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Contents
Abstracts ..................................................................................................................................vii
Preface .....................................................................................................................................xix
Editors ...................................................................................................................................xxiii
Contributors ...........................................................................................................................xxv
SeCtion i DeVeLoPMent
1 Revisiting World-Systems Analysis in Understanding Development ...........................3
MARINKO BOBIĆ
2 Does the Primary Condition for a Sustainable Human Development
Meet the Feasibility Condition of Cost–Benefit Analysis? .........................................11
HASNAT DEWAN
3 Crossing Borders: Academe and Cultural Agency in Agricultural Research .............27
ROBERT W. BLAKE, ELVIRA E. SÁNCHEZ-BLAKE, AND DEBRA A. CASTILLO
4 Subordinated Inclusion: The Developmental State and the Dalit Colonies
of Southern Kerala .....................................................................................................45
K. M. PRAMOD
5 Impact of Labor Law Enhancement in China on Development and Its
Implications for Global Development Theory ............................................................61
MARGUERITE MARLIN AND SCOTT NICHOLAS ROMANIUK
6 Persistence of Italian Mafia: Violent Entrepreneurs in Developed States ..................75
MARINKO BOBIĆ
7 Bridging Worlds: Academe and Cultural Agency in Southern Mexico ......................83
ROBERT W. BLAKE, ELVIRA E. SÁNCHEZ-BLAKE, AND DEBRA A. CASTILLO
HASNAT DEWAN
9 Coordination Failure in Global Common Pool Governance? ..................................103
JAN-ERIK LANE
10 Bernard Stiegler on Agricultural Innovation ...........................................................111
PIETER LEMMENS
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11 Foreign Aid and Human Rights: Putting Investment into Perspective ....................121
SEBASTIAN D. T. JEDICKE AND SCOTT NICHOLAS ROMANIUK
12 Discrimination and Hate: Overcriminalization or New Normativity? ....................131
CHARIS PAPACHARALAMBOUS
13 Work Discrimination against Women Employees in Malaysia ................................145
ZAITON OTHMAN AND NOORAINI OTHMAN
14 Employee Rights: The Equity–Equality Conflict as a Dilemma
in the Management of Reward Systems ....................................................................155
STEEN SCHEUER
15 Securing the Future of the Community: Child Protection in ASEAN .....................165
PALAPAN KAMPAN AND ADAM R. TANIELIAN
16 Researching International Humanitarian Law: A Decision-Making
Process Model for Operationalizing State Practice ..................................................179
MATTHEW T. ZOMMER
17 Gender Conjectures and Politics of Land Right Deprivation in
South-Eastern Nigeria ..............................................................................................191
AMAKA THERESA ORIAKU EMORDI AND EMEKA THADDUES NJOKU
18 Monitoring the Right to Health: The Political, Social, and Ethical
Impact of Patient Satisfaction ..................................................................................197
EMMANUEL KABENGELE MPINGA AND PHILIPPE CHASTONAY
19 European Models of Citizenship and the Fight against Female Genital
Mutilation ...............................................................................................................205
RENÉE KOOL AND SOHAIL WAHEDI
20 “You Just Don’t See Us”: The Influence of Public Schema on Constructions of
Sexuality by People with Cerebral Palsy ..................................................................223
TINASHE M. DUNE
Abstracts
Revisiting World-Systems Analysis in
Understanding Development
Marinko Bobić
This chapter presents a reevaluation of critiques of Immanuel Wallerstein’s World-Systems Analysis
(WSA) in light of the recent financial crisis that has had a tremendous impact on countries around
the world. The analysis and discussions are guided by the overarching question: Is WSA experi-
encing a legitimacy crisis? In asking this question, the chapter seeks to revisit and engage with an
“old” theory by using recent events in the world with the aim of justifying WSA as an approach to
studying development and inequality. While one has to certainly acknowledge some value in the
critiques of WSA, they should not significantly shake WSA’s theoretical foundations. This chapter
argues in favor of WSA as still a positive and therefore fruitful approach to discerning inequalities
in a globalized world. Rather than accepting WSA at face-value—simply because it has attracted
so much attention over many years—there is a need to reengage in this debate while taking into
account some of the most pressing matters of a globalized world. Doing so not only helps to rein-
force the usefulness of WSA, but also enables us to shed light on the most salient issues facing
politics of development.
Does the Primary Condition for a Sustainable Human Development
Meet the Feasibility Condition of Cost–Benefit Analysis?
Hasnat Dewan
The primary condition for sustainable human development (SHD) uses both monetary and non-
monetary indicators to determine the sustainable level of human development. As defined, this
condition can be expressed in terms of the damage elasticity of human development, where dam-
age is defined based on the nonmonetary cost to the natural and social environments (NSE).
A comparison between this sustainability condition and the feasibility condition of cost–benefit
analysis (CBA) is useful for determining the sustainability premium or the deadweight loss. Since
the cost–benefit methodology uses monetary estimates of all impacts and the primary condition
for sustainable human development uses both monetary and nonmonetary indicators, the two
methodologies are unlikely to yield the same outcome—unless there is a one-to-one relationship
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between monetary and nonmonetary benefits and costs. Unlike the feasibility condition of CBA,
the primary condition for a sustainable human development varies based on the level of human
development and the damage to the NSE in any locality/country.
Crossing Borders: Academe and Cultural
Agency in Agricultural Research
Robert W. Blake, Elvira E. Sánchez-Blake, and Debra A. Castillo
This chapter explores social educator actions by academe as cultural agency’s natural partner in
ways that echo, connect, and create plural discourse among the many dimensions and disciplines
of society. Based on collaborations with Mexican partners, we argue this goal is achieved with
multiplicative effects when students and faculty, key agents themselves and trainers of intercul-
tural agents learn first-hand by crossing borders to frame issues and work together to articulate
collaborative research problems. In so doing, a more inclusive worldview becomes integral context
in needs assessments. This has been our long-standing pedagogical approach in leading students—
undergraduates and graduates—and faculty from around the world on a multidisciplinary, inter-
generational examination of rural and urban development in tropical Latin America. Greater
academic agency through more alliances of this kind is needed to better achieve equity goals
supported by greater investments targeting community engagement and applied problem solving.
We illustrate this learning framework and provide specific livestock research cases in southern
Mexico that reveal potentials realized by bringing academe to the field and the field to academe, as
part of a reinforcing educational process that promotes understanding and social transformation.
Subordinated inclusion: the Developmental State
and the Dalit Colonies of Southern Kerala
K. M. Pramod
This chapter focuses on the Dalit colonies—or the Dalits residing in distinct parts of India—and
problematizes the subject position of “colony-Dalits.” For the purpose of the empirical investiga-
tion, there is a focus on four Dalit colonies in Southern Kerala/Thiruvithamkur. Through this
investigation, the author explores varied dimensions of the process of subordination—including
social, historical, economic, and political dimensions—in addition to the process of subordinate
inclusion in the larger context of the developmental discourse of modern Kerala, India.
impact of Labor Law enhancement in China on Development
and its implications for Global Development theory
Marguerite Marlin and Scott Nicholas Romaniuk
This chapter examines the significance of labor reforms in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
in terms of their contribution to upholding human rights, and situates the resulting analysis in the
context of global development theory. After providing historical context on labor laws previously
