Current And Recent Issues
volume 5 issue 9 (November 2011)
There is an “app” for that: Mobile technologies and learning
Phone technology now offers researchers and students in the classroom mobile phone applications that can be used to support and improve access to information, resources, and scholarship.________________________________________________________
volume 5 issue 8 (August 2011)
Water Issues from a Global, National, and Local Perspective
volume 5 issue 7 (July 2011)
Goddess Laksmi and Cultural Traditions of Rice: Implications for the Status of Women
Bidyut Mohanty
On an example from rural India, Mohanty traces how cultural traditions recognizing the economic contribution of women shape the destiny of the girl child today.
volume 5 issue 6 (june 2011)
Global Era Imaginaries: Myth Today
Faessel reconsiders the status and vitality of myth in the current global era.
volume 5 issue 5 (may 2011)
Pieterse reflects on why the recent financial crisis hasn’t transformed regulatory policy.
volume 5 issue 4 (april 2011)
The Role of Universities in Cultural Heritage Protection
Silverman notes the importance of university-based initiatives in securing cultural heritage.
volume 5 issue 3 (march 2011)
Juergensmeyer reports on how graduate programs in Global Studies are defining the field.
volume 5 issue 2 (february 2011)
Douai explores the media’s role in the Age of Globalization.
volume 5 issue 1 (january 2011)
“Connectivity” over “Connections”: Networking Governance and Technology Down South
Sinha discusses trends in government & technology relations in developing societies.
volume 4 issue 6 (december 2010)
The Individual and the Collective: A Discussion of Identity and Individualism
Persson examines the socially constructed role of identity and individualism.
volume 4 issue 5 (november 2010)
Globalization and Higher Education Development: A Critical Analysis
Guemide and Mehdani analyze the nature of globalization and its affect on higher education.
volume 4 issue 4 (june 2010)
Re-locating the U.S. Global Identity in the Post-9/11 World
Mahdi makes the case for re-imagining U.S. Identity as more than a contrast to colonial English identity.
volume 4 issue 3 (may 2010)
Strong Governments Underpin Globalization
Lentner explores the role of government in Globalization.
volume 4 issue 2 (may 2010)
Global studies abroad: toward a more integrated and meaningful study abroad experience
Abernathy discusses strategies to improve abroad experiences in Global Studies.
volume 4 issue 1 (april 2010)
Sinha explores two contending and contrasting concepts: ‘Global Village’ and ‘Another World’.
volume 3 issue 10 (november 2009)
Safia Swimelar
Swimelar discusses the power of film to increase global perspective in the classroom.
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 8 (august 2009)
Amy Stambach
Stambach synthesizes as Foucault, Lacan, Lévi-Strauss, and Barthes discuss Global Studies.
volume 3 issue 7 (july 2009)
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?
Lule examines the theoretical, methodological and pedagogical approaches of a new global studies program that emphasizes the local.
volume 3 issue 5 (june 2009)
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 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?
Howard-Hassmann challenges the view that economic globalization intensifies poverty.
volume 3 issue 2 (february 2009)
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?
Burch explores the implications of the move toward reform of education through privatization.
March 18, 2011 at 1:21 am
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