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This book argues that the neoliberal globalisation of higher
education faces a need for recalibration. In light of increased
concerns from universities in cultivating globalisation, this
volume brings together a multi-ethnic and multilingual team of
researchers who argue that the continued development of
internationalized education now requires new research and
practices. As university leaders seek to build the best programs to
help students to go abroad, they can face a number of challenges -
risk management, negotiating with diverse partners, designing rich
experience-based learning and the hopes, fears and limitations of
the students themselves. Consequently, the authors argue that
changes are particularly important given the current US-centric and
UK-centric structural readjustments to globalization policies
across all fields of higher education and knowledge production.
This multi-perspectival edited collection will appeal to students
and scholars of global education, globalization and international
education.
This book argues that the neoliberal globalisation of higher
education faces a need for recalibration. In light of increased
concerns from universities in cultivating globalisation, this
volume brings together a multi-ethnic and multilingual team of
researchers who argue that the continued development of
internationalized education now requires new research and
practices. As university leaders seek to build the best programs to
help students to go abroad, they can face a number of challenges -
risk management, negotiating with diverse partners, designing rich
experience-based learning and the hopes, fears and limitations of
the students themselves. Consequently, the authors argue that
changes are particularly important given the current US-centric and
UK-centric structural readjustments to globalization policies
across all fields of higher education and knowledge production.
This multi-perspectival edited collection will appeal to students
and scholars of global education, globalization and international
education.
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that
investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection
of brain and culture. The brain and the nervous system are our most
cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at
birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult
size and open to cultural sculpting at multiple levels. Recognizing
this, the new field of neuroanthropology places the brain at the
center of discussions about human nature and culture. Anthropology
offers brain science more robust accounts of enculturation to
explain observable difference in brain function; neuroscience
offers anthropology evidence of neuroplasticity's role in social
and cultural dynamics. This book provides a foundational text for
neuroanthropology, offering basic concepts and case studies at the
intersection of brain and culture. After an overview of the field
and background information on recent research in biology, a series
of case studies demonstrate neuroanthropology in practice.
Contributors first focus on capabilities and skills-including
memory in medical practice, skill acquisition in martial arts, and
the role of humor in coping with breast cancer treatment and
recovery-then report on problems and pathologies that range from
post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans to smoking as a part
of college social life. Contributors Mauro C. Balieiro, Kathryn
Bouskill, Rachel S. Brezis, Benjamin Campbell, Greg Downey, Jose
Ernesto dos Santos, William W. Dressler, Erin P. Finley, Agustin
Fuentes, M. Cameron Hay, Daniel H. Lende, Katherine C. MacKinnon,
Katja Pettinen, Peter G. Stromberg
Knowledge Workers in the Information Society addresses the changing
nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media,
information, and knowledge industries. These knowledge workers
include journalists, broadcasters, librarians, filmmakers and
animators, government workers, and employees in the
telecommunications and high tech sectors. Technological change has
become relentless. Corporate concentration has created new
pressures to rationalize work and eliminate stages in the labor
process. Globalization and advances in telecommunications have made
real the prospect that knowledge work will follow manufacturing
labor to parts of the world with low wages, poor working
conditions, and little unionization. McKercher and Mosco bring
together scholars from numerous disciplines to examine knowledge
workers from a genuinely global perspective.
The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to
the relationship between biology and culture, and the human
condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games,
and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on
movement and social activity, and these activities have served
throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture
for any number of exclusive or inclusive motivations: money, fame,
health, spirituality, or social and cultural solidarity. The study
of anthropology, as presented in Anthropology of Sport and Human
Movement, provides a scope that offers a critical and discerning
perspective on the complex calculus involving human biological and
cultural variation that produces human movement and performance.
Each chapter of this compelling collection resonates with the theme
of a tightly woven relationship of biology and culture, of
evolutionary implications and contemporary biological and cultural
expression.
Knowledge Workers in the Information Society addresses the changing
nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media,
information, and knowledge industries. These knowledge workers
include journalists, broadcasters, librarians, filmmakers and
animators, government workers, and employees in the
telecommunications and high tech sectors. Technological change has
become relentless. Corporate concentration has created new
pressures to rationalize work and eliminate stages in the labor
process. Globalization and advances in telecommunications have made
real the prospect that knowledge work will follow manufacturing
labor to parts of the world with low wages, poor working
conditions, and little unionization. McKercher and Mosco bring
together scholars from numerous disciplines to examine knowledge
workers from a genuinely global perspective.
Discussion of the current Information Revolution tends to focus on
technological developments in information and communication and
overlooks both the human labour involved in the development,
maintenance and daily use of information and communication
technologies (ICTs), and the consequences of the implementation of
these ICTs for the position and divisions of labour. This volume
aims to redress this imbalance by exploring the role, position and
divisions of information and communication labour in the broadest
sense through periods of revolutionary technological change. The
contributions range from eighteenth-century German clerical work,
through Indian telegraph workers' actions in 1908, computing labour
in early twentieth-century US electrical engineering, the impact of
containerization and ICT on South-African stevedores and
international seafarers, to the development of the computer
programmer, labour organization in Silicon Valley, and the role of
volunteer work in the early development of the World Wide Web.
The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to
the relationship between biology and culture, and the human
condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games,
and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on
movement and social activity, and these activities have served
throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture
for any number of exclusive or inclusive motivations: money, fame,
health, spirituality, or social and cultural solidarity. The study
of anthropology, as presented in Anthropology of Sport and Human
Movement, provides a scope that offers a critical and discerning
perspective on the complex calculus involving human biological and
cultural variation that produces human movement and performance.
Each chapter of this compelling collection resonates with the theme
of a tightly woven relationship of biology and culture, of
evolutionary implications and contemporary biological and cultural
expression.
With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy,
optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic
boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in
information and communication technology, management and production
techniques, and global integration that spurred the "New Economy"
of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers
of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural
practices and social relations have been altered by the radical
economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. The
contributors, most of whom are anthropologists, investigate changes
in the practices and interactions of futures traders, Chinese
entrepreneurs, residents of French housing projects, women working
on Wall Street, cable television programmers, and others.Some
contributors highlight how expedited flows of information allow
business professionals to develop new knowledge practices. They
analyze dynamics ranging from the decision-making processes of the
Federal Reserve Board to the legal maneuvering necessary to
buttress a nascent Japanese market in over-the-counter derivatives.
Others focus on the social consequences of globalization and new
modes of communication, evaluating the introduction of new
information technologies into African communities and the
collaborative practices of open-source computer programmers.
Together the essays suggest that social relations, rather than
becoming less relevant in the high-tech age, have become more
important than ever. This finding dovetails with the thinking of
many corporations, which increasingly employ anthropologists to
study and explain the "local" cultural practices of their own
workers and consumers. Frontiers of Capital signals the
wide-ranging role of anthropology in explaining the social and
cultural contours of the New Economy. Contributors. Jean Comaroff,
John L. Comaroff, Greg Downey, Melissa S. Fisher, Douglas R.
Holmes, George E. Marcus, Siobhan O'Mahony, Aihwa Ong, Annelise
Riles, Saskia Sassen, Paul A. Silverstein, AbdouMaliq Simone, Neil
Smith, Caitlin Zaloom
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