Jim Delaney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Delaney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Delaney |
| SIGNATURE | DELANEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scholar/practitioner research in international development volunteering
International development volunteering (IDV) is the practice of sending skilled international volunteers to exchange knowledge and skills with community-based organisations and individuals in a partner country. IDV is a popular form of development assistance in many countries. As the popularity of these programmes grows, so too does the need for – and interest in – better understanding of their impacts and dynamics. Scholar/practitioner research …
Community BIAs as Practices of Assemblage
Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) are a domain of urban governance that has been aptly characterized as a form of neoliberal urbanization aimed at improving the business climate of downtowns. This paper engages with a growing body of literature on contingent neoliberal urbanisms to consider BIAs as an assemblage of coevolving projects and actors. It focuses specifically on two 'community' BIAs in Toronto's downtown West, where recent actions of d…
The Tools of Empire? Micro-finance, Neo-liberalism, and the Vietnamese State
Marxist studies of imperialism have long focused on the role global finance plays in the reproduction of capital in the West through exploitation of the global South. While recent cultural studies of imperialism have pointed toward the nuanced micro-technologies used to cement international systems of power, there has been relatively little thought given to the role local financial systems play in American imperialism. Thus, in this paper I explo…
Response to Editor’s Page
Community BIAs as Practices of Assemblage
Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) are a domain of urban governance that has been aptly characterized as a form of neoliberal urbanization aimed at improving the business climate of downtowns. This paper engages with a growing body of literature on contingent neoliberal urbanisms to consider BIAs as an assemblage of coevolving projects and actors. It focuses specifically on two 'community' BIAs in Toronto's downtown West, where recent actions of d…
Scholar/practitioner research in international development volunteering
International development volunteering (IDV) is the practice of sending skilled international volunteers to exchange knowledge and skills with community-based organisations and individuals in a partner country. IDV is a popular form of development assistance in many countries. As the popularity of these programmes grows, so too does the need for – and interest in – better understanding of their impacts and dynamics. Scholar/practitioner research …
The Tools of Empire? Micro-finance, Neo-liberalism, and the Vietnamese State
Marxist studies of imperialism have long focused on the role global finance plays in the reproduction of capital in the West through exploitation of the global South. While recent cultural studies of imperialism have pointed toward the nuanced micro-technologies used to cement international systems of power, there has been relatively little thought given to the role local financial systems play in American imperialism. Thus, in this paper I explo…
Response to Editor’s Page
Community BIAs as Practices of Assemblage
Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) are a domain of urban governance that has been aptly characterized as a form of neoliberal urbanization aimed at improving the business climate of downtowns. This paper engages with a growing body of literature on contingent neoliberal urbanisms to consider BIAs as an assemblage of coevolving projects and actors. It focuses specifically on two 'community' BIAs in Toronto's downtown West, where recent actions of d…
Scholar/practitioner research in international development volunteering
International development volunteering (IDV) is the practice of sending skilled international volunteers to exchange knowledge and skills with community-based organisations and individuals in a partner country. IDV is a popular form of development assistance in many countries. As the popularity of these programmes grows, so too does the need for – and interest in – better understanding of their impacts and dynamics. Scholar/practitioner research …
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works)