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Global Geopolitics
Employing thematic investigation and illustrated through case studies, Dodds explores how global politics is imagined and practised by countries such as the US and other organisations including Greenpeace, the IMF and CNN International. In addition, the author discusses how issues such as environmental degradation, terror networks, anti-globalisation protests and North-South relations challenge, consolidate and subvert the existing international political system.
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Thinking globally
In this accessible text, Mark Juergensmeyer, a pioneer in global studies, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of global studies from regional, topical, and theoretical perspectives. Each of the twenty compact chapters in Thinking Globally features Juergensmeyer's own lucid introduction to the key topics and offers brief excerpts from major writers in those areas. The chapters explore the history of globalization in each region of the world, from Africa and the Middle East to Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and cover key issues in today's global era, such as: • Challenges of the global economy • Fading of the nation-state • Emerging nationalisms and transnational ideologies • Hidden economies of sex trafficking and the illegal drug trade • New communications media • Environmental crises • Human rights abuses Thinking Globally is the perfect introduction to global studies for students, and an exceptional resource for anyone interested in learning more about this new area of study.
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Globalization
Written by two leading scholars of global politics, Globalization: the return of borders to a borderless world? is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains globalization and its origins, and examines its future in light of key recent political and global trends and events.
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identifies the different political, economic, technological, and cultural meanings of globalization
examines its historical origins from the ancient past through the Cold War and into the twenty-first century
describes the multiple attributes and consequences of globalization including its effect on the sovereignty of the nation state
discusses recent trends such as the increased use of social media and events like the Arab Spring
assesses the normative implications of globalization
analyzes the challenges to globalization posed by contemporary events such as the global financial crisis.
This book will be essential reading for all students of globalization, and will be of great interest to students of global politics and global governance.
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Cultural Representation in Chinese University English Language Teaching Textbooks
Globalization enhances communication among people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. As cultural artifacts, English language teaching textbooks are crucial media for learners’ intercultural education, especially under the concept of English as a lingua franca. This study investigated the cultural elements in Chinese university English textbooks via the approach of content analysis. Specifically, a set of Chinese English language teaching textbooks was selected as the sample and the audio and video materials were transcribed into texts as the data. The results were displayed by the counts of cultural elements. The data revealed that international cultures and source cultures were highlighted, and the textbooks were not oriented toward native-speakers’ English. Moreover, the distribution of cultural categories across the textbooks remains imbalanced, with cultural products occupying the largest proportion, and cultural perspectives displayed the least. This is mainly attributed to the fact that cultural perspectives are implicit cultures under the surface of the iceberg, and notably, they are sporadically reflected by the cultural products, practices, and persons. The findings provide suggestions that writers include balanced cultural elements in compiling English language teaching textbooks, and teachers scrutinize cultural representation and design intercultural activities.
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Wither the Nation-State? A Comparative Analysis of Nationalism in Textbooks
What happens to the historic nationalizing purpose of schooling in an era of pervasive globalization? We address this question by examining patterns and predictors of nationalist emphases in 576 secondary school social science textbooks from 78 countries published between 1955 and 2011. Our descriptive and multilevel analyses show that nationalist narratives in textbooks persist into the recent globalization era and on average are not diminished in countries that are more economically, politically, or socially globalized. However, countries that occupy a dominant position in world society—either through Western cultural status or deeper embeddedness in international non-governmental organizations (INGOs)—tend to display lower levels of nationalism in their textbooks. Our examination contributes to the sociology of education by highlighting that the relationship between the global and the national is not a zero sum game: even in our globalized world, nationalist educational narratives are alive and well. We further contribute to the world society perspective by highlighting a tension between recent world cultural shifts toward individual rights and cosmopolitanism and the continued centrality of the nation-state model in world society. Our results suggest that attenuation of nationalist celebrations in schooling may be easiest for globally dominant countries whose legitimacy as nation-states is not in question.
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Research on cultural translation enhancement of Chinese art English textbooks based on improved Marian NMT and cultural adversarial networks
This study focuses on the translation and knowledge presentation of Chinese culture in art English textbooks. Due to the complex cultural context and highly specialized terminology in art English textbooks, traditional translation models struggle to accurately convey the deep semantic meaning and artistic value of Chinese culture. This paper proposes a translation enhancement method that integrates an improved Marian neural machine translation (Marian NMT) model with cultural adversarial reasoning networks (Cultural-Adversarial Reasoning Networks). The method employs transfer learning to incorporate Chinese cultural corpora for pre-training and combines a small amount of bilingual annotated data from art textbooks for fine-tuning. The model incorporates a cultural discriminator and generator adversarial mechanism to enhance the identification of culturally loaded words, art terminology, and context, thereby improving the cultural accuracy and educational suitability of the translation. Experiments were conducted on the “Chinese-English Parallel Corpus of Art English Textbooks,” covering themes such as painting, calligraphy, opera, and architecture. The results show that compared to the original Marian NMT, Transformer, and back-translation models, this method achieves significant improvements in BLEU, ROUGE, METEOR, and cultural knowledge integration accuracy (KIA), validating its effectiveness in translating Chinese cultural art English textbooks. The study concludes that this method can enhance the translation quality and teaching presentation effects of Chinese cultural elements in textbooks, providing technical support for the international dissemination of Chinese culture and textbook development.
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Effects of Globalization and the English Language in Higher Education System in Nepal
Purpose: The purpose of this research study is to analyze how globalization and the English language have affected higher education in Nepal today. Higher education is regarded as the primary foundational element for a nation's progress. Globalization and higher education, however, are currently at the forefront of higher education. Today, kids are forced to learn in English since they are unable to do it in their native tongue. They are given no other option but to continue studying in English. Design/Methodology/Approach: This research study used a qualitative approach. For this study, materials about higher education, English as a world language, and globalization have been reviewed, and the effects are described in a language without the use of any quantitative techniques. Findings: Globalization and the English language have an impact on higher education in Nepal since students are not free to discontinue their studies in English. English has been successful in eradicating our native tongue, which has had a significant impact on local identity. The students who struggle with the English language cannot finish their studies and must travel to the Gulf States to work as labourers. Due to this circumstance, Nepal now has more social and economic disparity. Research Limitations: Focus groups and interviews were not used in this study. Additionally, the discussion and analysis of the conclusions are based solely on reviews and dense language. Managerial Implications: This study includes a review of related literature for further study. As a result, it has conducted additional document analysis. Originality/Value: There is no writing that has been plagiarised in this study. All authors who were evaluated received credit and value.
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Envisaging the other Korea in English textbooks
Textbooks have long been considered resources for empowering nationalism within historical, social and political contexts. In particular, nations which have experienced socio-political turmoil place emphasis on promoting learners’ national identity through a national curriculum and designated textbooks (So, Kim & Lee, 2012). These textbooks serve as a pedagogical tool that plays a pivotal role in how learners should position themselves in the face of globalization (Matsuda, 2012; Matsuda & Friedrich, 2011). By the same token, they are artifacts that reflect realities alongside certain ideologies and values that society expects its citizens to learn while consolidating national identity through formal language education (Norton, 2013; Pavlenko, 2003; Pavlenko & Norton, 2007). Recent studies have also revealed that government-authorized English textbooks tend to be less hesitant about dealing with historical disputes regarded as contentious in nature (see Kim & Lee, 2023).
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