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    Rattraper le nouvel Occident : « L’initiative d’excellence » allemande, les études régionales et la re-production des inégalités by Manuela Boatcă

    “…To this end, the paper proceeds in two steps: First, following Reinhard Kreckel‘s argument that neoliberal globalization exerts new economic and fiscal pressures on the state that are then passed on to the higher education systems depending on them, the paper looks at how the new elite discourse of German higher education is producing new structures of exclusion instead of the professed more egalitarian and meritocratic system of self-designated “knowledge societies”.Second, using the examples of recent calls for grant applications by Germany‘s ministry of education and state-funded research agencies, the paper zooms in on the revival of area studies as one of the prominent targets of the excellence initiative and funding in order to show how strong state financial support for inequality and democratization research (in the context of Latin American studies) and transformation research (in the context of Eastern European studies) reinforces the main assumptions of modernization theory and reproduces the asymmetries of knowledge production characteristic of Euro- and state-centered approaches to the issues in question.…”
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    Prevalence and factors associated with HCV infection among elderly individuals in a southern Brazilian city by Tatiana Martins, Danubia Felippe Grassi de Paula Machado, Fabiana Schuelter-Trevisol, Daisson Jose Trevisol, Roger Augusto Vieira e Silva, Janaina Luz Narciso-Schiavon, Leonardo de Lucca Schiavon

    Published 2013-06-01
    “…Introduction Few Latin American studies have assessed the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in elderly individuals, in whom the highest rates are expected. …”
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    Revisiting Bolivian Studies: Reflections on Theory, Scholarship, and Activism since 1980 by Brooke Larson

    Published 2019-06-01
    “…As both a focus and locus of vibrant scholarly work, the field of Bolivian studies burst onto the international scene, carving a distinctive niche for itself within the larger fields of Andean and Latin American studies over the past twenty-five years. Bolivia went from being the hemisphere’s “least studied” country, according to a 1984 LASA Forum survey, to becoming a beacon of intercultural dialogue, vanguard scholarship, and postcolonial debate. …”
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