Today it is clear that both modernizing and smartening tax system cause to increase tax revenues and moves the country's economy towards transparency and tax justice. This article aims at presenting a paradigmatic model of the organizational architecture of tax affairs based on the information technology governance in the state tax organization by using data method, a qualitative research metho...

This article examines the symbolic transformations and material consequences of an irrigation development project designed to empower indigenous peoples in Cañar, Ecuador. It argues that the project deepened market society and reproduced colonialism more than it empowered indigenous peoples, but indigenous people found ways to appropriate project resources and embed the market in alternative pr...

The authors explore Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) business models in order to characterize two main problems: big initial investment and continuous expenditures. The four main actors of a MMOG environment – game producer, Game, Players and Business Model – are analysed resorting to Actor Network Theory in order to understand their alignment in Business Models and how they can influe...

This article examines controversies surrounding the implementation of the first colonial indigenous health service, the Assistance Médicale, in Cambodia. It characterizes individual and group behaviours in the immediate social conditions of colonial Cambodian society, as well as some of the paradoxes of the modernization narrative ascribed to the colonial science of this period. This discussion...

BACKGROUND In a situation where national censuses do not record information on ethnicity, studies of the indigenous Sámi people's health and living conditions tend to use varying Sámi inclusion criteria and categorizations. Consequently, the basis on which Sámi study participants are included and categorized when Sámi health and living conditions are explored and compared differs. This may infl...

Sustainable food production system is the key to sustainable development especially for hill communities where agriculture is the mainstay of economy. History shows that human societies that can protect their livelihood-based natural resources are able to sustain themselves. So even today we find several indigenous communities obtaining sustained and adequate income/returns from their agricultu...

Drawn by their foundation in fundamentally ‘otherwise’ posthuman ethical and moral worlds, archaeologists have recent years employed a number of indigenous theories to interpret archaeological materials. In this paper I consider the potential New Zealand Maori whakapapa , loosely reductively translatable as genealogy or ancestry, become strand general theory archaeology. The qualities which fee...

Abstract Looking into these times of neoconservatism in Brazil, marked by a far-right agenda and populism, this Article explores the role vulnerability (as legal theory, principle or factual consideration) litigation prompted pandemic Brazil. The usages as form resistance to denial their identity vulnerable condition show that can take different forms through litigants may have an independent m...