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The World Bank and the Building of Local Institutionality in Senegal: A Path toward Municipal Adjustment

open access: yesUrban Studies Research, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
This paper examines the impacts of municipal adjustment strategies on territorial governance in Africa, with specific reference to Senegal, as the result of the action of the World Bank. The paper identifies the process through which the World Bank is reconfiguring the system of actors and changing the local institutional environment to embody its ...
Mebometa Ndongo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glocalisation of global market forces and the repositioning of a peripheral Russian mining community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Increasing globalisation and global market forces shape the development of resource peripheries in the Barents region. Foreign direct investments are concrete example of global market forces.
Suutarinen, Tuomas
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Me and My Indonesianess: How Kaskusers Express Their In-group Feelings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
: It is asserted that new cultural hub provided by communication technology in the 21st century has driven both collectivist and individualist societies to reshape their identities.
Pujarama, W. (Widya)
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Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.
Short Abstract This paper addresses the geography of translation by exploring the re‐scripting of Indian spirituality into and through consumerism. More specifically, it examines the interplay between ‘Indian’, ‘modern’, and ‘Western’ in the advertising language deployed by the company Patanjali.
Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett
wiley   +1 more source

“Glocalisation” doctrine in the Israeli Public Education System: A contextual analysis of a policy-making process

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
In 2016, the Israeli Ministry of Education (MoE) issued a policy document recommending six new doctrines for pedagogical development at schools. Amid those is ‘Glocalism’, aimed at addressing the global/local mix within the schooling system.
Yuval Dvir, Claire Maxwell, Miri Yemini
doaj   +1 more source

Searching for an Environmental Identity: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1996) by Kiran Desai

open access: yesES Review, 2018
This paper analyses Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1996) from an ecocritical perspective, with the aim to highlight that contemporary Indian narratives in English still honour a conceptualisation of nature as a place in which one can find
Carmen Escobedo de Tapia
doaj   +1 more source

Kas on alust rääkida rahvuslikest subkultuuridest? [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2019
General interpretation of youth subcultures often largely ignores the national element, and in case it is included at all, then only in the framework of local changes in global music or style or cultural and social conflicts.
Aimar Ventsel
doaj   +1 more source

From audiences to publics : convergence culture and the Harry Potter phenomenon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the mid-nineties, changing business and communication models influenced the way in which cultural industries operated. The spheres of public and private, production and distribution, ownership and access had to be reconsidered and were characterised ...
Fenech, Giuliana
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The Infrastructure of Glocalisation

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter argues that the persistence of the diaspora bonding cannot be explained solely by referring to shared identity since it needs to be accounted for how this identity persists and largely has remained similar across diaspora communities. Nor is it enough to argue that homeland India caters in the identity needs of the diaspora community. That
openaire   +2 more sources

Teachers' Exemplar of Effective Peer Collaboration in Young Children: Exploring Perspectives and Unravelling Generative Mechanisms

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 60, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Peer collaboration is widely recognized as essential in children's learning and early childhood education policy and pedagogy. However, research has largely focused on researchers' interpretations, with limited attention to teachers' perspectives.
Dongqing Yu, Qiurong Wu, Karen Guo
wiley   +1 more source

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