IALP and the World: Global Perspectives

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
M. Nasser Kotby
Keyword(s):  
Global Perspectives ◽  
The World

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina K. Ramnarine
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
Ensemble Performance ◽  
The World

This Introduction outlines various examples of ensemble performance to highlight diverse practices in the world of orchestras. It poses a fundamental question: What is an orchestra? It raises issues around collective creativity and social agency, which provide thematic foci in relation to a diversity of orchestral practices. Discussion on the conceptual aspects of adopting global perspectives on orchestras highlights comparison as a mode of theorization. The relevance of a comparative approach lies in its capacity to draw together diverse ethnographic case-studies. The Introduction thus provides a framework for reading this volume and it points out some of the conceptual connections between its chapters.

Educational Reform

2019 ◽  
pp. 414-430
Author(s):  
Joseph Ezale Cobbinah ◽  
Michael Yamoah
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Education Delivery

This chapter aims at examining the nature of educational reforms in general, access how they impact on the lives of the citizens, and identify some of the global perspectives of educational reforms. It examines how education could be reformed to make it equitable, address inequality and social injustice that still persists in our society. Educational programs in many parts of the world continue to undergo reformation due to governments' policy changes or ideology, yet so many people seem not to be satisfied with the nature of education delivery. The chapter concludes that educational reform should not only aim at introducing just new courses, restructure the curriculum per se but should aim at ensuring that it equips the citizenry to make them develop entrepreneurial skills, be able to find solutions to their problems and self-reliant. Reforms must also address the social inequality, social injustice, and lack of equity, social and racial discrimination that still persists in our societies today.

Being-in-the-World in the Global Age: Marginal Spaces as Alternative Places in the Belgian–Moroccan Transnational Cityscape of Les Barons

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valérie K. Orlando
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Immigrant Populations ◽  
Global Age ◽  
The World

Abstract:Europe’s immigrant populations are often represented on screen by both European and immigrant filmmakers as marginalized in the violent neighborhoods of peripheral urban areas in Paris, Lyon, London, and elsewhere. The film Les Barons (Nabil Ben Yadir, 2009) seeks to counter such stereotypes. The protagonists of Les Barons are multilingual, multicultural young men with proud ties to their families and the ability, at the same time, to straddle cultural registers and global perspectives as they live their cosmopolitan Dasein, or “Being-in-the-world.”

scholarly journals Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History: Global Perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (S1) ◽  
pp. 13-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ad Knotter
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Mining Communities ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Forced Labour

AbstractThis article provides a general background to the case studies in this Special Issue by highlighting some general themes in the history of migration to coalfields worldwide. All over the world, mining companies have struggled with labour shortages and had to find ways to recruit sufficient numbers of mineworkers. The solutions adopted ranged from the involvement of part-time peasant miners, organized mediation by labour contractors, and systems of forced labour, to state regulation of national and international migration. The importance of these kinds of “intervening institution” in mobilizing labour for the coalmines is illustrated by examples from different parts of the world. Efforts to find new workers for the mines often resulted in the recruitment of ethnic groups of a lower social status, not only because they were rural and unskilled, but also because they were considered inferior from a cultural or ethnic viewpoint. In this respect there was a huge difference from the migration and settlement of skilled miners, like those from Britain and other countries. Ethnic differences were often closely related to differences in skill and social status. Although there are many instances of inter-ethnic solidarity and cooperation, depending on the time-frame and circumstances, these differences could have a profound effect on social relations in mining communities.

scholarly journals Local and global perspectives on the virtual water trade

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 12959-12987 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Tamea ◽  
P. Allamano ◽  
J. A. Carr ◽  
P. Claps ◽  
F. Laio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Average Distance ◽  
Virtual Water ◽  
Trade Network ◽  
Virtual Water Trade ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
The World ◽  
Trading Partners ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Other World

Abstract. Recent studies on fluxes of virtual water are showing how the global food and goods trade interconnects the water resources of different and distant countries, conditioning the local water balances. This paper presents and discusses the assessment of virtual water fluxes between a single country and its network of trading partners, delineating a country's virtual water budget in space and time (years 1986–2010). The fluxes between the country under study and its importing/exporting partners are visualized with a geographical representation shaping the trade network as a virtual river/delta. Time variations of exchanged fluxes are quantified to show possible trends in the virtual water balance, while characterizing the time evolution of the trade network and its composition in terms of product categories (plant-based, animal-based, luxury and non-edible). The average distance traveled by virtual water to arrive to the place of consumption is also introduced as a new measure for the analysis of globalization of the virtual water trade. Using Italy as an example, we find that food trade has a steadily growing importance compared to domestic production, with a major component represented by plan-based products, and luxury products taking an increasingly larger share (26% in 2010). In 2010 Italy had an average net import of 55 km3 of virtual water (38 km3 in 1986), a value which poses the country among the top net importers in the world. On average each cubic meter of virtual water travels nearly 4000 km before entering Italy, while export goes to relatively closer countries (average distance: 2600 km), with increasing trends in time which are almost unique among the world countries. Analyses proposed for Italy are replicated for 10 other world countries, triggering similar investigations on different socio-economic actualities.

scholarly journals Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Careful Attention ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Disciplinary Expertise ◽  
Belt And Road

The year 2013 saw the launch of the largest, most influential investment initiative in recent memory: China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This globe-spanning strategy has reshaped local economies and regional networks, and it has become a contested subject for scholars and practitioners alike. How should we make sense of the complex interactions that the BRI has enabled? Understanding these processes requires truly global perspectives alongside careful attention to the role that local actors play in giving shape to individual BRI projects. The contributions in Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity provide both 'big picture' assessments of China's role in regional and global interactions and detailed case studies that home in on the role agency plays in BRI dynamics. Written by leading area studies scholars with diverse disciplinary expertise, this book reveals how Chinese efforts to recalibrate the world are taken up, challenged, revamped, and reworked in diverse contexts around the world.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document