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The New Frontiers of Urban Space in a Glocal World: between Pandemic and Immigration
Global cities have historically been the symbolic meeting place of the longstanding relationship between immigration and globalization. But the pandemic has challenged this historic relationship.
Giuseppe Terranova
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Ecological spatial patterns reflect the underlying processes that shape the structure of species and communities. Mechanisms like inter and intra species competition, dispersal and host-pathogen interactions are believed to act over a wide range of scales, and the inference of the process from the pattern is, despite its popularity, a challenging task.
Efrat Seri +2 more
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This paper investigates how young Japanese women in contemporary Soka Gakkai (SG) navigate Japan’s continuous gender stratified society that remains culturally rooted in the ‘salaryman-housewife’ ideology.
Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen
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Territorial identity: Between local and global [PDF]
Paper takes a territory as a social construct and relational concept, according to which a society is seen as being in a constant process of deterritorilaization and retrriatorialization.
Petrović Mina
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Beyond Globalization: Reflections on Glocalism
The old adage states that humankind moves “one step forward” before it moves “two steps backward”, suggesting that there is no such thing as a linear evolution. This is particularly true when applied to our present time, the “age of globalization”.
Fred Dallmayr
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My Brilliant Friend: Drawing the Profile of a Transnational Interpretative Community
The article focuses on the international reception of the first season of the TV series L’amica geniale (My Brilliant Friend, 2018-). This Italian media product has been distributed and circulated in numerous countries around the globe as the television ...
Elisa Farinacci, Claudio Bisoni
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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at Tiffany’s: Existentialism and Consumption in Capote’s Novella [PDF]
Existentialism has been used within marketing to enrich understanding of consumer motivations and behaviour. Consumption may be used as a means of existential avoidance or facilitator of existential authenticity.
Canavan, Brendan
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The term GLOCAL that appeared only thirty years ago and was taken by us as the theme of this issue, is internally contradictory. The global, relating to the globe as a whole, looks like the opposite to the local, partial. Our paradoxical time, however, fills the term with actual meaning. Humanity is united in a common information space, and none of the
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EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SOCIAL GROUPS
In today’s tightly interconnected world, the complexity of global and local dynamics emerges with particular clarity in the realm of education, culture, and social groups, where glocal tensions challenge the rigid universal frameworks and demand nuanced,
GLOCALISM
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Glocalization and everyday life [PDF]
About thirty years after its introduction into the academic debate, the idea of glocalization continues to be acknowledged as a source of inspiration by many scholars across disciplinary boundaries.
Sedda Francesco, Ugo Dessì
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