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Policymakers and societal groups from dominant states often play a central role in setting agendas in global governance and in shaping global ideas and beliefs about what behavior is appropriate. Norms emerging from their domestic political settings are also often diffused to poorer and less powerful countries through various processes such as emulation and coercion. Among other things Helleiner reminds people that today's global norms are a product not just of Northern values and power, but of a wider geographical context and more complex political processes in which Southern countries have played an important constitutive role. Adapted from the source document.

This article builds off of the author's classroom experience as a high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles and looks at how cultural shifts with regards to media consumption and production impact liberatory pedagogical practice. Using media superstar Kanye West as a case study, this article argues that today's classroom practices must expand in ways that reflect a more participatory culture. In particular, West's marketing and engagement with his audience during the release of his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy highlight how mainstream media practices offer pathways for renewing critical pedagogy in the 21st century.

This paper investigates how social networks in poor developing settings are affected by migration. Using a unique household survey from southern Mozambique, we test the role of labour mobility in shaping participation in groups and interhousehold cooperation by migrant‐sending households in village economies at origin. We find that migration cum remittances boosts household engagement in community‐based social networks. Our findings are robust to alternative definitions of social interaction and to endogeneity concerns, suggesting that stable migration ties and higher income stability through remittances may decrease participation constraints and increase household commitment in cooperative arrangements in migrant‐sending communities.

We conducted a field experiment in Southern Ghana to test the effect of asymmetric information on intrahousehold allocation. A lottery was conducted, where prizes were distributed in public and in private. The results indicate that asymmetric information over windfalls has a differential effect on observable and concealable expenses, consistent with hiding. Husbands' public windfalls increase investment in assets and social capital, while there is no such effect when wives win. Private windfalls of both spouses are committed to cash (wives) or in-kind gifts (husband) which are either difficult to monitor or to reverse if discovered by the other spouse.

This guide will provide a process for gathering stakeholders using the Community Capitals Framework. The Community Capitals represent seven diverse areas in which a community has assets and can make investments for future growth. The capitals served as a framework for the research behind this guide and will be used throughout as a framework for stakeholder identification and asset mapping. ; "This publication is a product of a Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant (SSARE 2008-04740) entitled, Sustainable agriculture in Virginia and North Carolina: A multi-state assessment of the economic, social, and political context.

Wade L. Huntley, Ph.D., is senior lecturer in the National Security Affairs department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and an independent consultant on international security issues. He has worked extensively engaging governmental officials and non-governmental experts on a range of contemporary international policy challenges. His publications include four edited volumes and over fifty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and scholarly essays on topics of nuclear weapons proliferation, global security studies, security and arms control in space, US foreign policies, East and South Asian regional security, and international relations theory.

This article presents findings from an empirical study of 23 parents with mental illness in New South Wales, Australia. Discussion focuses on the prevailing risk discourse associated with parental mental illness which suggests a limited capacity to parent. Risk assessment practice creates expectations about parenting ability, often utilizing rigid, inflexible and predetermined categorical information. This approach limits social work practice. The discussion presents an insight into how parents manage mental illness and how they manage risk. The narratives of the parents encourage social workers to increase their skills in family-focused working practices to enhance engagement with these families.

This paper examines fair trade as a community development initiative that challenges unjust global trading conditions. On a local level, fair trade aims to create a sustainable livelihood for farmers, to strengthen agricultural cooperatives, and to fund community-based projects. Fair trade also purports to engender global solidarity through linking Southern producers and Northern consumers in a concerted effort to direct the market towards social aims. The paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of fair trade as a social welfare intervention. Recommendations are provided to strengthen the fair-trade movement in light of social work values.

After Emmett Till's murder in 1955, African-Americans mobilized political mourning to oppose the status quo of white power. Till's death and media coverage that followed generated an affective connection by white Northern liberals to the plight of African-Americans in the South; as a result, Till's death and the mourning that followed contributed to subtle but important changes that enabled the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement to appeal to the white majority. This effort succeeded in generating white sympathy because it exposed the distance between formal law and law on the ground and expanded the audience to the conflict.

The most critical long-term trend affecting the East Asian security environment is the emergence of a more politically and militarily assertive China, driven by its economic growth and its sense of entitlement as a leading power in the region. To a certain extent, this emergence will conflict with a similarly rising India, but mostly it will clash with U.S. security interests in maintaining the (U.S.–predominant) status quo in the region. The region may stay reasonably stable for the next decade, but if trends continue, instability could grow in the western Pacific, particularly the South China Sea.

A review essay on books by: (1)Mercedes Botto (Ed.), Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations: Knowledge and Power in Latin America (New York: Routledge, 2010); (2)Mark S. Manger (Ed.), Investing in Protection: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements Between North and South (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); (3)Diego Sanchez-Ancochea and Kenneth C. Shadlen (Eds.), The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration: Responding to Globalization in the Americas (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); and (4)Mireya Solis, Barbara Stallings, and Saori N. Katada (Eds.), Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN BOLL FILM FESTIVAL ADANA The pulse of Turkish cinema beats in Adana, the provincial southern town that is the birthplace of several notable filmmakers and writers, among whom perhaps Yılmaz Güney and Yaşar Kemal are the most prominent representatives. While political conflicts have been marring the prestigious Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, which has served as a forum for the national film industry for several decades, Adana (17-25 September 2011) has renewed itself both at the national and international levels, attracting national production companiess with attractive cash prizes.

Part 2: What Issues Do Those Developing New Educational Management Information System Face? ; International audience ; Knowledge management is important to both business and government organisations as a means of improving their operations. This research project investigated cultural factors affecting knowledge management in higher education administrative departments in Malaysia. It considered strategic decisions made by university administrations and adoption decisions made by individual staff members. As the study was conducted in the South-East Asia region, organisational culture in this region is important. The paper describes the factors found to affect the practice of knowledge management in higher education in Malaysia.