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Cobus, Van Staden. "Loudmouth : Global Capitalism, Local Culture and Kureyon Shin-chan." 名古屋大学国際言語文化研究科国際多元文化専攻, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/8419.
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Rata, Elizabeth 1952. "Global Capitalism and the Revival of Ethnic Traditionalism in New Zealand: The Emergence of Tribal-Capitalism." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2015.
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The social and economic restructuring accompanying increasing globalisation has provided new opportunities and new limits for social and ethnic movements in New Zealand as elsewhere. The purpose of this thesis is to establish the theory of tribal-capitalism through an examination of the responses to these changing global economic circumstances that have characterised the Maori ethnification, indigenisation and retribalisation movements since the 1970s. Although both the initial 'prefigurative' and the later 'strategic'(Breines, 1980:421) routes to tino rangatiratanga ('Maori sovereignty') were attempts to restore traditional social relations and secure political and economic autonomy from the dominant Pakeha society, the projects are distinguished by different approaches. On the one hand the 'prefigurative' traditionalist project indicted both capitalism and Pakeha society as its exponents sought a return to the precapitalist social relations of the pre-Contact era. On the other hand exponents of the 'strategic' project sought to establish a concordat with capitalist Pakeha society based upon the assumption that a capitalist economy could be made compatible with Maori political and cultural autonomy. It is argued that neither project, 'prefigurative' traditionalism nor the 'strategic march through the institutions of capitalism', achieved the objective of tino rangatiratanga. Irrespective of approach, Maori ethnification, indigenisation and retribalisation became reshaped and reconstituted by the conditions that made the movements possible and that shaped them in decisive ways. These tino rangatiratanga movements emerged from the institutional channels enabled by Pakeha bicultural idealists and given substance by the Waitangi Tribunal as a tribal-capitalist regime of accumulation characterised by exploitative class relations and reified communal relations. An extensive range of case studies is employed to provide evidence that tests the hypothesis of the emergence of tribal-capitalism from out of the projects that attempted to retain the traditional in a world dominated by capitalist relations. Despite the structural opportunities provided by Pakeha bicultural idealists, and despite the different approaches of the Maori tino rangatiratanga projects, it was not possible to restore communal relations of production. Objective forces, rather than internal miscalculation, ineptitude or corruption, brought about the failure as firstly 'prefigurative' and then 'strategic' projects became doomed attempts to sidestep class location within capitalist structures. The various studies examine the ways in which the 'prefigurative' and 'strategic' projects not only led to the transformation of the ethnification and indigenisation movements into the new class formations of tribal-capitalism, but actually became constitutive of the class fractions that define the regime. The dialectical interactive of agency and structure which transformed the projects became a reconstituting and shaping mechanism of change. First the study of the Pakeha new class's bicultural project grounds the later studies by locating the institutional inclusion of Maori indigenous particularity in the universalism of the new class humanists. Biculturalism established relatively benign conditions for the tino rangatiratanga projects by providing both opportunities and resources for Maori development. It is in the retribalising form of that development that an indigenous version of the capitalist regime of accumulation is located. The next three sections of the thesis examine the 'prefigurative' and 'strategic' routes of this indigenous particularity into the new inclusive structures in studies of: a reviving Maori family, an ascendant tribe, a separate Maori education system and the creation of the national Maori fishing industry. The outcomes of each study are examined to trace the failure of both approaches as particular groups within the retribalisation movement developed new and exclusive relationships to the traditional lands, waters and knowledge. The concluding section contrasts culturalist theories of the Maori tino rangatiratanga projects with the hypothesis of the emergence of tribal-capitalism advanced in this thesis. The claim that cultural strength can resist the imposition of capitalist class relations is found not to be sustained.
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Bengtsson, Morgan. "Real time global illumination using the GPU." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-60770.
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Global illumination is an important factor when striving for photo realism in computergraphics. This thesis describes why this is the case, and why global illumination is considered acomplex problem to solve. The problem becomes even more demanding when considering realtime purposes. Resent research has proven it possible to produce global illumination in realtime. Therefore the subject of this thesis is to compare and evaluate a number of those methods. An implementation is presented based on the Imperfect shadow maps method, which per se isbased on instant radiosity and reflective shadow maps. The implementation is able to renderplausible global illumination effects in real time, for fully dynamic scenes. With conclusions that while it demonstrably is possible to provide believable global illum-ination in real time, it is not without shortcomings. In every case approximations or restrictionshas to be done to some extent, sometimes leading to wrong results. Though in most cases, notvisually unpleasing by a great deal. The final conclusion is that global illumination is possible on current hardware, with believablequality and good speed. Showing great potential for future implementations on next generationof hardware.
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Turner, Mandy Mary. "The expansion of international society? : Egypt and Vietnam in the history of uneven and combined development." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325405.
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The main goal of the thesis is to develop an understanding of the history of international society, reinterpreting it as the uneven and combined development of capitalism. It is argued that uneven and combined development is the historical form that capitalism has taken in expanding international society. The way in which each individual society was integrated into the expanding international society depended on the local conditions and how this fed into the international context set by an already-existing world market and states-system. When subjected to the pressures of capitalist expansion, states attempted to quickly consolidate their power and increase revenue by developing their productive capacity through copying the methods of production and political organisation which had made Europe so strong. This produced a particular model of development in that advanced forms were often grafted onto pre-existing structures. The experience of this creates the particular context in which political action takes place. The case studies of Egypt and Vietnam provide two local comparative applications of the theory. Each case study shows, through historical reconstruction, how the history of international society and the history of individual societies are intertwined. It will also show that in both cases the experience of uneven and combined development created a particular distorted and twisted class structure which meant that social and political instability was built in. By charting their different experiences an explanation is provided for the two very different routes they took: in Egypt's case - a nationalist military coup d'etat, and in Vietnam's case - Communist revolution and war. But the theory goes further than just providing an analysis of domestic instabilities, it also shows how it is the management of these very instabilities which has dominated the policies and actions of the major powers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Lacher, Hannes Peter. "Historicising the global : capitalism, territoriality and the international relations of modernity." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1603/.
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The discipline of International Relations finds itself challenged by theorists who argue that processes of globalisation undermine the sovereignty of the territorial state, thereby eroding the basis for an autonomous science of 'the international'. This challenge assumes that traditional forms of state-centric IR theory were adequate until very recently, but need to be discarded now that a global society has replaced the territorial organisation of social life. This thesis argues that the assumption of a 'golden age' of state sovereignty is misleading as a description of modern international relations. Even before the current period of globalisation, states did not fully 'contain' society. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to a theory of modern international relations that takes account of modernity's global aspects. The first part of the thesis analyses various critiques of state-centrism and shows that their historicisation of the modem international system is problematic because of an ahistorical conceptualisation of the relationship between politics and economics. The second part consists of a reconstruction of the historical materialist theory of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, which shows that the territorialisation of states and the modern separation of politics and economic did not coincide either temporally or structurally. This leads to a reinterpretation of the 'Westphalian system' that stresses its pre-modern nature and shows how the competitive dynamic of this system contributed to the universalisation of capitalism at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The third part inquires into the consequences of the emergence of capitalism within the context of a pre-existing system of territorial states. It shows how the entrenchment of the national state in the late nineteenth century mediates the contradictions of global capitalism. It suggests that the territoriality of modern political space has become 'internalised' by capitalism, though the relationship between national state and world market remains riven by contradictions. This requires a change of perspective in the globalisation debate: rather than to ask whether national sovereignty is undermined by globalisation, IR should inquire into the limits to global economic integration given the persistence of national sovereignty as the - currently - only effective way of regulating the economy and reproducing capital.
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JUNIOR, SERGIO VELOSO DOS SANTOS. "THE AMAZON INTEGRATION TO GLOBAL CAPITALISM: FROM CLOSED TO OPENED REGIONALISM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20698@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Esta dissertação de mestrado, ao longo de quatro capítulos, busca
demonstrar como a Amazônia foi impactada e transformada por projetos de
integração regional que, por meio do protagonismo do Estado brasileiro, se
processou tanto na dimensão nacional quanto na internacional. O resultado foi a
integração completa de toda região amazônica aos imperativos, preceitos,
demandas e interesses do capitalismo global. Procuramos também sustentar a
premissa teórica que globalização e capitalismo global são sinônimos e que sua
expansão depende da atuação direta do Estado para se realizar no território,
tornando-se uma forte variável para a definição das características gerais de uma
região.<br>This MSc dissertation, through four chapters, sought to demonstrate how the
Amazon was impacted and transformed by projects of regional integration that,
through the protagonism of the Brazilian State, was processed both in the
domestic and international dimension. The outcome was the complete integration
of all Amazon region to the imperatives, assumptions, demands and interests of
global capitalism. We also sought to sustain the theoretical assumption that
globalization and global capitalism are synonym and that their expansion depends
on the direct agency of the State to be a territorialized reality.
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Chou, Wen-Chi Grace. "Changing employment relations in the global economy : case studies of Taiwan's textile industries." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322629.
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Solberg, Karolina, Linda Svensson, and Cecilia Sjögren. "Customer Capitalism : identifying key aspects from a." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Management and Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-704.
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<p>The traditional internationalization theories suggest that the process of going international is gradual. Recent theories about “born global” firms state they internationalize from the day they are founded or shortly thereafter. TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) is a small but growing Swedish software technology and design company and a “born global” company. TAT has a small number of very large companies as their customers, which could be unsafe if they were to lose one of these important clients.</p><p>The strategic states model show the need for different combination of competitive edges and presents optimum strategies to reach high performance. To move to a more desirable state in the model the theory of customer capitalism is suggested in this thesis. The theory is supposed to make the customer “lock on” to a corporation for a win-win long term relationship. Two aspects of the theory that are more distinguished than the four others has been identified, these being relationship and developer.</p>
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Thissen-Smits, Marianne. "When corporations leave home : global corporate social responsibility and varieties of capitalism." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=203792.
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Today, multinational corporations demonstrate commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by adopting global voluntary initiatives and codes of conduct and by publishing annual reports on their social behaviour. This research examines how the cross-‐ country variation of CSR behaviour of firms can be explained by the ‘Varieties of Capitalism' theory, and explores whether the CSR behaviour of firms changes when operating across borders. A large-‐N sample of the Fortune global 500 firms and a small-‐N sample of five multinational oil companies operating in Nigeria were taken to test the research hypotheses, using quantitative and qualitative research methods. Some support was found for the Varieties of Capitalism theory. In particular, firms from the United States, a liberal market economy, are less likely to adopt global voluntary initiatives compared with firms from coordinated market economies or Mediterranean-‐type economies. State-‐owned firms, which are mainly headquartered in non-‐OECD countries, are also less likely to adopt global initiatives, but the ones that do have high levels of adherence. External actors, such as international organisations, civil society organisations and philanthropic organisations are important in influencing a firm's commitment to CSR. Content analysis reveals that, in general, all corporations report on the same topics, with emphasis placed on what is perceived to be important to the stakeholders. This research found that the adoption of global initiatives and the reporting on social behaviour are headquarters-‐orientated activities, and that there is often a disconnection in corporate social behaviour between the headquarters and the subsidiary. Because the CSR behaviour of firms clearly changes when operating across borders, the participation in voluntary initiatives should be done at a local and at headquarter level. Furthermore, the lack of participation in global initiatives by US firms and subsidiaries raises questions about the effectiveness and purpose of these initiatives.
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Nichols, Shaun Steven. "Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1865-Present." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493349.
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“Crisis Capital” offers a local history of global capitalism and a global history of local economic development, exploring how the global movements and political struggles of industry, labor, and capital created, destroyed, and repeatedly reconfigured the southeastern industrial core of Massachusetts. By dissecting the succeeding rise and fall of the whaling, textile, garment, electronics, and high-tech industries over the past one-hundred-fifty years, it challenges one of the master narratives of modern economic development: the oft-repeated story of how nineteenth-century industrialization, urbanization, and capitalist expansion collapsed into twentieth-century de-industrialization, globalization, and urban decay. Industrial Massachusetts, it argues, did not simply “rise” in the nineteenth century only to “fall” in the twentieth, but was made and un-made over and over again—besieged and begot by the swirling global movements of migrant labor and mobile capital. From migrating Azorean seamen, British weavers, and Quebecois farmers to globetrotting whalers, New York mobile manufacturers, and Asia-bound garment producers, “Crisis Capital” explores the industrial development of Massachusetts as a function of myriad actors’ attempts to navigate the tempests of economic globalization.
In so doing, “Crisis Capital” highlights the seemingly paradoxical ways Massachusetts business, government, and labor leaders discovered they could use economic crisis to reorder the global geography of capitalism to their advantage. From the lure of low rents and free factory space to the appeal of cheap labor and abundant industrial financing, crisis became a crucial means for pulling and pushing both capital and workers across the continents. Moreover, “Crisis Capital” explores how these strategies of crisis exploitation have since been adopted by states and nations around the world. By analyzing the global history of industrial Massachusetts, “Crisis Capital” thus provides not only a new take on the classic “rise-and-fall” narrative of industrialization, but a sense of how global capitalism was historically pulled together: namely, through the meshing of myriad local economies, like Massachusetts, each seeking to use crisis itself to entice capital from competing locales. The so-called “race to the bottom,” it argues, is no contemporary bugaboo, but a structural facet of how industrial capitalism has expanded over the last two centuries.<br>History
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Ren, Zhijun. "Tributary System, Global Capitalism and the Meaning of Asia in Late Qing China." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23273.
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, global capitalism has introduced an unprecedented phenomenon: the reorientation of temporality and spatiality. Capitalist temporality and global space allowed Asian intellectuals to imagine, for the first time, a synchronized globe, where Asia became consciously worldly. Asian intellectuals began to reinterpret the indigenous categories such as the tributary system in order to make sense of the regionalization of Asia in the capitalist world system. The unity of Asian countries formed an alliance which resisted the homogeneity and universality claimed by European hegemony. Along with the revival of the Asian ideal, the tributary system was reimagined as the incarnation of Asian heterogeneity, a source that could be utilized in the common struggle of resisting European hegemony. What the tributary system represented in the discourse of Asianism at the turn of the twentieth century, then, is a new possibility of relation between nation-states.
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Ibrahim, Yousaf. "Global capitalism and social protest : organisations and participants in the anti-capitalist movement." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496539.
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Johnson, Priya (Priya Anne). "Sowing her seeds : imagining transnational social movements in the face of global capitalism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111392.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-86).<br>The process of neoliberal globalization has long been touted for its success in increasing connectivity the world over. However, a closer look reveals that while capital has rendered many borders invisible and gained a new flexibility, those most devastated by the unending need for profit remain largely boxed in. Political organizing is often constrained by a sectoral focus and an emphasis on hyper-local conditions. As the roots of multiple oppressions become increasingly entangled, we must also break our resistance free from boundaries and globalize our social movements. In this project I depart from traditional social science methodology and use fictional storytelling to consider community impacts of neoliberal globalization. Synthetic case studies of three women of color protagonists from around the world urge readers to grapple with experiences of colonialism, race, gender, caste, class and sexuality, among others. The characters lives push readers to recognize the limitations to our current methods of political organizing and activism, and to imagining alternative possibilities and paths to liberation.<br>by Priya Johnson.<br>M.C.P.
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Yang, Beibei. "From China to Zambia| The new Chinese migrants in Africa under global capitalism." Thesis, Southern Methodist University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111471.
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<p> The Chinese presence in Africa is an increasingly notable phenomenon in the past two decades. Based on the ethnographic data from a fieldwork conducted in Zambia, this dissertation documented the migratory experience of new Chinese migrants to Zambia, which is a non-traditional destination country for this group. The new Chinese migrants include the SME (small and medium sized enterprises) migrants who are self-employed businessmen and the SOE (state-owned enterprises) migrants who are affiliated with large-scale state-owned Chinese companies. This study explores Chinese migrants’ migratory motivation, settlement, life satisfaction, and inter-ethnic social encounter with the local Zambians. </p><p> Moreover, this dissertation discusses health and health management strategies among ethnic Chinese migrants in Zambia. By examining the influence of migration processes on Chinese migrants’ health and health management in Zambia, this study further investigates how health inequality amongst Chinese migrants is shaped by structural factors as well as individual agency. My research reveals that despite the existence of various healthcare options, Chinese migrants’ healthcare seeking is restricted by multiple factors including their employment patterns, the availability of their social capital, and even the legality of their immigration status. </p><p> This research seeks to expand the existing empirical knowledge of contemporary Chinese migrants in sub-Saharan Africa, a relatively understudied and undertheorized topic in the broader migration literature. It also endeavors to broaden our knowledge of the intersection between migration and health, a subject that is beginning to draw attention within medical anthropology. </p>
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Redmond, Dennis Robert. "Global storm : Theodor Adorno's Negative dialectics /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978596.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 377-380). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Young, Erin S. "Corporate heroines and utopian individualism: A study of the romance novel in global capitalism." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11460.
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x, 195 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>This dissertation explores two subgenres of popular romance fiction that emerge in the 1990s: "corporate" and "paranormal" romance. While the formulaic conventions of popular romance have typically centralized the gendered tension between hero and heroine, this project reveals that "corporate" and "paranormal" romances negotiate a new primary conflict, the tension between work and home in the era of global capitalism. Transformations in political economy also occur at the level of personal and emotional life, which constitute the central problem that contemporary romances attempt to resolve. Drawing from sociological studies of globalization and intimacy, feminist criticism, and queer theory, I argue that these subgenres mark the transition from what David Harvey calls Fordist capitalism to flexible or global capitalism as the primary social condition negotiated in the popular romance. My analysis demonstrates that corporate and paranormal romance novels reflect changing ideals about intimacy in a globalized world that is increasingly influenced, socially and culturally, by the values and philosophies that dominate the marketplace.
Each of these subgenres offers a distinct formal resolution to the cultural and social effects of a flexible capitalist economy. The "corporate" romances of Jayne Ann Krentz, Nora Roberts, Elizabeth Lowell, and Katherine Stone feature heroines who constantly navigate the dual and intersecting arenas of work and home in an effort to locate a balance that leads to success and happiness in both realms. In contrast, the "paranormal" romances of Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, and Carrie Vaughn dissolve the tension between home and work, or the private and the public, by affirming the heroine's open and endless pursuit of pleasure, adventure, and self-fulfillment. Such new forms of romantic fantasy at once reveal the tension in globalization and the domination of corporate and masculinist values that the novels hope to overcome.<br>Committee in charge: David Leiwei Li, Chair;
Mary Elene Wood;
Cynthia H. Tolentino;
Jiannbin L. Shiao
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Adelman, Rebecca A. "The Shadow Rules of Engagement: Visual Practices, Citizen-Subjectivity, and America's Global War on Terror." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1243903538.
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Sisodia, Raj, Miguel Uccelli, Jorge Medina, María Julia Saenz, Martín Naranjo, and Claudia Cooper. "6th International Conference on Global Management. Conscious Capitalism: Revising the Foundations of the Market Economy." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652047.
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El evento contó con la participación de conocidos líderes a nivel empresarial como Miguel Uccelli CEO & Country Head de Scotiabank Perú; Jorge Medina ex director gerente de EY; María Julia Saenz directora de asuntos corporativos de Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus & Johnston; Martín Naranjo presidente del directorio de ASBANC y Claudia Cooper presidenta del directorio de la Bolsa de Valores de Lima.<br>En esta ocasión, la conferencia tuvo como tema central el “Conscious Capitalism: Revising the Foundations of the Market Economy” y tuvo como invitado principal a Raj Sisodia, profesor de negocios globales de Babson College, y principal impulsador del capitalismo consciente como movimiento mundial. El Capitalismo Consciente representa una alternativa diferente de cómo hacer negocios en función de un propósito ulterior. Este movimiento tiene como objetivo principal el promover el desarrollo responsable de los negocios, generando valor para todos sus grupos de interés, lo que en sí significa un cambio radical en los paradigmas vigentes sobre la administración de empresas y gestión de negocios.
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Moyer, Eileen Marie. "In the shadow of the Sheraton imagining localities in global spaces in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2003. http://dare.uva.nl/document/69173.
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Cantwell, Brendan. "International Postdocs: Educational Migration and Academic Production in a Global Market." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195383.
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This dissertation is a qualitative investigation into international postdoctoral employment in life science and engineering fields at universities in the United States and United Kingdom. Data were gathered through 49 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with international postdocs, faculty members who have supervised international postdocs from abroad at two universities in the US and two universities in the UK. The number of postdoctoral appointments has increased dramatically over the past decade, as has the share of these appointees who come from aboard. Yet few studies have investigated what is underlying this growing trend. By examining interactions between structure and agency at local, global and national levels, this study explored the roles that international postdocs play in academic production and the process by which they become mobile. Theory on globalization, higher education policy and models of academic production guide this study. Findings show that international postdocs are becoming scientific employees, rather than trainees, who are incorporated into capitalist modes of academic production as low-cost, high-yield scientific workers. Universities and individual faculty members seek international postdocs because of their contributions to research production; however, few postdocs have the opportunity to move into tenure-tracked faculty jobs. For international postdocs, becoming mobile is an individual process that is often constructed by individuals who negotiate home country academic policies in a global academic market. Mobility is a multi-stage process that begins with the potential to become mobile and is realized by actual mobility, which occurs through a transnational space produced by international journals that define global science.
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Evcimen, Oltan. "Trabsformation From Natianal Developmentalism To Global Developmentalisim: The Case Of Turkey." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613814/index.pdf.
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The argument that the world has been witnessing a transformation from national developmentalism towards a new form of developmentalism especially after the 1980s has increasingly become more widespread in the development literature. Moreover, the concerned literature has recently been dominated by the provocative claim that the notion of development itself is no longer operational and meaningful. However, it is still very ambiguous as to how this new form of development which is primarily implemented by the hands of the international corporations and institutions rather than the nation-states is being conceptualized with regard to the existing models of development and how to name it. This dissertation advances the claim that the national developmentalism has given way to what will be called as the &lsquo<br>global developmentalism&rsquo<br>in this context and it operates through the notions of the locality and particularity, which are conceptual elements intrinsic to the global capitalism. This dissertation will also attempt to reveal that the logic of global developmentalism no longer depends on the main conceptual categories of the notion of development<br>thus it can no longer be regarded as a form of developmentalism. The field research of this dissertation involves the analysis of several major and minor projects which are thought to be implemented within either national developmentalism or global developmentalism, or intermediate forms between these two. This dissertation will advance a discussion on the transformation from national developmentalism to global developmentalism and make a discourse analysis of these two forms of developmentalism by interpreting the data obtained from the deep interviews with experts that have worked in these projects, the local inhabitants in the project-affected areas, and from analysis of the observable consequences of these projects.
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Schneider, Garrett Andrew. "Forging Citigroup: The Making of the Global Financial Services Supermarket and the Remaking of Postwar Capitalism." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293466.
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This dissertation explores the transformation of American financial organization and governance over the postwar period. Through a case study of Citigroup, it seeks to explain how and why the global financial services supermarket became the dominant form of business organization in American finance and society. My core claim is that generational change in the late 1950s and 1960s swept into power a group of Interwar generation elites bearing with them a concept for the large financial firm and a vision of market order whose roots traced back to the Gilded Age. The timing and pattern of organizational and institutional change was, however, contingent on battles won and lost over particular features of their institutional environment.
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Portella, Carbó Ferran. "Mass unemployment in Spain (1959-2014): productive and commercial problems of a peripheral economy in global capitalism." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/362100.
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The thesis studies one of the main problems in Spain: mass unemployment. It is not a short-term problem, but a structural feature of the Spanish socio-economic system since at least the end of the 1970s, which remains unresolved.
We argue that the fundamental cause of this mass unemployment lies in the deficient Spanish productive system and its peripheral integration into European and global capitalism. This is most apparent in the collapse of the Francoist economic regime and the crisis of the democratic Transition, when the unemployment rate shot up to 21%. This legacy endures, chiefly, because the mentioned causes persist, which in addition impose the “external constraint” on economic growth and employment.
The process is as follows: 1) when the economy grows and generates employment, imports increase faster than imports and far exceed them; 2) typically, the deficit has to be financed by some sort of foreign indebtedness, until 3) the capacity to pay these liabilities is called into question and difficulties in accessing external finance arise. All of this forces or compounds a more or less traumatic contraction of domestic demand to bring external deficits down to the level for which they can obtain foreign finance. So it happened in the developments leading to the Stabilisation Plan (1959) and through the crisis of the democratic Transition (1977-1985), the accelerated integration into the European Union (1986-1993) and the millennial boom leading to the current crisis.
Besides, international trade relations also impact domestic employment when foreign finance does not falter. Between 1995 and 2007, the number of hours worked in Spain increased by 44%. Out of this rise, we prove that the vast majority (41.3 percentage points) corresponds to “Domestic Effects” and 2.7 to “Foreign Effects”. Therefore, Spanish employment benefited from international trade despite the huge trade deficits.
Nonetheless, we also show that these trade relations, the Spanish productive model and the economic growth rates above those of the main trade partners implied an increasing accumulation of foreign debt. The effects of these changes in international competitiveness were negligible and, contrary to conventional opinion, more beneficial to Spain than to Germany, France and Italy.
Catalysed by Global Financial Crisis, by 2008 it became apparent both the private and foreign over-indebtedness, which were two sides of the same coin. This prevented the reproduction of the growth model. As a consequence, and given the “austeritarian” stance of the Eurozone’s, Spain operates again, de facto, under the external constraint, which hinders the viability of policies for a return to growth as a sustainable remedy for mass unemployment.
The thesis also provides theoretical and methodological contributions to the field of macroeconomics and suggests broad policy recommendations.<br>La tesi estudia un dels principals problemes d’Espanya: l’atur de masses. No és un problema conjuntural, sinó una característica estructural del sistema soci-econòmic espanyol com a mínim des de finals dels anys 1970, que no s’ha resolt mai.
Argumentem que la causa principal d’aquest atur de masses resideix en la deficient estructura productiva espanyola i la seva integració perifèrica en el capitalisme europeu i global. Això és especialment evident en el col·lapse del sistema econòmic franquista i la crisi de la Transició a la democràcia (1977—1985), quan es va disparar la taxa d’atur fins al 21%. Aquest llegat perdura, sobretot, perquè també ho fan les causes esmentades, que a més imposen la “restricció externa” al creixement econòmic i de l’ocupació.
El procés és el següent: 1) quan l’economia creix i genera ocupació, les importacions creixen més i superen de llarg les exportacions; 2) el dèficit típicament s’ha de finançar amb alguna forma d’endeutament extern, fins que 3) la capacitat de pagament d’aquest passiu és qüestionada i sorgeixen dificultats per seguir accedint al finançament extern. Això força o agreuja una contracció de la demanda domèstica més o menys traumàtica per reduir els dèficits fins al nivell que poden obtenir finançament. Així es comprova en la trajectòria que va conduir al Pla d’Estabilització (1959), durant la crisi de la Transició democràtica (1977—1985), amb l’accelerada integració a la Unió Europea (1986—1993) i l’expansió que desemboca en la crisi actual.
Però les relacions comercials també afecten l’ocupació domèstica quan el finançament extern no escasseja. Comprovem que de l’augment del 44% de les hores treballades a Espanya entre el 1995 i 2007, la immensa majoria (41,3 punts percentuals) correspon a ‘efectes domèstics’ i 2,7 a ‘efectes externs’. Així, l’ocupació espanyola es va veure directament beneficiada per les relacions comercials amb l’exterior tot i l’enorme dèficit comercial.
Ara bé, també mostrem que aquestes mateixes relacions, model productiu i taxes de creixement econòmic per sobre dels nostres socis comercials van comportar l’acumulació creixent de deute extern. L’efecte dels canvis en la competitivitat internacional va ser molt menor i, contràriament al discurs dominant, més beneficiosos per Espanya que per Alemanya, França i Itàlia.
Amb l’esclat de la crisi financera global es va evidenciar tant el sobreendeutament privat com l’exterior, que eren dues cares de la mateixa moneda. Això va impedir reproduir el patró de creixement. En conseqüència, i ateses les polítiques “d’austeritat” de l’Eurozona, Espanya opera un cop més, de facto, sota la restricció externa, que dificulta la viabilitat de les polítiques necessàries per un retorn al creixement com a remei contra l’atur massiu.
La tesi també fa contribucions teòriques i metodològiques a la macroeconomia i proposa línies de política econòmica.
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Drenkhan, Fabian. "In the shadow of global change: towards integrated and adaptive water resources management in the Andes of Peru." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119465.
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In the Tropical Andes of Peru and adjacent lowlands, human livelihoods are exposed to strong changes in hydroclimatic and socioeconomic patterns. On the one hand, climate change impacts are particularly visible by means of glacier retreat and growth of glacier lakes. With decreasing ice masses in highly glacierized catchments, river discharge probably diminishes and its streamflow variability increases. On the other hand, growing energy demand promotes extensions of hydropower plants and thus a major need to rely on a predictable minimum discharge during the whole year. Additionally, the expansion of irrigated agriculture and population growth exert new pressures in the catchments. The antagonistic situation of successively depleting water supply and growing water demand put at risk future water availability.This study analyzes the state of the art of water supply in the Santa (Ancash, La Libertad) and Vilcanota (Cusco) river catchments. The water balance in both catchments is embedded in the framework of Integrated Water Resources Management and the new Water Resources Law. Multiple water conflicts which prevail in Peru, make visible the need for a water resources governance with pathways towards more participative, secure and sustainable water management. Intertwined and complex hydroclimatic and socioeconomic processes with high uncertainty in the Andes of Peru could be tackled with Adaptive Water Management in the future.<br>En los Andes Tropicales del Perú y regiones adyacentes aguas abajo, la subsistencia humana está expuesta a fuertes cambios en los patrones hidroclimáticos y socioeconómicos. Por un lado, los impactos del cambio climático son particularmente visibles a través del retroceso glaciar y crecimiento de lagunas glaciares. Conforme se va reduciendo la masa de hielo en cuencas altamente glaciadas, el caudal de río probablemente decrecerá y su variabilidad aumentará. Por otro lado, la creciente demanda de energía promueve la extensión de centrales hidroeléctricas y por ende una mayor necesidad de contar con un caudal mínimo predecible durante todo el año. Además, la expansión de la agricultura de riego y el crecimiento poblacional generan nuevas presiones en las cuencas. La situación antagonista de una oferta de agua sucesivamente menor y demanda de agua creciente pone en riesgo la futura disponibilidad de agua.Este estudio analiza el estado del arte de la oferta y demanda de agua en las cuencas de los ríos Santa (Ancash, La Libertad) y Vilcanota (Cusco). Se contextualiza el balance hídrico en ambas cuencas en el marco de la Gestión Integrada de Recursos Hídricos y la nueva Ley de Recursos Hídricos. Múltiples conflictos por el agua que prevalecen en el Perú hacen visible la necesidad de una gobernanza de recursos hídricos con trayectorias hacia una gestión más participativa, segura y sostenible. Procesos hidroclimáticos y socioeconómicos entrelazados y complejos con alto grado de incertidumbre en los Andes del Perú, podrían abordarse mediante una Gestión Adaptativa del Agua en el futuro.
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Boyle, Kirk. "The Catastrophic Real: Late Capitalism and Other Naturalized Disasters." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250625590.
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Ozcelik, Emre. "Institutional Political Economy Of Economic Development And Global Governance." Phd thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607360/index.pdf.
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There are two inter-related themes of this thesis: Economic development and global governance. We develop a perspective of &ndash<br>what we call &ndash<br>&lsquo<br>Institutional International Political Economy&rsquo<br>(IIPE) in order to: i) assess the likelihood of developmental success on the part of the Third World countries in the twenty-first century, and ii) analyze the developmental and world-systemic implications of the so-called &lsquo<br>global governance model&rsquo<br>, which we conceptualize as an ultra-liberal capitalist project on the part of the &lsquo<br>commanding heights&rsquo<br>of the contemporary &lsquo<br>world-economy&rsquo<br>. Our IIPE-perspective relies on an &lsquo<br>institutionalist&rsquo<br>synthesis of the classic works of Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter and Fernand Braudel. In the light of this perspective, &lsquo<br>state-led development&rsquo<br>seems to be inconceivable in the face of &lsquo<br>governance&rsquo<br>, which is an attempt to disintegrate the &lsquo<br>institutional substance&rsquo<br>of the state-as-we-know-it into &lsquo<br>market-like processes&rsquo<br>. Nevertheless, &lsquo<br>governance&rsquo<br>is bound to become the victim of its own success insofar as it destroys the indispensable political institutions upon which capitalism has survived as a historical world-system in the past.
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Võ, Ch'o'ng-Đài Hồng. "An assemblage of fragments history, revolutionary aesthetics and global capitalism in Vietnamese/American literature, films and visual culture /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3386844.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed February 11, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-168).
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Freeman, Mark Allen. "ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST SYSTEM: A WORLD-SYSTEMS APPROACH AND STUDY OF PANAMA." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3008.
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The current global capitalist system is at odds with environmental protection and the protection of indigenous people that are directly linked to the land on which they live. In environmental security literature, many have argued that, theoretically and functionally, it is possible to link national security with environmental security. However possible this may be on paper, in practice, the global capitalist system prevents this from becoming a reality. Using a world-systems approach, this thesis will show that core countries seeking to expand capital by tapping into new markets, locating new sources of raw materials and even forming strategic military partnerships in periphery countries unavoidably degrade the natural environment and thus, adversely affect the lives and health of indigenous people. It is also the argument in this paper that the primary purpose of strategic military partnerships with periphery states, such as those formed in Panama and Colombia, are primarily meant to protect economic interests, thus perpetuating the capitalist cycle. The end result is that, while it is theoretically possible, through a different theoretical lens, to bridge the definitional and theoretical gulf between national security and environmental security, the reality of the system subverts this endeavor, and will continue to do so under its current configuration.<br>M.A.<br>Department of Political Science<br>Sciences<br>Political Science MA
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Frost, Andrew John. "Failed State/s: An exegesis supporting the exhibition "Austerity Discotheque"." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/382673.
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This Masters project is the development of an exhibition of works of art taking the related themes of austerity and failure to explore the rise of global capitalism and extremist politics and the role of the artist as an agent for witness or resistance. The works draw from recent experience living in Berlin and Brisbane.<br>Thesis (Masters)<br>Master of Visual Arts (MVA)<br>Queensland College of Art<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Orsvärn, Lukas. "Automatic spotlight distribution for indirect illumination." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för kreativa teknologier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3729.
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Context. Indirect illumination – the light contribution from bounce light in an environment – is an important effect when creating realistic images. Historically it has been approximated very poorly by applying a constant ambient term. This approximation is unacceptable if the goal is to create realistic results as bouncing light contributes a lot of light in the real world. Objectives. This thesis proposes a technique to use a reflective shadow map to place and configure spotlights in an environment to approximate global illumination. Methods. The proposed spotlight distribution technique is implemented in a delimited real time graphics engine, and the results are compared to a naive spotlight distribution method. Results. The image resulting from the proposed technique has a lower quality than the comparison in our test scene. Conclusions. The technique could be used in its current state for applications where the view can be controlled by the developer such as in 3D side scrolling games or as a tool to generate editable indirect illumination. Further research needs to be conducted to make it more broadly viable.<br>Indirekt illuminering är en viktigt effekt om en försöker skapa realistiska bilder. Den här uppsatsen föreslår en teknik där en reflektiv skuggkarta används för att placera och konfigurera strålkastare för att approximera indirekt illuminering. Tekniken kan användas i till exempel sidscrollande 3D spel eller för att skapa ett verktyg som kan användas för att skapa redigerbar indirekt illuminering. Vidare forskning krävs för att göra tekniken rimlig för flera användningsområden.
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Brazzale, Claudia. "Family firms and the making of cosmopolitanism the effacement of gender in the global capitalism of the Italian Nordest /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481665991&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Martanovič, Lukáš. "Výpočet osvětlení ve scéně v reálném čase." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-236181.
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This thesis is focused on describing methods of computation of global illumination of 3D graphics scenes in real-time. First chapter contains brief introduction to the issue of global illumination (GI) computation, as well as quick summarisation of principles of most commonly used GI computation approaches. A method of visibility computing for indirect illumination, taking advantage of Imperfect Shadow Mapping, is introduced next. After closer examination of this method and prerequisite algorithms follows a description of its practical implementation, as well as of the structure of simple demonstrative application. Next chapter then contains testing and brief examination and evaluation of resulting program's behaviour. Finally, a possible method extension by means of virtual point light clustering is proposed.
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Maybury, Terrence. "Internal+/-External Terrains: A Meditation On the Productive Skein of Electracy." Thesis, Griffith University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368113.
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Internal+/-External Terrains is a meditation on the nature of electronic creativity, primarily from a production point of view. It seeks to arbitrate and synthesise a range of skills, attributes and ideas that might constitute the field of electronic aesthetics. It does this from the perspective of electronic artists, and the socio/economic/cultural system they increasingly serve. The aesthetics of electronic production, as looked at through the framework of electracy, serves as a model through which to locate some specific shifts in both self-making, and capitalism, in both their Post-Fordist, and globalising manifestations. Internal+/-External Terrains is a meditation on the re-conceptualisation going on in electronic meaning-making, as it is currently happening at the interfaces of the psyche, the politico-cultural domain, and in the techno-aesthetic apparatus of its production. Through the compilation of a possible program in electracy (of its various aesthetic components as used in production), along with a brief outline of the electronic artist, Internal+/-External Terrains situates both, as role-model and epicentre, of an increasingly accepted mode of abstraction: Radial-Logic©. And it is this omnidirectional form of abstraction currently lighting the cyber-cohering logic of an already arrived future.<br>Thesis (Masters)<br>Master of Philosophy (MPhil)<br>School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Chin, Jessica. "Global capitalism meets local postcommunism [electronic resource] : tensions in transition as manifested through physical culture and the female body in Romania /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8876.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Kinesiology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Gruin, Julian Y. "Communists constructing capitalism : socio-economic uncertainty, Communist party rule, and China's financial development, 1990-2008." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a70d4158-ac36-477c-accb-37f940071a0d.
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To what extent does China's experience of economic reform since 1989 compel a reconsideration of the ontological foundations of contemporary capitalist development? China's political economy remains characterized by a unique and resilient political structure (the Chinese Communist Party) that penetrates both 'private' (market) and 'public' (state) organizations. The conceptual rootedness of contemporary theories of comparative and international political economy in a distinctly Western historical experience of capitalist development hinders their ability to understand Chinese capitalism on its own terms—as historically, culturally, and globally embedded. To generate greater analytic traction in understanding China's otherwise paradoxical constellation of actors and dynamics, I argue that contemporary capitalism should be studied as a set of mechanisms for managing and exploiting socio-economic uncertainty, rather than according to the binary logics of state regulation and market competition. These mechanisms can be conceptualized as an overarching risk environment. On this basis, I trace how the cognitive frames, social institutions, and relational networks that emerged within the 'socialist market economy' in China's post-Tiananmen financial system have placed the Chinese Communist Party at the nexus of the state and the market. I argue that specific ideas emerged about how to manage the flow of capital, playing a significant role in underpinning expectations of financial growth and stability. During this period the financial system underpinned the CCP's capacity to both manage and exploit socio-economic uncertainty through the path of reform, forming a central explanatory factor in a developmental trajectory marked by a trifecta of rapid economic growth, macroeconomic stability, and deepening socio-economic imbalances. Rather than viewing the path of financial reform in China solely in terms of 'partial' or 'failed' free- market reform, it thus becomes possible to cast China's development in a new light as the product of a more concerted vision of how the financial system would enable a mode of economic development that combined the drive for capital accumulation with the distinctive socio-political circumstances of post-1989 China.
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Töpfer, Laura-Marie. "Mapping Chinese cross-border finance : actors, networks and institutional development." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ce96e7cd-870f-4ca5-9583-6864dceff86a.
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This research project explores the rise of Chinese cross-border finance. Cross-border investment programmes have been at the heart of China's financial liberalisation. Yet, we know little about what drives the expansion of these new market entry channels and the effects they have on global finance. This thesis explores the role that formal and informal institutions play in China's financial system, by addressing three main research goals: (1) to rethink analytical frameworks of global financial networks, by shifting the focus to channels of state power; (2) to investigate how such formal institutions shape competitive hierarchies in financial markets, both inside and outside of China; (3) to demonstrate that informal institutions such as a common cultural identity are equally important to explain behaviour and outcomes in Chinese cross-border finance. The thesis pursues this agenda through four substantive papers, each with its own subset of research goals and findings. The papers follow a three-fold structure. The thesis begins with an analytical focus on agents (micro-level), by examining the evolution of state-firm relations in Chinese cross-border finance. The first paper develops a politically sensitive framework of global financial networks, which conceptualises how bargaining dynamics within China's party-state shape competitive hierarchies in Chinese capital markets. Drawing on these theoretical insights, the second paper breaks new empirical ground, by explaining the asymmetrical nature of market access criteria for foreign investors. The third paper zooms out on the global consequences that Chinese state control has for money centres (macro-level). It sheds light on how state-firm relations shaped London's development as the first Western offshore trading centre for Chinese currency. The fourth paper shifts the attention to the role of informal social institutions in Chinese equity markets. It presents the first empirical study of how a common cultural identity with Mainland China governs the behaviour of different investor categories (group-level). The thesis distils the following findings: Bargaining conflicts inside the Chinese party-state have a decisive impact on competitive outcomes and behaviour in Chinese cross-border finance, both domestically and globally. Strategic state interests form an interdependent relationship with the resources supplied by foreign investors and domestic corporate players. Domestically, these resource interdependencies explain the asymmetrical nature of market access under China's cross-border investment schemes. Globally, the shift in state-firm bargaining dynamics from strategic alignment to an increasing bifurcation of interests explains the patchy integration of RMB finance into London's financial architectures. Informal social institutions equally shape competitive outcomes in China's capital markets. Whilst the literature identifies shared cultural identity as a source of local information advantage, this thesis finds the opposite: A common cultural background with national Chinese investors reduces information asymmetries for foreign investors but it does not equate to local information advantages. Overall, the four substantive papers add up to a multifaceted yet integrated perspective on the drivers, dynamics and consequences of Chinese cross-border finance. They clarify that the intersection of formal state governance and informal social forces is essential for understanding how the spread of neoliberal market forces unfolds across Chinese capital markets. This thesis thus affirms that space and place remain central to our understanding of financial market outcomes.
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Brand, Carina. "Global extraction and cultural production : an investigation of forms of extraction through the production of artist-video." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/621893.
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This research is a practice-based, theory-led, examination of forms of extraction under capitalism. The thesis addresses the question of where and how does extraction take place, both in and outside of the wage relationship. Directly employing Marx's concept of surplus extraction, but further extending the concept of extraction as an analytic tool, artistic method, and identifying its aesthetic form. Through the production of an original body of artistic video work, I explore three disparate sites where 'extraction' takes place and employ Science Fiction methods of narrative, the utopian impulse and the 'alienation effect' to critique global capitalism. Drawing on political economic theory, I argue that these new 'zones' of extraction have; forced the further 'subjectification' of labour; supported continued and on-going primitive accumulation - through the creation of global space/time; and promoted the intensification of both relative and absolute surplus value, through the mechanisation of reproduction and the blurring of work and life, through digital technology. The Video Trilogy sets up a dialogue between - fictionreality and space-time, and situates current readings of global extraction in a future/past space, where the inconsistencies of capital are played out. Extraction as concept is utilised to bring together, and expand on, both theoretical readings of the political economy, and to identify that extraction can be redeployed as a cultural or artistic form. I argue that extraction is mobilised through culture, but more importantly, I identify the specific cultural forms of extraction itself. By situating the research between theory and practice, I am able to represent, or interpret, the forms extraction takes - appropriating, performing and re-making them as material and subject within the videos. The research contributes to current critiques of capitalism, in critical theory, art theory, political economy and art-practice-as-research. The video submission brings together a range of aesthetic styles and techniques to construct an original alien world, which is an allegory of our own.
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Delaney, Nathan. "Copper Capitalism: The Making of a Transatlantic Market in Metals, 1870-1930." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1526067114476348.
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Fiuza, Bruno de Matos. "A Ação Global dos Povos e o novo anticapitalismo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8137/tde-22052017-114136/.
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Este trabalho investiga a formação, na segunda metade da década de 1990, daquilo que alguns grupos ativistas denominaram anticapitalismo global. A pesquisa buscou acompanhar a emergência dessa nova forma de ativismo por meio da reconstituição do processo de construção da rede mundial de luta contra a globalização neoliberal que começou a se formar em solidariedade ao levante do Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional (EZLN) no México, em janeiro de 1994, ganhou corpo com a realização do Primeiro e do Segundo Encontros Intercontinentais pela Humanidade e contra o Neoliberalismo, em 1996 e 1997, respectivamente, e culminou na fundação, em 1998, da Ação Global dos Povos (AGP), rede de movimentos sociais que criou os dias de ação global e inspirou as grandes manifestações contra as reuniões de instituições multilaterais como a Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC), o Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI) e o Banco Mundial a partir do protesto que impediu a realização da abertura da terceira Conferência Ministerial da OMC em Seattle, em novembro de 1999. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o processo de emergência e descrever as características centrais de um novo tipo de anticapitalismo que surgiu a partir da articulação das lutas contra a globalização neoliberal em nível mundial e situá-lo na longa tradição das lutas anticapitalistas dos séculos XIX e XX, mostrando como as transformações do modo de produção capitalista deram origem a novas formas de resistência ao longo desse período. Para isso, conduzi uma pesquisa em dois planos, um teórico e outro empírico. A pesquisa empírica se baseou no levantamento e análise de documentos produzidos pelos movimentos que integraram a rede mundial de luta contra a globalização neoliberal entre 1994 e 1998. A pesquisa teórica consistiu na aplicação de um modelo teórico elaborado a partir da combinação de duas leituras contemporâneas da economia política marxiana para analisar as transformações do capitalismo e do anticapitalismo ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX. Esse modelo foi elaborado a partir da teoria do antagonismo de classe formulada pelos pensadores operaístas e autonomistas italianos, como Antonio Negri e Mario Tronti, e da teoria dos ajustes espaçotemporais via acumulação por espoliação de David Harvey. Ao aplicar esse modelo teórico à análise dos dados empíricos fornecidos pelas fontes textuais produzidas pelos movimentos que formaram a rede mundial de luta contra a globalização neoliberal foi possível constatar a emergência de um novo anticapitalismo que surgiu em resposta às transformações do modo de produção capitalista a partir da crise de acumulação iniciada na década de 1970 e que deu origem a uma nova estratégia de enfrentamento do capital e a uma nova concepção do sujeito revolucionário. Como a pesquisa se baseou nas declarações escritas dos movimentos envolvidos na construção da rede mundial de luta contra a globalização neoliberal, os resultados obtidos permitem falar em um novo discurso anticapitalista, mas não fornecem os elementos necessários para atestar a emergência de uma nova prática anticapitalista capaz de se enraizar no cotidiano dos movimentos envolvidos. Por isso, o trabalho conclui sugerindo que é necessário realizar pesquisas de história oral para verificar se e como esse discurso se refletiu na prática cotidiana dos movimentos integrantes da rede.<br>This work investigates the formation, in the second half of the 1990s, of what some activist groups have called global anticapitalism. The research analyzed the emergence of this new form of activism by studying the building of the worldwide network of struggle against neoliberal globalization that began to take shape in solidarity to the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Mexico, in January 1994, strengthened itself with the organization of the First and Second Intercontinental Encounters for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism, in 1996 and 1997, and culminated in the foundation, in 1998, of Peoples Global Action (PGA), a netowrk of social movements that created the global days of action and inspired the big demonstrations against multilateral institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, starting with the protests that shut down the inaugurarion of the third Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Seattle, in November 1999. The aim of this work is to analyze the emergence and describe the main characteristics of a new kind of anticapitalism that grew out of the articulation of the struggles against neoliberal globalization in a global level and situate it within the long tradition of anticapitalist struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries, showing how the transformations of the capitalist mode of production gave birth to new forms of resistance. To do that, I have conducted a research in two levels, one theoretical and the other empirical. The empirical research was based on the analysis of documents produced by the movements that formed the worldwide network of struggle against neoliberal globalization between 1994 and 1998. The theoretical research consisted in the application of a theoretical model built upon the combination of two contemporary interpretations of the Marxian political economy in order to analyze the transformations of both capitalism and anticapitalism through the 19th and 20th centuries. This model was elaborated departing from the theory of class antagonism formulated by Italian workerist and autonomist intellectuals such as Antonio Negri and Mario Tronti, and from David Harveys theory of spatiotemporal fixes through accumulation by dispossession. By applying this theoretical model to the analysis of the empirical data provided by the textual sources produced by the movements that formed the worldwide network of struggle against neoliberal globalization it was possible to see the emergence of a new anticapitalism that took shape in response to the transformations of the capitalist mode of production since the accumulation crisis started in the 1970s and that gave rise to a new strategy to confront capital and to a new conception of the revolutionary subject. Since the research was based on the written declarations of the movements that built the worldwide network of struggle against neoliberal globalization, the results allow us to identify a new anticapitalist discourse, but dont provide enough elements to prove the emergence of new anticapitalist practices rooted in the everyday life of the movements involved in the network. Thus, the work concludes suggesting the necessity of conducting oral history researches to verify if and how this discourse was reflected in the everyday practice of the movements that took part in the network.
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Victoria, Idilio Manoel Brea, and Idilio Manoel Brea Victoria. "Medição da Radiação Solar Global e Difusa Utilizando Piranômetros com Sensores Fotoelétricos." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2008. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/2187.
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Previous issue date: 2008-06-10<br>In Brazil, most of the Institutions that measure solar radiation and the display only the global radiation incide on a horizontal surface. In the region of Pelotas - RS, the Estação Agroclimatológica de Pelotas, linked to Embrapa, has had the data of global solar radiation daily estimated from 1971 to 1992 and measurements starting in 1993. Considering that the solar systems should be installed so that a larger amount of energy is collected, the element collectors should be installed with a certain inclination related to horizontal surface and oriented to towards the Equator. That means that the radiation data made available by the Institutions that measure global solar radiation should be worked in a way that it is possible to obtain an estimation of the solar radiation incident on a sloping surface. The existing procedures used by solar system designers in Brazil to estimate the global solar radiation incident on a sloping surface, use statist methods originating from the diffuse measurement incident in other countries. With the objective of better estimating the solar radiation incident on a sloping surface and spreading the diffuse solar radiation measurement through the use of pyranometers which use photoelectric sensors, of low cost, in substitution to the thermoelectric sensors, this work describes and validates the procedures of measurement of global and diffuse solar radiation so as for these to be considered of good quality. For this experience three metallic bases were used. Two of them set up under the inspiration of the Robinson and Stoch model, attached to a radiometric platform, at CEFET RS, at a height of 19m. They received shadow bands on the measurement of diffuse radiation with the band axis in the N-S direction. Pyranometers with photoelectric sensors and thermobattery were used. The termobattery considered a secondary pattern, as reference in measurements with global and diffuse solar radiations. These, linked to the data acquisition system and to the microcomputer had the data measured interpreted in the calibrating of the pyranometers study and the measurements of the radiations mentioned before. Considering the work with solar radiation data, the recommended statistic tests were applied: medium deviation error (MBE), medium quadratic error (RMSE) and the correlational coefficient (CC). It is possible to conclude that the use of Licor LI 200 pyranometer, with the photoelectric sensor, for measurement of the global and diffuse solar radiation must be preceded by a good calibration, performed periodically. The global solar radiation data obtained presented good quality, coinciding with the values measured with the standard Eppley PSP pyranometer, observing the uncertainty of the equipments. Regarding the diffuse solar radiation measurements, although the Licor pyranometer operated under less proper conditions of performance, in other words, in very cloudy days, after the corrections
due to shadowing, at atmospheric and temperature conditions, it was possible to obtain better quality results, reducing significantly the error values of MBE and RMSE.<br>No Brasil, a maior parte das Instituições que medem radiação solar disponibiliza apenas dados de radiação global incidente em uma superfície horizontal. Na região de Pelotas-RS, a Estação Agroclimatológica de Pelotas, vinculada à Embrapa, tem os dados de radiação solar global diária estimados desde 1971 até 1992 e medidos a partir de 1993. Considerando que os sistemas solares devem ser instalados objetivando uma maior quantidade de energia a ser captada, seus elementos captadores de radiação devem ser instalados com uma determinada inclinação em relação à horizontal e voltados para o Equador. Isso significa dizer que os dados de radiação disponibilizados pelas Instituições que medem radiação solar global devem ser trabalhados de modo que se tenha uma estimativa da radiação solar incidente em uma superfície inclinada. Os procedimentos existentes e utilizados pelos projetistas de sistemas solares no Brasil para estimar a radiação solar global incidente em uma superfície inclinada utilizam métodos estatísticos oriundos de medições da radiação difusa incidente em outros países. Com o objetivo de melhor estimar a radiação solar incidente em uma superfície inclinada e difundir a medição de radiação solar difusa através da utilização de piranômetros que utilizam sensores fotoelétricos, de baixo custo, em substituição aos que utilizam sensores termoelétricos, esse trabalho descreve e valida os procedimentos de medição e correção a serem efetuadas na realização das medições de radiação solar global e difusa a fim de que as mesmas possam ser consideradas de boa qualidade. Foram utilizadas três bases metálicas, duas montadas sob inspiração do modelo de Robinson e Stoch, fixadas em plataforma radiométrica no CEFET-RS a 19m de altura, que receberam, na medição de radiação difusa, anéis de sombreamento, com o eixo do anel na direção N-S geográfica. Usou-se piranômetros com sensores fotoelétricos e termopilha, este último, considerado padrão secundário tido como de referência, em medições de radiações solares global e difusa, que ligados a sistema de aquisição de dados e micro-computador, teve os dados medidos trabalhados e interpretados no estudo da calibração dos piranômetros e das medições das radiações citadas anteriormente. Tendo em vista o trabalho com dados de radiação solar, aplicou-se os testes estatísticos recomendados: erro do desvio médio (MBE), erro médio quadrático (RMSE) e o do coeficiente de correlação (CC). Conclui-se que o uso de piranômetro Licor LI 200, com sensor fotoelétrico, para medição de radiação global e difusa, deve ser precedido de uma boa calibração, realizada periodicamente. Os dados obtidos de radiação solar global foram de boa qualidade, praticamente coincidindo com os valores medidos com o piranômetro padrão da Eppley PSP, observadas as incertezas dos equipamentos. Com relação às medidas de radiação solar difusa, apesar de o piranômetro Licor ter operado nas condições
menos propícias de desempenho, ou seja, em dias de céu muito nublado, após as correções devido ao sombreamento, à temperatura e às condições atmosféricas, obteve-se resultados de melhor qualidade, reduzindo-se significativamente os valores dos erros MBE e RMSE.
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Bastos, Remo Moreira Brito. "No profit left behind: the effects of the global political economy on public basic education." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2017. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=20189.
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nÃo hÃ<br>The object of this research is the capture of basic public education in most contemporary societies by the global macro-structure of political-economic power, composed of large multinational corporate oligopolies (finance included), supported by multilateral organizations of the international capitalist institutional system (World Bank, IMF and OECD, mainly), by powerful private foundations emanating from huge corporate empires such as Gates, Broad, Walton, among others, by think-tanks and large media outlets, both graciously funded by large global business corporations, in order to instrumentalizing that social sphere with a view to boosting and accelerating the process of accumulation of global capital in the context of the serious structural crisis that has plagued the capitalist mode of production since the mid-1960s. In this perspective, we will try to apprehend not only the connections between education and the crisis, but, above all, the systemic roots of it. Even admitting the relative autonomy of the educational complex vis-Ã-vis the economic system to which it is integrated, it is understood that, in the last instance, the structural constraints imposed by that process of accumulation determine the character and function that education plays in the total social complex in which it operates. In this sense, the general objective of this research is to investigate the influence of the global political economy on public basic education, elucidating the structural causes that contribute to the deterioration of the basic public education systems. In this direction, we articulate the specific objectives that, in general, are linked to the chapters that compose the present work. Thus, the specific objective of the first chapter is to examine the constituent elements of this global macrostructure in the context of the reproduction of capital in times of crisis. The second chapter has the specific objective of empirically and theoretically contextualizing and problematizing in national spheres the manifestations of the imposition of the educational model prescribed by the aforementioned macrostructure of power, examining in particular the US and Brazilian cases, and the third has as its specific objective to examine two national educational systems that overcome the global corporate education model, namely the Finnish and the Cuban ones. From the theoretical-methodological point of view, the present study unfolds in a bibliographical and documentary research, in which, in the light of dialectical historical materialism, it seeks to grasp the determinants of the current conjuncture of the global political economy of education. The results of the research pointed to the capture of public basic education by the oligopolistic macro-structure of global economic and political power and its exploitation with a view to boosting the trillion-dollar private education world market. It was verified that the implantation of this ultra pragmatic corporate educational model failed, wherever it was adopted, to achieve the declared objectives of recovering the level of educational performance and to eliminate the difference of performances among the students. In opposition to such model, the existence of the successful educational experiences in Finland and in Cuba has patently demonstrated the plausibility of constructing, in any social formation, a minimally just and effective educational system, thus demonstrating that the issue is political, rather than necessarily and only economic.<br>O objeto de estudo desta pesquisa consiste na captura da educaÃÃo bÃsica pÃblica na maioria das sociedades contemporÃneas pela macroestrutura global de poder polÃtico-econÃmico, composta pelos grandes oligopÃlios empresariais (finanÃa incluÃda) transnacionais, com o suporte das organizaÃÃes multilaterais do sistema institucional capitalista internacional (Banco Mundial, FMI e OCDE, principalmente), das poderosas fundaÃÃes privadas oriundas de imensos impÃrios empresariais, tais como Gates, Broad, Walton, dentre outras, dos think-tanks e dos grandes veÃculos de mÃdia, ambos graciosamente financiados pelas grandes corporaÃÃes empresariais globais, no sentido de instrumentalizar aquela esfera social com vistas a dinamizar e acelerar o processo de acumulaÃÃo do capital global, no contexto da grave crise estrutural que desde meados da dÃcada de 1960 assola o modo de produÃÃo capitalista. Nessa perspectiva, buscar-se-à apreender nÃo somente as conexÃes entre a educaÃÃo e referida crise, mas, sobretudo, as raÃzes sistÃmicas desta. Mesmo admitindo a autonomia relativa da qual dispÃe o complexo educacional face ao sistema econÃmico ao qual se integra, entende-se que, em Ãltima instÃncia, os constrangimentos estruturais impostos por aquele processo de acumulaÃÃo determinam o carÃter e a funÃÃo que a educaÃÃo desempenha no complexo social total no qual se insere. Nesse sentido, o objetivo geral da presente pesquisa consiste em investigar os influxos da economia polÃtica global sobre a educaÃÃo bÃsica pÃblica, elucidando as causas estruturais que contribuem para a deterioraÃÃo dos sistemas pÃblicos bÃsicos de ensino. Nessa direÃÃo, articulam-se os objetivos especÃficos que, de modo geral, vinculam-se aos capÃtulos que compÃem o presente trabalho. Dessa forma, o objetivo especÃfico do primeiro capÃtulo consiste em examinar os elementos constitutivos da referida macroestrutura global no contexto da reproduÃÃo do capital em tempos de crise. O segundo capÃtulo tem o objetivo especÃfico de, em esferas nacionais, contextualizar e problematizar empÃrica e teoricamente como se manifestam os desdobramentos da imposiÃÃo do modelo educacional prescrito pela mencionada macroestrutura de poder, examinando particularmente os casos estadunidense e brasileiro, e o terceiro tem como objetivo especÃfico examinar dois sistemas educacionais nacionais que superam o modelo corporativo global de educaÃÃo, a saber, o finlandÃs e o cubano. Do ponto de vista teÃrico-metodolÃgico, o presente estudo desdobra-se em uma pesquisa bibliogrÃfica e documental, na qual se busca, à luz do materialismo histÃrico dialÃtico, apreender os determinantes da atual conjuntura da economia polÃtica global da educaÃÃo. Os resultados da pesquisa apontaram a captura da educaÃÃo bÃsica pÃblica pela macroestrutura oligopÃlica de poder econÃmico-polÃtico global, e sua exploraÃÃo com vistas ao impulso do trilionÃrio mercado mundial de educaÃÃo privada. Constatou-se que a implantaÃÃo desse modelo educacional imediatista, mercantil e adestrador fracassou, por onde foi adotado, em lograr os declarados objetivos de recuperar o nÃvel de desempenho educacional e de eliminar a diferenÃa de desempenhos entre os discentes. Em oposiÃÃo a tal modelo, a existÃncia das vitoriosas experiÃncias educacionais na FinlÃndia e em Cuba evidenciou a plausibilidade da construÃÃo, em qualquer formaÃÃo social, de um sistema educacional minimamente justo e eficaz, demonstrando, portanto, que a questÃo à polÃtica, e nÃo necessÃria e unicamente econÃmica.
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Centelhas, João Paulo Rabello de Castro. "O zapatismo e a geografia histórica das comunidades indígenas mesoamericanas: um estudo a partir do conceito de metabolismo geográfico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-09062017-122450/.
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O objeto geral desta pesquisa é o devir histórico-geográfico de largo espectro das sociedades mesoamericanas. Através dele se problematiza os fundamentos que animaram seu movimento de reprodução e formaram as condições objetivas de existência dos indígenas de Chiapas (México), onde o EZLN (Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional) tem por excelência seu campo de atuação. A investigação se concentra sobre a tendência integrativa do trabalho social em escalas progressivamente mais amplas, correpondendo a diferentes metabolismos geográficos em que as comunidades ameríndias eram configuradas ou mesmo descaracterizadas enquanto tais sob o imperativo de relações societárias supra-comunitárias, hierarquizadas e regionais. Este processo, em sua face colonial, desmontou e reestruturou radicalmente as territorialidades das sociedades ameríndias, atomizando e reduzindo sua organização territorial em comunidades locais de pequeno porte, ao passo que as articulava sob a ordem colonial da superexploração do trabalho a nível intercontinental. Esta integração-fragmentadora da formação territorial do México colonial engendrou elaborações étnico-identitárias, tanto singulares (grupos étnicos), quanto gerais (indígena), que se constituíram mediante tal geografia política colonial, muitas vezes radicando sua condição campesina, comunitária e autóctone como fundamento de sua própria etnicidade. A questão que se apresenta é a interrogação sobre o desenvolvimento histórico-geográfico das sociedades ameríndias na sua importância quanto ao entendimento do atual embate político em que os grupos e as comunidades estão inseridos em toda América Latina. A emergência e a atuação do movimento zapatista aparece como um ator insurgente, que permitiu um amplo processo de recuperação de terras indígenas mediante o levante armado de 1994, mas desde então tem sofrido uma feroz e sofisticada campanha de contra-insurgência protagonizada pelo Estado mexicano e seus apoiadores privados (nacionais e internacionais). O modo de vida indígena-comunitário passa a ser resignificado no âmbito de uma valorização étnico-cultural de sua ancestralidade, mas ao mesmo tempo é atravessado por processos fragmentadores que tensionam as bases e os laços da vida social comunitária. O metabolismo geográfico do capital monopolista transnacional reinsere os territórios indígenas sob uma geografia política altamente complexa, em que as configurações territoriais assumem um papel imperativo na normatização e no controle das práticas sociais e políticas. Por consequência da estrutura do metabolismo contemporâneo, a racionalização global-regional das geografias locais resulta em um grave problema cognitivo à elaboração da luta pelos atores locais, seja no campo ou na cidade, implicando dramaticamente sobre as possibilidades estratégicas do agir político. Este objeto específico é investigado em função do desenvolvimento das práticas políticas do EZLN, sobretudo, nos termos possíveis da ação regional e supra-comunitária.<br>The general object of this research is the broad historical and geographical becoming of Mesoamerican indigenous communities. Through it we discuss the fundamentals that inspired its playback movement and the formation of the objective conditions of existence of Chiapas\'s indigenous people (Mexico), where the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) has quintessential their actuation\'s field. The investigation focuses on the integrative tendency of social work progressively in larger scales, the different geographical metabolisms in the Native American communities, largely were necessarily integrated. This process, in its colonial face, dismounted and seriously restructured the territoriality of Mesoamerican societies, atomizing and reducing its territorial organization in small local communities, while they were articulated under the colonial order of the overexploitation of labor in a inter-continental level. This fragmentary integration of the territorial formation of colonial Mexico engendered ethnic-identitarian elaborations, both singular (ethnic groups) and general (indigenous), which were constituted by such colonial political geography, often rooted in its peasant, communitarian and autochthonous condition as a foundation of their own ethnicity. The question that arises is the inquiry about the historical-geographic development of Amerindian societies in their importance in understanding the current political clash in which groups and communities are inserted throughout Latin America. The emergence and performance of the Zapatista movement appears later in this scenario as an insurgent actor, who allowed a broad process of recovery of indigenous lands by the armed uprising of 1994, but since has undergone a fierce and sophisticated campaign of counterinsurgency led by the Mexican State and its private backers (national and international). The Indian-communal way of life becomes reframed within an ethno-cultural appreciation of their ancestry, but at the same time is crossed by fragmenting processes tensioning the foundations and ties of community social life. The geographical metabolism of transnational monopolist capital reinserts indigenous territories in a highly complex political geography, where territorial settings play an imperative role in the regulation and control of social and political practices. As a result of the structure of contemporary metabolism, global-regional rationalization of local geographies results in a serious \"cognitive problem\" to the subjects in general, generating dramatic implications for strategic possibilities of political action. This particular object is investigated with the development of the EZLN\'s political practices, particularly on the possible terms of regional and supra-community action.
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Azuma, João Carlos. "O Pacto Global das Nações Unidas: uma via para a responsabilidade das empresas pela concretização dos direitos humanos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6429.
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Previous issue date: 2014-05-05<br>The history of human rights shows that these rights are the result of challenges which come along with the "progress" of society. In recent history, the phenomenon of globalization of business and the adverse impacts of their activities on human rights arises. The business and human rights issue has been embodied in the UN s international agenda, including in the initiative called the United Nations Global Compact which consists basically of a commitment that business voluntarily assumes to the alignment of its activities with the implementation of ten universally accepted principles related to four areas, namely: human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. In light of two of the Global Compact principles which focus specifically on the issue of human rights, participating business in the initiative are committed to respect them, in other words, not to violate them, as well as not to be complicit in their violation. The Humanist Capitalism, premise of the object of this thesis, is shown to be innovative in the theoretical foundation of business responsibility for the realization of human rights. In this context , the Global Compact shows to be a way for the realization of human rights by those exercising business activity. However, it does not end in itself. Imperative is its coordination with other existing UN mechanisms to build a path to business responsaibility for human rights violations resulting from its activities<br>A história dos direitos humanos demonstra que esses direitos são frutos de desafios que surgem com o evoluir da sociedade. Na História recente, desponta-se o fenômeno da globalização das empresas e os impactos adversos decorrentes de suas atividades sobre os direitos humanos. A incorporação da temática empresa e direitos humanos à agenda internacional da ONU encontra-se presente na iniciativa intitulada Pacto Global das Nações Unidas, que consiste, basicamente, em um compromisso que as empresas assumem voluntariamente de alinhamento de suas atividades à implementação de dez princípios universalmente aceitos relacionados a quatro áreas, a saber: direitos humanos, trabalho, meio ambiente e combate à corrupção. À luz dos dois princípios do Pacto Global que versam especificamente sobre a questão dos direitos humanos, as empresas participantes da iniciativa assumem o compromisso de respeitá-los, ou seja, não violá-los, bem como de não serem cúmplices de violação. O Capitalismo Humanista, premissa que se utiliza ao objeto da presente tese, mostra-se inovador para a fundamentação teórica da responsabilidade empresarial pela concretização dos direitos humanos. Nesse contexto, o Pacto Global revela-se um caminho para a concretização dos direitos humanos por quem exerce atividade empresarial. Todavia, não se esgota em si mesmo. Imperiosa é a sua coordenação com outros mecanismos existentes na ONU para se construir uma via para a responsabilidade das empresas pela violação de direitos humanos decorrentes de suas atividades
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Mitchell, Anthony. "A comparison of the offshoring and outsourcing strategies of German and UK multinational companies : a critical engagement with the 'varieties of capitalism' perspective." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/16330.
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The aim of this research is to examine the extent to which the offshoring and outsourcing practices in Multinational Corporations, when the headquarters are registered and located in either the UK or Germany; are embedded in the institutional contexts of their respective home countries. There are six research questions relating to differences in approach and choice of location, ownership and coordination, employment practice, cultural proximity, trade union influence and finally the extent of re-shoring. These are primarily assessed through the 'varieties of capitalism' perspective. A comparative case study approach has been adopted with a focus on two sectors; airlines and engineering; in each case a major UK and German organisation are compared. Fourteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews took place in both the home countries and overseas locations in Europe, India and Asia. The sample size is small, however, each was with a senior executive and the transcripts revealed 'rich data' for compiling the case studies and answering the research questions. The contribution to original thinking is a conceptual framework posited by proposing a taxonomy to analyse the relationship between coordinated and liberal market economies and the components of the offshoring and / or outsourcing process. Reference is made to theory drawn from the resource based view, global production networks, dynamic capabilities, embeddedness as well as varieties of capitalism to focus on competences, spatial dimensions and power. It is this collective approach that is considered to be novel. Qualitative analysis is deployed to re-construct the actual framework for each industry sector. Constructs (Reichertz, 2004) combining abduction, deduction and induction are used to develop propositions that lead to conclusions. The similarities between the two UK companies and the two German companies confirms the usefulness of the taxonomy and allows for its extension to other firms and sectors. Key findings and conclusions from the two case studies are that German organizations are less inclined to outsource (in both sectors) preferring to reduce costs and retain control through captive offshoring. The UK businesses were less risk adverse and more flexible and agile in their sourcing policies. There was evidence that the UK companies regarded outsourcing and offshoring as options for closer co-operation that may lead to strategic alliances and mergers or acquisition. The relationships with trade unions/works council was also found to be very different, with a reluctance by management in Germany to progress radical initiatives. Other differences in terms of autonomy and division of labour were found. From an institutional perspective the German CME's cases were less able to deploy outsourcing and offshoring strategies with the degrees of freedom that the UK LMEs typically enjoyed. CMEs are constrained by their policies, interconnectedness and style of working. A number of ambiguities are highlighted. The thesis argues that the outsourcing and offshoring practices are embedded to a high degree in the institutional practices of the home countries. Finally, the empirical novelty lies in the 'rich data' generated by valuable insights from the senior executive interviewees to which the researcher was privileged to have access.
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Ancien, Delphine. "Global city theory in question the case of London and the logics of capital /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1218471544.
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Saltalippi, Matteo. "Frames of class struggle : an ethnography about local labour and global capitalism during the 'ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali Terni' steel plant strike in Terni, Central Italy." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2018. http://research.gold.ac.uk/24091/.
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This thesis, which focuses on a prolonged period of unrest that took place at the TK-AST Terni steelworks in Central Italy in 2014 and addresses the ways in which labour activism contributes to the articulation of working class self-identification and consciousness. The thesis draws on anthropological approaches to class in a context of historical change that requires the Terni workers to engage in multiple and contradictory relations with local and global capital and with political entities. The thesis shows how contemporary labour struggles incorporate coercion and solidarity and demonstrates that the strike is reassessed as the main instrument of protest, while the Terni steelworkers’ political agency fails to resonate with traditional repertoires of class struggle transmitted through memories and narratives about a glorious past. Through visual ethnographic methods, the thesis explores the steelworkers’ engagement with their current possibilities: film and text draw on and illustrate the Terni workers’ search for visibility for their cause and show how the fragmentation underpinning the organisation of production is reflected in the different ways that contractors and blue and white-collar workers engage with the struggle, thus undermining the emergence of a united front. The thesis considers how new configurations and geographies of power undermine the pivotal role of local trade unionists and shape the demands of workers and the innovative forms of struggle they adopt to ensure media visibility. This leads to a proliferation of new forms of struggle that reflect the fragmentation of the Terni labour force even while they are pursuing the shared aim of safeguarding the future of the plant and the town. By analysing workers while they are stepping outside the boundary of the protected sphere of production and occupying public space, thereby transforming the economic struggle into a political one, the thesis demonstrates that the working class has not disappeared and highlights its relevance in the present socioeconomic landscape.
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Mikulica, Tomáš. "Light Propagation Volumes." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-234902.
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This thesis deals with problem of computation of global illumination in real-time. Two methods are described. Namely Reflective Shadow Maps and Light Propagation Volumes. The first of them deals with the problem by using extended Shadow Mapping algorithm. The second one uses scene embedded into a 3D grid together with Spherical harmonics to compute light propagation in the scene. Furthermore this thesis contains results of measurement of the rendering speed of the Light Propagation Volumes algorithm with various settings on several machines. Quality of the resulting output of the algorithm is also evaluated.
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Elkins, Alex Gregory. "How the City State Fares Under State Capitalism in the PRC: Local and State-Wide Reform." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1364384598.
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Muntadas, Figueras Borja. "El tiempo como dispositivo en la era global. Acerca de las relaciones ontológicas entre tiempo y política." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/382820.
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El tiempo como problema es y ha sido objeto de numerosos y amplios estudios filosóficos. Con la política y lo político, sucede lo mismo. Sin embargo, la pregunta que nos hacemos es: ¿existe algún tipo de relación entre el primero y los segundos? Sí. Si hacemos un sondeo histórico entre algunos filósofos —lo que ha ocupado la primera parte de esta tesis- observamos que en Aristóteles, en Kant, en Heidegger, en Deleuze o en Badiou, encontramos esa relación. En la estabilidad de la polis, en la materialización de principios de la razón práctica en la Iey positiva, en la decisión que tiene como horizonte el futuro, en el acontecimiento y su fidelidad, en todos, tiempo y política se encuentran. Existe entre ambos una relación ontológica. Para cada autor, el ser de lo político y el ser del tiempo se sincronizan de acuerdo a un fin.
Este análisis hermenéutico nos lleva a preguntarnos: ¿cuál es la relación actual, en nuestro tiempo, que hemos llamado era global, entre tiempo y política? Partimos de lo siguiente: en la era global Realidad y capitalismo se identifican, el tiempo no es natural, sino que se corresponde con una serie de relaciones sociales que operan en planos muy diferentes. El plano de la sociedad de consumo, el plano de la red virtual, el plano del discurso económico y el plano laboral. El tiempo, en cada uno de estos planos, sincroniza series que permiten conectar, a través de una síntesis, al individuo con la Realidad. Luego, ¿qué es el tiempo? El tiempo es un dispositivo, construido social y políticamente, que conecta, de forma automática, al individuo con la Realidad. Como dispositivo, el tiempo es el operador que realiza la síntesis entre individuo y Realidad a través de cada una de las series en cada plano. La serie es la forma como el tiempo llena cada uno de los instantes, huyendo del vacío, en cada uno de los planos. La serie está en el plano, pero el plano no se reduce a la serie. Siempre existe lo heterogéneo, instantes que la serie no puede acoplar.
El tiempo opera —sincroniza- en la serie y ejecuta una síntesis de acuerdo a una finalidad. Lo hace de acuerdo a un plan: la autorreproducción del capital a través del individuo, que lo hace de forma automática y no consciente. Queda, entonces, abierta la pregunta: ¿existen otros dispositivos temporales que no atrapen al individuo a la Realidad de acuerdo al plan del capital? La respuesta: se están construyendo.<br>Time as a problem and has undergone numerous large phiIosophical studies. With politics and political, it's the same. However, the question we ask is: Is there any relationship between the first one and second one? Yes. If we make a historical survey of some philosophers who has held the first part of this thesis, we note that: Aristotle, Kant, Heidegger, Deleuze or Badiou, we find that relationship. The stabiIity of the polis, i n the realization of principles of practical reason in positive law, the decision whose horizon the future in the event and his faithfulness, in all weather and politics meet. It exists between an ontological relationship. For each author, the essence of politics and time to be synchronized according to an end.
This hermeneutical analysis leads us to ask: what is the current relationship, in our time, we have called global age, between time and politics? We start with the folIowing: in the global era Reality and capital ism are identified, time is not natural , but which corresponds to a number of social relationships that operate at very different levels. The plane of the consumer society, the plane of the virtual network, the level of economic discourse and the working level. Time, in each of these planes, synchronized series for connecting, through a synthesis, the individual with Reality. Then, what is time? Time is a device - social and politically constructed- connecting, automatically, the people with reality. As a device, time is the operator who makes the synthesis between people and Reality through each of the series in each plane. The series is how the full time each of the moments, fleeing the vacuum in each of the planes. The series is in the plane, but the plane is not reduced the number. There is always the heterogeneous moments that the series can't be coupled.
Operates in time series, and performs a synthesis according to a purpose. It does so according to a plan: self-reproduction of capital through the individual, making it automatically and unconscious. Is then open the question: are there other temporary devices that do not trap the individual to reality according to the plan of capital? The answer: they are building.
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Shuqair, Noura. "Islamic Patterns as an Allegory for an F-1 Student's Experience in the Context of Global Capitalism: The Aesthetics of Cognitive Mapping as an Approach to Art-Based Research." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703421/.
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Building on Fredric Jameson's critical theory, this dissertation examines how the aesthetics of cognitive mapping were used to uncover overlooked political, economic, social and cultural dimensions behind my artistic engagement with Islamic patterns. Using a critically informed variant of arts-based research (ABR), I explored the complexity of the interconnected economic, social, political and aesthetic realities informing my positionality as a Muslim Saudi female artist/research completing her dissertation in a Western country. Particularly, my work revealed how certain global forces (including capitalist relations between Saudi Arabia and the USA, as well as global postmodern cultural influences) shape the processes of appropriation and re-signification of patterning appropriated from Islamic aesthetics. This research culminated in a body of artwork for a solo exhibition at Paul Voertman's Gallery at the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas located in Denton, Texas. I conclude the study with recommendations for a regional ABR to be developed by educators for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The study also suggests that this model of cognitive mapping as a critical art making methodology would be a great pedagogical tool for museums and art education curriculum to implement in Saudi Arabia.