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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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BRAC 2005 and Transformation Actions at Fort Benning
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Pages : 756
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BRAC, Global Policy Language, and Women in Bangladesh
Author: Manzurul Mannan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438457855
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Founded in 1972 and now the largest NGO in the world, BRAC has been lauded for its efforts aimed at lifting the poor, especially women, out of poverty. In BRAC, Global Policy Language, and Women in Bangladesh, Manzurul Mannan—while not denying the many positive accomplishments of BRAC—places the organization under a critical microscope. Drawing on his experience as a Bangladeshi native and BRAC insider, Mannan provides unique insights into not only BRAC's phenomenal growth and its role in diffusing western and development ideologies but also, more importantly, how target populations have been affected culturally and socially. He explains how BRAC has employed western ideas, theories, and philosophies of agency when engaging in development interventions in even the remotest villages, seeking to transform social structures, women's status, and the local polity. The resulting intermingling of exogenous perspectives with local knowledge leads to a degree of inconsistency and dissonance within BRAC's own operations, while generating opposition from local commoners and elites. Cautionary yet hopeful, the book advocates greater cultural sensitivity as a way to mitigate conflict between BRAC and the constituencies it serves.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438457855
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Founded in 1972 and now the largest NGO in the world, BRAC has been lauded for its efforts aimed at lifting the poor, especially women, out of poverty. In BRAC, Global Policy Language, and Women in Bangladesh, Manzurul Mannan—while not denying the many positive accomplishments of BRAC—places the organization under a critical microscope. Drawing on his experience as a Bangladeshi native and BRAC insider, Mannan provides unique insights into not only BRAC's phenomenal growth and its role in diffusing western and development ideologies but also, more importantly, how target populations have been affected culturally and socially. He explains how BRAC has employed western ideas, theories, and philosophies of agency when engaging in development interventions in even the remotest villages, seeking to transform social structures, women's status, and the local polity. The resulting intermingling of exogenous perspectives with local knowledge leads to a degree of inconsistency and dissonance within BRAC's own operations, while generating opposition from local commoners and elites. Cautionary yet hopeful, the book advocates greater cultural sensitivity as a way to mitigate conflict between BRAC and the constituencies it serves.
Is Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Appropriate at this Time?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness
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Category : Military base closures
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Publisher:
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Category : Military base closures
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Request for Authorization of Another BRAC Round and Additional Reductions in Overseas Bases
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness
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Category : Military base closures
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
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Category : Military base closures
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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BRAC in Northern Virginia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Fort Belvoir, Implementation of 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Recommendations and Related Army Actions
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Pages : 644
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Military base closures observations on prior and current BRAC rounds : statement before the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission /
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428931570
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428931570
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians
Author: Jen Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317104641
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-à-brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317104641
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-à-brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.
Proposed Implementation of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), Final Recommendations and Associated Actions for the 104th Fighter Wing, Massachusetts Air National Guard at Westfield-Barnes Airport
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Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Publisher:
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Pages : 240
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Can a Civilian BRAC Commission Consolidate Federal Office Space and Save Taxpayers Billions?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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