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Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development
Expertise stemming from the psy disciplines is increasingly and explicitly shaping international development policy and practice. Whilst some policy makers see the use of psy expertise as a new way to reduce poverty, increase economic efficiency, and promote wellbeing, others raise concerns that psychocentric development promotes individual over structural change, pathologises poverty, and depoliticises development. This paper specifically analyses four aspects of psy knowledge used in contemporary development policy: child development/developmental psychology, behavioural economics, positive psychology, and global mental health. This analysis illuminates the co-constitutive intellectual and colonial histories of development and psy-expertise: a connection that complicates claims that development has been psychologized; the uses and coloniality of both within a neoliberal project; and the potential for psychopolitics to inform development
Numerical study of a multiscale expansion of KdV and Camassa-Holm equation
We study numerically solutions to the Korteweg-de Vries and Camassa-Holm
equation close to the breakup of the corresponding solution to the
dispersionless equation. The solutions are compared with the properly rescaled
numerical solution to a fourth order ordinary differential equation, the second
member of the Painlev\'e I hierarchy. It is shown that this solution gives a
valid asymptotic description of the solutions close to breakup. We present a
detailed analysis of the situation and compare the Korteweg-de Vries solution
quantitatively with asymptotic solutions obtained via the solution of the Hopf
and the Whitham equations. We give a qualitative analysis for the Camassa-Holm
equationComment: 17 pages, 13 figure
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