: Starting a New Job in September 2018
The time has come to make this news public — I am starting a new exciting job as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) in September 2018. ISS is located … Continue reading
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Can you design institutions for adaptive governance?
Professor Andreas Thiel from Kassel University and I published an essay in the “Handbook of Nature” this month. Our essay is titled: “Purposeful Institutional Change for Adaptive Governance of Natural Resources: How to Cater for Context and Agency?” It is … Continue reading
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Western Political Science Association Conference in San Francisco
Next week from Wednesday to Saturday I will attend the WPSA meeting in San Francisco where I present a paper “Policy Translation: a Review of Current Research”. The programme of the conference is very exciting with many interesting panels in … Continue reading
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Advice from Helen Ingram on Being in Academia for Early and Seasoned Scholars
In 2017, a double special issue of the Journal of the Southwest was published that celebrated the career of Dr. Helen Ingram (pictured) as a scholar, mentor and colleague. The special issue contains a number of essays written by world-class … Continue reading
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Happiness??
Happiness? What do you think about this film? Is this capitalism? Consumerism? Human stupidity? Power? Or is this too gloomy a portrait and there is more to life than this ugliness? I am curious what you think!
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Nature, Humans and The Anthropocene (Video in Dutch)
WATCH VIDEO After a long break, here I am posting again. I hope that the most loyal readers still check the website, but no problem — even those who have forgotten about its existence are likely to come back soon … Continue reading
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Reflexivity, positionality and normativity in the ethnography of policy translation
A new chapter on the role of reflexivity, positionality and normativity in using ethnography to study policy translation as a process is now available in the form of proofs. The final version will be published in the book “Translation in … Continue reading
United Nations Global Environmental Outlook 6
(Click on image to enlarge) Dr. Farhad Mukhtarov has been invited to join the flagship publication of the United Nations Environmental Programme — Global Environmental Outlook 6 as a lead author. He will work in a exciting team of scholars … Continue reading
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Stories from the field!!! Water governance stories from Jerusalem, Sabadell, Leicester and Milton Keynes!
In less than 3 weeks I am setting out on my research trip to conduct an interpretive study of flood risk management policy at the local level in the city of Leicester, the UK. At the same time, I supervise … Continue reading
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Central European University and Academic Freedom
Last week has been unprecedented in the history of the Central European University (CEU) — it was reported in the most prestigious media outlets such as The Guardian, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Financial Times and many others. The … Continue reading
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The Slow Living
Reading this fantastic essay on slow living and slow writing by Jasmine Ulmer. Just started. Very interesting. Why am I writing in short sentences? Because this is the new “cool”, this is how Trump is governing. It’s fantastic. You’ll love … Continue reading
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Interview on Water, Environment and Consumption Issues of Baku and Azerbaijan (2013)
In an earlier post from 2013, I mentioned the project on New Baku implemented by a few Spanish researchers, which resulted in a very informative and interesting website New Baku. Within this project, the researchers made a number of interesting … Continue reading
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Travel Grants Available to Ph.D. Candidates for International Conference on Public Policy, Singapore June 28-30 2017
3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC POLICY (ICPP) Organised by the International Public Policy Association (IPPA) 28th-30th June 2017 Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore PANEL T08P13 / Policy Narratives: Frameworks, Methods and Case Studies ——————————————————————————————————————– … Continue reading
Oxford Handbook Chapter — Transfer, Diffusion, Adaptation, and Translation of Water Policy Models
Finally the chapter “Transfer, Diffusion, Adaptation, and Translation of Water Policy Models” in the Oxford Handbook on Water Politics and Policy is out online. The book itself will be printed next year.
Posted in Methods and Frameworks, narratives, Policy change, Policy Translation, Water policy
Tagged policy translation, water
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Art: Blurring the Boundaries
This paper from 2011 in Nature.com discusses how artists and scientists can benefit each other in new and interesting ways. Above all, the complex, rewarding and at times frustrating experiences of interdisciplinary collaborations is at display through such innovative work. … Continue reading
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Trump proved — we live in parallel worlds!
Trump’s presidency proves one point – that social constructivism explains the world much better than realism, positivism or whatever. Propaganda, framing of messages, providing false hopes, marketing messages to a desperate constituency — these all proved to be more important … Continue reading
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Away from Dependence on Fossil Fuels and onto BIOECONOMY! New paper!
Good news! “Away from fossil-fuels and toward a bioeconomy: Knowledge versatility for public policy?” is finally out
Political and ethical aspects in the ethnography of policy translation: Research experiences from Turkey and China
A new article written by Martin de Jong, Robin Pierce and myself is now out in Environment and Planning A, “Political and ethical aspects in the ethnography of policy translation: Research experiences from Turkey and China”. You can download the … Continue reading
“We Must Slow Down on All Fronts” by Lieven de Cauter and Pretty Much Everyone
When I am in The Netherlands, I buy a few magazines in Dutch so that I may enjoy reading them when at home in Baku, over political, social and literary issues which I enjoy a lot. This is partly also … Continue reading
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Policies on the move: translation, assemblages, and ethnography
I reviewed four recent books on the translation of policies, assemblages and the growing role of ethnography in public policy and urban studies in a new book review essay published in Environment and Planning C. These books are as follows: … Continue reading
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