Hegemony , Counter Hegemony and NGO Accountability Change : BRAC in Bangladesh Zahir

Revisiting the Past: Contribution of Counter-narratives in Liminal Formation of Identity in Yasmin Crowther's The Saffron Kitchen

In diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. This study aims at discussing how Yasmin Crowther reviews the Persian tradition in The Saffron Kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, Iran. The novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with Iranian hegemonic d...

Accountability and Control in Non-governmental Organisations (ngos) – a Case of Bangladesh Zahir Uddin Ahmed Phd Student Manchester School of Accounting & Finance

Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) perform an important role in the economic development of developing countries by providing services to society through welfare works for community development, assistance in national disasters, sustainable system development, and popular movements. In recent years, funding constraints, calls for accountability, media exposure and the development of a contra...

A Qualitative Content Analysis of US Foreign Policy towards Cuba during Barack Obama’s Administration: Hegemony or Leadership?

The United States’ relations with Cuba are rooted in the US intervention in the process of Cuba’s independence from Spain in the 1890s. The US preserved its interest-based approach towards Cuba during the first half of the 20th century, which culminated in the Cuba’s counter-hegemonic revolution in 1959. This revolution led to more than fifty years of hostility between two countries, which took...

A New Framework for Hegemonic Analysis of Monetary Policy: The Case of Iran

Monetary policy rule might be helpful to avoid the problem of time inconsistency provided there is a commitment to the rule. The commitment is the ability of a government to bind future policies. However, it doesn’t include intrinsic motivations. Therefore, hegemony, which includes both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, better solves the problem of  time inconsistency. In this paper, we expl...

A 'HEDGE' AGAINST CULTURAL DOMINANCE (A Review of Counter Culture and Cultural Hegemony: Some Notes on the Youth Rebellion of the 1960's by A. Norman Klein)