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Fusing formal and informal trading: Emerging practices in the livestock value chains between Kenya and Somalia

Ng'askie, Philemon O. - 2019

Despite ambivalence towards current state reforms, Somali merchants interact with state agents in the trade corridor that connects southern Somalia to central Kenya. Since the Somalia state collapse of 1991, informal livestock value chains have expanded into north-eastern Kenya. Here, the...

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Hybrid infrastructures: The role of strategy and compromise in grassroot governance

Schmid, Benedikt - In: Environmental Policy and Governance 31 (2021) 3, pp. 199-210

Contemporary trajectories of unsustainability and injustice require a profound restructuring of political, economic, and cultural institutions not sufficiently reflected in top-down governance. Diverse bottom-up actors and organizations that attempt to practice and institute more sustainable and...

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Zwischen kulturellem Pluralismus und Transkulturalität: Postmoderne Momente im Migrationsdiskurs

West, Christina - In: Räumliche Auswirkungen der internationalen Migration, (pp. 92-126). 2014

The current migration discourse with its concept complexes "hybridity", "diversity" and "transculturality", which are …

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Disaggregating hybridity

Millar, Gearoid - In: Journal of Peace Research 51 (2014) 4, pp. 501-514

. However, while widely deployed, hybridity itself is under-theorized and variably applied by scholars. Major concerns arise … some scholars use hybridity descriptively to illustrate the mixing of international and local institutions, practices …, rituals, and concepts, many today deploy hybridity prescriptively, implying that international actors can plan and administer …

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Discourses of postmodern epistemology: radical impetus lost?

Müller, Martin - In: Progress in Development Studies 6 (2006) 4, pp. 306-320

Exhibiting a highly divisive agenda postmodernism has created profound chasms across scientific communities. In development studies its radical impetus has translated into the postdevelopment perspective which violently repudiates the modernist development project. This paper crystallises two...

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Decentralisation and the world`s multidimensional expansion: the rise of singularity and hybridity

Aliu, Armando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Cosmology evidences support decentralisation process and thus in natural terms singularisation and hybridity are …, `Hybridity Project: Innovative Governance and Controlling Migration` aims to create theoretical and practical mechanisms which …

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Hybridity as a process of technology's ‘translation’: Customizing a national Electronic Patient Record

Petrakaki, Dimitra; Klecun, Ela - In: Social Science & Medicine 124 (2015) C, pp. 224-231

This paper explores how national Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems are customized in local settings and, in particular, how the context of their origin plays out with the context of their use. It shows how representations of healthcare organizations and of local clinical practice are built...

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Sponsored transactional patterns: Comments on Mehrling’s “Essential hybridity: A money view of FX”

DeRosa, David F. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 2, pp. 364-366

Mehrling (2013) recognizes the essential hybridity of money supply, its being partly created by the state (central … banks) and partly by the private sector banks. These comments concern extending the hybridity concept to the recognition …

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The Hybrids of Postmodernism

BĂDULESCU, Dana - In: Postmodern Openings 5 (2014) 3, pp. 9-20

Hybridization is a fundamental characteristic of postmodernism, included by Ihab Hassan in his “catena” of features. This paper looks into the hybrids of postmodernism, which are the result of migration, displacement and uprooting, the re-visitation of myths, folklore and legends, or...

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Whose Diversity Counts? The Politics and Paradoxes of Modern Diversity

Baker, Lauren; Dove, Michael; Graef, Dana; Keleman, Alder; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 6, pp. 2495-2518

representations of diversity, and the heterogeneous local realities they obscure. We suggest that hybridity is a form of diversity …

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