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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"global age"”.
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Business Ethics and Global Age Cosmopolitanism
… address is how to create and teach an ethics of Global Age Cosmopolitanism (GAC). I approach this problem through a philosophical analysis focusing on political, economic, and educational principles. It is my hope that such an ethics will cause university professors and students to become engaged …
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The politics of skill building in a global age
… and out-sourcing decisions, asking: how are globalization pressures mediated and shaped by politically constructed institutions? Chapters One and Two review the literatures on 'varieties of capitalism' and national skill profiles, examining the relationship between skills and production …
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Ghost workers: contemporary French documentary filmmaking in the global age
… documentary filmmakers have recorded the impact globalization has had on their society; the corpus presented here gives evidence of a shared effort to question the political and ideological affiliations of a practice largely committed to leftist ideals throughout most of the twentieth century. …
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Hybrid Modernity: The Scientific Construction of Korean Medicine in a Global Age
… to science, biomedicine, and industry in a globalizing age. For this project, I conducted fieldwork research in the Korean medicine community of Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea for 22 months over a five-year time period (1999-2003). This community known as the capital of Korean medicine …
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The rise of cities and the problem of political agency in the global age
… years, the idea of the ‘rise of cities’ as global political actors has gained prominence in international policy circles. The narrative takes credence from growing scepticism regarding the ability of sovereign states to tackle contemporary global issues, from climate change to migration. …
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Organised labour and migration in the global age: a comparative analysis of trade union responses to migrant labour in Austria, Germany, Ireland and the UK
… are made further difficult not only by language barriers, but also by the fact that migrants are over-represented in those sectors of the economy where union support is traditionally weak. Thus, contemporary labour migration poses many challenges to trade unions, including intra- and …
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Labour, Environment and Empire in the South Atlantic (1780-1860)
… faced a dramatic transformation during the Global Age of Revolutions (1780-1830) and moved from being a transition zone between Europe and Asia into a proper maritime system. The great global issues of labour (slavery, indentured labour, white emigration), environment (environmental …
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Globalization and basketball in China: governance, market and culture
… economic, and cultural circumstances in the global age. This study aims to investigate the process of globalization in basketball through an examination of its multidimensional manifestations. The study aligns itself with Ritzer’s (2003, 2007b) conceptualization of dichotomizing the process …
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Celluloid classicism: Early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam
… exchange of knowledge between film, dance, and stage versions of Bharatanāṭyam during the early decades of the twentieth century. The dissertation includes deliberations on subjects such as the participation of women from the devadāsī (courtesan) community in the cinema, the period of the urban …
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The power of geography : universal discourse, global coloniality, and local sovereignty in the sustainable city apparatus
… out two important implications regarding engagement with power for urban geographers seeking to embrace a ‘relational’ conceptualisation of planning and policy making. Firstly, it highlights a failure to critically problematize what constitutes the ‘local’ institutional contexts of urban …
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The Anglo-Dutch Imperial Meridian in the Indian Ocean World, 1795-1820
… I follow Chinese migrants who show how engagements between Chinese and British and Dutch colonists determined British policies of landholding and labour. I trace Dutch and British ruling elites who reveal that officials created migration regulations tied to Dutch notions of status. This is …
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Co-designing in love: towards the emergence and conservation of human sustainable communities
… the vital dynamics of homing-in-love in a global age. In a four-month ethnographic investigation of three Western-European ecovillages, the research explores particular designed platforms of conversation as examples of the practice of ecological design from which more sustainable manner of …