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Brooks, Ann. Gendered work in Asian cities : the new economy and changing labour markets. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
'Gendered Work in Asian Cities combines theoretical analysis of globalization and inequality with detailed empirical work in specific locations. It enriches existing literature on globalization, global cities and social changes through its gender perspective and empirical focus on South East Asia. This well written and carefully researched book pays particular attention to the lives of professional women in Hong Kong and Singapore, set within broader debates about globalisation, the new economy and inequality, as well as discussions of flexible citizenship, transnational labour and work cultures and the management of daily life illuminated through the author's own research.'
Diane Perrons, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
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Appadurai, Arjun, ed. Globalization. Duke University Press, 2001.
This second installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet seeks to intervene in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization, which includes debates about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term. The volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites—local, regional, diasporic—are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of violence.
Seeking an alternative to the dead-end debate between those who see globalization as a phenomenon wholly without precedent and those who see it simply as modernization, imperialism, or global capitalism with a new face, the contributors seek to illuminate how space and time are transforming each other in special ways in the present era. They examine how this complex transformation involves changes in the situation of the nation, the state, and the city. While exploring distinct regions—China, Africa, South America, Europe—and representing different disciplines and genres—anthropology, literature, political science, sociology, music, cinema, photography—the contributors are concerned with both the political economy of location and the locations in which political economies are produced and transformed. A special strength of the collection is its concern with emergent styles of subjectivity, citizenship, and mobilization and with the transformations of state power through which market rationalities are distributed and embodied locally. (Amazon-book description) |
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University of Hawaii Globalization Research Center
http://www.hawaii.edu/global/
The GRC-Hawaii has a special focus on globalization and the Asia-Pacific region.
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“As China rises, so does its risk” FORTUNE June 5, 2006: 7:24 AM EDT
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/06/12/8379268/index.htm
Article written by Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy.
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“China: Too Busy to Worry about Democracy” Hoover Digest Spring 2006, num 1
http://www.hooverdigest.org/061/ferguson.html
Article written by Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. |
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“Democracy: Development and Democracy” Hoover Digest Spring 2005, num 4
http://www.hooverdigest.org/054/bdm.html
Article written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and chair of the Department of Politics at New York University and George W. Downs, a professor of politics and dean of social sciences at New York University. |
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Worried About India's and China's Booms? So Are They by Thomas L. Friedman
March 24, 2006 Opinion Op-Ed
Every country thinks it' s behind when it comes to education. |
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Chinese Finding Their Voice Thomas L. Friedman
China' s new Cultural Revolution will be driven this time from the bottom up - by podcasters with Apple' s little white iPods or competing players.
October 21, 2005 Opinion Op-Ed |
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Life Series-Bullfrog Films (2000) Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ls.html
The Life series of thirty 24-minute programs tackles the issue of globalization and its effect on ordinary people in countries throughout the world. In 1995, there was a meeting of the world's leaders in Copenhagen called the Social Summit. The group promised action on poverty, employment and social integration -- pledging governments to deliver greater social justice to the world's six billion inhabitants.
But in the five years since Copenhagen, the gap between the rich and the poor actually widened, while development assistance from the industrialized donor countries went into sharp decline. The global economy and technological advancement are progressing hand in hand, but a mere few are monopolizing its rewards.
The Life series takes us to India, Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, Mexico, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and the United States to examine the problems that the global economy is continuing, if not propagating for billions of people. The films suggest that everyone on this planet has a social responsibility to everyone else, and that all should be afforded the same human rights and a share in the fruits of the new world economy. |
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City Life - A Series of 22 Programs
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .C58 2001
2. The Long March - Community in Chengdu, China has organized to clean-up polluted river.
5. Paradise Domain - Pacific islanders are not benefiting from digital windfall or World Wide Web.
12. A Fistful of Rice - Protein deficiency threatens generations of children in Nepal.
18. Stop the Traffick - Investigates horror of child sex industry in Cambodia.
19. My Hanoi - Tour of rapidly urbanizing Hanoi, and the effect on citizens and culture.
22. Holy Smoke: Cambodians Fight Tobacco - Buddhist monks lead anti-tobacco campaign in Cambodia. |
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Life III - A Series of 12 Programs
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .L5412 2000
19. Because They're Worth It - Micro-credit, education, health information, and hope provided to impoverished Chinese.
20. For a Few Pennies More - Iodine deficiency causes health problems in Indonesia. |
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Life 4 - A Series of 27 Programs
Nonprint Media Services DVD JZ1318 .L5413 2005
2. The Real Leap Forward: Scaling Up Poverty Reduction in China - Reports on China's successful efforts to reduce poverty through development and targeted programs.
17. Warming Up in Mongolia Unless sustainable alternatives are introduced, Mongolia's dependence on fossil fuels and rapid urbanization threatens the environment.
22. Reel to Real: Holding Our Ground International efforts to assure reproductive health and rights conflict with cultural realities in the Philippines, Latvia, Japan, and India. |
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