Exploring health navigating design: momentary contentment in a cancer context by Ulrika Sandén, Lars Harrysson, Hans Thulesius, Fredrik Nilsson

“…Purpose: The technocratic and medicalized model of healthcare is rarely optimal for patients. …”
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Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize by Jonnie Penn

“…Tech critics become technocrats when they overlook the daunting administrative density of a digital-first society. …”
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Technology against technocracy : toward design strategies for critical community technology by Wagoner, Maya M

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The language of legislation and the politicisation of British judges by Williams, M

“…The political behaviour of judges is therefore stimulated by a change in the legislative supply-side rather than a change in the behavioural demand-side, and the judges are acting as professional technocrats charged with ensuring the efficacious implementation of Parliamentary legislation.…”

Coordination in crisis: the practice of medical humanitarian emergency by Stellmach, D

“…This reveals a key paradox of medical humanitarianism: that rational, technocratic institutions simultaneously enable and debilitate the goals and means of humanitarian action. …”

Virtual moralities: the mainstreaming of Fairtrade in Kenyan tea fields by Dolan, C

“…Second, building on recent critiques of corporate social responsibility, the paper explores how certain neoliberal rationalities are emboldened through Fairtrade, as a process of mainstreaming installs new metrics of governance (standards, certification, participation) that are at once moral and technocratic, voluntary and coercive, and inclusionary and marginalizing. …”

Researching health policy and planning: the influence of linguistic ethnography by Shaw, S, Russell, J

“…Our findings revealed how think tanks publicly (‘front-stage’) present a storyline to position themselves as ‘independent research organisations’, drawing on the language of technocratic health planning to define their role as producing evidence and feeding this into policy. …”

Concrete like a nation is ambitious by Simon, S.

“…This presentation provokes questions about the intersection between concrete form and centralised economy, a desire for internationalism and the creation of a class of future technocrats, as well as the changing conception of the university and its post-colonial foibles.…”
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Water and Climate Governance in Deltas: On the Relevance of Anticipatory, Interactive, and Transformative Modes of Governance by Annisa Triyanti, Dries L. T. Hegger, Peter P. J. Driessen

“…We found that the predominant focus is still on technocratic approaches, with limited recognition of the political dimension and few forward-looking studies. …”
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The right to entrepreneurial expression over heritage significance: the micropolitics of an adapted cafe in a historic Chinese town by Johnny F. I. Lam, Chin-Ee Ong, Tingting Wu, Rui He, Shougang Li

“…Specifically, we found that the cafe proprietor has performed a role that is commonly associated with official planners and technocrats in creating a ‘coffee art living space’ in a process that Lefebvre describes as a ‘representation of space,’ and that ‘spatial practices’ serve to shape the space away from the heritage significance of the town and towards entrepreneurially aligned ideals. …”
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Expectations of Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) stakeholders on the Ulul Albab curriculum at a MARA Junior Science College (MRSM) by Abdul Manaf, Umi Kalthom, Alias, Nurul Fitriah, Nor Azman, Ady Hameme, Abd Rahman, Fadzilah, Zulkifli, Hafizah

“…MRSM Ulul Albab education programme is designed to produce professional experts, entrepreneurs and technocrats that are well versed in the field of religion-based Al-Quran and Sunnah as Ulul Albab generation. …”
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The Basics of Art Education (Based on I. A. Ilyin’s Works) by S. Z. Goncharov, A. B. Kosterina

“…The art education problem is getting even more relevant because of the culture degradation, technocratic civilization of triviality, displacement of genuine art by com- mercial shows, etc. …”
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The Italian premiership after Berlusconi: A limited legacy
 by Annarita Criscitiello

“…The power of prime ministers without a party, in a widespread climate of institutional impatience, more often finds outlets in the legislative and organisational instruments of the presidency of the Council of Ministers than in populist strategies or technocratic resources. This article analyses the seven executives that followed the crisis of Silvio Berlusconi’s last government in 2011. …”
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The Popular University in Brazil by José Eustáquio Romão, Adriana Salete Loss

“…Brazilian university has gotten the legacy from European corporative model and also from American technocratic idiosyncrasy. The Southern Frontier Federal University (UFFS) is one of the new federal universities created by the government into the National Program for Education (2000-2010) in order to extend the range of access to public higher education along the country. …”
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Que représentait Robert Gibrat (1904-1980) au Congrès international de philosophie scientifique de 1935 ? by Michel Armatte

“…Gibrat not only embodied drastically changing economics as they were challenged by the Crisis, but also a new science unified both in its rationale and capacity to exercise technocratic expertise (the word comes from this period) and, in the 1930s, a capacity to somehow lead the way out of this crisis towards social renewal. …”
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"The companies are powerful, people are weak": India's solar energy ambitions and the legitimation of dispossession in Rajasthan by Berenice Girard, Shayan Shokrgozar

“…Drawing from qualitative field research including site visits, over 70 semi-structured and informal interviews, and discourse analysis of solar policy documents, we interrogate how the deployment of solar "parks" are legitimated by state-level political and technocratic powers, despite their socioecological implications for local residents, especially agropastoralists, and endangered other-than-humans. …”
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Viewpoint – Seeing like a farmer – How irrigation policies may undermine farmer-led irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa by Annelieke Duker

“…This requires a shift in planning beyond technocratic irrigation discourses of market orientation and water efficiency and productivity.…”
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Examining the Factors Affecting the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Banking Sector: An Extended UTAUT Model by Rabindra Kumar Jena

“…This study’s results would help government authorities, decision-makers, and technocrats to improve banking instructions for the speedy and smooth adoption of blockchain technology. …”
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On the Lumpen-Precariat-To-Come by Joff P.N. Bradley, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

“…In examining the passage from the lumpenproletariat, hitherto defined as “non-class” or “people without a definite trace”, to lumpen-precariat, defined as people not seen in Asian economies (refugees, the illegally employed, illegal migrants, nationless foreign labour, the withdrawn clan, sex industry workers, night workers; those behind walls, gated communities, and other entrance-exit barriers), this paper discloses not only the subsistence of those in the non-places of the world – in the technocratic-commercial archipelago of urban technopoles – but also and, arguably more importantly, on the Outside, namely the rest of the planet, the other six-sevenths of humanity. …”
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Revisiting the role of HR in the age of AI: bringing humans and machines closer together in the workplace by Ali Fenwick, Gabor Molnar, Piper Frangos

“…Spanning three distinct phases of AI-HRM integration (technocratic, integrated, and fully-embedded), it examines the technical, human, and ethical challenges at each phase and provides suggestions on how to overcome them using a human-centric approach. …”
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