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ABSTRACT This article investigates how TikTok Shop reproduces the e‐commerce model of Douyin Shop against a backdrop of divergent regulatory challenges and geopolitical distrust. One of the strategic changes we observe in TikTok Shop is the shift of consumer goods suppliers from local merchants to China‐based sellers.
Shuaishuai Wang, Jing Meng, Yitong Li
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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
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Design as a space of compromise between the global and the local
The contradictory integrity of the global and the local is viewed as a source of transnational and regional development. Design is an important aspect of glocalization, which ensures the “formulation” and introduction of basic ideas into the real life ...
Ольга Железняк
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ABSTRACT Neoliberal market‐oriented approaches to solving social and economic problems defined as “poverty” have received much attention in anthropology and allied disciplines such as sociology and geography and among development studies scholars and practitioners.
Olubukola Olayiwola
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Reassembling the Pimped Ride: A Quantitative Look at the Integration of a Borrowed Expression
Over the past decades, research on the linguistic impact of globalization has foregrounded the socio-pragmatic meaning potential and mental categorization of anglicisms, looking for signs of agentivity and contextual sensitivity in the way receptor ...
Stefano De Pascale +3 more
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ABSTRACT This article aims to sort out the meaning of the term “health nationalism,” operationalize this term and analyze this phenomenon in opposition to the cosmopolitan health policy model. Here, health nationalism is treated as a serious obstacle to access to healthcare and a cultural‐ideological barrier to equity in global public health. Two ideal
Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk
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Disney\u27s successful adaptation in Hong Kong: A glocalization perspective
This paper applies the principles of glocalization theory to Disney\u27s successful adaptation in Hong Kong. Glocalization refers to the interface of the global and the local.
Matusitz, Jonathan
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This paper delves deeply into the forces of globalization, leveraging The handbook of culture and glocalization (2022), edited by Victor N. Roudometof and Ugo Dessì, as both a resource and a subject of critique.
Pelekeh H. Tapang
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What in the world is global health? A conceptual analysis
Abstract This article suggests that the concept of global health – and to an extent the field that it designates ‐ is problematic in various ways. Within public health, the concept of the ‘public’ has been widely investigated. However, “global health” has been introduced in academic, policy, and public discussion with comparably lower level of ...
Alberto Giubilini
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Short Abstract This article analyses the impact of the war in Ukraine on air quality and heating practices in Polish cities. Based on focus group interviews with the residents of Wrocław, they prove that global events may have an impact on local air quality and be a catalyst for processes in various spheres of local and national public life: legal ...
Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk
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