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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"glocalisation"”.
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Making the jump: Examining the glocalisation of parkour in Aotearoa New Zealand
… theoretical perspectives to understanding the glocalisation (Robertson, 1995, 2012) of parkour in New Zealand, with each one helping to unpack specific elements of the parkour experience. In my first empirical chapter I draw on Appadurai’s (1990, 1996) model of global cultural flows which …
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Shaping a “Glocal” Premier League in Distinct Markets: Localisation and Hybridisation
… on the nature of neoliberal globalisation/glocalisation as a “two way flow” model between the global and the local. This dissertation identifies that existing literature on football globalisation possesses significant distinctions in patterns and analyses pre and post 2010. It will …
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Football fandom, glocalisation and the ‘Man United in Pidgin’ Twitter community: a study of the glocal village created through the social media practices of a Twitter account dedicated to West African Manchester United Football Club’s fans
… (MUIP’s) Twitter account discusses how the glocalisation of Manchester United Football Club (MUFC) made possible via that account assists the construction of a postcolonial West African masculine online identity or fandom. MUIP is an unofficial MUFC’s social media fan account created by a …
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De-creating Language Borders at the University of Cape Town: “The Fall of English” and the Rise of African Languages in Education
… question within frameworks of decoloniality, glocalisation, translanguaging and the development of African languages in education, this thesis distills ethnographic data to argue that language borders need to be reevaluated in a quest for conviviality informed by the universality of …
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European Construction Companies as Global Players Towards the New Millennium
… global organisation based on the principles of "glocalisation". In part inspired by Porter's (1990) work, competitive advantage of contractors has also been examined in relation to home country specific characteristics. Furthermore Michael Porter's (1980) 'five forces model' has been developed to …
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The Glocal Learning Context in an Adult ESL Classroom: An Interpretivist Case Study of Learners’ Development and Multilingual Identity
… identity formation of adult ESL learners. While glocalisation has emerged as a promising theoretical lens for reimagining education at the global-local interface, its pedagogical enactment and identity-shaping potential remain empirically underexplored in classroom-level research. To address this …
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Satellite broadcasting and young people in Saudi Arabia
… television. Most of the findings support the 'glocalisation' thesis where the global is heavily mediated through Arab versions of the global or Western culture. The study also highlighted possible influences of conflicting cultural messages from external media on the local culture.
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On the fluidity of languages: A way out of the dilemma in English medium instruction classrooms in Thailand
… and Processes (PP), and Internationalisation and Glocalisation (ING), and each component intersects with and impact on the others. The discussion of the findings in this study pays close attention to all components of the framework in order to explain crucial interrelationships shaping EMI in the …
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Lokální specifika na české rapové scéně
In my bachelor thesis, I am exploring contemporary environment of the Czech rap scene, which is based on interdisciplinary methodological-theoretical analysis of scientific works in this area from the past decades in the Czech and international context. I am discribing, how rap and the whole …
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A Postcolonial Critique of Industrial Design: A critical evaluation of the relationship of culture and hegemony to design practice and education since the late 20th century.
A Postcolonial Critique of Industrial Design: A critical evaluation of the relationship of culture and hegemony to design practice and education since the late 20th century. This thesis specifically focuses on the professional practices and training of Western industrial designers using …