Spaces of Struggle: Socialism and Neoliberalism With a Human Face Among Digital Parties and Online Movements in Europe by Emiliana De Blasio, Michele Sorice

“…Digital communication and, in particular, the various platforms of digital participation have been long living between the illusion of techno-libertarian thrusts and the technocratic tendencies framing the New Public Management approach. …”
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ANALYSIS OF DEFICIENCIES IN THE PROCEDURES FOR THE RISK MANAGEMENT OF SAFETY IN THE ICAO DOCUMENTS by V. D. Sharov, B. P. Eliseev, V. V. Vorobyov

“…It is shown, in particular, that the term "Risk Factor" appeared in the ICAO SMM due to the erroneous translation into Russian of the English term "Safety Risk", and its use in parallel with the term "Hazard" in high-level documents (the Air Code of the Russian Federation, article 24.1 and in the Decree of the Russian Federation Government from 18.11.2014 No 1215) introduces additional confusion at the level of air enterprises in the understanding of risk management within the technocratic concept of risk.…”
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Alfabetización informacional y biblioteca neoliberal. Hacia un nuevo paradigma = Alfabetización informacional y biblioteca neoliberal. Hacia un nuevo paradigma by M. Engracia Martin Valdunciel

“…Seale does not agree with technocratic and ahistoric visions about information literacy so its origin is framed within the logic of “information society” and academic capitalism in the eighties in the EEUU. …”
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Mechanisms for Activating the Personal Potential of Students in the Context of Digitalization of University Education by E. N. Shutenko, A. I. Shutenko

“…This is the novelty of the study and its dissimilarity to most of the current projects of forced, technocratic digitalization of students study, which do not sufficiently take into account the laws and principles of a holistic educational process and the becoming of personality in it.Based on psychological and didactic approaches and methods, the authors reconstruct the pedagogically controlled process of ICT introducing into education through the implementation by the teacher of interrelated mechanisms – environment-forming and trigger mechanisms. …”
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Digitalization in Political Relations: Planes for Perception and Mechanisms for Transformation by A. E. Konkov

“…Based on approaching consecutive practices the author distinguishes three meaningful planes (directions) to consider digitalization in political relations: digital democracy, which characterizes upscaling deliberative mechanisms for public policy with web communication opportunities; digital bureaucracy, which reflects advanced skills of political establishment and emerging technocratic platforms based on advanced e-government: and also digital diplomacy, which makes it possible for involving new technologies into politi cal achievements on the international and supranational arena.…”
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ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND ECOLOGICAL CULTURE by Kalimat M. Alilova

“…The study shows how philosophy can participate in the formation of ecological culture, a new ecological consciousness in man, while ecological culture is called upon to resist technocratic stereotypes and the course of history was aimed at preventing the biosphere from becoming deserted. …”
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Meta-subjective nature of collective intelligence: ontological analysis by А. I. Zhelnin

“…It is shown that unlike a purely technocratic approach, which mixes CI with the concepts of artificial intelligence (AI), neural networks, big data, etc., it can be understood in a purely humanistic way as an integral net of human minds. …”
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Ethno-Confessional Landscape of the Altai Republic: Global Challenges and Local Responses by Elena A. Erokhina

“…At the turn of the 21st century, a number of trends have emerged that can be qualified as collective responses to such global challenges: revival of family and clan self-organization forms, preservation of traditional economic paradigms, rejection of technocratic attributes of modernization, development of neo-traditional syncretic religious forms. …”
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Reception of History in the Poem of D. Tumanny (N. N. Panov) The House in Sverdlovsk (1926) by Yulia Sergeevna Podlubnova

“…Tumanny’s poem is a unique precedent starting from the death of the tsar and his family but focusing not so much on it as a historical fact only but on the present modeled according to the Komfut ideals as a combination of the technocratic utopia of futurism and the social utopia of socialism and endowed with historical significance. …”
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Rethinking farmer knowledge from soil to plate through narrative inquiry by Eric Bendfeldt, Maureen McGonagle, Kim Niewolny

“…Like others, we argue that an over­emphasis on essentialist “best practices” and tech­nocratic problem-solving does not adequately help us see these generative possibilities from soil to plate. …”
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Smallholders’ Water Management Decisions in the Face of Water Scarcity from a Socio-Cognitive Perspective, Case Study of Viticulture in Mendoza by Marc Monnet, Raffaele Vignola, Yoana Aliotta

“…The discourse on adaptation options is mainly technocratic with a focus on modern irrigation systems not accessible to the majority of grape producers. …”
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Theoretical and Methodological Issues of Analyzing Digitization in Economic Management: The Case of The Late USSR by Dmitry Didenko

“…First, extra-expensive projects for creating national systems were largely a product of the technocratic thinking of the scientific and political elite of the late USSR, but institutional coalitions in favor of their development turned out to be unviable lacking explicit support at the highest levels of the state apparatus. …”
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Primitivism in We and Brave New World / Biz ve Cesur Yeni Dünya’da İlkelcilik by Hakan Çörekçioğlu

“…Thus, the primitivist discourse in We and in Brave New World turns into a starting point of the criticisim against scientific and technocratic totalitarianism. However, this primitivist discourse does not transform into a call of return to nature in both texts. …”
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A global super-grid: sociotechnical drivers and barriers by Kristina Hojckova, Helene Ahlborg, Björn A. Sandén

“…Conclusions The analysis suggests that if the Super-grid is to become part of a future electricity system, the discourse needs to open up, move beyond simplistic ideas of efficiency and ‘technocratic internationalism’, and take into account a broader set of social benefits, risks and trade-offs.…”
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Existential-dialogical model of philosophy of education: educational-upbringing and social-spiritual communication in the context of social development by Viktor Viktorovych Zinchenko

“…Supporters of this direction tend to discard the technocratic concepts which substitute for the process of education with the manipulation of person. …”
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Religious picture of the world vs religious ontology by R. Yu. Rakhmatullin

“…, Is now reinforced by the prevalence of technocratic trends in culture. The forecast made in the 1960s by Western sociologists that the 21st century will be the century of the humanities has not yet been justified. …”
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Agency and constraint in environmental policy coherence by Alba Juarez Bourke, Keith Marshall, Kerry Waylen, Kirsty Blackstock

“…We found that the appetite and ability to support policy coherence depends on individual agency as much as partnership structures, which are themselves situated in technocratic regimes of policy implementation. Within these regimes, agents presented as apolitical and enabling, making it challenging to research the political and social processes of policy coherence. …”
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Defining and acting on water poverty in England and Wales by Ruth Sylvester, P. Hutchings, A. Mdee

“…Owing to civil society opposition, by 2000 water poverty became a technocratic problem of affordability and debt. Despite certain legal protections for vulnerable households, structural drivers of water poverty were unresolved and rates continued to rise, peaking in 2013/2014. …”
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A territorial approach for infrastructure project management: the case of the hydropower plant of Belo Monte, Pará, Brazil by DANIELA GOMES PINTO, MARCO ANTONIO CARVALHO TEIXEIRA

“…The decision-making process remains technocratic and isolated from civil society, ignoring its inherently political character. …”
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Energising connections in museum collections by Graeme Gooday, Kylea Little, Bernard Musesengwe, Cameron Tailford

“…And in contrast to traditional museum narratives of energy history as the technocratic ‘conquering’ of nature, we consider how the Congruence Engine project could help to bring in a complementary approach: memorialising energy history instead as a human drama entangled with many forms of human loss.…”
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