Sharon Beder
Biographic Data
| ID | 122001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Beder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Beder |
| SIGNATURE | BEDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Business-managed democracy
The architecture of global governance that has emerged in the past two decades has been strongly influenced by transnational policy actors. This article examines the role of transnational corporate agency in social policy by focusing in particular on the role of business coalitions, elite networking bodies and policy planning groups in fostering unity amongst corporate actors and enrolling political actors into managing democracies in the interes…
Free Market Missionaries
The Free Market Gospel * Promoting Business Values ?*Advertising Free Enterprise * Free Market ?'ducation' * Economic 'Education' in the 1970s * Exporting Free Market Education * Pro-Business Policies as Ideology * Disseminating Pro-Business Policies * Think Tanks Down Under * Economic Advisers * People's Capitalism * Shareholder Democracy * Fiddling with Kiddy Minds * Conclusion
The Right Way to Go? Earth Sanctuaries and Market-based Conservation
Australia's Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) is an internationally acclaimed organisation that uses private property as a way to achieve conservation objectives, thereby demonstrating a commitment to using free market principles to create sustainable futures.This private approach to conservation clearly resonates with the agenda of conservative think tanks and is ideologically motivated.The environmental credentials of this organisation obscure th…
Power Play
Selling the Work Ethic
Selling the Work Ethic
Ecofeminism and Globalisation
Ecofeminism offers a useful yet limited framework through which to critique globalisation. Ecofeminism claims that the domination of women and of nature are intrinsically linked. Material ecofeminists, in particular, focus on the material conditions of women's lives locating the source of this twin domination in patriarchal capitalism. These ecofeminists provide insights into the impacts of globalisation on women but their analysis of the causes …
Research note - Neoliberal Think Tanks and Free Market Environmentalism
Corporate-funded think tanks have played a central role in promoting free market environmentalism onto the policy agenda throughout the English speaking world. These think tanks have consistently opposed government regulation and advocated the virtues of a ‘free’ market unconstrained by a burden of red tape. The role of think tanks in the establishment of this ‘neoliberal’ agenda in the US and the UK in recent decades has been well documented
Manipulating public knowledge
Author’s response
Contract with America
As part of their "Contract with America", Republican lawmakers in the United States Congress have been attempting to reform the country's health, safety, and environmental legislation through the application of risk assessments and cost-benefit analyses. Their "Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Act of 1995" was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in early 1995 but then stalled in the Senate. The bill would require that government agencies …
Charging the earth
The Use of Nutritional Ergogenic Aids in Sports
As nutritional technology advanced, scientists have been able to synthesize and manufacture all known nutrients, and many of their metabolic by-products, essential to human physiology. Many of these substances are theorized to possess ergogenic potential when take in quantities or forms normally not found in typical foods or diets. Research, although limited in most cases, supports the ergogenicity of some nutrients (e.g., creatine) when consumed…
The role of technology in sustainable development
The inability of governments represented at the 1992 Earth Summit to reach a consensus on reducing either population growth or consumption, and the political need for the concept of sustainable development to accommodate economic growth, mean that the achievement of sustainable development will depend on our ability to reduce the environmental impact of resource use through technological change. This will require the redesign of our technological…
Siting a hazardous waste facility
In 1990, the Australian government tried to establish a national hazardous waste incinerator in rural New South Wales. This paper considers the debates over the risks associated with hazardous waste incineration that emerged and the symbolic portrayal of technology implicit in these debates. Risk communications associated with technologies convey a message about how technological systems are shaped, implemented and operated. In this case, governm…
Controversy and Closure
In this paper, the controversy over sewage pollution on Sydney beaches and how it should be remedied is used to analyze the concept of `closure', and what it means for technological controversies. Various parties to this controversy attempted to resolve it in several ways: by redefining sewage pollution as an aesthetic problem; by negotiating a consensus at the decision-makers' level about water quality standards; by putting forward what appeared…
Controversy and Closure
In this paper, the controversy over sewage pollution on Sydney beaches and how it should be remedied is used to analyze the concept of `closure', and what it means for technological controversies. Various parties to this controversy attempted to resolve it in several ways: by redefining sewage pollution as an aesthetic problem; by negotiating a consensus at the decision-makers' level about water quality standards; by putting forward what appeared…
The Right Way to Go? Earth Sanctuaries and Market-based Conservation
Australia's Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) is an internationally acclaimed organisation that uses private property as a way to achieve conservation objectives, thereby demonstrating a commitment to using free market principles to create sustainable futures.This private approach to conservation clearly resonates with the agenda of conservative think tanks and is ideologically motivated.The environmental credentials of this organisation obscure th…
Research note - Neoliberal Think Tanks and Free Market Environmentalism
Corporate-funded think tanks have played a central role in promoting free market environmentalism onto the policy agenda throughout the English speaking world. These think tanks have consistently opposed government regulation and advocated the virtues of a ‘free’ market unconstrained by a burden of red tape. The role of think tanks in the establishment of this ‘neoliberal’ agenda in the US and the UK in recent decades has been well documented
Power Play
Business-managed democracy
The architecture of global governance that has emerged in the past two decades has been strongly influenced by transnational policy actors. This article examines the role of transnational corporate agency in social policy by focusing in particular on the role of business coalitions, elite networking bodies and policy planning groups in fostering unity amongst corporate actors and enrolling political actors into managing democracies in the interes…
Controversy and Closure
In this paper, the controversy over sewage pollution on Sydney beaches and how it should be remedied is used to analyze the concept of `closure', and what it means for technological controversies. Various parties to this controversy attempted to resolve it in several ways: by redefining sewage pollution as an aesthetic problem; by negotiating a consensus at the decision-makers' level about water quality standards; by putting forward what appeared…
Siting a hazardous waste facility
In 1990, the Australian government tried to establish a national hazardous waste incinerator in rural New South Wales. This paper considers the debates over the risks associated with hazardous waste incineration that emerged and the symbolic portrayal of technology implicit in these debates. Risk communications associated with technologies convey a message about how technological systems are shaped, implemented and operated. In this case, governm…
The Use of Nutritional Ergogenic Aids in Sports
As nutritional technology advanced, scientists have been able to synthesize and manufacture all known nutrients, and many of their metabolic by-products, essential to human physiology. Many of these substances are theorized to possess ergogenic potential when take in quantities or forms normally not found in typical foods or diets. Research, although limited in most cases, supports the ergogenicity of some nutrients (e.g., creatine) when consumed…
The role of technology in sustainable development
The inability of governments represented at the 1992 Earth Summit to reach a consensus on reducing either population growth or consumption, and the political need for the concept of sustainable development to accommodate economic growth, mean that the achievement of sustainable development will depend on our ability to reduce the environmental impact of resource use through technological change. This will require the redesign of our technological…
Contract with America
As part of their "Contract with America", Republican lawmakers in the United States Congress have been attempting to reform the country's health, safety, and environmental legislation through the application of risk assessments and cost-benefit analyses. Their "Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Act of 1995" was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in early 1995 but then stalled in the Senate. The bill would require that government agencies …
Charging the earth
Manipulating public knowledge
Author’s response
Ecofeminism and Globalisation
Ecofeminism offers a useful yet limited framework through which to critique globalisation. Ecofeminism claims that the domination of women and of nature are intrinsically linked. Material ecofeminists, in particular, focus on the material conditions of women's lives locating the source of this twin domination in patriarchal capitalism. These ecofeminists provide insights into the impacts of globalisation on women but their analysis of the causes …
Research note - Neoliberal Think Tanks and Free Market Environmentalism
Corporate-funded think tanks have played a central role in promoting free market environmentalism onto the policy agenda throughout the English speaking world. These think tanks have consistently opposed government regulation and advocated the virtues of a ‘free’ market unconstrained by a burden of red tape. The role of think tanks in the establishment of this ‘neoliberal’ agenda in the US and the UK in recent decades has been well documented
Selling the Work Ethic
Selling the Work Ethic
Power Play
Free Market Missionaries
The Free Market Gospel * Promoting Business Values ?*Advertising Free Enterprise * Free Market ?'ducation' * Economic 'Education' in the 1970s * Exporting Free Market Education * Pro-Business Policies as Ideology * Disseminating Pro-Business Policies * Think Tanks Down Under * Economic Advisers * People's Capitalism * Shareholder Democracy * Fiddling with Kiddy Minds * Conclusion
The Right Way to Go? Earth Sanctuaries and Market-based Conservation
Australia's Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) is an internationally acclaimed organisation that uses private property as a way to achieve conservation objectives, thereby demonstrating a commitment to using free market principles to create sustainable futures.This private approach to conservation clearly resonates with the agenda of conservative think tanks and is ideologically motivated.The environmental credentials of this organisation obscure th…
Business-managed democracy
The architecture of global governance that has emerged in the past two decades has been strongly influenced by transnational policy actors. This article examines the role of transnational corporate agency in social policy by focusing in particular on the role of business coalitions, elite networking bodies and policy planning groups in fostering unity amongst corporate actors and enrolling political actors into managing democracies in the interes…
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