Traditional Malay medicine in Singapore : a gramscian perspective by Faizah Zakaria, Humairah Zainal

“…Studies of Singapore’s brand of technocratic authoritarianism have generally focused on the political sphere. …”
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A 'right to sadness': late socialist environmentalism between technocracy and romanticism and the Czech nature writer Jaromír Tomeček by Babička, M

“…It thus preserved the progressive temporal orientation tied to the socialist ideal of increasing material wellbeing while trying to reconcile technocratic rationality with romantic subjectivity. …”

The Body Speaks Before It Even Talks: Deliberation, Populism and Bodily Representation by Maria Esperanza Casullo

“…Drawing on populism literature, particularly the socio-cultural approach, I explore four types of bodily representation: popular, technocratic, authoritarian and populist, and the affects they might provoke in other participants in deliberations, both negative and positive. …”
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Labour’s loss: Why macroeconomics matters by Servaas Storm

“…The implosion of social democracy is largely self- inflicted, because ‘Third Way’ social democracy alienated its traditional supporters by (a) a deliberate move to the non- reformist, status-quo oriented macroeconomics of the New Keynesian consensus, which de-politicizes macro management and legitimises macro control by technocratic central banks; and (b) its promotion of a middle-class oriented ‘cultural liberalism’, as compensation for a lack of achievements on the economic front. …”
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Technological Populism and its Archetypes: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies by Cătălin-Gabriel Stănescu, Asress Adimi Gikay

“…The rhetoric of empowering the disenfranchised against financial elites is not only propaganda but also a method of accumulating wealth for technocratic elites. Ultimately, the blockchain and cryptocurrency world has perfected what political populists have pioneered — unrealistic promises, turning the citizen against “the elites” only so long as they are not the elites in charge.…”
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Posthuman Emotion Artificial Intelligence in Postcyberpunk Cityscape: A Multimodal Reading of Blade Runner 2049 by Nashwa Abdelkader Elyamany

“…The hybridity pertinent to the film genre and the inner and outer topographies of posthuman representation are insightful investigative vantage points of multimodal inquiry for the socio-political and technocratic implications they underlie. Against this backdrop, Blade Runner 2049 is one fertile example grounded in paradoxes and ambiguities around the contradiction between humans and replicants, artificial intelligence and super-large enterprises. …”
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What is at stake? Practices of linking actors, issues and scales in environmental politics. by Linda Soneryd

“…Efforts to include a broader set of actors, knowledges and values in environmental decision-making have been promoted as a key remedy to technocratic decision-making and environmental degradation, and as instrumental for better decisions and democratic empowerment. …”
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Re-Membering Catholicity: Higher Education, Racial Justice, and the Spirituality of the Posthuman University by Jeffrey S. Mayer

“…Approaching religion as “the search for depth” and addressing the “techno-myths” of betterment, longevity, and the rituals of enacting these myths that capture today’s social imaginaries, this paper proposes an alternative to religious faith in “rising” and the rhetoric of the contemporary American technocratic-meritrocratic paradigm. Adopting the posthumanist methodologies of reflexivity and diffraction, the author argues for an embodied catholicity of the university as a community, an open system rather than a pre-formed locus to which racially minoritized students are “added” or “included”. …”
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Now they can cope? The Green Deal and the contested meaning of sustainability in EU sectoral governance by Nils Stockmann

“…Especially at the local scale, the highly complex and technocratic EU policy framework is confronted with increasingly polarized claim-making regarding ecological, social and economic problems. …”
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Build it and they will come by Alberto Lusoli, Stefania Sardo

“…Among the associated risks is the furthering of a technocratic understanding of how collaborative processes work, based on the assumption that the introduction of CAPs would be a sufficient condition for the construction of inclusive and engaged communities. …”
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The intelligentsia of Russia in the information age by Tamara Lvovna Salova

“…The analysis of the works of famous theoreticians of the information society allows us to conclude that Western futurologists practically do not use the concept of “intelligentsia” in their works, preferring concepts such as “intellectuals”, “technocrats”. Russian scientists, on the contrary, note their own path of entry into the “noosphere” and assign intellectuals a central place. …”
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SHADOW OF ARMY ON POLITICS AND “ABOVE-PARTY” GOVERNMENTS, 1971-1973 by Behçet Kemal Yeşilbursa

“…Erim and an “above-party” Government, with a majority of technocrats from outside Parliament with a programme of radical, left-wing, reforms. …”
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Competition in the Mid-20th Century Saudi Education System by Nadav Samin

“…I look closely at contests over vocational education, resource allocation and authority, and private religious schooling initiatives, through which I map some foundational aspects of the institutionalization of ulama and technocratic authority in the Saudi education sphere. …”
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Kerangka Advokasi Koalisi dalam Kebijakan Penataan Pemukiman Bantaran Sungai Winongo di Kota Yogyakarta by Zulfa Harirah

“…This shows that the policy is not just a stage of systemic and technocratic, but the policy is a political process that allows each actor to act politically. …”
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From apophenia to epiphany by Ignacio Castillo Ulloa

“…Moreover, due to the apophenic ability of universal(izing)-technocratic(ized) theories to obviate the ‘right measure’ between action and reaction, discourses of research and practice are manipulated and the role of theory as ‘master signifier’ upheld. …”
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From “Bangtan Boys” to “International Relations Professor”: Mapping Self‐Identifications in the UN’s Twitter Public by Luis Aue, Florian Börgel

“…We find high heterogeneity in the UN’s digital public: Clusters of professional, academic, and organizational users suggest that the technocratic history of international organizations reflects in the members of its digital public. …”
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Rethinking Stormwater: Analysis Using the Hydrosocial Cycle by Matthew Wilfong, Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman

“…This over-reliance on hydrologic-based, technocratic, command-and-control management and governance tends to discount and overlook the political, social, cultural, and economic factors that shape water-society relationships. …”
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THE FRANCO REGIME'S INFLUENCE ON CUBA 1959-75 by Haruko Hosoda

“…Trade with Cuba started to expand in the 1960s as economic necessity coincided with the rise of the technocrats in the Franco regime. Spain abandoned the mere display of the slogan 'Hispanidad' and started to attach more importance to economic relations. …”
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Kerangka Advokasi Koalisi dalam Kebijakan Penataan Pemukiman Bantaran Sungai Winongo di Kota Yogyakarta by Zulfa Harirah

“…This shows that the policy is not just a stage of systemic and technocratic, but the policy is a political process that allows each actor to act politically. …”
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Power, rights, freedom, technocracy and postcolonialism in sub-Saharan Africa by Monika dos Santos

“…As rights have been propagated as the codified consequence of social struggles in sub-Saharan countries, so too have bio-political and technocratic regulations intensified, resulting in brutal exploitation through unregulated markets particularly in the so-called developing world, resembling indentured labour and voluntary servitude. …”
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