Suchergebnisse

Thinking paradoxically -- Conceptualizing and perceiving culture -- Leadership, motivation, and group behavior across cultures -- Communicating across cultures -- Crossing cultures -- Cross-cultural negotiations -- Multi-ethnicity, religion, geography, and immigration -- Economic development and culture -- Globalization and culture -- Strategy, business functions, and international human resource management

Forms and themes in Japanese popular culture -- Historical roots -- Postwar popular culture -- Themes in Japanese pop -- Sources of the Japanese pop imagination -- Japanese culture, Western models -- The legacies of defeat -- Change and subversion -- The global appeal of Japanese popular culture -- Quality, content, and difference -- Familiarity and the media marketplace -- The smell of pop -- American trauma, Japanese pop -- A world of fans -- Lost in translation? : adapting Japanese popular culture for global audiences -- Dubbing, editing, censoring -- Lovable kooks, enduring stereotypes -- Remade in America -- Japan as soft superpower -- The Japanese state and popular culture -- The economics of Japanese pop -- Soft power, hard realities

Most of the papers in this colloquium relate to the territories which the European powers built up overseas during a period of several centuries, part of a process which some theorists of globalization have referred to as a kind of globalization avant la lettre. During the colonial period, the main direction of population flows was from Europe to the overseas empires in America, Africa, Asia and Oceania plus forced migrations from Africa to the Americas. One of the unexpected consequences of European empires and their dissolution has been a reversal of those original North to South migratory flows. Since the end of empire, there have been significant population flows from South to North, i.e. from formerly colonized territories to Europe, leading to the rise of post-colonial minorities within the heartland of the former colonial powers. Post-colonial migrants and their descendants constitute new minorities in Europe not only in a demographic sense but also in their social, political and cultural status. Unlike the United States, which from 1965 onwards gave priority to skills-based criteria in selecting migrants, in Europe during the same period the majority of immigrants from former colonies were unskilled and often illiterate. Not surprisingly, the languages they brought with them have generally remained highly marginalized in relation to the national languages of the countries in which they have settled.

In the globalization 'game' there are no absolute winners and losers. Neither homogenisation nor diversity can capture its contradictory movement and character. The essays and papers collected here offer, from a variety of perspectives, a rich exploration of creativity and innovation, cultural expressions and globalization. This volume of essays, in all their diversity of contents and theoretical perspectives, demonstrates the rich value of this paradoxical, oxymoronic approach' - Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Volume 3 of the Cultures & Globalization seri

Introduction: Culture, Globalization, and Canada's Borders / Victor Konrad and Melissa Kelly -- Viewing Border Culture. Sight and Site on the Line: The Cultural Imaginary of Borderlands in North America / Lee Rodney -- Imagining Nighttime Detroit / Michael Darroch -- Bordering Things: Objects and Subjugated Struggle at the Border / Anelynda Mielke and Nadya Pohran -- Border Cultures: A Retrospective--Part 1: A Context for Border Cultures and Conversations with the Curator / Victor Konrad; Part 2: Border Cultures: The Exhibitions / Srimoyee Mitra. Borders and Culture in Motion -- The Snowbirds: A Cultural Movement Across Borders / Melissa Kelly -- Passing Through and Living Here: Body and Self In-between and on Edge in the Borderlands Region of Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont / Sandra Vandervalk -- North American Cyber New Regionalism in Canada: Online Cultural Borderlands and Change Through New Media / Alexander Rudolph -- #Welcome Refugees: A Canadian Phenomenon that Illustrates the Temporal Dimension of Border Constructs / Renata Grudzien -- Placing and Replacing Border Culture: Indigenous Perspectives -- Across Borders and Cultures: Thomas King's Artistic Activism / Evelyn Mayer -- In the Space between Aboriginal Sovereignty and National Security: Re-engaging Border Security and Mohawk Culture at Akwesasne / Laetitia Rouviere -- Sport, Globalization and the Bordering Process: The Iroquois National Lacrosse Team and the Issue of Contested National Identities / Heidi Weigand and Colin Howell -- A Bio-cultural Planning Approach for Managing Trans-border Cultural Heritage Landscapes / Scott Cafarella, Joel Konrad and Rebecca Sciarra -- Borders, Culture, and Globalization: Some Conclusions, More Uncertainties, and Many Challenges / Melissa Kelly and Victor Konrad.