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Policy Pollination as a Causal Mechanism Explaining Social Protection Adoption in Africa
This chapter focuses on the instrumental role of international development agencies in the rapid and sustained rise of social protection as a policy...
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Babies: Kinship and Relations
This chapter focuses on reproductive technologies and demonstrates how they alter the social meaning of biological relations and legal parenthood....
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Harnessing the value of human bodily material: a bioconstitutional analysis
Human tissues and cells are now recognized as an important source of health and wealth. As such, public authorities have assumed responsibility for...
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Introduction: Reproductive Citizenship and Meanings of Infertility
Assisted reproductive technologies provide alternative pathways to parenthood for people who experience medical or social infertility. Yet despite...
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Global Biodiversity: Trends and Regulation
Biological diversity or biodiversity is a term used to define the variability of all living organisms on Earth. While research confirms that...
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Racial Futurity: Biolegality and the Question of Black Life
This chapter considers how IVF donor insemination technologies can open the possibilities for the denial of black life. It asks: how might the birth...
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The Impact of Aid Dynamics on State Effectiveness and Legitimacy
Efforts to build state capacity in develo** countries are often predicated on the assumption that external partners can help states improve their...
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The Commodification of Family
Surrogacy is a billion-dollar industry, which is growing due to demand. People who cannot have children for medical, physical, or social reasons are...
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Capabilities and Communities: A Perspective from Institutional Economics
The purpose of this paper is to argue that the capability approach can benefit from thinking in institutional economics. If the locus of the...
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Challenges and Potential to Revamp the Normative Framework on the Right to Development
The world is currently at an ebb for realizing the Right to Development. Weakening multilateralism, de-globalization, the COVID-19 pandemic and...
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Searching for ‘relations’ using a DNA linking register by adults conceived following sperm donation
This paper considers the experiences of adults conceived following sperm donation, who were registered with a voluntary DNA linking register and...
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Egg Freezing Technology at the Intersection of Social Inequalities and Institutional Constraints
This chapter discusses the inequalities in access to reproductive technologies, focusing on egg freezing in Turkey through an intersectional and...
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Among Bodies and Machines: “Epistemological Vulnerability” with Exoskeletons
Current developments in robotics, including exoskeletal devices, have shown a constant increase. Originally called “extenders”, robotic exoskeletons...
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Transnational cooperation for effective management of World Heritage sites in Africa
Transnational cooperation is taking place at a staggering rate across a broad group of countries commonly referred to as the ‘Third World’ or ‘the...
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Reimagining Transcalar Civil Society Advocacy Collaborations: Starting from the Global South
Addressing the currently highly salient topic of power in civil society collaborations, this article seeks to contribute to reimagining advocacy...
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Challenges to The Assumption That Economic Success Could Enhance State Legitimacy in Africa, Ten Years Later
Social upheavals are outbursts of latent political and socio-economic crises. A perennially dysfunctional state-society relationship is bound to lead...
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Regional Thickening as Game-Changing: Gender and Women Civil Society Actors in Southern Africa
This chapter presents a detailed examination of the game-changing activities of gender and women-focused civil society grou**s within SADC...
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Shift from Resilience to Resistance and Political Action
This chapter, points out the importance of a needed shift from territorial to relational connection with a place, and the role of organic...
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Stabilisers? Transnational Communities’ Role in Addressing Gender Insecurity in Southern Africa
This chapter argues that there is a correlation between gendered insecurities and what constitutes civil society local organisation in terms of its...
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(Im-)Mobility Partnerships: Limits to EU Democracy Promotion Through Mobility in the Mediterranean
In the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings, the relations of the European Union (EU) with the Southern neighbourhood countries (SNCs) were reframed in...