Abstract: This paper uses the example of Slow Food International (SFI) and its promotion of artisanal cheese to examine how scale is produced around the defense of particular social relations of production. I argue that attempts by SFI to naturalize discursive configurations of rural/local/traditional express a particular politics tied to the anxiety of ‘losing’ imagined rural communities. Howe...

Abstract This article focuses on the convergence of mass Christianisation and economic transformations among Hmong Vietnam’s northern highlands over past thirty years. A history impoverishment ethnic discrimination has led hundreds thousands to follow Christianity as a perceived alternative path progress instead state-led development agenda, despite sharing same ‘will improve’. By exploring loc...

Based on a comparative perspective involving the growth machines that have propelled cities in US and recent experiences of urban localism spread across Europe, this paper analyzes specific path peripheral such as Rio de Janeiro followed adhering to model entrepreneurialism. It contends that, one side, due lack organization by economic agents other, insufficient state capacities, like been unab...

Academic capitalism configures itself from a set of answers that universities offer to the requirements more competitive environment, based in higher levels marketing. Some essential aspects academic include entrepreneurialism, managerialism, income attainment, outsourcing services, focus on-demand, resource management, and competition. This research analyzes effect such variables on crediting ...

It is frequently asserted in both film scholarship and criticism that Noah Baumbach a literary filmmaker. While Baumbach’s oeuvre certainly showcases his interest literature through range of stylistic techniques, this article presents the case projects filmmaking as an authorial trademark line with Timothy Corrigan’s conceptualisation contemporary auteurism. By critically positioning himself au...

In this article I build on scholarship that calls for attention to the interventionist role of municipality in steering development beyond growth introduce situated planning experiment as a mechanism through which municipalities practice socially engaged statecraft. The foregrounds place-based innovative practices incorporate participation citizen intellectuals who act advocates marginalized gr...

This article examines employee agency in psychological contracts by exploring how young scientists proactively shape their careers in response to unmet expectations induced by academic entrepreneurialism. It uses the lens of social exchange to examine their relationships with the professors engaged in two types of activities: collaborative research characterized by diffuse/reciprocal exchange, ...

Considering the ultimate goals of preventing the over-utilization of medical services and protecting the Medicare program, are the numerous phases of the Stark Law and their concomitant regulations effective; or, conversely, has the legislation served to impede entrepreneurialism among physicians to the detriment of innovations and better integration in the delivery of medical treatment? This a...