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After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of
international politics with a force. The 2018 Global Compact for
safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) is the latest and most
comprehensive framework for global migration governance. Despite
these dynamics, migration is still predominantly framed as a
state-centric policy issue that needs to be managed in a top-down
manner. This book proposes a difference approach: A truly
multi-stakeholder, multi-level and rights-based governance with
meaningful participation of migrant civil society. Drawing on 15
years of participant observation on all levels of migration
governance, the book maps out the relevant actors, "invited" and
"invented" spaces for participation as well as alternative
discourses and framing strategies by migrant civil society. It thus
provides a comprehensive and timely overview on global migration
governance from below, starting with the first UN High Level
Dialogue in 2006, evolving around the Global Forum on Migration and
Development (GFMD) and leading up to the consultations for the
International Migration Review Forum in 2022.
This comprehensive Handbook brings together conceptual
contributions from leading international scholars concerning the
reciprocal relations between globalisation and tourism.
Contributors deconstruct the global forces, processes and
challenges that face the tourism industry, analysing the effects of
neoliberalism and multinational capitalism on global tourist
activity, as well as the consequences of colonialism, terrorism,
warfare, climate change, modern technological advances and the
rapidly changing dynamics of global mobility. International in
scope and empirically evocative, this Handbook outlines and
dissects the social, cultural, economic and political effects of
globalisation on tourism in the 21st century. This Handbook is
critical to human geography and tourism studies scholars and
researchers at all levels, particularly those interested in the
relations between globalisation and tourism in an increasingly
interconnected world. Contributors include: A. Amore, Y.
Apostolopoulos, P. Arvanitis, S. Beeton, N. Cavlek, J. Connell,
D.T. Duval, L. Dwyer, A. Gelbman, C.M. Hall, D.-I.D. Han, K.
Hannam, J. Henry, J. Higham, Y. Jiang, H. Lemelin, J.W. Macilree,
J.E. Mbaiwa, T. Mbaiwa, M. McDonald, P. Mogomotsi, M.
Mostafanezhad, D.H. Olsen, M. Peters, B. Prideaux, B.W. Ritchie,
C.M. Rogerson, T. Ronen, R. Sharpley, M. Sigala, G. Siphambe, S.
Sonmez, J. Stephenson, W. Stovall, W. Suntikul, G. Taylor, D.J.
Timothy, M.C. tom Dieck, H. Tucker, F. Vellas, S. Wearing, P.
Whipp, J. Wiitala, A. Williams
Long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they
create - continue to transform British politics. In this accessible
and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots
of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of
educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in
the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over
immigration, identity and diversity. They argue that choices made
by political parties from the New Labour era onwards have mobilised
these divisions into politics, first through conflicts over
immigration, then through conflicts over the European Union,
culminating in the 2016 EU referendum. Providing a comprehensive
and far-reaching view of a country in turmoil, Brexitland explains
how and why this happened, for students, researchers, and anyone
who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in
which we live.
This edited collection brings together essays that share in a
critical attention to visual culture as a means of representing,
contributing to and/or intervening with discursive struggles and
territorial conflicts currently taking place at and across the
outward-facing and internal borders of the People's Republic of
China. Elucidated by the essays collected here for the first time
is a constellation of what might be described as visual culture
wars comprising resistances on numerous fronts not only to the
growing power and expansiveness of the Chinese state but also the
residues of a once pervasively suppressive Western
colonialism/imperialism. The present volume addresses visual
culture related to struggles and conflicts at the borders of Hong
Kong, the South China Sea and Taiwan as well within the PRC with
regard the so-called "Great Firewall of China" and differences in
discursive outlook between China and the West on the significances
of art, technology, gender and sexuality. In doing so, it provides
a vital index of twenty-first century China's diversely conflicted
status as a contemporary nation-state and arguably nascent empire.
Combining global, media, and cultural studies, this book analyzes
the success of Hallyu, or the "Korean Wave" in the West, both at a
macro and micro level, as an alternative pop culture globalization.
This research investigates the capitalist ecosystem (formed by
producers, institutions and the state), the soft power of Hallyu,
and the reception among young people, using France as a case study,
and placing it within the broader framework of the 'consumption of
difference.' Seen by French fans as a challenge to Western pop
culture, Hallyu constitutes a material of choice for understanding
the cosmopolitan apprenticeships linked to the consumption of
cultural goods, and the use of these resources to build youth's
biographical trajectories. The book will be relevant to
researchers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in
sociology, cultural studies, global studies, consumption and youth
studies.
This book advances North Atlantic Treaty Organization (henceforth,
NATO) burden analysis through a decomposition of the political,
financial, social, and defense burdens members take on for the
institution. The overemphasis of committing a minimum of 2% of
member state Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defense spending, as a
proxy indicator of alliance commitment does not properly reflect
how commitments reduce risks should Article V be invoked through
attack (i.e., 2% is a political & symbolic target adopted by
Defense Ministers in 2006 at Riga). Considering defense burdens
multi-dimensionally explains why some members overcontribute, as
well as, why burden sharing negotiations cause friction among 30
diverse members with differing threats and risks. In creating a
comprehensive institutional burden management model and focusing on
risks to members, the book explores the weaknesses of major
theories on the study and division of collective burdens and
institutional assets. It argues that member risks and threats are
essential to understanding how burdens are distributed across a set
of overlapping institutions within NATO's structure providing its
central goods. The importance of the USA, as a defense underwriter
for some, affects negotiations despite its absence from research
empirically; new data permit testing the argument (Kavanaugh 2014).
This book contributes conceptual innovation and theoretical
analysis to advance student, researcher, and policymaker
understanding of burden management, strategic bargaining, and
defense cooperation. The contribution is a generalizable risk
management model of IO burden sharing using NATO as the case for
scientific study due to its prominence.
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Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this
book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology.
Chris Hesketh examines the production of space within the global
political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh's
discussion of state formation in Mexico takes us beyond the
national level to explore the interplay between global, regional,
national, and sub-national articulations of power. These are linked
through the novel deployment of Antonio Gramsci's concept of
passive revolution, understood as the state-led institution or
expansion of capitalism that prevents the meaningful participation
of the subaltern classes. Furthermore, the author brings attention
to the conflicts involved in the production of space, placing
particular emphasis on indigenous communities and movements and
their creation of counterspaces of resistance. Hesketh argues that
indigenous movements are now the leading social force of popular
mobilization in Latin America. The author reveals how the wider
global context of uneven and combined development frames these
specific indigenous struggles, and he explores the scales at which
they must now seek to articulate themselves.
The West's cherished dream of social harmony by numbers is today
disrupting all our familiar legal frameworks - the state, democracy
and law itself. Its scientistic vision shaped both Taylorism and
Soviet Planning, and today, with 'globalisation', it is flourishing
in the form of governance by numbers. Shunning the goal of
governing by just laws, and empowered by the information and
communication technologies, governance champions a new normative
ideal of attaining measurable objectives. Programmes supplant
legislation, and governance displaces government. However,
management by objectives revives forms of law typical of economic
vassalage. When a person is no longer protected by a law applying
equally to all, the only solution is to pledge allegiance to
someone stronger than oneself. Rule by law had already secured the
principle of impersonal power, but in taking this principle to
extremes, governance by numbers has paradoxically spawned a world
ruled by ties of allegiance.
The book reviews globalisation by identifying causes behind the
discontent it has produced in recent years. It variously engages in
economics, political economy, development and policy discourses to
study experiences of countries and institutions in managing and
adjusting to globalisation. Extending the analysis to latest global
developments, including the remarkable advance of technology and
digitalisation, and political and economic upheavals caused by
COVID19, the book collects varied academic perspectives and
reflects on the present as well as future. Comprising chapters
written by distinguished academics and policy experts, the book is
a rare collection of cross-disciplinary objective evaluations of
globalisation.
In the 19th century, colonial rule brought the modern world closer
to the Indonesian peoples, introducing mechanized transport,
all-weather roads, postal and telegraph communications, and
steamship networks that linked Indonesia's islands to each other,
to Europe and the Middle East. This book looks at Indonesia's
global importance, and traces the entwining of its peoples and
economies with the wider world. The book discusses how products
unique to Indonesia first slipped into regional trade networks and
exposed scattered communities to the dynamic influence of far-off
civilizations. It focuses on economic and cultural changes that
resulted in the emergence of political units organized as
oligarchies or monarchies, and goes on to look in detail at
Indonesia's relationship with Holland's East Indies Company. The
book analyses the attempts by politicians to negotiate ways of
being modern but uniquely Indonesian, and considers the
oscillations in Indonesia between movements for theocracy and
democracy. It is a useful contribution for students and scholars of
World History and Southeast Asian Studies.
The authors of this book argue that in order to meet the challenges
of globalisation and promote their own economic welfare,
governments need strong policy instruments that will enable them to
take up a strategic role in selected policy arenas. They illustrate
how this retooling of policymaking requires a rethinking of the
form of government intervention and, especially, an emphasis on its
modern developmental role. The book begins with chapters exploring
theoretical issues such as: economic and political aspects of the
state, the impact of government expenditure, the case for and
against free trade, and neoclassical and Keynesian approaches to
public finance. Succeeding chapters examine fiscal policy,
development problems in the European Community, and the success of
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. The final
chapters present the Developmental State argument not only as a
coherent theory but more importantly as a realistic development
policy framework. This will be an important reference text for
students and scholars of public sector economics, public finance,
East Asian studies, development studies and governance.
Policymakers will also find the in-depth discussions a valuable
tool.
Processes of globalization have changed the world in many, often
fundamental, ways. Increasingly these processes are being debated
and contested. This Handbook offers a timely, rich and critical
panorama of these multifaceted developments from a geographical
perspective. This Handbook explores the myriad of ways in which
differing cross-border flows - of people, goods, services, capital,
information, pollution and cultures - have (re)shaped concrete
places across the globe and how these places, in turn, shape those
flows. With original contributions from worldwide leading scholars,
the Handbook positions globalization in a broader historical
perspective, presenting a variety of geographical examples so that
readers can better understand these processes. Regional studies and
economic and human geography scholars will find this an invaluable
resource for exploring the key topics of the geographies of
globalization. Lecturers and advanced students will also find the
detailed case studies useful to help explain the fundamental
concepts outlined in the book. Contributors include: P.C. Adams,
A.-L. Amilhat Szary, D. Arnold, D. Bassens, S. Choo, K.R. Cox, E.
Currid-Halkett, S. Dalby, E. dell'Agnese, B. Derudder, T. Fogelman,
C. Gaffney, J. Gupta, M. Hesse, R. Horner, S. Huang, A. Isaksen,
A.E.G. Jonas, A. Jones, J.M. Kleibert, R.C. Kloosterman, R.
Koetsenruijter, T. Lam, J. Luukkonen, V. Mamadouh, V. Mazzucato, E.
McDonough, B. Miller, S. Moisio, M. Muller, B. Oomen, S. Park, M.W.
Rosenberg, J.W. Scott, M. Sparke, P. Terhorst, K. Terlouw, F.
Toedtling, M. Trippl, M. van Meeteren, P. Vries, L. Wagner, Y.-f.
Wu, H.-g. Xu, T. Yamazaki, B.S.A. Yeoh
'Between the ever-open possibilities of the global space, and the
nation-state with its still seemingly irreducible hold on territory
and imagination, lies the region. In higher education there are
many kinds of region. This is by far the best book on regional
developments, and one of the first two or three books we must now
turn to in order to understand global higher education-it provides
an invaluable geo-spatial lens that complements analyses based on
political economy and culture.' - Simon Marginson, ESRC/HEFCE
Centre for Global Higher Education and University College London,
UK This original book provides a unique analysis of the different
regional and inter-regional projects, their processes and the
politics of Europeanisation, globalisation and education.
Collectively, the contributors engage with a range of theories on
regionalising to explore new ways of thinking about regionalisms
and inter-regionalisms with a focus on the higher education sector.
It makes the compelling case that globally, higher education is
being transformed by regionalizing and inter-regionalizing projects
aimed at resolving ongoing economic, political and cultural
challenges within and beyond national territorial states. The
chapters range over a wide geography of regional projects and their
unique politics - from Europe to Latin America, Africa, Asia,
Europe, the Gulf, and the Barent region. Collectively they reveal
the diverse, uneven, and variegated nature of global regionalisms
in higher education. Comprehensive and theoretically informed, this
unique book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students, in
addition to policymakers and administrators involved in higher
education. Contributors include: T. Aljafari, N. Azman, A.A. Bakar,
R.Y. Chao Jr., J.-E. Charlier, S. Croche, R. Dale, Q.A. Dang, L.A.
Gandin, T.D. Jules, S. Melo, P. Motter, T. Muhr, M.L. Neves de
Azevedo, K. Olds, O.M. Panait, D. Perrotta, S.L. Robertson, M.
Sirat, M. Sundet, A. Welch
This volume is an important contribution to the empirical research
on what globalization means in different world regions.
"Resistance" here has a double meaning: - Active, intentional
resistance to tendencies which are rejected on political or moral
grounds by presenting alternative discourses and concepts founded
in specific cultural and national traditions. - Resilience with
regard to globalization pressures in the sense that traditional
patterns of development and politics are resistant to change and
transform the impulses originating from globalization processes in
a way that their results are very different when compared across
regions and are not conducive to globalization. The book points out
the possibility that the local, sub-national, national, and
regional patterns of politics and development will coexist with
globalized structures for quite a while without yielding very much
ground and in ways which may turn out to be a serious barrier to
further globalization. Case studies presented focus on Venezuela
(A. Boeckh), Brazil (J. Faust), the Middle East (M. Beck, S.
Hegasy), Iran (H. Furtig), and Russia (A. S. Makarychev, A.
Shastitko, N. Zubarevich).
It is easy to see that the world finds itself too often in
tumultuous situations with catastrophic results. An adequate
education can instill holistic knowledge, empathy, and the skills
necessary for promoting an international coalition of peaceful
nations. Promoting Global Peace and Civic Engagement through
Education outlines the pedagogical practices necessary to inspire
the next generation of peace-bringers by addressing strategies to
include topics from human rights and environmental sustainability,
to social justice and disarmament in a comprehensive method.
Providing perspectives on how to live in a multi-cultural,
multi-racial, and multi-religious society, this book is a critical
reference source for educators, students of education, government
officials, and administration who hope to make a positive change.
This book presents a multi-sited ethnographic study of the global
development of the Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan. It
explores the order's modern Buddhist social engagements by
examining three globally dispersed field sites: Los Angeles in the
United States of America, Bronkhorstspruit in South Africa, and
Yixing in the People's Republic of China. The data collected at
these field sites is embedded within the context of broader
theoretical discussions on Buddhism, modernity, globalization, and
the nation-state. By examining how one particular modern Buddhist
religiosity that developed in a specific place moves into a global
context, the book provides a fresh view of what constitutes both
modern and contemporary Buddhism while also exploring the social,
cultural, and religious fabrics that underlie the spatial
configurations of globalization.
In a world of global communication, where each one's life depends
increasingly on signs, language and communication, understanding
how we relate and opening ourselves to otherness, to differences in
all their forms and aspects is becoming more and more relevant.
Today, we often understand the differences in terms of adversity or
opposition and forget the value of the similarities. Semiotic
approaches can provide a critical point of view and a more general
reflection that can redefine some aspects of the discussion about
the nature of these semiotic categories, differences and
similarities. The dichotomy differences - similarities is
fundamental to understanding the meaning-making mechanisms in
language (De Saussure, 1966; Deleuze, 1995), as well as in other
sign systems (Ponzio, 1995; Sebeok & Danesi, 2000). Meaning
always appears in the "play of differences" (Derrida, 1978) and
similarities. Therefore, the phenomena of similarities and
differences must be considered complementary (Marcus, 2011). This
book addresses and offers new perspectives for analyzing and
understanding sensitive topics in the world of global communication
(humanities education, responsive understanding of otherness,
digital culture and new media power).
Globalization and technology have created new challenges to
national governments. As a result, they now must share power with
other entities, such as regional and global organizations or large
private economic units. In addition, citizens in most parts of the
world have been empowered by the ability to acquire and disseminate
information instantly. However this has not led to the type of
international cooperation essential to deal with existential
threats. Whether governments can find ways to cooperate in the face
of looming threats to the survival of human society and our
environment has become one of the defining issues of our age. A
struggle between renewed nationalism and the rise of a truly global
society is underway, but neither global nor regional institutions
have acquired the skills and authority needed to meet existential
threats, such as nuclear proliferation. Arms control efforts may
have reduced the excesses of the Cold War, but concepts and
methodologies for dealing with the nuclear menace have not kept up
with global change. In addition, governments have shown
surprisingly little interest in finding new ways to manage or
eliminate global and regional competition in acquiring more or
better nuclear weapons systems. This book explains why nuclear
weapons still present existential dangers to humanity and why
engagement by the United States with all states possessing nuclear
weapons remains necessary to forestall a global catastrophe. The
terms of engagement, however, will have to be different than during
the Cold War. Technology is developing rapidly, greatly empowering
individuals, groups, and nations. This can and should be a positive
development, improving health, welfare, and quality of life for
all, but it can also be used for enormous destruction. This book
reaches beyond the military issues of arms control to analyze the
impact on international security of changes in the international
system and defines a unique cooperative security agenda.
Featuring a foreword penned by Ambassador (Ret) and Professor
Emeritus Horace G. Dawson, this volume articulates the significance
of comparative and international education and affairs as
experienced by elected Fellows of the Comparative and International
Education Society-including some as Fellows of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and the International
Academy of Education. Based upon their decades of multiple research
modalities and senior administrative engagements with universities,
USAID, National Science Foundation, World Bank, Fulbright, and
other agencies, the Fellows explicate critical historical phenomena
and postulate how future directions of the field may evolve. The
volume expounds the salience of cross cutting and interdisciplinary
themes by analyzing how the social sciences, humanities, and
international affairs have affected the evolving nature of the
field. Pedagogical epistemologies, public and educational policies,
and paradigms emerge from applied research as new motifs are
presented in view of geopolitical and global affairs that will
affect education in coming decades.
Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals of
education worldwide. One of its most visible manifestations is the
worldwide endorsement of the idea of "education for global
citizenship," which has been enthusiastically supported by national
governments, politicians, and policy-makers across different
nations. Increasingly, the educational institutions feel under
pressure to respond to globalization forces by preparing students
to engage competitively and successfully with this new realm, lest
their nations be left in the dust. What is the role of
international schools in implementing the idea of "education for
global citizenship"? How do these schools create a culturally
unbiased global curriculum when the adopted models have been
developed by Western societies and at the very least are replete
with (Western) cultural values, traditions, and biases? This
collection of essays attempts to grapple with these complex issues,
while highlighting that culture and politics closely intertwine
with schooling and curriculum as parents, administrators, teachers,
and students of different backgrounds and interests negotiate
definitions of self and each other to construct knowledge in
particular contexts. The goal is to examine the complexity of
factors that drive the global demand for "education for global
citizenship" and de-construct the contested nature of "global
citizenship" by examining how the phenomenon is understood,
interpreted, and modified in different cultural settings. The
authors provide not only a thick description of their cases, but
also a critical assessment of various attempts to initiate and
implement educational reforms aimed at the development of
globally-minded citizens in various national settings.
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