The Codes Of The Global In The Twenty First Century

Author : Anna Maria Guasch
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788491680345

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The Codes of the Global in the Twenty-first Century by Anna Maria Guasch Pdf

At the start of the twenty-first century, the contemporary implies a clear desire to affirm a type of art that is expanding across the globe, challenging old geographical borders, and reclaiming narratives of place and displacement; in other words, new cultural practices that transfigure the relationship between the global and the local, and articulate the discourse of difference. Being in the place of here and now, working with others in simultaneous and specific practice, and contemplating the production of work in the experience of connection means raising the value of the performative aspect of practice and displacing the reflective role of cultural production. In the new cartography of this multifarious global art, the author, who combines theoretical and curatorial discourse with creative practice, defines how global concepts circulate from the critical analysis of transnational contemporary art to the global.

Author : Klaus-Gerd Giesen,Kees van der Pijl
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443808286

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Global Norms in the Twenty-First Century by Klaus-Gerd Giesen,Kees van der Pijl Pdf

Norms in the contemporary world system are no longer established exclusively through inter-state agreement but increasingly, are becoming truly global. This is made possible by the rapid privatisation of law and the self-regulation of the transnational private sector. Other forces driving this epochal transformation are the overwhelming pre-eminence of the United States, the erosion of the role of the United Nations, and the appearance of new actors such as subnational entities and NGO’s. They all contribute to the creation and ideological justification of new norms. This collection brings together critical studies on this complex process. Written by authors from eleven different countries, both established scholars and young specialists, the book challenges the often convenient rationalisations of regime theory, the governance approach, and ‘post-national’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ democracy, in order to explore the practical, theoretical and ethical implications of the new world of global norms.

Author : Frederic S. Pearson,J. Martin Rochester
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000022505444

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International Relations by Frederic S. Pearson,J. Martin Rochester Pdf

Author : J. Clarke,G. Edwards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230518698

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Global Governance in the Twenty-first Century by J. Clarke,G. Edwards Pdf

The key challenges of globalization are diffuse and outside the control of any one state. In its most ambitious and forward looking form, global governance seeks to create an international social fabric, albeit imperfect, which cumulatively, amounts to more than the sum of its parts. Global Governance in the Twenty-first-century aims to open a number of new areas for further analysis, and in particular, to begin a process of cross-fertilization between different disciplines examining issues related to global governance.

Author : Ole J. Mjøs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350348745

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An Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century by Ole J. Mjøs Pdf

An Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough introduction to the field of global media today. The book presents the key changes taking place as the global media landscape evolves, and the main theories of the field, that explain these developments. Tracing, first, the formative development of an international and global media landscape throughout the 20th century from the telegraph, television and film export, and transnational television to the Internet, the book then focuses on developments in the 21st century. This includes: the digitization of the global media and communications sector; the popularization of the Internet and digital infrastructure such as the smartphone and platforms; the emergence of global online media and services; the production and distribution of digital media content; and the exploitation of user data. Case studies illustrate key developments throughout the book. The book shows how the field is characterized by a continuity of critical concerns in relation to power, influence, and domination; media user empowerment and exploitation; and social and sustainable development and democratic conditions, as well as geopolitical shifts, in a global context.

Author : Brandon Chua,Elizabeth Ho
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000832112

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The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century by Brandon Chua,Elizabeth Ho Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century offers new perspectives on contemporary literary adaptation as a dynamically global field. Featuring contributions from an international team of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers literary adaptation to be a complex global network of influences, appropriations, and audiences across a diversity of media. It offers site-specific case studies that situate literary adaptation within global market forces while challenging the homogenizing effects of globalization on local literatures and adaptation practices. The collection also provides a multi-disciplinary and transnational discussion around a wide array of topics in literary adaptation in a global context, such as soft power, decolonization, global justice, the posthuman, eco criticism, and forms of activism. This Companion provides scholars, researchers, and students with a survey of key methodologies, current debates, and ideologies emerging from a new and exciting phase in literary adaptation.

Author : Robert L. Stevenson
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:49015001468694

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Global Communication in the Twenty-first Century by Robert L. Stevenson Pdf

Provides a vivid armchair tour of world cultures, media systems, and problems in international communication.

Author : R. A. Fernando
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781665735636

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21St Century Leadership to Fight the Code Red for Business by R. A. Fernando Pdf

Twenty-First-Century Leadership to Fight the Code Red for Business aims to equip a cadre of leaders with the tools they need to stop using fossil fuels for energy, electricity, and transport to reduce their carbon footprint. Inspired by 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, the book offers an important addition to the canon of literature for leaders who want to cultivate a sustainability mindset. In straightforward prose, the author outlines what’s at stake amid the climate crisis and the social, physical, and economic calamities that will follow if leaders don’t act. The book also highlights three disruptors—technology, geopolitics, and governance—that need strategic action. The four key traits that set apart a twenty-first-century leader include: • an appreciation for mobilizing science as part of business strategy; • an urgent need to make an impact on the code red for business; • a sustainability mindset that prioritizes the planet and people over profit; • a willingness to embed the Twenty-First-Century Board Leadership Model in the business’s agenda. We can either ignore science, as the nineteenth-century-mindset leaders have done by making profit their foremost priority, or become relevant, twenty-first-century, science-led, sustainability-mindset leaders dedicated to saving the planet.

Author : Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo,Brian Willems,Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000988260

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Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century by Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo,Brian Willems,Slavoj Žižek Pdf

Bringing together over forty original short essays, some academic, others more creative in nature, this collection responds to the political, historical, social, and economic situation in which we find ourselves today. The editors argue that we are living in a repetition that must be stopped – if our goal is that the signifier "humanity" remains in the following centuries, the time has come to work in the present. The objective is not to deliver precise or quick answers, but to gather varied voices from different continents, bringing together different languages, ideas, practices, theories, thoughts, and desires. In the words of Yanis Varoufakis, "urging us to become agents of a future that ends unnecessary mass suffering and inspire humanity to realise its potential for authentic freedom." To leave the concept of a manifesto open, the contradictory aspects of the chapters are a subject of the manifesto itself. This is a manifesto of contradictions that reflects our reality as well as our struggles and our aspirations. This unique anthology will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences interested in critical theory and social change.

Author : Michael J. Marquardt,Nancy O. Berger
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780791492178

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Global Leaders for the Twenty-First Century by Michael J. Marquardt,Nancy O. Berger Pdf

New times demand new kinds of leaders. In a technological workplace which may be more virtual than physical, where bytes of information and cyberspace need to be managed more than people, leaders will have to thrive amidst high chaos and continuous change. Global Leaders for the Twenty-First Century profiles twelve such leaders from business and government and discusses eight key attributes necessary for successful leadership in the future. Based upon extensive research and experiences with top leaders from around the world, the authors have identified the eight critical competencies needed by twenty-first century leaders: (1) a global mindset, (2) learning and teaching skills, (3) a servant-steward relationship to one's organization, (4) systems thinking, (5) spirituality and a concern for ethics, (6) a willingness to embrace new technologies, (7) innovation and risk-taking, and (8) vision-building. Twelve of the top up-and-coming leaders from around the world who possess these attributes are profiled. They include the Fortune magazine's first two Asian leaders of the year (CEOs Nobuyuki Idei of Sony and Cheong Choong Kong of Singapore Airlines), two highly acclaimed political leaders (President Mary McAleese of Ireland and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan), the leading lights in the technology field (CEOs Jorma Ollila of Nokia in Finland and John Chambers of Cisco Systems in the United States), pioneer leaders for women (Carol Bartz, CEO of AutoDesk) and minorities (Ken Chenault, CEO-designate of American Express), the world's most innovative leader (Ricardo Semler, owner of Semco in Brazil), a leader in recognizing the importance of community service and employee partnership (Henry Carris, Carris Community of Companies), the director of one of the top executive development programs in the world (Felipe Alfonso, Asian Institute of Management), and a radical new thinker in the energy field (John Browne, CEO of BP Amoco).

Author : Victor Roy Squires,Hugh Martin Milner,Katherine Anne Daniell
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466579637

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River Basin Management in the Twenty-First Century by Victor Roy Squires,Hugh Martin Milner,Katherine Anne Daniell Pdf

Worldwide development of agriculture and industry creates burgeoning demands on natural resources. Management of the rivers and the surrounding landscape is one of the important tasks for today and for the foreseeable future. Lessons learned from centuries of management (and mismanagement) have been distilled into principles and practices which for

Author : Vadim Radaev,Zoya Kotelnikova
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800082687

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The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy by Vadim Radaev,Zoya Kotelnikova Pdf

The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy contributes to the understanding of the ambivalent nature of power, oscillating between conflict and cooperation, public and private, global and local, formal and informal, and does so from an empirical perspective. It offers a collection of country-based cases, as well as critically assesses the existing conceptions of power from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The diverse analyses of power at the macro, meso or micro levels allow the volume to highlight the complexity of political economy in the twenty-first century. Each chapter addresses key elements of that political economy (from the ambivalence of the cases of former communist countries that do not conform with the grand narratives about democracy and markets, to the dual utility of new technologies such as face-recognition), thus providing mounting evidence for the centrality of an understanding of ambivalence in the analysis of power, especially in the modern state power-driven capitalism. Anchored in economic sociology and political economy, this volume aims to make ‘visible’ the dimensions of power embedded in economic practices. The chapters are predominantly based on post-communist practices, but this divergent experience is relevant to comparative studies of how power and economy are interrelated.

Author : Zachary Zimmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317128175

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Global Ageing in the Twenty-First Century by Zachary Zimmer Pdf

Population ageing - a growth in the proportion of a population that is in older age - is now occurring in every region and nearly every country of the world. Indeed, the growth of older populations is among the important global phenomena of the twenty-first century. It poses both opportunities and challenges for societies and policy makers, but these are far from uniform worldwide. Dynamic factors are at work impacting on how ageing will influence people, places and policies and there are large variations in the rate and timing of population ageing across countries, owing to differing social, health and economic circumstances and a variety of policy options from which to choose. Given this variation in the context of global ageing as a backdrop, this edited book focuses on three overarching themes that are among the most critical to understand if societies are to age successfully in the twenty-first century and beyond: Healthy ageing and health care; the ageing workforce, retirement and the provision of pensions; shifting intergenerational relations. These three themes are cross-cut by other dimensions that are intertwined with the dynamic processes of ageing, such as immigration/emigration, contrasting policy regimes and global and national economic forces. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all scholars, students and policy-makers working within this area of study.

Author : Thomas Piketty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674979857

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty Pdf

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0197265324

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Writing the History of the Global by Maxine Berg Pdf

How do we write about the history of a place, a person, an event or an idea in its context in the world? How do we do history in the current age of globalization? In this book historians engage in new dialogues outside their former specialisms to face new challenges of comparative and connective histories.