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Showing 1 to 20 of 284 for “"globalized"”.
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Helping Behavior in a Globalized Community
<p>This qualitative study examines the participation of post-Katrina residents in neighborhoods of New Orleans’ Upper 9 th Ward. I examine respondent self-concepts and attachment to the community to gain understanding of how individuals participate in voluntary helping behavior in their locality. …
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New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom
<p>New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom contends that changing demographic diversity in American higher education and increasing globalization call for curricular and pedagogical transformation of writing courses. The writing curriculum for "globalized classrooms" should be …
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King Abdullah's Game: Autocrats and Globalized Interests
… Saudi Arabia is an autocrat facing increasingly globalized political dynamics. Instability in the Middle East calls into question the sustainability of his regime, but by balancing the interests and demands of both his domestic constituents and the international community, King Abdullah has …
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RURAL POLITICAL AGENCY AND LOCAL POLITICS IN GLOBALIZED MARKET
… RPO, as they desire to stay competitive in the globalized market. The dissertation further explores how membership in RPOs promotes not only economic well-being of its members but also rural communities’ involvement in political activities, mainly by participating in policymaking discussions. …
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Improved supplier selection and cost management for globalized automotive production
For many manufacturing and automotive companies, traditional sourcing decisions rely on total landed cost models to determine the cheapest supplier. Total landed cost models calculate the cost to purchase a part plus all logistics costs to transport the part from the supplier to the plant. Although …
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GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY
<p>Feminisms are oftentimes confronted with dissonance, resistance, and backlash. Invested in criticizing the cultural and institutional emergence of patriarchy and calls to re-order structures of inequality make feminism threatening to status quo power dynamics. “Women Against Feminism”—a social …
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Multi-ethnic London: an architectural study of religious buildings in a globalized urban culture
… religious buildings within cities in our current globalized world. As a site for investigation, London is a city where many ethnicities live side-by-side and, moreover, have built their own cultural buildings. Therefore, this thesis focuses on religious buildings for immigrant communities in …
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After the Aquaculture Bust: Impacts of the Globalized Food Chain on Poor Philippine Fishing Households
… Philippine aquatic resources into the globalized food chain. Following structural adjustment policies imposed beginning in the 1980s, the Philippines shipped massive levels of animal protein to world markets, but this country has grown less food self-sufficient. During the decades that …
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A new India: Contestations of national identity at the crossroads of postcolonial aspirations and globalized imagination
… of individual aspirations within a globalized imagination of 21st century India. In analyzing the metaphoric construction of a New India, I look at the unrestrained urbanization that has followed economic liberalization and the political mobilization of marginalized sections of the …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
In this study, I examine the "jazz novel" from a global perspective, following recent trends in musicology which attempt to restore the international gaps in the canonical "American" jazz historical narrative. I introduce the essays by providing some contextual, historical, and theoretical …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
In this study, I examine the "jazz novel" from a global perspective, following recent trends in musicology which attempt to restore the international gaps in the canonical "American" jazz historical narrative. I introduce the essays by providing some contextual, historical, and theoretical …
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Network control in a globalized world : how Visa and Swift's founding structures serve their stakeholders on the International stage
… nearly every country on earth. However, the globalized networks differ in their organizational structures: Visa utilizes a centralized, U.S. focused, hub-and-spoke model; Swift uses a decentralized, transaction-volume neutral, point-to-point network. Although Visa's centralized network …
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"Consuming the ""authentic"": globalized nostalgia and the politics of hybridity through culinary tourism and heritage foodways. A case study of Galicia, Spain."
This work interrogates the historical present through the lens of culinary tourism and heritage foodways, positing that the contemporary interest in authenticity and heritage are emblematic of a populism that has the potential to be emancipatory and liberating or reactionary. I read these …
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A policy evaluation of the Bologna Declaration and its impacts on the United States' leadership status in the globalized higher education market
… a policy analysis of the implications of globalized competition in higher education, and examined responses to the Bologna Declaration and other international student competition influences from the top twenty international student-enrolling institutions in the United States. To remain …
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Incorporating global perspectives into a social studies methods class: a case study
… First, what images or narratives about the globalized world do preservice teachers and teacher educators bring into a preservice social studies methods class? Second, what kinds of global perspectives and tensions about global perspectives do preservice teachers and teacher educators …
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Growth strategies of small nations : with special reference to Ireland, Finland and Singapore
… boundaries of an economy. In the context of a globalized world economy, it is appropriate to extend the model outside of national borders. Small nations that successfully tap on external markets, international flows of goods and services, and the global circulation of capital, talent and …
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