Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences

INTRODUCTION: Although the impact of microorganisms on their hosts has been investigated for decades, recent technological advances have permitted high-throughput studies of the collective microbial genomes colonizing a host or habitat, also known as the microbiome. This literature review presents an overview of microbiome research, with an emphasis on topics that have the potential for future applications to aviation safety. In humans, research is beginning to suggest relationships of the microbiome with physical disorders, including type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease. The microbiome also has been associated with psychological health, including depression, anxiety, and the social complications that arise in autism spectrum disorders. Pharmaceuticals can alter microbiome diversity, and may lead to unintended consequences both short and long-term. As research strengthens understanding of the connections between the microbiota and human health, several potential applications for aerospace medicine and aviation safety emerge. For example, information derived from tests of the microbiota has potential future relevance for medical certification of pilots, accident investigation, and evaluation of fitness for duty in aerospace operations. Moreover, air travel may impact the microbiome of passengers and crew, including potential impacts on the spread of disease nationally and internationally. Construction, maintenance, and cleaning regimens that consider the potential for microbial colonization in airports and cabin environments may promote the health of travelers. Altogether, the mounting knowledge of microbiome effects on health presents several opportunities for future research into how and whether microbiome-based insights could be used to improve aviation safety.Davis JT, Uyhelji HA. Aviation and the microbiome. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2020; 91(8):651–661.

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A Donor Influenced by Local Dynamics

Sociology of Development ◽

10.1525/sod.2016.2.1.51 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 51-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Setsuko Matsuzawa

Keyword(s):

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Rural Poverty ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Local Dynamics ◽

Grant Program ◽

Local Actors ◽

Research Interviews ◽

National Model ◽

Management Project ◽

Development Discourses

This article explores the relations between a foreign aid donor and local actors in the context of the dissemination of development discourses and practices in an authoritarian context. It addresses the question “To what extent may the local dynamics alter the original goals of a donor and lead to unintended consequences?” Based on archival research, interviews, and secondary literature, this case study examines the Yunnan Uplands Management Project (YUM) in 1990–95, the Ford Foundation's first grant program on rural poverty alleviation in China. While the Foundation did not attain its main goal of making YUM a national model for poverty alleviation, the local actors were able to use YUM to develop individual capacities and to build roles for themselves as development actors in the form of associations and nongovernmental organizations, resulting in further support from the Foundation. The study contributes to our understanding of donor-local actor dynamics by highlighting the gaps between the original goals of a donor and the perspectives and motivations of local actors. The study suggests that local dynamics may influence the goals of donors and the ways they seek to disseminate development discourses and practices to local actors, despite the common conception of donors as hegemonic or culturally imperialistic.

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Moral economy and liberalism Russia

The Russian Academic journal ◽

10.15535/138 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Andrey Blinov

Keyword(s):

Moral Economy

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Thin Economics, Thick Moralising

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.v40i1.004 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 26-43

Author(s):

Roland Boer

Keyword(s):

Moral Economy ◽

Single Parents ◽

Critical Examination ◽

Economic Policies ◽

The Uk

Locality, family, moral economy, virtuous elites, common popular customs – these are the buzzwords of what has come to be known as red toryism, which seeks to breath life into the conservative project in the UK. It valorises the local over the global, family over its discontents (gays, single parents, promiscuity), virtue over cynicism, common custom over bland commercial labels; in short, a return to the progressive, communal values of conservatism. The name most usually associated with red toryism – also known as communitarian civic conservatism – is Phillip Blond. Our brief in this paper is not a treatment of the whole red tory doctrine, but a critical examination of its economic policies and how they relate to theology, via morality.

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When People Come First

10.23943/princeton/9780691157382.001.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Scale Up ◽

Moral Economy ◽

Health Science ◽

Health It ◽

Left Behind ◽

New Research ◽

Health Enterprise ◽

Conceptual Work

This book critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The chapters explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast. This book sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures.

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Reducing Unintended Consequences of Agricultural Phosphorus

10.24047/bc103133 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 103 (1) ◽

pp. 33-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Don Flaten ◽

Andrew Sharpley ◽

Helen Jarvie ◽

Peter Kleinman

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Management ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Valuable Resource

This article reflects upon the challenges we face in agricultural P management and provides a discussion about opportunities to promote more comprehensive and sustainable management of this valuable resource.

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