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From local to global (and back): Towards glocal ethnographies of cultural tourism KU Leuven
Researching cultural tourism, covering the gamut from global standards of hospitality to dyadic host-guest interactions, is a fascinating but challenging endeavour. Since travel-for-leisure is a multi-layered phenomenon, many studies fail to understand and explain it adequately. Using a research project in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as an example, I demonstrate how a “glocal ethnography” approach helps to capture the details of the local cultural ...
Just health, from national to global: claiming global social protection Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Is there any difference in quality of prescribing between antibacterials and antifungals? Results from the first global point prevalence study (Global PPS) of antimicrobial consumption and resistance from 53 countries Universiteit Antwerpen
Objectives: To compare the quality of antibacterial with antifungal prescribing in the world. Methods: Data from the global point prevalence study (Global PPS) were used. The Global PPS took place on any one day between February and June 2015 in 335 participating hospitals from 53 countries. It collected demographic data on patients treated with antimicrobials and data on prescription characteristics of the antimicrobials. For the present study, ...
Globalizing local struggles: localizing global struggles: peasant movements from local to global platforms and back Universiteit Gent
In the 21th century, new peasant movements have entered the global stage. What can we learn from this fundamental shift from local to global platforms? This article present a historical-comparative analysis about the scale and range of peasant actions in the globalizing world of the 20th and 21st century. We focus on former types of peasant movements and on the twenty-first century transnational peasant movement La Vía Campesina. How were and ...