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Decolonising Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation and Internationalis…
Conceived within a context of transdisciplinarity and pluriversalism, and in rigorous response to the Eurocentric, globalising and nationalising structures of power that undergird and inhabit contemporary praxis in higher education – especially in African higher education – this collection of essays brings to the on-going discourse on decolonisation fresh, rich, probing and multilayered per…
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- 9781928424277
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- x, 293p. : ill.
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- 378.68 DEC d
Learning for a better future : perspectives on higher education, cities, busi…
Various international scholars and associates of the PASCAL (Place, Social Capital and Learning Regions) International Observatory (Africa hub), under the auspices of the Centre for Local Economic Development (CENLED) based at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), have contributed chapters in this scholarly book. The book aims to demonstrate how a combination of globalisation, pandemics and the …
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- 9781928523994
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- Iv, 287p.; ill.
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- 338.90091724 LEA l
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
In the autumn of 1950, a young man, the son of refugees from Nazi Germany, enrolled in the economics program at the University of Chicago. Chicago’s department of economics was an unusual place in those days. Ever since the publication of John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory in 1936, Keynesian economics — with its stress on the use of state intervention to manage economic development —…
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- 192094298X
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- vii, 472p. : ill
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- 320.995 GLO g
Football Italia; Italian Football in An Age Of Globalization
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Football has undergone a period of transformation over the last thirty years. Despite these global processes, different national leagues have adapted in different ways. After an initial period of success directly after Italia ’90, Italian football has gone thro…
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- 9781472519214
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- Sociology: sport & leisure
Diasporic Hallyu : The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture
This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular cu…
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- 9
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- 9783030949648
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- ix; 152p;
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- 305.2350971 DIA K
City of crisis : the multiple contestation of southern European cities
The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of the cities. In this book, contributors from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into the complex…
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- 9783839428429
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- 249 p. : ill.
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- 337.142 ECK c
Mnemonic solidarity : global interventions
This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical act…
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- 9783030576691
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- xi, 135p, : ill
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- Entangled Memories in the Global South
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- 306.09 JIE m
Precarious crossings : immigration, neoliberalism, and the Atlantic
Examines the underlying precarity in twenty-first-century immigrant fiction and reveals the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology.
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- 9780814255520
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- ix, 232 p. : ill.
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- 809.933552 PER p
Adaptation in the age of media convergence
This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of novels and Yo…
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- 10
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- 9789048534012
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- 232 p.
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- 700.457 FEH a
Development in turbulent times : the many faces of inequality within Europe
This open access book explores the most recent trends in the EU in terms of development, progress, and performance. Ten years after the 2008 economic crisis, and amidst a digital revolution that is intensifying the development race, the European Union, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, are ardently searching for their development priorities. Against this background, by relying on a cro…
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- 9783030113612
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- 197p. ; ill.
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- 330.94 PAU d
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