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Author : Mark Padilla
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826515858
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Author : Mark Padilla
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 9780826515841
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Author : Wendy Williams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2012-04-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781466490062
One of the most profound influences of globalisation is that people from everywhere are falling in love with people from everywhere else. The Globalisation of Love is about the whirls and twirls, the quirks and perks, the frustrations and the fun of a multicultural relationship.
Author : Finbarr Livesey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101871229
This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. If left unexamined, they will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all. For the past fifty years or so, the global economy has been run on three big assumptions: that globalization will continue to spread, that trade is the engine of growth and development, and that economic power is moving from the West to the East. More recently, it has also been taken as a given that our interconnectedness—both physical and digital—will increase without limit. But what if all these ideas are wrong? What if everything is about to change? What if it has already begun to change but we just haven't noticed? Increased automation, the advent of additive manufacturing (3D printing, for example), and changes in shipping and environmental pressures, among other factors, are coming together to create a fast-changing global economic landscape in which the rules are being rewritten—at once a challenge and an opportunity for companies and countries alike.
Author : Francesca Lia Block
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805096272
After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
Author : Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2002-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0822384086
Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western—particularly American—popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacation—the export of Japanese media and culture is big business. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi Iwabuchi explores how Japanese popular culture circulates in Asia. He situates the rise of Japan’s cultural power in light of decentering globalization processes and demonstrates how Japan’s extensive cultural interactions with the other parts of Asia complicate its sense of being "in but above" or "similar but superior to" the region. Iwabuchi has conducted extensive interviews with producers, promoters, and consumers of popular culture in Japan and East Asia. Drawing upon this research, he analyzes Japan’s "localizing" strategy of repackaging Western pop culture for Asian consumption and the ways Japanese popular culture arouses regional cultural resonances. He considers how transnational cultural flows are experienced differently in various geographic areas by looking at bilateral cultural flows in East Asia. He shows how Japanese popular music and television dramas are promoted and understood in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and how "Asian" popular culture (especially Hong Kong’s) is received in Japan. Rich in empirical detail and theoretical insight, Recentering Globalization is a significant contribution to thinking about cultural globalization and transnationalism, particularly in the context of East Asian cultural studies.
Author : Jennifer S. Hirsch
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Companionate marriage
ISBN : 9780472099597
Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world
Author : Wendy Williams
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Families
ISBN : 9781904881513
The Globalisation of Love is based on dozens of interviews with multicultural couples from around the world. The book includes chapters on multicultural weddings, religion, race, food, language and children. It is both humorous and factual and Wendy includes personal anecdotes from her own experience in a multicultural family.
Author : Nicole Constable
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520937228
By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships—their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating—this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745666507
The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does 'sexuality' come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these questions, Anthony Giddens disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture. The emergence of what the author calls plastic sexuality - sexuality freed from its intrinsic relation to reproduction - is analysed in terms of the long-term development of the modern social order and social influences of the last few decades. Giddens argues that the transformation of intimacy, in which women have played the major part, holds out the possibility of a radical democratization of the personal sphere. This book will appeal to a large general audience as well as being essential reading for students and professionals.