American foundations in the Great Bear Rainforest: Philanthrocapitalism, governmentality, and democracy

Tedesco, Delacey

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.07.003

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“…Some of those provide significant amounts of funding for public health (e.g., the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; (McCoy, Kembhavi, Patel, & Luintel, ) through a wide range of health organizations to create benefits (Bishop, ; Bishop & Green, ; Rogers, ). However, as foundation philanthropy has become more prominent, policy analysts in a variety of disciplines, including public health (Stuckler et al, ), have raised a range of concerns (Bosworth, ; Edwards, ; Goss, ; McGoey, ; Reich, ; Tedesco, ; Thompson, ).…”

Section: Methods Of Corporate Federal Income Tax Avoidancementioning

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Public Health and Corporate Avoidance of U.S. Federal Income Tax

Wiist¹

2018

World Med & Health Policy

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The amount of U.S. federal revenue affects the government's ability to provide public health services, programs, infrastructure, and research to adequately protect the public's health. Public health funding shortages are chronic. Corporate income tax avoidance is one source of unrealized federal tax revenue that, if collected and allocated to public health, could help offset those shortages. Major corporate methods of tax avoidance, their effect on federal revenue, and recommended policy changes are described. Corporate tax avoidance and government revenue shortages are framed as social determinants of health, and research questions and data sources for public health researchers for examining the issue are suggested. Although there is no guarantee that any additional corporate income tax revenue would be directed to public health, the subject warrants the attention of public health researchers and policy advocates. The United States serves as a case study for public professionals in other countries to conduct similar analyses.

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Section: Methods Of Corporate Federal Income Tax Avoidancementioning

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Public Health and Corporate Avoidance of U.S. Federal Income Tax

Wiist¹

2018

World Med & Health Policy

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“…In the Canadian context (and elsewhere in the world), CBM programs are governed under neoliberal political economic systems, with three key features: the retention of power by settler colonial states and private companies, rather than Indigenous peoples; the privileging of metrics recognized by Western science, which align with capitalist economics; and the reinforcement of extractive logics through monitoring programs, whereby land is a site for extraction. First, because financing for CBM programs is often provided by state and corporate sources-or from grants from foundations whose wealth depends on the contemporary financial system (Tedesco 2015)-these initiatives are embedded from the outset in processes of dispossession. CBM programs are often designed as a response to existing or proposed industrial activities and land use change, where proposed developments reflect the priorities of an extractivist state (Peyton and Keeling 2017).…”

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Colonialism in Community-Based Monitoring: Knowledge Systems, Finance, and Power in Canada

Cohen

Matthew

Neville

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Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Community-based monitoring (CBM) programs are increasingly popular models of environmental governance around the world. Accordingly, a handful of review papers have highlighted the various benefits, challenges, and governance models associated with their uptake. These reviews have been pragmatic in their recommendations and have supported CBM scholars and practitioners in implementing and understanding the various possible forms of CBM, but they have largely been silent on issues around the power dynamics implicit in CBM. Structured around explorations of the colonial politics of knowledge, funding, and finance, this article argues that dominant knowledge systems-specifically those that underpin Western, colonial governments and liberal, capitalist economies-shape the provisioning of funding for local programs and determine the significance of different types of community observations in shaping management decisions. To make this argument, we situate our work at the intersection of political economy and knowledge systems, using theoretical insights and empirical examples to show that funding and finance are key sources of power in shaping CBM programs. These are important insights because CBM is often framed as a purely scientific-and therefore politically neutral-activity. Through this work, we explore questions of intellectual property, histories of institutional exclusion and the privileging of certain knowledge systems, and the relationships of trust and mistrust across different groups and authorities, with the aim of stimulating critical discussions on the power relationships in CBM that will be useful to scholars and practitioners.

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“…Innovative studies have also started to zero in on the subject of Inter-American relations, such as those of Calandra (2015), which addressed a mediumterm timeframe in the sub-continent, and Quesada (2015), which shed light on the three-way relationship that existed between the Ford Foundation, universities in Chile and universities in the US. Recently, scholars have also started using the category of philanthrocapitalism or strategic philanthropy, to emphasize how these institutions rely on business practices applied to philanthropic projects and use market-driven procedures for the resolution of social issues (Thompson, 2018;Tedesco, 2015).…”

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Cultural philanthropy and political exile: the Ford Foundation between Argentina and The United States (1959-1979)

Calandra

2019

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This article aims to reconstruct the role played by a giant of American philanthropy-the Ford Foundation (FF) - in Argentina starting from a very critical moment for Inter-American relations during the Cold War: 1959. The research is based on an extensive amount of archive sources, including specific information about the grants given by the foundation to hard science professionals in order to escape the political emergency of the mid-Sixties. This contribution will be divided into three parts (i) a brief introduction to the main goals and strategy of the FF and strategy in Latin America in light of the imperatives of the bipolar conflict (ii) the role played in supporting social sciences and organizing resettlement programs (iii) the several contradictions in the process of welcoming these scholars in the U.S. academies.

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American foundations in the Great Bear Rainforest: Philanthrocapitalism, governmentality, and democracy

Cited by 32 publications

References 31 publications

Public Health and Corporate Avoidance of U.S. Federal Income Tax

Public Health and Corporate Avoidance of U.S. Federal Income Tax

Colonialism in Community-Based Monitoring: Knowledge Systems, Finance, and Power in Canada

Cultural philanthropy and political exile: the Ford Foundation between Argentina and The United States (1959-1979)

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