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Category Archives: Ethnography
Transfer, Diffusion, Adaptation and Translation of Water Policy Model
On Friday July 01, I am giving a talk at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. The details are in the announcement. The paper is to appear later this year and will be found on Publications page. Synopsis: … Continue reading
Workshop on “Translation in World Politics” at Kate Hamburger Kolleg, Duisburg, Germany
Last week, on October 08-09, I took part in a workshop at the University of Duisburg’s Kate Hamburger Kolleg (Centre for Global Cooperation Research) named “Translation in World Politics”. It was very pleasing to see the ideas of policy translation … Continue reading
Crafting or Designing Socio-Ecological Systems? Read our Special Issue in Environmental Science & Policy
Finally, our Special Issue of Environmental Science & Policy is online, and you can enjoy the articles. You can read our editorial about the issue here, and the article I wrote with colleagues on water user associations in the region … Continue reading
“The Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb
After 3 years of owning the book, I finally made the effort and read the book from cover to cover. It was hard to start off, but then went in a free-flow. There are many reviews on the Internet, so … Continue reading
Posted in Bio-economy, Book review, Ethnography, Famous people, Global change
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Edward Said: Last Public Intellectual
Last autumn, I started being interested in Professor Edward Said, who is most known for his 1978 book “The Orientalism”. I won’t write about the book here, a lot has been written about it already. Edward Said, however, is much … Continue reading
Oxford Bibliographies: Great Resource for Students and Researchers!
Energy Security and Water Security Farhad Mukhtarov (ADA University, Azerbaijan) and Aleh Cherp (Central European University, Hungary; Lund University, Sweden), with essential assistance from a graduate ADAU student Richard Sarpong, published 2 articles in Oxford Bibliographies, Oxford University Press. One … Continue reading
Science Wars: Policy Translation Debated
The debate on the travel of ideas has ignited once again, this time on the pages of the new scientific journal called Global Discourse. Founded in 2010, this journal claims not to have a particular disciplinary audience and to target … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Ethnography, Policy Translation
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bell hooks on teaching and critical thinking
One of the major things that makes my life meaningful at this particular moment is teaching and the chance to pass some knowledge and ways of thinking to my students. It is not self-esteem which I am gaining here, although … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Book review, Education, Ethnography, Global change
Tagged critical change, education, policy, transformation
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The Economics of Love and Sex
Money can’t buy you love! Or can they? I have a lot of economists around me, and I am sure they will say that it not the question if the money buys something, it is the question of “how much”
Posted in Anthropology, Ethnography
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Oxford Handbook on Water Politics and Policy (2015)
An excellent news for the scholars and policy-makers in water policy and politics is that the new Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy is contracted and currently in progress to be published in 2015! Most excitingly, this is the … Continue reading
Posted in Book review, Education, Ethnography, Methods and Frameworks, Policy Translation, Sociology, Water policy
Tagged water
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Book Review: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
It was in Hanoi, Vietnam, where I first heard the name of the American writer Dave Eggers. I was doing my fieldwork studying biodiversity of Vietnam and was staying at a friend’s house for a night or two. In the … Continue reading
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Thoughts on ethnography and a slaughterhouse from the Annual Ethnography Symposium 2013
At the Amsterdam Ethnography Symposium, a full room of scholars, mostly anthropologists, is captivated by the charismatic speaker telling the tale of mass killing and normalization of such. The subject is the ethnography of a slaughterhouse. The element of story-telling … Continue reading
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Interview with Professor Martin de Jong on “Institutional Transplantation”
An interview with Prof. Martin de Jong of Delft University of Technology on ‘Institutional Transplantation’. Prof. de Jong is one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the policy transfer school in public policy. The book he has co-edited in 2002 and … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnography, General Interest, Methods and Frameworks
Tagged governance, methods, policy translation, translation
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Anthropology of Public Policy Roundtable
Within the 111th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the Interest Group on Anthropology of Public Policy (IGAPP) and its members Cris Shore and Samuel Shapiro will organize the roundtable on “Studying Policy: A Dialogue between Anthropology and … Continue reading