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Consumer Cultural Renaissance: Conceptualisation, Scale Development, and Validation
ABSTRACT As incessant globalisation leads to the pervasive erosion of traditional Asian culture by Western consumerism, a recent phenomenon has emerged that allures Asian consumers to reconnect with their traditional culture via consumption. We postulate that this behaviour is rooted in a self‐identity, consumer cultural renaissance (CCR), that has not
Richard Lee +3 more
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Pteris madhusoodananii (Pteridaceae), a new fern species from India
Pteris madhusoodananii sp. nov. (Pteridaceae), from the Kolli hills of Eastern Ghats, India, is described. The new taxon is morphologically distinct, characterized by a unique lamina texture and coloration, specific pinna‐pinnule architecture and distinct spore micromorphology.
Kalathil Sethumadhavan Abhilash +6 more
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Nussbaum’s Concept of Cosmopolitanism: Practical Possibility or Academic Delusion?
In this paper, we explore Martha Nussbaum’s version of cosmopolitanism and evaluate its potential to reduce the growing global discord we currently confront.
M. Ayaz Naseem +1 more
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Saving cosmopolitanism from colonialism
Cosmopolitanism – the view that moral concern, and consequently moral duties, are not limited by borders – seems to justify colonialism with a ‘civilizing’ mission, because it supports the enforcement of moral norms universally, with no distinctions ...
Daniel Weltman
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Terrestrial Cosmopolitanism, Posthumanism, and Multispecies Modes of Being in Cereus Blooms at Night
Cosmopolitanism has generally been used to describe a philosophy that imagines all humans as citizens of a single “human„ community.
Sara V. Press
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Two new endemic species of Portulaca (Portulacaceae) from the Brazilian Pampa grasslands
Portulaca L. is a monophyletic, cosmopolitan genus of succulent plants comprising ca 153 species, with particularly high diversity in xerophytic ecosystems in tropical and subtropical regions. Based on morphological evidence, we describe and illustrate two new species from the Brazilian Pampa, Portulaca guaritensis and Portulaca guenoa.
José Roberto Ferraz +3 more
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A Genealogy of the Ibis Trilogy
A Genealogy of the Ibis Trilogy: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Bengali Culture The tension between a local dimension and a more cosmopolitan one has become increasingly crucial in Amitav Ghosh’s writing.
Carlotta Beretta
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Cosmopolitanism and the Body [PDF]
This chapter explores the ways in which the relationships between cosmopolitanism and embodiment have been understood in social theory and analysis.
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Anti-cosmopolitanism and ‘ethnic cleansing’ at Cronulla
Anti-cosmopolitanism was at the centre of Sydney’s Cronulla beach riots in December 2005, and in this chapter we argue that a logic of ‘ethnic cleansing’ is at work in these processes.
Asquith, Nicole L. (R17860) +1 more
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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
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