Residential retrofit in the climate emergency: the role of metrics by Tina Fawcett, Marina Topouzi

“…However, choice of metrics is not simply a technocratic issue, because their design is not value free. …”
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El Patrimonio de los vencidos: arqueología en comunidades subalternas / The heritage of the defeated: archaeology in subaltern communities by Xurxo M. Ayán Vila

“…The role of the State and Science in these realities is not unlike the developmentalist and technocratic policy unwrapped by Spain in the twentieth century. …”
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The hydroxychloroquine alliance: how far-right leaders and alt-science preachers came together to promote a miracle drug by Guilherme Casarões, David Magalhães

“…We adopt Lasco & Curato’s (2018) definition of medical populism as a political style based on performances of public health crises that pit ‘the people’ against ‘the establishment’ using alternative knowledge claims to cast doubt on the credibility of doctors, scientists, and technocrats. Second, rather than being an individual endeavor, medical populism addressing the coronavirus crisis has led populists to build an alt-science network. …”
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‘Design for policy’ from below: grassroots framing and political negotiation by Federico Vaz, Mikko Koria, Sharon Prendeville

“…Up to now, design for policy has exclusively been conceived as embedded within governmental structures, thus adopting a technocratic, internal, and top-down approach to, and understanding of, public policymaking. …”
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On Historical Context of Leszek Nowak’s Idealizational Conception of Science by Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski

“…I argue that the analytical Marxism of the Poznan School of the 1970s and 1980s was a philosophical reflection of certain modernization processes of the real socialist system (the managerial revolution and the technocratic modernization of the Gierek era), which was an attempt to “escape forward” from the dysfunctional “manual control” of the system during the period of minor stabilization of the 1960s. …”
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Urban Mountain Waterscapes: The Transformation of Hydro-Social Relations in the Trans-Himalayan Town Leh, Ladakh, India by Judith Müller, Juliane Dame, Marcus Nüsser

“…Along with socio-economic shifts, the community-managed water regulation system is replaced by a technocratic scheme, centralising water supply and sanitation. …”
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Contribution of Rural Development to the Achievement of Sustainable Development Objectives. Empirical Evidence and Research Method in Defining and Evaluating the Extent of Rural De... by Roxana Mihaela Bolohan (Cociorva), Gavril Stefan

“…This effort should be based on the principle of improving the lives and livelihoods of rural people and not be a technocratic exercise in economic, social, or environmental policy. …”
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O PARTO HUMANIZADO E O SEU IMPACTO NA ASSISTÊNCIA A SAÚDE by Laiane Pereira Barros, Chrissia Lorrany Tocchio de Souza, Leôncio de Farias Gonçalves, Letícia Noronha Gonzaga, Thaís de Andrade Paula, Andreia Moreira da Silva

“…On the other hand, the barriers and contradictions involved, such as the difficulty of acceptance and adhesion by health professionals, the frustration of mothers on behalf of an erroneous concept of painless labor, the possible perinatal complications associated to homebirth without a proper screening, lack of autonomy by the women, among others were examined. By technocratical point of view, were evaluated the political and economical perspectives of the operation of the humanized birthcare, rescuing it’s historical origin and the incompleteness of it’s implantation. …”
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Toward a Post-Apocalyptic Rule of Law by Jeffrey Benjamin Meyers

“…Technopoly refers to the historical present as the historical moment in which the technocratic capacity of individuals, states, and markets to respond to existential problems is hindered by information overload, e.g., the threat to the Rule of Law presented by an outgoing American President who refuses to accept the verdict of the electorate; the threat to public health posed by persistent vaccine misinformation and inequitable global vaccine distribution; and, the threat posed to our collective habitat by extreme climate events. …”
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Ways of rethinking inclusion for disabled students in Higher Education by Julian Ingle

“…This assimilationist discourse reproduces the socio-political structures and practices that categorise those who are outsiders (Biesta 2010; Biesta, 2019). Moreover, the technocratic nature of the current political context in which performance and its measurement are the main drivers of how higher education (HE) is required to address underrepresented groups and their performance (Peters, 2020; Supiot, 2021), for example, through access and participation plans, not only homogenises disability but inevitably excludes others (Evans and Zhu, 2022). …”
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Professionalization of political communication in developing countries: methodological perspectives from India’s election campaigns by Sharma, AD

“…In my forthcoming book, The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and The People Who Manage Them, I argue that the rapid developments in the landscape of India’s political communication also represent the ascendant power of a new professional salariat class of technocrats who have emerged as the secret movers and shakers of political affairs (Sharma, 2024). …”

(Re)moving waste: caste, spaces, and materials in Delhi by Agarwal, A

“…I demonstrate this by focusing on the technocratic infrastructure of waste management and by examining the human and caste-based infrastructure of waste management. …”

Framework for building synergies of the traditional and formal political adjudicatory institutions in conflict resolution in north-western Ghana by Thaddeus Arkum Aasoglenang, Samuel Ziem Bonye, Gordon Yenglier Yiridomoh

“…Using a qualitative research design approach, 27 respondents including chiefs, tengandem (earth priests), and technocrats (practicing lawyers, court administrators, Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice) working in western adjudicatory institutions were contacted and interviewed. …”
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Scale, evidence, and community participation matter: lessons in effective and legitimate adaptive governance from decision making for Menindee Lakes in Australia’s Murray-Darling B... by Zoe E. Ford, Sue Jackson, Gilad Bino, Kate J. Brandis, Richard T. Kingsford

“…This resulted in the development of an ineffective, technocratic solution that lacked community input, leading to a complete loss of support by local communities, including traditional owners. …”
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Integrating “Top-Down” and “Community-Centric” Approaches for Community-Based Flood Early Warning Systems in Namibia by Deolfa Josè Moisès, Nnenesi Kgabi, Olivia Kunguma

“…Moreover, several scientific studies have deprecated the vast technology-driven technocratic approaches to implementing these systems, contending the prioritisation of communities and their contextualised needs for systems that ensure effective risk protection and resilience building. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL CYBER SECURITY STANDARDS IN THE NATIONAL LEGISLATION OF UKRAINE by Iulia DERKACHENKO, Stanislav KUKHTYK, Аnna Yemelianinko

“…Technological changes in the 21st century require a change in the unilateral technocratic paradigm. In this context, the topic of the study - the implementation of international standards in the field of cyber security - is relevant. …”
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Slipping through the cracks: film festivals and programmes as sites of pragmatic resistance against political and cultural control in 1990s – 2010s Singapore by Fan, Yuxuan

“…Advancing the argument that film programmers in Singapore employ strategies of pragmatic resistance, the paper examines how they contest creative boundaries by vacillating between resistance and cooperation, acclimatizing to the technocratic dogma that guides policymaking while advancing civil society space without incriminating themselves. …”
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A flexible analytic wavelet transform and ensemble bagged tree model for electroencephalogram-based meditative mind-wandering detection by Ajay Dadhich, Jaideep Patel, Rovin Tiwari, Richa Verma, Pratha Mishra, Jay Kumar Jain

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Nature-Based Urbanization: Scan Opportunities, Determine Directions and Create Inspiring Ecologies by Rob Roggema, Nico Tillie, Greg Keeffe

“…Future research should emphasize the balance that should be established between the NBS-frameworks and the design approach, as an overly technocratic and all-encompassing framework prevents the freedom of thought that is needed to come to fruitful design propositions.…”
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The biomedical securitization of global health by Jens Holst, Remco van de Pas

“…Conclusions As important as health security is, the underlying concept driven by biomedical and technocratic reductionism falls short. It widely neglects the social, economic, political, commercial and environmental determination of health. …”
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