The first woman to win the Nobel Prize - CNN Article
Elinor Ostrom's research on how humans interact with ecosystems, unpacking the concept of the "commons," seems to prove that local communities managing resources from the inside seems to work more efficiently than when an outside authority tries to manage resources for the community.
I can think of so many examples of the truth to this statement - anyone who is living, working, interacting, engaging with one's own community will not only have knowledge, but experience, of how things will work to serve one's own community. Someone outside of that dynamic will NOT. Thus, (logical conclusion) the people who are living, working, struggling, rejoicing, in that community are the most well-informed decisionmakers about that particular community.
Particular relevance: Her work in western Nepal looking at conflict and resource management.
Resources:
Governing the Commons (book)
Rules, Games, and common-pool resources (book)
Polycentric Games and Institutions: Chapter 16
There's much more, but I need some online research training. (I just don't get these online databases, yet. Back in my day..... we went to the card catologue. I don't feel that old :/)
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Ethnicity and Seperatist Movements
Basques in Spain from CNN - Basque Movement (est. 1959) labeled a terrorist group by the US.
Maoists (Naxals or Naxalites) in India from CNN - Suspected terrorist activity in northeastern India. These guys have been at it since 1960.
Big Question always arises with students as we are trying to understand the idiosyncracies of the Maoist movement here in Nepal (official est. 1996) - What is the connection between these self-proclaimed separatists? Do they have similar goals? methods? are they connected by anything other than morphed ideology from Mao's Cultural Revolution in China? How closely are they following traditional Maoist ideology? Are they taking cues from each other?
Sanjib ji was telling me the other day that it was only just recently that the Naxalites in India had formally acknowledged the Maoists here in Nepal as a group they could look up to and emulate as they had truly been able to reform government and strive toward the goals set by their ideologies.
Remains to be seen, no?
Maoists (Naxals or Naxalites) in India from CNN - Suspected terrorist activity in northeastern India. These guys have been at it since 1960.
Big Question always arises with students as we are trying to understand the idiosyncracies of the Maoist movement here in Nepal (official est. 1996) - What is the connection between these self-proclaimed separatists? Do they have similar goals? methods? are they connected by anything other than morphed ideology from Mao's Cultural Revolution in China? How closely are they following traditional Maoist ideology? Are they taking cues from each other?
Sanjib ji was telling me the other day that it was only just recently that the Naxalites in India had formally acknowledged the Maoists here in Nepal as a group they could look up to and emulate as they had truly been able to reform government and strive toward the goals set by their ideologies.
Remains to be seen, no?
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