Dissertations / Theses: 'Cultural globalization'

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Vincent, Bérénice. "Cinema, cultural diversity and the globalization process." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1325.

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Deryhlazov, A. "NATIONAL IDENTITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2014. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/15062.

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Hickson, David J., and D. S. Pugh. "Management Worldwide: Distinctive Styles Among Globalization." Penguin, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3910.

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Businesses today need employees who can operate on a global stage, whether as international managers, technical specialists, expatriates or 'parachutists' who make occasional troubleshooting trips abroad. Yet cultural misunderstandings in the workplace can complicate even the simplest tasks. Something that sounds like a 'Yes' to a foreigner may actually be a polite way of saying 'No'. Fully updated and expanded for this second edition, Management Worldwide is essential for managers, students of management and organizations who want to know how managers operate and business is conducted in different societies. It is essential reading in a global economy where cultural differences can still mean make or break.

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KOSSI, YAO. "Cultural-Centric Globalization Strategies for Increasing Companies’ Profitability." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7688.

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Contemporary business leaders require suitable leadership strategies, skills, capabilities, and competencies to lead individuals with culturally diverse backgrounds effectively. Local retail business executives have experienced complex leadership challenges leading international and intercultural teams when expanding business operations into global markets. The objective of this multiple case study was to explore leadership strategies local retail business leaders used to lead a global workforce. The target population included 3 local retail business leaders from Minnesota who had 6 to 8 years of global leadership experience. The composite conceptual framework that grounded this study was leadership and transformational leadership. Data were collected from semistructured, face-to-face interviews and organizational documents. Member checking was used to ensure trustworthiness of findings. The data analysis followed Yin’s 5-phase process: compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding. Three themes emerged from the data analysis: cross-cultural awareness, cross-cultural challenges and competence, and cross-cultural leadership strategies. The findings from the study might contribute to positive social change by encouraging business leaders to explore business opportunities locally and globally, resulting in an understanding of cross-cultural differences, enhanced quality of cross-cultural work environments, increased job creation, and improved living standards for communities’ citizens.

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de, Lucia Francesca. "Italian American cultural fictions : from diaspora to globalization." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522876.

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Yevtushenko, A. "The impact of globalization on cross-cultural communication." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49038.

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Nowadays, in times of maintaining economic contacts with the world market there is an increasing need to understand each other through cross-cultural communication. The effect of culture on international businessmen ventures is multifaceted. Cultural differences deeply affects market behavior. International marketers, therefore, need to be as familiar as possible with the cultural traits of any country they want to do business with. These differences require international businessmen to have good analytical abilities and sound business acumen to make viable decisions and operate successfully. Practically all business decisions are culture-bound.

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Ardizzoni, Michela. "Mediating Italianess television, identity, and globalization /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3178421.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2005.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2003. Advisers: Michael Curtin; Barbara Klinger. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 27, 2006)."

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Wismer, Lacey Elaine. "British American football : national identity, cultural specificity and globalization." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6026.

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This thesis explores the hybridity and distinctiveness of British American football. Sports have socio-historical links to specific nation-states, thus encoding them with culturally specific values. Despite a movement towards cultural convergence, especially of popular culture, aspects of sport have remained resistant to dominant globalization trends. My thesis reveals that the globalization of American football to Britain has been a process which makes concessions to the local, while still retaining many of its global characteristics. Through an ethnographic study of one team, I spent an entire season becoming an „insider‟ and understanding the British American football culture from the perspective of the participants themselves. Analysis of data collected through participant observation and interviews revealed a number of themes which defined British American football as a hybrid and distinctive sport. First, that British American football was distinctive within the domestic British sports space because of its unique combination of American characteristics. Second, that „glocalization‟ influences the structuring of British American football under the amateur code, in order for the sport to better fit within the British sporting habitus. Finally, that the two branches of American football in Britain, the NFL and the British grassroots, were found to be involved in a disparate relationship which involved each branch concentrating on their own separate agendas for the sport. In conclusion, the American football played in Britain is British American football and this study importantly demonstrates that while a sport can retain its roots in terms of its physical appearance and playing structure, in order for it to infiltrate a foreign sports space, concessions must be made to the local sporting culture. The single most important thread that ran throughout this thesis was that American football could, and has, taken on multiple meanings, which were dependent upon the national context in which it was being played. It emphasizes the idea of globalization as glocalization; that the local is important in the global aspirations of the sport of American football. British American football has placed a uniquely British stamp on an otherwise purely American pastime.

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Lebezko, Anastasia Kostiantynivna, and Анастасія Костянтинівна Лебезко. "Youtube video hosting as a method of cultural globalization." Thesis, National aviation university, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/50074.

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1. Cambridge Dictionary – [Electronic resource] / Globalization, – Access mode: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ globalization 2. Encyclopedia Britanica – [Electronic resource] / Cultural globalization, – Access mode: https://www.britannica.com/science/culturalglobalization
YouTube is an integral part of the digital communication space because with the help of this platform we can distribute the content of various topics and purposes. As evidence, we have absolutely different types of content targeted at different social groups, from videos for kids to global economical situation news. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that YouTube video hosting is becoming more and more popular for users and the number of different kinds of content continues to grow. The aim of the study is to determine how YouTube contributes to cultural globalization in the world.
YouTube є невід’ємною частиною простору цифрових комунікацій, оскільки за допомогою цієї платформи ми можемо розповсюджувати вміст різних тем та цілей. Як доказ ми маємо абсолютно різні типи контенту, орієнтованого на різні соціальні групи, від відео для дітей до новин про світову економічну ситуацію. Актуальність дослідження полягає в тому, що відеохостинг YouTube стає все більш популярним серед користувачів, і кількість різного роду контенту продовжує зростати. Метою дослідження є визначити, як YouTube сприяє глобалізації культури у світі.

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SUTCU, ROBIN GOZDE. "Rethinking Istanbul Biennial In The Process of Globalization." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-243505.

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During the 1980s and 1990s, the world witnessed a radical change in which globalization diminished the power of the nation-state and shifted that impetus to a certain number of “Global Cities.” London, New York and Tokyo appeared to be the first of these cities and they acted as the heart of the new commercial and financial geography. In order to further strengthen their status, these cities organized transnational cultural events such as fairs, festivals and biennials. Those events have been assumed as a driving force behind other political, economic and financial activities in the era of globalization. Since the 1980s, Istanbul has emerged as a candidate for a new global city at the eastern frontier of Europe. Thus, with the encouragement of the government, the private sector has begun to organize several large-scale cultural events in order to reshape the city as a global city and re-present the nation with a more European outlook. This is in keeping with the desire to facilitate Turkey’s EU accession process and attract global commercial activities. The Istanbul Biennial is one of the most important of these cultural initiatives. Thus, this research will scrutinize the Istanbul Biennial within this framework. The main premise will be: “The organization of the Istanbul Biennial aims to attract global financial activities, enable the political aspirations of the city and therefore transform the city into a global one.”

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Petkova, Preslava. "Food Television and the processes of globalization." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23734.

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This paper presents the initiative to research on Food Television and the processes ofglobalization. The research gap in the selected subject area is identified after an in-depthliterature review and watching the culinary documentary ‘Ugly Delicious’. According toscholars globalization processes are influenced by the use of Media, as different channelsare transmitting values shared by globalization. Over the years, globalization has developedsub-process such as cultural globalization, a term which refers to the merge of cultures andthe formation of a global one. The identified research gap is to translate how globalizationhas been communicated in a culinary documentary. The title of the research is, therefore“Food Television and the processes of globalization: How does ‘Ugly Delicious’ userepresentations to portray cultural globalization?”, as it addresses the most pertinentresearch gap. Using visual data, such as video, requires a qualitative approach in which thecontent can be coded and later linked to theoretical knowledge. The role of the researcheris to find examples or patterns that represent cultural globalization within the frame of thetwo seasons of the documentary. The method which shapes this qualitative research is theGrounded Theory approach. A coding sheet will be generated to present the process andthe logic of generating codes.

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Ventura, Patricia. "Cultural logic of the United States in the globalization era." [Gainesville, Fla.]: University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000816.

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Hubka, David S. "Globalization of cultural production, children's animated television, 1978 to 1995." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ37066.pdf.

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Gluher, Augusto Garcia. "Cultura e moda na contemporaneidade." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13443.

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Scherer, Brooke Nichole. "Globalization, culture, and communication proposal for cultural studies integration within higher education graphic design curriculum /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2010. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1476367.

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Ta, Lynn M. "Citizens without borders American identity and the cultural politics of globalization /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3259361.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 26, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-181).

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Reyes-Santos, Irmary. "Racial geopolitics interrogating Caribbean cultural discourse in the era pf globalization /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3274592.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 4, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-245).

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Murphy, Bradley J. "The impacts of economic, political, and cultural globalization on transnational terrorism /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131414955.pdf.

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De, Lucia Francesca [Verfasser]. "Italian American Cultural Fictions: From Diaspora to Globalization / Francesca de Lucia." Bern : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1137447443/34.

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Small-Clouden, Lystra. "Globalization, assimilation, culture erasure| A review of Trinidad and Tobago." Thesis, Capella University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3723119.

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The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between globalization and assimilation (dependent variables), and four contributing factors of culture, value, norms, and identity (independent variables) to determine whether managers in Trinidad and Tobago devalue their own culture to assimilate into a global culture. A researcher-constructed survey questionnaire was used to collect data from a random sample of respondents. The survey was analyzed utilizing both parametric and nonparametric statistical tools to answer five Research Subquestions. The one-sample t test was an appropriate tool to establish construct reliability and validity of assumptions for this quantitative study. Values were established to support the level of statistical significance for (p < 0.05) effect as follows: a medium effect size (f2 = .15), alpha = .0.05, power = .80, yielding an acceptable sample size of 85 participants. Based on the evaluation of the statistical data, it was concluded (a) there was an impact of demographic factors on culture, values, norms, and identity; (b) global factors had no impact on culture, values, norms and identity; (c) the Trinidad and Tobago manager assimilated during international business meetings; (d) there was an impact of assimilation on culture, values, norms and identity in Trinidad and Tobago; and (e) there was no change in management behavior during international business meetings. Three implications resulted from the findings. First, from a theoretical perspective, based on the analysis of culture, managers were unaware of culture erasure. Second, from a scientific merit perspective, the ANOVA method optimized and validated causal-comparative effect of both measurement and structural models with the inclusion of interrelationships effects between variables. Finally, from a practical perspective, respondents perceived global factors had no impact on culture, but assimilation had a negative impact on culture. Based on the results, it was assumed the unique and distinguishable aspects of culture are disappearing, and the effects of globalization and assimilation have caused an unconscious reprogramming of collective behaviors, which resulted in culture erasure.

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Lizardo, Omar. "Globalization, World Culture And The Sociology Of Taste: Patterns Of Cultural Choice In Cross-National Perspective." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193871.

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In this dissertation, I examine the link between culture consumption and globalization. The first two chapters outline the contemporary state of the theoretical field, showing it to be primarily dominated by a macrolevel perspective--the media imperialism thesis--which has recently come under increasing empirical challenge and a theoretical stance at the micro level--the cultural capital paradigm--that does not have the explanatory resources to account for transnational trends towards convergence in the cultural stratification systems of Western societies. Chapter 2 begins the task of theoretical reconstruction by proposing a synthetic "sociostructural" account as an alternative to the media imperialism thesis and an extension of the cultural capital paradigm that incorporates an institutionalist emphasis on how global cultural templates affect individual consumption patterns. In the empirical component of the dissertation I examine the implications of taking institutional theory and the sociostructural approach seriously for the study of culture consumption and taste in contemporary societies. In Chapter 3 I demonstrate, using recently compiled data on cross-national patterns of culture consumption and trade, that in comparison to the media imperialism paradigm, the sociostructural model is best able to account for most of the empirical patterns observed. In chapter 4 I apply the institutionalist framework developed in chapter 2 to examine the connection between patterns of cultural taste and certain forms of subjective geographic identification consonant with a growing "world culture". In chapter 5 I evaluate several claims regarding determinants of "broadening tastes" in modern polities using data from 15 European Union countries, extending the agenda developed in chapters 2 and 4 to a cross-national context. Finally, in chapter 6 I expand the scope of the cross-national analysis by examining the global and institutional correlates of aggregate musical consumption and demand for cultural goods in 72 countries. These empirical chapters serve to advance theory and research on the behavioral and ideational consequences of cultural globalization, using new cross-national data sources and innovative statistical methods. They highlight the connection between local forms of cultural practice, transnational networks of cultural exchange and patterns of connectivity into the networks and flows of the global system.

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Rashid, Sharifah Norazizan Syed Abd. "Cultural sustainability and local involvement in place marketing." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326318.

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Wilson, Tracie L. ""Wild nature" globalization, identity, and the performance of Polish environmentalism /." [Bloomington, Ind] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3167804.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2005.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1455. Adviser: Beverly J. Stoeltje. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 15, 2006)."

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Poon, Man-wai. "Cultural globalization? : the contemporary influence of Japanese animation on Hong Kong teenagers /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B24872970.

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Najjarzadeh, Mohammad [Verfasser], and Boike [Akademischer Betreuer] Rehbein. "Effects of cultural globalization in Iran = Auswirkungen der kulturellen Globalisierung im Iran." Freiburg : Universität, 2011. http://d-nb.info/112346118X/34.

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潘文慧 and Man-wai Poon. "Cultural globalization?: the contemporary influence of Japanese animation on Hong Kong teenagers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31226620.

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Edelborg, Joakim, Alexander Brounéus, and Hampus Johansson. "Cultural Intelligence in Swedish companies : A qualitative study of the cultural intelligence validity." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97637.

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The global exchange of goods has in recent years made cultural intelligence an important success factor conducting business over cross-cultural boundaries. Due to lack of cultural competence, several mistakes in international business have been made. Previously studies of cultural intelligence have been carried out in controlled settings and not in day-to-day life. Further, authors for these studies point out that more empirical studies need to be carried out in the subject and in an uncontrolled environment.The purpose of this study is to find out what criteria are important and successful for Swedish professional sellers and buyers when they are conducting international negotiations. If possible, these criteria will then relate to the relevant capabilities of CQ to add validity to the concept. Furthermore, the study also aims to answer if the criteria mentioned by the professionals are applicable with Hofstede's dimensions (Hofstede, 2011) as well as the Context Culture model by Hall (1976). The participants for the study are five individuals from different companies located in Sweden. The participants have previous experience from conducting international business ranging from six to 35 years.The result of this study shows that cultural intelligence is beneficial when it comes to conducting international negotiation. This is presented in the form of important criteria from the respondents, these criteria are explained through the respondent’s own words and then reinterpreted by the authors using theoretical concepts, an example of this is Preparation. Further, the findings present validity to some of the conceptual benefits that previously lacked empirical validity such as collaboration and decision making.

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Small, Audrey Holdhus. "Publishing and cultural identity in francophone West Africa." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2005. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=167833.

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This thesis examines the problems engendered by ongoing Western dominance in the field of francophone African publishing, with specific reference to Guinea and Senegal. This dominance raises complex issues of power, authority and voice that are familiar tropes in postcolonial analyses, but this thesis seeks to re-place such questions in a wider context, looking at the current material circumstances of the publishing industry and “socially contaminated” instances such as international donor funding and national language policy as a perspective. This allows the links between the two rather distinct fields of the cultural and the commercial to be explored. The guiding theme is a critique of the argument for full indigenisation or africanisation of African publishing, a debate which is based on questions of language, critical authority and identity. The thesis seeks to cut through the inevitable polemics raised by the dominance of Western publishers in African publishing, to clearly identify the problems thrown up by this imbalance, and to explore the ramifications for ‘African literature’.

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Brown, Ingrid Joy. "The Death and Rebirth of Pari| Globalization of an Italian Village Community." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10152922.

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This qualitative inquiry takes place within a growing body of interdisciplinary work dedicated to reimagining community, one’s relationship to it, and ultimately one’s place within the global community. The study is rooted in depth psychology’s recognition that the psyche is independently real and everything has meaning. Community is an ongoing story: a living myth. One can tally all the concrete aspects of community yet still not understand what makes community. To better understand community, this study used a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to explore the lived experience of those living in a small Tuscan village, Pari. This entailed relying on an archetypal mythological lens to interpret a rich harvesting of interviews, storytelling, dreamy attention, and the researcher’s own reflections. The goal was to understand what it means to be part of this ancient community today, to appreciate the dynamics at work within the community psyche, and to dream the community on into the future. It was found that life in this community has a rhythmic structure that permeates everyone and everything. The most important common thread was that love connects people to this place. It was also found that as this once self-enclosed community becomes increasingly porous to the world, the population diversity increases and self-sufficiency decreases. It was concluded that Pari’s myth is to become a global village. The community’s challenge for survival is to integrate its core rhythmic structure with the incoming technology age.

Keywords: community, door, myth, rebirth, hermeneutic-phenomenology, Janus

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Li, Kay Wan-Kay. "Bernard Shaw's passage to China literary transmission as a process of cultural globalization /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56240.pdf.

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Weiser, Sterling. "Analyzing the Globalization of Traditional Chinese Medicine through a Cultural and Institutional Lens." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396967860.

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Arkaraprasertkul, Non. "Locating Shanghai: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space in a Chinese Metropolis." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493323.

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Given the rapid urbanization of Shanghai in the past three decades, how might we attempt to understand the changing meanings, usages, and values of urban space and the built environment, as occupied, lived, and experienced by its residents? In this dissertation, I use ethnography to explore the complex processes of urbanization and globalization in Shanghai – China’s largest and most urbanized city – examining the myriad ways that space orients and even determines the actions, commitments, and everyday sociocultural practices of the various agents and stakeholders involved in this transformation. By investigating how residents, planners, and local officials variously conceive of historic preservation and urban renewal programs, and by eschewing the artificially coherent image of the city promoted by state planners, I paint a more nuanced picture of the specific challenges faced by the populace and their creative methods of negotiation, adaptation, and appropriation in the face of a rapidly changing landscape. My primary case study is the Shanghai’s traditional alleyway neighborhoods (known locally as the lilong: 里弄) through which I investigate issues arising from their restoration and preservation: state discourse and law enforcement, globalization and local heritage, place-making, and aesthetics. What my research demonstrates is how knowledge of the global not only informs but encourages pragmatic residents to "foresee" a different future and voluntarily get involved in the process of urban renewal to enhance their interests. In this dissertation, I develop new concepts such as "gentrification from within," to explain this unique process of demographic change involving capital investment and cultural reproduction, in which the original residents themselves are agents. Also developed in this dissertation are the concepts of "traditionalism as a way of life," and "emancipatory masculinity," which explain the undergirding tension between the traditional belief of homeownership and the economic reality of modern life resulting in unprecedented patterns of social reproduction and familial formation.
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Carter, Rebecca H. "Tracing the trail of table grapes: The globalization of the Sonoran table grape industry." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280130.

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At first glance, the Sonoran table grape industry may seem to fit the profile of a typical non-traditional agro-export system; and thus it might be expected that most of the generally accepted distinguishing characteristics of such systems would also be found here. However, a closer look at each link of this particular global commodity chain, and a greater appreciation of the historical precedents of the production region, reveals that individuals, rather than transnational corporations, are able to exert fairly high levels of control over the system, and reap a fair share of the benefits. Global commodity chain analysis, coupled with a political economy perspective, reveals that important changes further up the chain, at the retailing link, may in the future determine more of how table grapes are grown and distributed, and how the benefits of this production system are distributed. The analysis of changing agro-food systems is important because of their central role in determining the course of a nation and the well being of its people; in essence, as the food system goes, so goes the country. In diverse locations around the globe, food is increasingly being produced, distributed and marketed under the dictates of transnational corporations, which changes the role that nations, communities and individuals play in the global food system. Thus in recent years social scientists have been adding to the corpus of studies that constitute the political economy of the global agro-food system; this study intends to contribute to our knowledge of this important and rapidly evolving field.

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Mansfield, Becky K. "Globalizing nature : political and cultural economy of a global seafood industry /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018380.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-163). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Pina, Guadalupe Raquel Mrs. "Staging the Subject. Traces of globalization in Contemporary Argentine Cinema." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276812685.

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Bernstein, Moshe Y. [Verfasser]. "Globalization, Translation and Transmission: Sino-Judaic Cultural Identity in Kaifeng, China / Moshe Y. Bernstein." Bern : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1127484044/34.

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Nhlapo, Lebohang Lorraine Z. "The evaluation of cultural diversity in the institutionalization of the African Union." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020624.

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This research was conducted to assess cultural diversity in the institutionalisation of the African Union (AU). Most researchers have found interest on the subject of cultural diversity that edifice the African Union because “Africa does not have a single culture not in religions, not in economic systems, and especially not in languages, the number of different languages spoken on the continent, numerous dialects not included, range as high as 2,000 or more languages. While some languages, such as Swahili, are spoken by millions, other languages may be spoken by only a handful” (Robert & Feldman, 2008: 267) The AU member states heads are quiet aware of the forces of cultural diversity in the Union, hence several workshops were carried out between member states heads to put together the cultural policy for the Union. There are also numerous policies on African cultural diversity that were approved previously by different organisations that intended to unify Africa before the African Union was formed. Those policies are aligned within the AU cultural policy - The Charter for African Renaissance that will be reviewed in length in Chapter 3 in the literature review. What comes as a mystery is that, even though the Charter for African Renaissance has unified and adopted various policies ethnic and religion segregations within states and between states is still visible in most African countries (ethnicity, language and religion will also be evaluated and a sample of various cultures found in African countries will also be discussed in Chapter 3 under literature review). The Charter for African Renaissance contains guiding principle and objectives of the AU pertaining cultural diversity and these objectives needs to be met. However the biggest well known challenge about policies is that in most cases they remain on paper and shelved, they never make that much difference to the society that they intend to change. As Cloete and Wissink (2000) will put it that “policies only exist because they need to bring about change, however, it is also possible to change policies on paper, whilst effecting no real social change" (2000: 239). African cultural diversity policies are as well littered with failed institutions and initiatives that have not been followed through to completion, or of promises that have been broken. The driving force for this research is that Africans has seen many false starts in the last few decades and they are desperate for change, they need to see democracy, development and institutional building in the African countries. African Union on the other hand has existed for a decade but it has not yet achieved its objectives. How do we know that this is not just another focus for a misplaced enthusiasm? Will the current initiatives of the AU fall by the wayside? Will the world continue to mock Africa as the land of broken promises, of criminalized and failed states that inevitably subvert the best intentions of their peoples and their development partners? Unfortunately these questions has influenced this investigation but cannot be answered by this paper. However this paper intends to find out if cultural diversity has an impact in the missed opportunities and broken promises of Africa and this will be examined in the structures of the African Union.

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Kirazci, Deniz M. "From “Seyyids” to “Corporate Board Members”: Bureaucratizing “Fast Forward” under the Impact of Globalization." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1269969313.

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Wintter, Sanne. "Children of the Nation : A Theoretical Study of the (Im)migrant Child’s Cultural Position." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-137082.

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Lier, Anika. "Cultural Diversity Management : - Comparison of three European countries -How does the globalization process affect SMEs regarding importance and implementation of cultural cultural diversity management?" Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-11137.

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This Bachelor thesis deals theoretically and empirically with the management tool called diversity management (DiM), with the specific focus on cultures and their differences. The connection of these two aspects results in cultural diversity management. Defining diversity, culture and DiM separately brings up a new focus on how to realize and deal with the phenomenon of cultural DiM. It represents a supporting resource in today’s management because of the constant globalization process and socio-demographical changes all over the world. The ‘status quo’ of cultural DiM is mainly based on research with big-multinational enterprises and emphasizes its future potential. Furthermore it reveals that most European countries are lagging behind in taking advantage of this resource. Whilst being aware of the fact that there are, with no doubt, best-practice studies of DiM in Europe, the general implementation and beneficial result of cultural DiM have not been realized and gained its full potential yet. This slow or even not existing development becomes more obvious in smaller and medium size enterprises (SMEs)[1], which display the majority of firms in Europe. Despite SMEs facing international changes, cultural differences, and also recognizing cultural DiM as an opportunity, the implementation is not considered as a company’s major priority aim. [1] European Commission (2006) – SME Definition

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Hsieh, Terence. "Jazz Meets East: Cultural Dimensions of Asynchronous Jazz Music Development in Modern China." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1338392142.

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Mikl-Horke, Gertraude. "Diffusion of conceptions of the enterprise as an aspect of globalization. A political/cultural perspective." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2002. http://epub.wu.ac.at/888/1/document.pdf.

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Diffusionsprozesse im Zusammenhang von Unternehmenskonzepten sind eine Facette der Globalisierung, an der die Wechselbeziehung von globalen und lokalen Kulturelementen verdeutlicht werden kann. Dabei geht es um die Identifizierung der Akteure, die diesen Diffusionsprozeß aktiv bestimmen, und um die Ermittlung des Verlaufs des Prozesses der institutionellen und kulturellen Aneignung und deren Folgen. Die interkulturelle Verbreitung von Prinzipien und Konzepten der Unternehmensführung und Geschäftsgebarung wird als Ausdruck und Resultat von Ideologien, Strategien und Aktionen transnationaler, aber dennoch kulturell eingebetteter Akteure verstanden. Als theoretische Perspektive wird ein Ansatz vorgeschlagen, der es erlaubt, sowohl Aktionen als auch Strukturen zu berücksichtigen. Dieser Anforderung kommt etwa die politisch- kulturelle Perspektive, wie sie Neil Fligstein im Rahmen der neuen Wirtschaftssoziologie anwendet, sehr entgegen. Bei Fligstein bezieht sich die politische Dimension in erster Linie auf das Staatshandeln; dies muß für die gegenständliche Untersuchung auf inter- und transnationale Akteure erweitert werden. Die Diffusion konkreter Unternehmenskonzepte wird aus dieser Sicht als politischer, von kollektiven Akteuren bestimmter, sowie als kultureller Prozeß verstanden. Macht und Legitimität sind die Instrumente oder Medien, die ihn bestimmen. Die Macht und der Einfluß der Akteure bei der Verbreitung dieser Konzepte, wobei sowohl Unternehmen als auch Staaten eine Rolle spielen, und die Bedingungen der Legitimität, also die Voraussetzungen, die für die Akzeptanz dieser Konzepte auch bei Arbeitnehmern, Konsumenten, Zulieferern, etc. und in der Öffentlichkeit verantwortlich sind, stellen die Objektbereiche einer derartigen Untersuchung dar. Die Übernahme von Unternehmenskonzepten resultiert in Handlungsweisen und Entscheidungsprinzipien, die über die Wirtschaftspraxis auch in institutionellen Strukturen ihren Niederschlag finden, und die darüber hinaus Vorstellungen und Rhetoriken und damit auch kulturelle Strukturen verändern. Ist ein Unternehmenskonzept einmal eingeführt, führt es zu strukturellen und institutionellen Veränderungen, die seine Legitimität über die jeweiligen Unternehmensgrenzen hinaus begründen. (Autorenref., bearb. v. M.Putz)
Series: WU-Jahrestagung 2002

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Bilets, A. S., and K. V. Serdyuk. "Cross-cultural business communication." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49045.

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Now it is the time of globalization. It is important and complicated period for all mankind, because humanity cooperates in political, economic and professional organizations, works in multinational companies, exchanges experience in the industrial and professional spheres. Cross-cultural business communication is one of the most important reason that promoting business growth. Today this question becoming more popular on the global marketplace. For every company knowledge of intercultural communication increase their chances of success in international business arena [1]. That is why we want to consider some points of cross-cultural communication in business.

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Akuupa, Michael Uusiku. "The formation of 'national culture' in post- apartheid Namibia: a focus on state sponsored cultural festivals in Kavango region." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3275_1363169299.

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This dissertation investigates colonial and postcolonial practices of cultural representations in Namibia. The state sponsored Annual National Culture Festival in Namibia was studied with a specific focus on the Kavango Region in northeastern Namibia. I was particularly interested in how cultural representations are produced by the nation-state and local people in a post-colonial African context of nation-building and national reconciliation, by bringing visions of cosmopolitanism and modernity into critical dialogue with its colonial past. During the apartheid era, the South African administration encouraged the inhabitants of its &bdquo
Native Homelandsâ to engage in &bdquo
culturalâ activities aimed at preserving their traditional cultures and fostering a sense of distinct cultural identity among each of Namibiaâs officially recognized &bdquo
ethnic groupsâ. This policy was in line with the logic of South African colonial apartheid rule of Namibia, which relied upon the
emphasis of ethnic differences, in order to support the idea that the territory was inhabited by a collection of &bdquo
tribesâ requiring a central white government to oversee their development. The colonial administration resorted to concepts of &bdquo
traditionâ and &bdquo
cultural heritageâ in order to construct Africans as members of distinct, bounded communities (&bdquo
tribesâ) attached to specific
localities or &bdquo
homelandsâ. My central argument is that since Namibian independence in 1990, the postcolonial nation-state has placed emphasis on cultural pride in new ways, and on
identifying characteristics of &bdquo
Namibian-nessâ. This has led to the institution of cultural festivals, which have since 1995 held all over the country with an expressed emphasis on the notion of &bdquo
Unity in
Diversityâ. These cultural festivals are largely performances and cultural competitions that range from lang-arm dance, and &bdquo
traditionalâ dances, displays of &bdquo
traditionalâ foodstuffs and dramatized representations. The ethnographic study shows that while the performers represent diversity through dance and other forms of cultural exhibition, the importance of belonging to the nation and a
larger constituency is simultaneously highlighted. However, as the study demonstrates, the festivals are also spaces where local populations engage in negotiations with the nation-state and contest regional forms of belonging. The study shows how a practice which was considered to be a &bdquo
colonial representationâ of the &bdquo
otherâ has been reinvented with new meanings in postcolonial Namibia. The study demonstrates through an analysis of cultural representations such as song, dances and drama that the festival creates a space in which &bdquo
social interactionâ takes place between participants, spectators and officials who organize the event as social capital of associational life.

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Deschka, Anne. "Artistic dribblings cultural relocation of Hong Kong's contemporary visual art scene ten years after the handover /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38762432.

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Silva, Gustavo Sande e. Castro Abreu e. "Positive solutions to find a job: cultural mismatches between companies and employees." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11811.

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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
Psychology is not just the study of disease, weakness, and damage; it also is the study of strength and virtue (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). Attempts to change this thinking school is the theory of Positive Psychology from Seligman which is the base for this dissertation. The methodology used in our model followed the hypothesis testing in order to assess the veracity of positive behaviors affecting the outcome of finding a job. Therefore, through the use of Logistic Regressions, several results proved that positive behaviors such as optimism are indeed affecting the way we apply to a job and how satisfied we are with it. Thus, since each country presents a different set of cultural behaviors such as the level of optimism and self-determination, companies and education systems that are internationalizing should concern cultural impacts and maybe mind about cultural teachings to local workers to improve their adaptation to the institution. The models studied in this dissertation should be tested again with different samples in order to bring more consistency to this subject.

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Frkovich, Ann Marie. "A young idler, an old beggar| Chinese nationals in US classrooms and the pedagogical significance of globalization." Thesis, DePaul University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3708767.

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Over fifty thousand Chinese students are leaving China to study in US high schools. This interview-based, narrative inquiry study focuses on the experience of ten Chinese nationals now studying at a US high school and expands work done in comparative pedagogy by offering thick descriptions of the school experience in two cultures. This study makes the case that China’s changing culture is reflected in the stories and school histories of Chinese students who experience pedagogy as significantly different in China and the US. The push that drives students out of China includes high-stakes testing and public ranking systems and the individual success of students within these systems. Students’ experience school in China as a symbiotic relationship between teachers, students, and schools, which often manifests in culturally located methods for efficient study, including achievement collaboration—wherein actors work together for mutual success. It is within this context that many students are pulled to study in the US in order to take up a certain degree of cultural rebellion, wherein they perceive that US schools have the resources to provide for broader constructions of school success than in China. This study illuminates how these students then gain new knowledge around how to be successful in school in two cultures and how to better navigate global education mobility. It is in this way that Chinese students become conduits of change. They influence the curricula, programming, and services offered at the schools they attend in both countries, emphasizing how cross-border mobility (re)shapes the identities and values around education for all involved, from individual students and schools to educational policy and reform. This study engages how schools in the US are meeting the needs of these students in both policy and practice, and lends nuance to the literature around intercultural education and the impact of globalization on pedagogy.

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Rocha, Ana Rita Pinto. "AS DIALÉTICAS DA GLOBALIZAÇÃO: PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL E TURISMO." UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA, 2009. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/516.

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This study set analysis on the dialectic process between the global and local scales through the relation between the cultural heritage and tourism. Globalization, as long as a dynamics coming from the dialogue between the global and local range arises different interpretative ways, among them the ones that involve cultural heritage and tourism. Subsequently the scales concept and its mutual character it’s used to make explicit that dynamics leaded by the emergence of techniques that limits and are limited by the social environment. At the same time, the nets concept make the foundation for that scenario like connections between the global and the local range that emphasizes its selective mood, because, notwithstanding being global nets, they aren’t universal. Thus, in this work, are discussed two propositions. The first, argues the relevance from the place over the global dynamics in the intellectual authentication for the cultural heritage preservation that express itself as a reference from the place by its social and historical relevance. In this circumstance are found the grounds against the wicked globalization where the capital and information reigns, arising the place’s defensiveness. The second, where the cultural heritage is set on analysis as the basis for tourism that, under the capitalist point of view, determines the logical knowledge of competitiveness between the places, where each place make use of its best goodness and put it at disposal for consumption (localization, landscape, culture) aiming to get ant stay in the global dynamics. Departing from this two propositions, this study analyses the connections and oppositions between them, no matter if to discuss the global changes or to argue in favor to the local authenticity.
Este estudo analisa o processo dialético entre as escalas global e local através da relação entre o patrimônio cultural e o turismo. A globalização enquanto uma dinâmica proveniente do diálogo entre o global e local gera diferentes vias interpretativas, entre as quais envolvem patrimônio cultural e turismo. Logo o conceito de escalas e seu caráter solidário é utilizado para explicitar essa dinâmica protagonizada pela emergência das técnicas que condicionam e são condicionadas pelo meio social. Ao mesmo tempo, a noção de redes embasam esse cenário como conexões entre o global e o local que evidencia seu teor seletivo, pois apesar das redes serem globais elas não são universais. Assim, neste trabalho, são discutidas duas proposições. A primeira, discute a relevância do lugar sobre a dinâmica global na legitimação intelectual da preservação do patrimônio cultural que se expressa como referência do lugar por sua relevância histórica e social. Nesta situação encontram-se fundamentos contra a globalização perversa em que o capital e a informação imperam originando a defesa do lugar. A outra em que analisa a utilização do patrimônio cultural como suporte para o turismo que, sob a ótica capitalista, impõe a lógica da competitividade entre os lugares para atração de recursos. Desenvolve-se, portanto, a guerra de lugares em que cada lugar utiliza suas virtudes e as coloca à disposição do consumo (localização, paisagens, cultura) com o intuito de entrar e permanecer na dinâmica global. A partir das duas proposições, esse estudo analisa as conexões e oposições entre elas, seja para discutir as mudanças globais seja para argumentar a favor da autenticidade local.

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Perkins, Morgan. "Reviewing traditions : an anthropological analysis of contemporary Chinese art worlds." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365526.

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Gersh, Andrea R. "We lost it in the move: arguments for stillness as a form of social movement." Thesis, Boston University, 2007. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/28570.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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