Does globalization mean we're being conditioned into thinking only of CNN when disaster strikes and we need detailed news of the event? Yes, very likely, because many of our media in the Arab world fall short of the task of providing good, accurate news that is to the point. That does not mean CNN is the best, it just means it operates in a professional nononsense way, most of the time. The network has had its share of flops over the years, but success seems to outweigh failure.
This article locates an understanding of comparative grounding of aging through the theory of globalization. It reviews the trends of aging in various countries across the continents and points out important policy issues facing nation states with decreasing sovereignty in the face of various challenges brought about by globalization. The need to reconsider theorizing aging by exploring and integrating theories of globalization is highlighted.
I want to speak about women under occupation in Palestine and Iraq. As we are caught in the clutches of war, speaking about ending violence against women means combating violence not only at the local and national level but also at the global level. Global forms of violence range from capitalist globalization to occupation, wars and militarization, and women in the 'third world are the primary victims of these forms of violence.
As our general view of global history and societal development has shifted towards a more integrated approach, we face the challenge of finding the best ways to achieve integration across geographical and cultural distances. In dealing with the rising challenges associated with the global trend of demographic aging, it is argued that obtaining and accumulating contextual knowledge of local practice can be critical and productive especially in the planning phase of an eldercare intervention project. Three basic types of contextual knowledge—i.e., the context of experience, context of praxis, and context of theory—which are crucial for understanding eldercare practice situations, are discussed, along with its possible impacts on not only the understanding of the eldercare situation in a specific location, but also the choice and implementation of effective intervention solutions.
The world has been described as a global village due to enhanced global communication and interaction among people of different nationalities. Culture is not left out in this global interaction as there are available means or mechanisms through which ideas and information are exchanged among citizens of different countries and seekers of knowledge around the world. This paper examines issues on globalization and its impact on culture, cultural values and its implication on the 21st century Nigeria. In order to have a clearer understanding of the subject matter, the paper has been segmented into sub-headings, clearly stating the content analysis of the study. The objective of this paper is to carefully examine the impact of globalization on Nigerian culture and the effect on human development. It assesses the influence foreign culture on Nigerian children and the society at large, it considers the position and future of the Nigerian culture at the face of globalization. Careful assessment of these facts reveals some gaps on Nigerian culture and value system. This study has used secondary sources such as text books and journals. It has suggested the way forward considering the challenges faced by the Nigerian.
This article, while examining the Nepalis' efforts to negotiate between two worlds (hostland and homeland) through the striking realities of belonging to both, also examines issues of identity, assimilation, adjustment and notions of home expressed in their struggles to create a new sense of themselves in the process of self-construction which immigrants commonly encounter in the USA. The study is exploratory in nature and is expected to fill an important gap in scholarship of the South Asian as well as the Nepali diaspora in the United States. DOI: 10.3126/bodhi.v3i1.2817 Bodhi Vol.3(1) 2009 p.106-119
By Jane H. Bayes and Nayereh Tohidi, eds. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, 2001Studies dealing with the broad theme of 'women and religion' are often designed along the lines of edited volumes of essays on each of the major religious traditions, written (most often) by Western experts. Such an approach is perfectly legitimate and, when the results are informative, justified as well. It is an approach, however, that makes comparison between (and even within) traditions difficult, as one crucial aspect of this kind of tradition narrative is inevitably missing. That aspect, and the most important word in this book's sub-title, is 'contexts.' The contexts in the present case are not defined by therebeing only two traditions treated, the (Catholic) Christian and the (Sunni and Shia) Muslim.
Commodity price trends affect the incidence of poverty through their impact on employment opportunities and earnings of producers. At the farm household level, the impact of price change depends on whether global and border price trends are passed through to the producer at local level and whether improvements in productivity and production are able to compensate in a context of falling prices. Hence, the importance of the present study lies in the fact that, the domestic price trends and its movements with world market price of chillies are likely to have profound influence on the levels of living of millions of people (both workers and farmers) who depend either directly or indirectly on the cultivation of this crop. The central focus of the present paper is to address two interrelated issues of chillies – the extent of co-movement of chilli prices in the domestic and world markets and the bearing of WTO measures on the extent of transmission of world prices to the domestic markets.
This paper re-examines the place of the ancestors in post-modern Africa societies. It critically analyses the ontological status of the 'living-dead' in pre-colonial Africa society. This is predicated on the incursions/advent of proselytizing religions, nay Christianity and Islam and the force and pace of globalization. It is the contention of this paper that since these religions cum globalization have a lot of converts in Africa, little or no regard is now been paid to the ancestors. This is because most of the converts prefer their new relationships (religion and globalization) instead of venerating their departed, which they now see as belittling and fetish. On the other hand, the civilizing tendencies of Asia and the West, particularly the globalizing forces, like the media and ICT, fostered this high disregard for the ancestors. This paper concludes that since the living don't even reflect the moral sanctity Africa was once known for, as a result of avarice, consumerism, materialism plus the alluring strings of globalization, the so-called 'moral paragon' should be allowed to really rest in peace.Key words: African religion, ancestors, worship, globalization, post-colonial, morality.
I: Origins and Contexts -- Factors Shaping the Growth of Business Associations and their Involvement in Political Finance -- II: Germany -- How German Business Associations Came to Innovate Manifold Political Finance Techniques -- III: Norway -- Why Norwegian Business Associations Have Generally Avoided Political Finance Roles -- IV: Japan -- How Even a Giant Conveyer is Limited in its Impact on Japanese Party Politics by the Timidity of the Self-Effacing Entrepreneur -- V: Comparative Analyses -- How National Party and Interest Group Patterns Affected the Efficacy and Viability of Conveyers.
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