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36 produkter
Teaching Practices in a Global Learning Environment
An Interdisciplinary Take on International Education
Av Hanne Tange
Häftad, 2022
672 kr
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This book examines teaching practices in international education, focusing on two significant meanings of the notion of ‘practice’: the concrete activities used by university lecturers and the role of education as a platform for transferring particular skills or approaches. In addition to …
Glocal Pharma
International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity
Av Ericka Johnson, Ebba Sjögren m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become ‘glocal’ - …
Eurocentrism at the Margins
Encounters, Critics and Going Beyond
Av Lutfi Sunar
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Eurocentrism remains a prevailing feature of Western-dominated social scientific perspectives, tending to ignore alternative views originating outside the West and thus maintaining a form of scholarly hegemony. As such, there is an urgent need to reconsider Eurocentrism in social science, to ask …
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World
The Intimate and the Extimate
Av Sanja Bahun, V.G. Julie Rajan
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
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Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics. The volume hosts methodologically and disciplinarily diverse contributions from around the …
Decolonizing European Sociology
Transdisciplinary Approaches
Av Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez, Manuela Boatcă m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2512 kr
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Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes …
Civilized Rebels
An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power
Av Dennis Smith
Inbunden, 2018
2586 kr
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Civilized Rebels compares in depth four very well-known literary and political figures, who all opposed arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Through comparative biographies of Oscar Wilde, Jean Améry, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it explores the long-term process of the retreat of the …
Civilized Rebels
An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power
Av Dennis Smith
Häftad, 2018
667 kr
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Civilized Rebels compares in depth four very well-known literary and political figures, who all opposed arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Through comparative biographies of Oscar Wilde, Jean Améry, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it explores the long-term process of the retreat of the …
Public Space Democracy
Performative, Visual and Normative Dimensions of Politics in a Global Age
Av Nilüfer Göle
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, …
Public Space Democracy
Performative, Visual and Normative Dimensions of Politics in a Global Age
Av Nilüfer Göle
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, …
Global Exposure in East Asia
A Comparative Study of Microglobalization
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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In contrast to speculative, sweeping literature on globalization Global Exposure in East Asia grounds globalization theories in a detailed empirical analysis, providing a systematic investigation of what until now have been grand narratives of huge global phenomena. This book presents a micro-level …
China and Globalization in the Amazon
Workers, Expatriates, and the Chinese Production Model
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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China and Globalization in the Amazon examines Chinese investment in the Global South, with particular attention to industrial activity in Latin America. Based on ethnographic work conducted in several Chinese factories in the Amazon region of Brazil, whether private, partially private, or …
China and Globalization in the Amazon
Workers, Expatriates, and the Chinese Production Model
Häftad, 2022
648 kr
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China and Globalization in the Amazon examines Chinese investment in the Global South, with particular attention to industrial activity in Latin America. Based on ethnographic work conducted in several Chinese factories in the Amazon region of Brazil, whether private, partially private, or …
Glocal Town
Social Change and Globalization
Inbunden, 2025
2512 kr
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This book presents a novel theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the emerging “glocal” realities of (sub)urban space. Beginning with a study of a suburb of Athens, it illustrates the dynamic interaction between the local and the global, charting a range of radical social changes …
Glocal Town
Social Change and Globalization
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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This book presents a novel theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the emerging “glocal” realities of (sub)urban space. Beginning with a study of a suburb of Athens, it illustrates the dynamic interaction between the local and the global, charting a range of radical social changes …
Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination
Artists as Political Agents
Häftad, 2026
727 kr
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Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents. Do artists play a role in civil society? Can artists “make a difference” in the world? In what ways do artists act politically? To address …
Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination
Artists as Political Agents
Inbunden, 2025
2512 kr
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Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents. Do artists play a role in civil society? Can artists “make a difference” in the world? In what ways do artists act politically? To address …
Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions
An integrated approach
Av Ugo Dessi
Häftad, 2017
822 kr
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The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach explores how Japanese religions respond to the relativizing effects of globalization, thereby repositioning themselves as global players. Organized around concrete case studies focusing on the engagement of Japanese Buddhism, …
Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism
Häftad, 2016
851 kr
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Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism proposes …
Teaching Practices in a Global Learning Environment
An Interdisciplinary Take on International Education
Av Hanne Tange
Inbunden, 2020
2441 kr
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This book examines teaching practices in international education, focusing on two significant meanings of the notion of ‘practice’: the concrete activities used by university lecturers and the role of education as a platform for transferring particular skills or approaches. In addition to …
Decolonizing European Sociology
Transdisciplinary Approaches
Av Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez, Manuela Boatcă m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes …
Community, Competition and Citizen Science
Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World
Av Anne Holohan
Häftad, 2016
240 kr
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Voluntary distributed computing projects divide large computational tasks into small pieces of data or work that are sent out over the Internet to be processed by individual users, who participate voluntarily in order to provide solutions that would ordinarily require investments of millions of …
Reimagining Social Movements
From Collectives to Individuals
Av Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Antimo L. Farro
Häftad, 2016
851 kr
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The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, namely resource mobilization, framing, collective identity, and new social movements. It is now, however, …
Global Culture: Consciousness and Connectivity
Av Roland Robertson, Didem Buhari-Gulmez
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the great neglect of the issues of global culture and global consciousness. With contemporary worldwide culture increasingly characterized by such themes as …
Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights
Between the Universal and the Particular
Häftad, 2018
690 kr
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This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international human rights framework and different actors seeking political and social change. Presenting detailed new case studies from Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and …
Reimagining Social Movements
From Collectives to Individuals
Av Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Antimo L. Farro
Inbunden, 2014
2520 kr
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The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, namely resource mobilization, framing, collective identity, and new social movements. It is now, however, …
Global Exposure in East Asia
A Comparative Study of Microglobalization
Inbunden, 2015
2586 kr
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In contrast to speculative, sweeping literature on globalization Global Exposure in East Asia grounds globalization theories in a detailed empirical analysis, providing a systematic investigation of what until now have been grand narratives of huge global phenomena. This book presents a micro-level …
Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism proposes …
Community, Competition and Citizen Science
Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World
Av Anne Holohan
Inbunden, 2013
767 kr
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Voluntary distributed computing projects divide large computational tasks into small pieces of data or work that are sent out over the Internet to be processed by individual users, who participate voluntarily in order to provide solutions that would ordinarily require investments of millions of …
Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights
Between the Universal and the Particular
Inbunden, 2016
2520 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international human rights framework and different actors seeking political and social change. Presenting detailed new case studies from Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and …
Global Culture: Consciousness and Connectivity
Av Roland Robertson, Didem Buhari-Gulmez
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the great neglect of the issues of global culture and global consciousness. With contemporary worldwide culture increasingly characterized by such themes as …
