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Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from the Northern, particularly American, cities on which much of urban sociology's conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them in terms of a standard urban vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way of seeing. We need a vocabulary that is able to accommodate their different urban experience. This special issue contributes to the work of building that vocabulary. We select five keywords in urban sociology— eviction, segregation, suburbs, violence, and gentrification—and reconstruct them in light of the places we study (India, China, Mexico, the Philippines, and South Africa). Our aim is to produce a set of keywords better equipped to travel South and, in the process, advance a truly global urban sociology.

Exploring the roots of four keywords for our times: Europe, the citizen, the individual, and the peopleThe English keywords are shown to be European concepts with roots in French and parallel traditions in GermanPlaces keywords into their historical context, and shows how the existing Chinese words for people and person are transformed through contact with concepts of European originEstablishes a complex model of political diversity for Europe's cultures and traditions Adopts a combination of critical and analytical methods and corpus-based research Goes beyond a cold analysis of concepts to scrutinize the keywords that move people and get them excited about individual rights, personal destinies and the role of the peopleWith economic, political and cultural globalisation, our world is inseparable from the fates of other nations and peoples. But how far can we trust English to provide us with a reliable lingua franca to speak about our world? If our keywords reflect our cultures and form parts of specific cultural and historical narratives, they may well help trace the paths we take together into the future. This book seeks the roots of four keywords for our times: the people, the citizen, the individual, and Europe. By exploring these keywords in English and understanding stories related to 'equivalent keywords' in Chinese, German, French and Czech, this book helps us to understand how other languages are adapting to English words, and how their worldviews resist 'anglo-concepts' through their own traditions, stories and worldviews

This article calls for greater attention to global cities in the study of world affairs so as to promote a more holistic reading of global governance as a multiscalar set of processes composed by overlapping spheres of authority. The article shows how international studies have been insufficiently sensitive to the strategic role of global cities and how they are capable of acting on the global stage by exerting network power. This sheds light on the multilayered governmentality of global governance from an urban perspective. Looking through a lens of global cities, it is argued, will enable theorists to connect macro processes to micro dynamics across a far wider spectrum of governance and political agencies.

Von Aktivist über Nachhaltigkeit bis zu Zensur: Im Kontext der Wirtschaftsethik gibt es unzählige Fachtermini und Abkürzungen. Das vorliegende Nachschlagewerk eignet sich für den ersten schnellen Überblick. In 110 übersichtlichen Schlüsselbegriffen werden die Grundlagen erläutert. Die Erklärungen sind kompakt und verständlich formuliert und bieten Basiswissen für alle, die einen schnellen Einstieg in das Thema Wirtschaftsethik suchen, einzelne Begriffe nachschlagen oder ihr vorhandenes Wissen auffrischen möchten. Der Inhalt Auf den Punkt und praxisnah definiert finden Sie zentrale Begriffe aus den Bereichen Ethik in der Wirtschaft Verantwortung in Wirtschaft, Unternehmen und Gesellschaft Nachhaltigkeit und Social Responsibility Die Autoren Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel studierte Philosophie und Germanistik sowie Informationswissenschaft an der Universität Konstanz und promovierte im Bereich der Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Universität St. Gallen. Er lehrt und forscht in der Schweiz in Wissensmanagement und Informations-, Roboter- und Maschinenethik. Prof. Dr. Nick Lin-Hi ist Inhaber der Professur für Wirtschaft und Ethik an der Universität Vechta. Er promovierte an der HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management und war von 2009 bis 2015 Juniorprofessor für Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) an der Universität Mannheim. In seiner Forschung beschäftigt er sich insbesondere mit Arbeits- und Konsumwelten im digitalen Wandel, Sprunginnovationen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung sowie der Zukunft der Ernährung. Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek forscht und lehrt seit 2004 an der Handelshochschule Leipzig zu den Themenfeldern Wirtschafts-, Unternehmens- und Führungsethik. Zudem ist er im Vorstand des Wittenberg-Zentrums für Globale Ethik tätig.

A new vocabulary for Environmental StudiesUnderstandings of "nature" have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies. Keywords for Environmental Studies analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies, including the environmental humanities, environmental social sciences, sustainability sciences, and the sciences of nature. Sixty essays from humanists, social scientists, and scientists, each written about a single term, reveal the broad range of quantitative and qualitative approaches critical to the state of the field today. From "ecotourism" to "ecoterrorism," from "genome" to "species," this accessible volume illustrates the ways in which scholars are collaborating across disciplinary boundaries to reach shared understandings of key issues—such as extreme weather events or increasing global environmental inequities—in order to facilitate the pursuit of broad collective goals and actions. This book underscores the crucial realization that every discipline has a stake in the central environmental questions of our time, and that interdisciplinary conversations not only enhance, but are requisite to environmental studies today.Visit keywords.nyupress.org for online essays, teaching resources, and more

Globalization has brought a great effect to human life either economically politically socially or culturally. The free market and the development of information and communication technology have made the job competition become strict. This effect has also influenced the education field especially for the design education. In facing the challenge of the 21st century the design education should make some restructuring as anticipation. This paper will explain about the importance of the education that implants the global perspective view towards the student. Substantial and Perceptual dimension brings some challenge that force the educators to prepare more innovative and new approaches for their teaching method. The studio learning method that surely brings benefit to the student-centered learning will become the focus of the design education. Thus besides stressing on the importance of the academic subject that can shape the student s attitude and competency in facing the 21st century s challenge Petra Christian University also does some trials towards the problem-based learning and case-based learning system for its studio teaching and learning process. Abstract in Bahasa Indonesia : Globalisasi membawa dampak yang sangat besar bagi kehidupan manusia. Globalisasi tidak hanya berdampak pada masalah ekonomi saja tetapi juga bagi berpengaruh pada dimensi politik sosial adan budaya. Globalisasi juga membawa ekonomi pada sistim pasar bebas dunia demikian juga kemajuan teknologi komunikasi dan sistim informasi membawa persaingan pasar dan lapangan kerja yang sangat ketat dimana-mana. Kondisi ini juga berdampak pada dimensi pendidikan demikian juga halnya pada pendidikan desain. Menyongsong abad 21 pendidikan desain juga harus mulai mengadakan restrukturisasi untuk mengantisipasinya. Tulisan ini akan mengulas pentingnya pendidikan yang menanamkan kepada peserta didik pentingnya perspektif global dalam menghadapi globalisasi ini. Dimensi substansial dan dimensi perseptual sebagai unsur perspektif global membawa ...

Despite lingering ambiguity surrounding the concept, global civil society is acclaimed by those who think they belong to it, and validated by international governmental organizations seeking legitimation for their activities. Its enthusiasts believe global civil society presages a more congenial kind of politics that transcends the system of sovereign states. Its critics deride its unrepresentativeness and complicity in established power relations. The critics can be answered by more subtle accounts of representation and by highlighting contestatory practices. Appreciation of the promise and perils of global civil society requires moving beyond preconceptions rooted in dated ideas about civil society and democracy as they allegedly function within states. Irrespective of the sophistication of such post-Westphalian moves, global civil society remains contested terrain, involving interconnected political and intellectual disputes. International relations theory proves less useful than it should be in clarifying what is at stake. Democratic theory can be brought to bear, and this encounter sheds new light on what democracy itself can entail.

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Background to Keywords in the Press -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Cultural and statistical keywords -- 1.3 Analytical and theoretical background -- 1.4 The keywords of the Blair years project -- 1.5 Summary and structure of the book -- Chapter 2: Methods and Data -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Corpus construction -- 2.3 Finding the sociopolitical keywords of the Blair years -- 2.4 Contextual investigation of the keywords -- 2.5 Chapter summary and concluding remarks -- Chapter 3: Sultans of Spin -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Spinning statistics -- 3.3 Spin in context -- 3.4 The semantics of spin in the Blair years -- 3.5 Spin: Summary and concluding remarks -- Chapter 4: Choice is the Word of the Hour -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Previous research on choice -- 4.3 Choice and its meanings -- 4.4 Choice as a mass noun in the Blair and Major Corpora -- 4.5 Choice in public services -- 4.6 Choice and scare quotes -- 4.7 Summary and conclusions - choice as a political absolute -- Chapter 5: The Immense Possibilities of the Word Reform -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The basics of reform -- 5.3 Reform in context -- 5.4 Reform - summary and conclusions -- Chapter 6: The Impact of Living in a More Global World -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The meaning and political importance of global -- 6.3 Statistics of global in the Blair and Major Corpora -- 6.4 Semantic analysis of the co-text of global -- 6.5 Semantic categorization results -- 6.6 Discussion of semantic categories -- 6.7 Global - summary and conclusions -- Chapter 7: A Breeding Ground for Terror -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Terror and its meanings -- 7.3 Statistics of terror -- 7.4 Terror as a premodifier -- 7.5 Terror as a postmodifier -- 7.6 Modified and unmodified terror -- 7.7 Terror - summary and conclusions

The conceptual model on the Global Food System (GFS) formulated by Clotet and others (2013), is articulated around four axes: Availability, Economy, Politics and Knowledge (knowledge, social behavior and culture). In this model, each of these axes has the same significance or weighting and for the quantitative study of results, concepts and methods of Compositional Data Analysis are applied (Jarauta-Bragulat et al., 2018). The purpose of this paper is to study and characterize the social perception in Catalonia of the relative importance (weighting) of each of the four axes of the aforementioned model. The study is carried out through the statistical analysis of the results of a survey completed by people who make up a random sample within the territory of Catalonia. The results of this survey are intended to analyze whether the equal balancing of the model axis is adequate or, on the contrary, the weights should be modified in that territory and, in this way, apply a more refined and representative weighting of reality. Several aspects are exposed and commented on: the design of the questionnaire, the data collection, the application of statistical sampling techniques (stratification by quotas and weighting of the strata), polish debugging techniques, as well as profiling techniques to differentiate groups between the variables of the food system and the sociodemographic characteristics that determine them. Based on the results, conclusions are stated. Main conclusions are: adequacy of the theoretical framework of the global food system to articulate the study (Colomer and Jarauta-Bragulat, 2016); adequacy of cluster analysis as a tool and obtaining four differentiated groups; obtaining a relative weight on the axes of the food system model; valuing availability and economy above the other two axes and, lastly, the need for greater food training for citizens for the collective benefit and for each of its members. ; El modelo conceptual sobre el Sistema Alimentario Global (SAG) formulado por Clotet y otros ...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Keywords,Philippine Media Cultures and Neocolonialisms -- Education and Surplus Laborin Philippine Neoliberalism -- Philippine Education, Labor, and the State -- Philippine Education, Neoliberalism, and the Containment of Labor Mobility -- Education in the Service of Neoliberalism -- Endnotes -- Empire": Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Colonialism -- Endnotes -- Development": Animation and Development -- The History of Animation: Writing the Nation in the Colonialand Transnational Imaginations -- The Production of Animated Texts: Order and Subversion of National Imaginations -- Endnotes -- Abjection": Dogeating/Dogeaters -- Endnotes -- Geography": Popular Discourse of Vietnam in the Philippines -- Dissecting the Horror -- Obscuring the Filipino Identity and Space -- The Convergence and Divergence in Miss Saigon -- Endnotes -- Primordiality": Japanese Cinema's Representation of the Philippines -- Masculinity and Hysteria in Dawn of Freedom and Victory Song of the Orient -- Femininity in the Female OCW Films -- Endnotes -- Hysteria": Japanese Children's Television in the Philippines -- "Losing One's Head": Hysteria, Japan, and Children's Television -- "Dreaming Modernity": Global Localization, the Philippines, and Japanese Children's Shows -- Endnotes -- Sovereignty": Japanese Animation and Filipina Comfort Women -- Subjects, Subjectivation, and Subjectification -- Ranma ½ and the Mobilization of Sexuality in Citizenship -- Contrary Subjectivity and Citizenship in Filipina Comfort Women -- Death and Subjectivity -- Endnotes -- Fatherland": Nationalist Films and Modernity in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines -- State, Civil Society, and Fatality in A Single Spark -- Citizenship and the City in Super Citizen Ko -- Privatized and Transnational Civil Society in Eskapo

Purpose
This paper examines how firms respond to local government's environment initiatives through textual analysis of government work reports (GWRs). This study aims to provide insights into how firms strategically respond to government's environmental initiatives through their disclosure and investment practices.


Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a textual analysis of GWRs from China's provinces. The frequency and change rate of environmental keywords in these reports are used as a measure of the government's environmental initiatives.


Findings
This study finds that environmental disclosure scores in environmental, social and governance (ESG) reports increase with the frequency or change rate of environmental keywords in provincial GWRs. This effect is more pronounced for non-state-owned enterprises, firms in highly marketized provinces or those listed in a single capital market. However, there is no significant relationship between firms' environmental investments and government initiatives, except for cross-listed firms in provinces with consistently high frequency of environmental keywords in their GWRs.


Practical implications
The findings indicate that government environmental initiatives can shape firms' disclosure behaviors, yet have limited influence on investment decisions, suggesting that environmental disclosure could potentially be opportunistic. This underscores the need for more effective strategies to stimulate firms' environmental investments.


Originality/value
This study provides valuable insights into the differential impacts of government environmental initiatives on firms' disclosure and investment behaviors, contributing to the understanding of corporate environmental responsibility in the context of government initiatives.

The paper explores the metaphors of Global South and North. Looking at earlier terms such as the first, second and third world and identifying the changes coming with the shift of gravity in World Christianity and those after the year 1989 as important moments to start speaking of global Christianity, Global North and South, it is not the geography of places but the interrelations "" economic, political, cultural, religious - of the various contexts which determine a meaningful usage of these terms. The interrelations are used as a background to discuss the paradigm of "˜mission from the margins"™ from the perspective of the author who hails from Northeast India - considered to be part of the global South "" and working in a centre for mission studies in the Global North. Keywords: global Christianity, Global South, Global North, postcolonial, mission from the margins

Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, the International Monetary Fund (the Fund) has been embroiled in an international crisis of legitimacy. Assertions of a crisis are premised on the notions that the Fund's voting system is unfair, that the Fund enforces homogeneous policies onto borrowing member states and that loan programmes tend to fail. Seen this way, poor institutional and policy design has led to a loss of legitimacy. But institutionalised inequalities or policy failure is not in itself sufficient to constitute an international crisis of legitimacy. This article provides a conceptually-driven discussion of the sources of the Fund's international crisis of legitimacy by investigating how its formal 'foreground' institutional relations with its member states have become strained, and how informal 'background' political and economic relationships are expanding in a way that the Fund will find difficult to re-legitimate. The difference between the Fund's claims to legitimacy and how its member states, especially borrowers, act has led to the creation of a 'legitimacy gap' that is difficult to close. However, identifying the sources of the Fund's international crisis of legitimacy allows us to explore what avenues are available to resolve the crisis.

Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, the International Monetary Fund (the Fund) has been embroiled in an international crisis of legitimacy. Assertions of a crisis are premised on the notions that the Fund's voting system is unfair, that the Fund enforces homogeneous policies onto borrowing member states and that loan programmes tend to fail. Seen this way, poor institutional and policy design has led to a loss of legitimacy. But institutionalised inequalities or policy failure is not in itself sufficient to constitute an international crisis of legitimacy. This article provides a conceptually-driven discussion of the sources of the Fund's international crisis of legitimacy by investigating how its formal 'foreground' institutional relations with its member states have become strained, and how informal 'background' political and economic relationships are expanding in a way that the Fund will find difficult to re-legitimate. The difference between the Fund's claims to legitimacy and how its member states, especially borrowers, act has led to the creation of a 'legitimacy gap' that is difficult to close. However, identifying the sources of the Fund's international crisis of legitimacy allows us to explore what avenues are available to resolve the crisis.