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Cosmopolitan democracy in times of globalisation Ghent University
Although philosophical discourse on cosmopolitanism has a longstanding tradition, the currently ongoing processes of globalisation force this discourse to strike out on radically new paths. Whereas previously cosmopolitanism often remained a merely philosophical idea, the historical circumstances of 21st century open up politically specific perspectives for bringing it into – or at least closer to – reality. Hence arises the need for a thorough ...
Globalisation and education for sustainable development : exploring the global in motion Ghent University
The article explores education for sustainable development (ESD) as a policy concept in different spaces and how it is re-articulated as part of a process of globalisation. The objective is to explore empirically an alternative set of logics in order to conceive of this process of globalisation. With this objective in mind, the article investigates articulations of ESD and sustainable development in Vietnamese and Thai policy-making, and ...
World cities under conditions of financialized globalization: Towards an augmented world city hypothesis Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
This paper interrogates the enduring yet changing role of world cities as centers of capitalist ‘command and control’ amidst deepening uneven development. By incorporating financialization processes in Friedmann’s (1986) world city hypothesis, we hypothesize that the world city archipelago remains an obligatory passage point for the relatively assured realization of capital. The advanced producer services complex appropriates superprofits as ...
David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and the "Novel of Globalization": Biopower and the Secret History of the Novel KU Leuven Ghent University
David Mitchell's debut novel Ghostwritten (1999) not only depicts a globalized world; its peculiar formal organization also embodies the mode of relatedness that characterizes globalization. This article shows that the invisible, decentralized power that defines globalization can be understood as what Michel Foucault called biopower. As a novel of globalization, Mitchell's novel lays bare the hidden historical and theoretical affinities between ...
Safeguarding Savoir-Faire: Culinary Heritage Initiatives, Globalization, and Nationalism in Contemporary France. KU Leuven
In 2010, UNESCO granted the status of intangible cultural heritage to "The Gastronomic Meal of the French" elevating the art of the French meal to a position of protected cultural status. In the years following, a multitude of cultural events and movements have developed in France, many of which cite this accolade as a starting point for platforms seeking to further promote culinary heritage. While UNESCO states that intangible cultural heritage ...
Language and globalization in Belgian corporate contexts University of Antwerp
This dissertation examines the intricate interplay between language and globalization in corporate contexts against the complex and localized sociolinguistic background of Belgium. A qualitative case study approach is adopted to unravel the intricacies of this interplay from institutional, individual, and interactional perspectives, and the dissertation is structured into three empirical case studies on the basis of these three perspectives. The ...
The globalization of local indexicalities through music : African-American English and the blues Ghent University
This article reports on a sociolinguistic study into the prevalence of African-American English (AAE) features in the lyrical language use of blues artists, relying on data from different social and national backgrounds and time periods. It adopts a variationist linguistic methodological approach to examine the prevalence of five AAE forms in live-performed blues music: /a?/ monophthongization, post-consonantal word-final /t/ deletion, ...