Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa

This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa’s stalled agrarian transition through the lens of biopolitics as well as class analysis can make visible otherwise disregarded connections between processes of agrarian change and broader contests about the terms of social and economic incorporation into the South African social and political order before, during and after Apartheid. This can bring a fresh sense of the broader political implications of the course of agrarian change in South Africa, and helps contextualise the enduring salience of land as a flashpoint within South Africa’s unresolved democratic transition

Local sensemaking of policy paradoxes : implementing local crime prevention in Sweden

This paper analyses the policy implementation of local crime prevention and community safety programmes in Sweden. It focuses on the clash between the transnational idea-complex and the national context, i.e. the unavoidable policy paradoxes of a transnational idea diffusion, and how they are made sense of when handled at local level. In particular, it emphasizes how actors in socioeconomically different local contexts within the same urban area have partly different reasons and motives for implementation. By using a sensemaking approach, this article contributes to the understanding of how convergence at national level is followed by divergence at local level

Efeitos de longo prazo da educação infantile: evidências e política

In recent decades there Has Been an accumulation of evidence linking children's experience of early childhood education and care with longer-term development child outcomes. The provision of early childhood education and care is dependent upon the social and economic context of the country, Which leads to great diversity between countries in the policy adopted. International evidence is used to show the longer-term benefits que result from good quality early childhood education and care, with particular emphasis on evidence from the UK. The evidence shows que benefits exist for social, cognitive and educational development and have consequências not only for individual but Also for the wider society. International evidence Indicates that good quality early education and care is an essential part of the infrastructure for longer term development in a modern state

Princípios de justiça e avaliação de políticas Principles of justice and policy evaluation

O artigo sugere uma forma de vincular duas coisas que têm sido tratadas separadamente pela literatura: a discussão filosófica sobre princípios de justiça e a avaliação de políticas sociais.<br>The article proposes a way of putting together two things which usually are dealt with separatedly: the philosophic discussion on principles of justice and the evaluation of social policies