global-e: a global studies journal

Visual Culture and Pedagogy: Teaching Human Rights with Film and Images

Safia Swimelar
Swimelar discusses the power of film to increase global perspective in the classroom.

volume 3 issue 10 (october 2009)

volume 3 issue 9 (september 2009)

Rethinking Gender and Human Rights in the Global Political Economy

Deborah M. Weissman
Weissman questions whose interests human rights initiatives truly serve.

volume 3 issue 7 (july 2009)

The Rise of the Global Imaginary and the Persistence of Ideology

Manfred B. Steger
Steger probes the rising global imaginary in the context of new political belief systems that fuel current ideological struggles.

volume 3 issue 6 (july 2009)

Creating the Global Studies Curriculum – A Space for the Local?

Jack Lule
Lule examines the theoretical, methodological and pedagogical approaches of a new global studies program that emphasizes the local.

volume 3 issue 5 (june 2009)

Tourism, Sex, and Beirut

Ghada Masri
Masri explores the relationship between Beirut’s sex tourism industry and Lebanese national identity.

volume 3 issue 4 (may 2009)

Globalization, the Global Trope, and Poor Black Communities: The Recent American Experience

David Wilson
David Wilson explains how the rhetoric of globalization aggravates African American urban poverty and marginalization.

volume 3 issue 3 (march 2009)

Globalization, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Rights?

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Howard-Hassmann challenges the view that economic globalization intensifies poverty.

volume 3 issue 2 (february 2009)

Do Rights Belong in the Classroom?

Robin Kirk
Kirk examines the evolution of human right as an academic discipline and professional field.

volume 3 issue 1 (january 2009)

Hidden Markets: Global Patterns in the Privatization of Education?

Patricia Burch
Burch explores the implications of the move toward reform of education through privatization.