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Lexington Books Western Higher Education in Global Contexts
Book SynopsisThe globalization of American style higher education is a field of study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of implementing and expanding U.S. influenced curricula in the Middle East and Asia. Many of the branch campus projects are only a few decades old making this a liminal moment in the translation and development of higher education worldwide that needs to be captured. What are the challenges, opportunities, and considerations faculty encounter in classrooms in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia? How do faculty translate western higher educational principles in new contexts? Projects like the multiversity international branch campuses of Education City, in Doha, Qatar, demonstrate the interest of foreign governments in western education and training. Other collaborations, like the Yale National University of Singapore College, deTrade ReviewThe authors in this volume explore how American higher education gets localized though curricular adaptation in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, thoroughly challenging claims of uniform cultural imperialism and neoliberalism. The rich case studies presented here, often based on first-hand teaching experiences, are a unique and welcome addition to the scholarship on globalized higher education. -- Neha Vora, Lafayette CollegeThis book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the spread of American higher educational models and institutions throughout the world. Rather than theorizing abstractly about the meaning and significance of the internationalization of curricula, academic personnel and institutions, this volume provides a view from the inside out. Academics who have confronted the pedagogical and political-sociological issues associated with higher education transplantation write perceptively about their experiences. As a result, this collection provides the reader with a richly critical analysis of the promises and pitfalls associated with our present moment of higher educational transformation. -- John Willoughby, American University, Co-author of Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf: Globalization and Institutional ViabilityMohanalakshmi Rajakumar’s edited volume takes a much-needed comparative look at the internationalization of western higher education, investigating its challenges and opportunities through both theoretical lenses and detailed pedagogical interventions. In particular, the collected essays dive deeply into the experiences of American universities in the Middle East, with three case studies of Qatar’s Education City alongside contributions from the American Universities of Beirut and Kuwait. Full of provocative and unique insights, Western Higher Education in Global Contexts invites the reader to better understand the interactive negotiations between the imported universities and the local communities they are meant to serve. -- Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University, QatarTable of Contents1.Writing Centers and Academic Professionalization in the Russian Federation—Ashley Squires 2.Imported Traditions—Oana Fotache and Mircea Vasilescu 3.The Shadow of America on Japanese Higher Education—Myles Chilton Cultural Challenges in International Branch Campuses 4.Writing Program Administration, Mobility, and Locality at the American University of Beirut, 1970 to the Present— Amy Zenger 5.The Challenges of Imagining Post-Universal Education in the Arabian Gulf Region— Angelica DeAngelis 6.Developing Symbolic Competence on a North-American Branch Campus in Qatar—Krystyna Golkowska 7.Rethinking Critical Thinking in a Non-Western Educational Context—Magdalena Rostron 8.Scaffolding Literacy at a Branch Campus of an American University in the Middle East: Interdisciplinary Collaborations—Silvia Pessoa, Thomas D. Mitchell, and Ryan T. Miller
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CreateSpace Stopping The Continent Grab And The
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Rowman & Littlefield Globalization and Belonging: The Politics of
Book SynopsisIn the decades since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States forces of cultural, economic, and political integration appear locked in battle with equally powerful forces of fragmentation. Globalization is facilitating unprecedented movement of goods, services, people, and ideas, while calls for building walls, erecting fences, and strengthening borders intensify. Tensions flare around claims of deeply rooted ethnic and civilizational identities—identities that are shaped and mobilized via sophisticated advances in technology. Women worldwide are achieving remarkable economic and political gains while sexual violence and gender inequalities persist and are fueled by rapid global change. This book explores the complex inter-relationship between globalization and belonging. In a hyper-modern, 21st-century world, questions and conflicts surrounding who ‘we’ are and who ‘we’ want to be predominate. This book links the politics of different forms of identification and attachment to the dynamics of an increasingly interconnected world.Trade ReviewIs achieving a sense of personal belonging stymied by the dynamics of globalization? Before we leap to a simplistic answer, Sheila Croucher makes us pause. She shows us here how to closely observe gendered, ethnicized local and global politics in daily interaction. In this era of refugees, Dreamers, fearmongers, nationalists and human rights activists, we need this thoughtful book. -- Cynthia Enloe, Clark University; author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent PatriarchyFull of contemporary world events exemplary of unprecedented interconnections and violent divisions and exclusions, this latest examination of the relationship between globalization and belonging navigates the paradoxes of simultaneous dilutions and resurgences of identity politics in a globalizing world. It attests to the persistence and reconfigurations of national, racial, ethnic, and gender attachments and inequalities despite and because of globalization in highly engaging, accessible, and complex ways. -- Anne Sisson Runyan, University of Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati; author of "Global Gender Politics"Globalization’s populist critics fail to appreciate that the horse has left the barn. As Sheila Croucher’s splendid book—at once sophisticated and accessible—makes clear, globalization has transformed and will continue to transform every facet of social life. The author’s focus on its implications for political identities is full of profound insights, as is her analysis of its dark side. Readers will come away with ideas about how we might tame this runaway horse. -- Peter Kivisto, Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought, Augustana CollegeAt a moment when pundits, politicians and scholars alike proclaim the end of the world as we once knew it, Croucher argues in crisp prose that something more complex and less sensationalist is afoot. Explaining that neither social identity nor class revenge is the primary culprit of rising populism and its discontents, Croucher convincingly demonstrates that new forms of interconnectedness are shaping social identity and class to forge destabilizing shifts such as Brexit, while also consolidating established institutions like the nation-state. A compelling introduction to the deep contradictions of our contemporary moment that includes accessible chapters on both the construction of ethnicity and gender, Globalization and Belonging is a terrific update on its authoritative precursor and will be sure to galvanize debate in the classroom and beyond. -- Denise M. Walsh, University of VirginiaDr. Croucher provides the reader with piercing and trenchant insights into the multidimensional facets of the complexities that define our post-modern world. Her first rate contribution fills a significant gap on the study of globalization and the identity politics. This is a must read for students and scholars of globalization alike. -- Manochehr Dorraj, professor of international affairs, Texas Christian UniversityGreat books stand the test of time. In the fifteen years since the initial publication of Globalization and Belonging, much has changed in the world. Yet Sheila Croucher’s fundamental insight – that people use their identities to reckon with global interconnectedness and, in turn, reconfigure those identities to carve out a sense of belonging in this world – remains a compelling way to understand our world and its puzzling developments. Newcomers and admirers of the first edition alike will be rewarded by the rich and expanded empirical terrain, from Brexit and worldwide debates over immigration and citizenship to the Trump Presidency and a resurgent women’s movement in the United States. -- Ryan Saylor, University of TulsaThe second edition of Globalization and Belonging is a welcome update that confirms the book’s place as a solid cornerstone of global and international studies today for students, teachers, and scholars alike. Croucher’s lucid and compelling prose belies the complexity of the issues she navigates in this book, as well as the impressive depth and breadth of her scholarship. Croucher guides readers methodically yet masterfully through the divisive polemics of 21st century identity, truly one of the wicked problems of our day. I look forward to using it with my Global Studies students in the future, because it lays out a blueprint for the conversations (political, social, cultural) we urgently need to have. -- Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State UniversityAn engaging read that references developments in different countries across the world to explore the changing notions of citizenship and nationality and helps cultivate ideas of global citizenship. The book explores the dynamic relation between forces of globalization and identity issues in the light of current global economic, political, social, and cultural issues. -- Sonia Kapur, University of North Carolina at AshevilleThis book is impeccably researched and addresses important and timely issues regarding the politics of belonging in the current era of accelerated globalization. I highly recommend it. -- Richelle Schrock, Ohio Wesleyan UniversityThis is a lucid explanation of identitarian movements in the wake of the dislocations and crises endemic to the latest stage of world capitalism. It has been thoroughly updated so that we now have a convincing and non-reductionist, not to mention bold, argument that helps us understand puzzling and troubling phenomena such as Trump and Brexit. -- Kevin A. Yelvington, University of South FloridaTable of ContentsChapter 1. Globalization, Belonging, and the State Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Citizenship Chapter 3. Making and Re-Making Nations Chapter 4. Constructed Clashes, Invented Ethnicities Chapter 5. Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender Chapter 6. Future Belongings
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Rowman & Littlefield Environmental Politics for a Changing World:
Book SynopsisThis book argues that environmental problems are, first and foremost, political and, therefore, about power. Using a framework of political economy and political ecology, the authors deconstruct current environmental problems to identify root causes and address those problems through mobilization of collective action and social power. The second edition also offers: •Updated examples and stories of political struggles and the actors involved •Explicit attention to various forms of power in environmental politics, including structural and social power •Local politics and collective action as related to global environmental politics •Discussion of emerging issues such as synthetic biology; commodification and financialization of nature, including carbon markets; and geoengineeringTrade ReviewA welcome critical introduction to the theory and praxis of global environmental politics. -- Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, University of WaterlooLipschutz provides a comprehensive consideration of a wide range of inter-linking topics that I believe to be crucial to any consideration of the global environmental crisis. -- Lee-Anne Broadhead, Cape Breton UniversityThis text provides a foundation from which to understand how fundamental change can occur, and offers a call to action for students to play a role in creating change. -- Loren Cass, College of the Holy CrossEmphasizes the relevance of issues to students, along with applications for action and activism across scales. -- Desserae Shepston, University of Illinois, Springfield[THe authors] explore the underpinnings of contemporary environmental problems by adopting a framework of political economy and political ecology. They conclude that the world’s environmental problems are essentially political and therefore can only be understood through a focus on political power. They bemoan the capture of environmental discourse by neoclassical economists. They claim that the discussion of environmental issues is rarely seen as a matter of ethics, but instead as a problem in economics. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1: What are “Global Environmental Politics?” Chapter 2: Deconstructing the Global Environment and “Global Environmental Politics” Chapter 3: Capitalism, Globalization, and the Environment Chapter 4: Civic Politics and Social Activism: Environmental Politics “On the Ground’ Chapter 5: Domestic Politics and Global Environmental Politics Chapter 6: Global Environmental Politics, Society and You
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Rowman & Littlefield Challenges of the Developing World
Book SynopsisThe updated ninth edition of Challenges of the Developing World examines political, social, and economic development in the diverse countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. In doing so, it explores the political economy of policymaking, investigates the uncertain dynamics of democratization, highlights the impact of ethnic and religious tensions on developing countries, and looks at revolution and military intervention in politics. Key issues such as the environment, sustainable development, globalization, corruption, rural and urban poverty, and gender receive particular attention. Throughout, the book also highlights the contribution of different analytical perspectives within political science and development studies. Clearly written and frequently illustrated with examples, Challenges of the Developing World is designed to provide the reader with knowledge of the essential concepts, relationships, and approaches in a way that will be of lasting value.Trade ReviewChallenges of the Developing World is a highly remarkable text. It is what students of development have been waiting for – a thoughtful, comprehensive, critical, and engaging study of issues and challenges in the developing world. In the end, this well-documented, elegantly written, and thought-provoking text is a wonderful introduction to the field. -- Michael Cairo, Transyvlania UniversityAn excellent and comprehensive introduction to the politics of developing nations. -- Angela Wolfe, University of DelawareA sophisticated, thorough introduction to the politics of the developing world that makes good use of current research and is suitable for upper level undergraduate students. -- Brian Kessel, Columbia CollegeTable of Contents1. Understanding Underdevelopment 2. The Political Economy of the Developing World 3. The Surge and Partial Retreat of Democracy 4. Corruption as an Obstacle to Development 5. Religion and Politics 6. Politics of Cultural Pluralism and Ethnic Conflict 7. Gender and Development 8. The Politics of the Rural and Urban Poor 9. Revolutionary Change 10. Soldiers and Politics
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PublicAffairs The Doom Loop
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PublicAffairs,U.S. A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth
Book SynopsisAn acclaimed author and celebrated journalist breaks down the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment.Global demand for power is doubling every two decades, but electricity remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and do so reliably. Today, some three billion people live in places where per-capita electricity use is less than what's used by an average American refrigerator. How we close the colossal gap between the electricity rich and the electricity poor will determine our success in addressing issues like women's rights, inequality, and climate change.In A Question of Power, veteran journalist Robert Bryce tells the human story of electricity, the world's most important form of energy. Through onsite reporting from India, Iceland, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, New York, and Colorado, he shows how our cities, our money--our very lives--depend on reliable flows of electricity. He highlights the factors needed for successful electrification and explains why so many people are still stuck in the dark.With vivid writing and incisive analysis, he powerfully debunks the notion that our energy needs can be met solely with renewables and demonstrates why--if we are serious about addressing climate change--nuclear energy must play a much bigger role.Electricity has fuelled a new epoch in the history of civilization. A Question of Power explains how that happened and what it means for our future.
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Africa World Press Globalization And Urbanization In Africa
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Africa World Press Cultural Globalization And Plurality: Africa and
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Diversion Books The New Border Wars
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. On Diversity
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New Internationalist Publications Ltd NoNonsense Globalization: Buying and Selling the
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC New Perspectives in International Development
Book SynopsisNew Perspectives in International Development focuses on the latest thinking in the field, moving the debate into areas such as the connection between security, conflict, and development, managing energy crises, the impact of environmental and climate change, and the role that technology can play in alleviating these challenges. The book explores the theme of development as a process of change; as historical transformation in relation to contested sites of power; it considers how human agency can affect change and the different scales, from the local to the transnational, at which change can occur. The interaction between these threads highlights the complex processes involved in international development that cannot be understood in isolation. Writers bring their own theoretical and empirical tools from social sciences including geography, politics, economics and environmental science. Chapters move from the theoretical to include case studies, placing theory in the context of the deliberate actions of people to improve their lives. The book concludes by suggesting possible ways forward to link development theories, models and practices. New Perspectives in International Development is the second of two books in The Open University's International Development series.Table of ContentsIntroduction Fear and Development Wars, States and Development Human Security or Human Development in a World of States? Solidarity, Sovereignty and Intervention Vulnerability in a World Risk Society Perspectives on Development, Technology and the Environment The Challenge for Environment, Development, and Sustainability in China Environment, Inequality and the Internal Contradictions of Globalisation Climate Change: Causes and Consequences for Development Making International Development Personal Conclusion
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Profile Books Ltd From Global To Local: The making of things and
Book SynopsisFor the past thirty years or more, the global economy has been run based on three big assumptions: globalisation will continue to increase; trade is the route to growth and development; and economic power is moving from West to East. But what if all these are wrong? From Global to Local shows how the world trading structure has already begun to shift, with irrevocable consequences for the global economy. Volatile oil prices, the pressures of sustainability and the availability of new technologies - such as 3D printing and automation - mean that companies, from General Electric to Apple, are beginning to move production away from distant countries and back home. If robots can make everything, why would companies use Chinese workers? Power is shifting, trade is shrinking and making things is revolutionising. Finbarr Livesey explores the making of this new world economic order, revealing the processes that lie behind it and showing how no one will be left untouched by its arrival.
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Verso Books Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the
Book SynopsisIt's no secret that the 1%-the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions-exercise enormous control over the US government. While this control is usually attributed to campaign donations and lobbying, Levers of Power argues that corporate power derives from control over the economic resources on which daily life depends. Government officials must constantly strive to keep capitalists happy, lest they go on "capital strike"-that is, refuse to invest in particular industries or locations, or move their holdings to other countries-and therefore impose material hardship on specific groups or the economy as a whole. For this reason, even politicians who are not dependent on corporations for their electoral success must fend off the interruption of corporate investment. Levers of Power documents the pervasive power of corporations and other institutions with decision-making control over large pools of capital, particularly the Pentagon. It also shows that the most successful reform movements in recent US history-for workers' rights, for civil rights, and against imperialist wars-succeeded by directly targeting the corporations and other institutional adversaries that initiated and benefitted from oppressive policies. Though most of today's social movements focus on elections and politicians, movements of the 99% are most effective when they inflict direct costs on corporations and their allied institutions. This strategy is also more conducive to building a revolutionary mass movement that can replace current institutions with democratic alternatives.Trade ReviewPraise for Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890:Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one-an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a meticulous application of that theory to the rise and collapse of the Populist movement. -- Craig Jenkins * Theory and Society *Praise for Blood of the Earth, Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia:The importance of this book to contemporary conversations about extractivism in Bolivia cannot be overstated. * Latin American Perspectives *Praise for Blood of the Earth, Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia:[Young] draws a complex and fascinating picture of the struggles over mining and oil from the Chaco War in the 1930s through the 1952 Revolution and the unraveling of the revolutionary state in the 1960s. * Against the Current *Praise for Blood of the Earth, Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia:Young is to be congratulated on creating a comprehensive history of recent Bolivian history that also offers a new lens for interpreting Latin American populism. It is one of the finest examples of the recent, and very welcome, production of works on Latin American economic history. * The Americas *Praise for Blood of the Earth, Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia:Young expertly contextualizes his discussion of resource nationalism with previous attempts to bring natural resources under governmental control...[A] compelling and wonderful book. * American Historical Review *Praise for Blood of the Earth, Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia:Blood of the Earth makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the Bolivian revolution and provides new analytical insights into U.S. Cold War objectives in Latin America. * Diplomatic History *Praise for Blood of the Earth, Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia:Blood of the Earth provides a compelling retelling of a Cold War story against the grain, in which the United States funded and tamed a revolution instead of intervening with force. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Young, Banerjee and Schwartz identify the importance of capital strikes in forcing government officials to provide the tax cuts, subsidies and regulatory cutbacks business demands. Focusing on key episodes during the Obama era, Levers of Power explains how capitalists really exert pressure on legislators and regulators and shows why popular forces accomplish more when they pressure capitalists with strikes, boycotts and demonstrations rather than targeting elected officials. This book is essential if we want to understand what tactics will be most effective in building mass power. -- Richard LachmannLevers of Power disrupts American democratic myths. Through rigorous research and penetrating analysis, Levers of Power dissects the power of elections, courts, Congress, politicians, presidents, lobbyists, social movements, and major corporations. It provides jarring and surprising conclusions of who really rules America; changes how we think about American centers of power; and which among them governs our lives. Everyone interested in democracy should read Levers of Power to become enlightened citizens. -- Aldon Morris, Author of The Scholar DeniedLevers of Power is a powerful tool for activists and scholars alike, detailing how power remains in the hands of the 1% while also showing how elite institutions and structures can be undermined and even defeated, creating a world of, by, and for the 99%. -- Marina Sitrin
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Verso Books Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy
Book SynopsisClassical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital?Across every continent, people think inequality is a 'very big problem'. Even the Davos Economic Forum and the OECD say they are worried. And yet capitalist states don't respond. How has democracy been transformed from a popular demand for social justice into a professional power game?To dispel our worsening political malaise, Göran Therborn argues, requires a 'disruptive democracy' of radical social movements, such as the climate strike. Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy opens with a major new essay mapping the social fractures of the present era. There is also a compact historical survey of worldwide patterns of democratization and a landmark analysis of the OECD economies, 'The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy', originally published in New Left Review and collected here in book form for the first time.Trade ReviewAt a time when historians and economists tend to retire behind the barricades of their increasingly specialized professions, answering the big comparative questions about the pathways into and out of modernity, the global processes of inequality and the forces of possible change have been largely left to the sociologists. In my view, Göran Therborn, has made more essential contributions in these fields than anyone else, by a combination of analytical lucidity, common sense and an extraordinary command of international comparative data. -- Eric Hobsbawm, author of The Age of ExtremesA tour de force. Therborn explores the complex relationship between capitalism and democracy with great originality and insight -- Colin Crouch, author of Post-Democracy After the CrisesHow much inequality can democracy withstand before it collapses? Göran Therborn addresses this fundamental question and gives us cause to hope for a more egalitarian future -- Donatella della Porta, author of Where Did the Revolution Go?One of the world's leading analysts. Therborn has given us valuable intellectual tools with which to work. -- Chris Maisano * Jacobin *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap
Book SynopsisOh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. --from The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (1843) Labour in Bangladesh flows like its rivers -- in excess of what is required. Often, both take a huge toll. Labour that costs $1.66 an hour in China and 52 cents in India can be had for a song in Bangladesh -- 18 cents. It is mostly women and children working in fragile, flammable buildings who bring in 70 per cent of the country s foreign exchange. Bangladesh today does not clothe the nakedness of the world, but provides it with limitless cheap garments -- through Primark, Walmart, Benetton, Gap. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook dwells upon the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps. He shows us how Bengal and Lancashire offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. In the eighteenth century, the people of Bengal were dispossessed of ancient skills and the workers of Lancashire forced into labour settlements.In a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of the British textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world s major clothing exporters. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it wouldn t be long before the global imperium readies to shift its sites of exploitation in its nomadic cultivation of profit.Trade Review'Few writers are at once as lyrical or as precise about the living conditions of peasants and indigents. Seabrook's clear-eyed accounts of the immiseration as well as the dreams of young Bangladeshis are informed by extended conversations with scholars and activists, as well as historical research. ... What makes The Song of the Shirt especially important is its historical consciousness. ... Seabrook draws out the social, economic and imaginative parallels that connected, across decades and continents, Europe's and Asia s poor. ... Seabrook has established himself as perhaps Britain's finest anatomist of class, deindustrialisation, migration and the spiritual consequences of neoliberalism. The Song of the Shirt may well be his masterpiece.' * The Guardian *'Stitches together history, folklore and hundreds of encounters with individual Bangladeshis to give a thorough picture of the structural injustices that have led to the present situation.' * The New Statesman *'The sweat and blood of Bangladeshi garment workers is woven into the very fabric of our daily lives. Seabrook, as he always has, delivers a brilliantly written jeremiad with an urgent moral message.' * Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums *'At once illuminating, deeply absorbing, and sobering, this is an ode to the rags of humanity the labourers, young and old who sometimes perish in order to create our fashionably casual clothes. It's written by one who has long been intimate with this part of the world and its anonymous dwellers, and who has responded always with passion and eloquence.' * Amit Chaudhuri, author of Calcutta: Two Years in the City *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Globalism, Localism and Identity: New
Book SynopsisGlobal economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere. However, their influence is shaped by local communities' interpretation of these forces and responses to them. Social identities provide a guide; they are the product of history, culture, economy, patterns of governance and degree of community cohesion. How the global and the local connect and reconfigure at various scales and through different cultures is explained in this forward-looking volume. The book's thesis, namely that localism is the crucial complement to globalism, is supported by a range of European case studies. Local responses to globalizing forces depend on the nature of the interlinkages in governance from international structures, through multilateral organizations to nation states, regions and localities, as these are mediated through social-local identity. The contributors draw on numerous themes in examining the interaction between the global and the local, such as decay and revitalization, local identity and empowerment, opportunism through sustainability and governance for the transition. This is a pioneering publication utilizing an innovative person-centred methodology. It makes an original and important contribution to the study of contemporary societies and is aimed at anyone interested in the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental implications of any move towards sustainability.Trade Review'This is an important contribution to the field and of a uniformly high standard throughout.' Aslib Book GuideTable of ContentsPreface * Acknowledgements * Part 1: Providing Perspective - Synthesis and Context * Globalization and Localization * Multilevel Governance for the Sustainability Transition * Social-local Identities * Methods of Inquiry * Part 2: The Case Studies - Decay and Revitalization in Two Swedish Communities * Opportunism Via Sustainability in Austria * Coming to Terms with Globalization in Portugal * Local Identity and Survival in Greece * Local Identity and Empowerment in the UK * Taking the Transition Forward
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Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Women in a Globalizing World: Equality,
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Daraja Press Moving Beyond Capitalist Agriculture: Could
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Springer International Publishing AG Russia, China and the Revisionist Assault on the
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes Russian and Chinese revisionism in the face of US and Western post-Cold War liberal international order building and asks why both powers have turned revisionist in the late 2000s. The study develops a neoclassical realist model of international order building and contestation and posits to view revisionism as a strategic choice. States go revisionist if the status quo international order threatens their vital security needs (broadly defined not only as territorial security, but also political, economic, normative and ontological) and if they have the means to challenge the undesirable status quo. Russia and China were both unhappy with the post-Cold War international order of American designs, but had to opt for accommodation in the 1990s and early 2000s (“strategic accommodation” in the Chinese case, “resentful accommodation” in the Russian case), before revisionism became even more of a necessity and a real policy option from the late 2000s onward (“constructive revisionism” in the Chinese case, “destructive revisionism” in the Russian case). The author calls for a policy of neo-containment to counter Moscow’s and Beijing’s efforts to game and erode the international order.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Enduring Rivals: The Return of Great Power Politics between Russia, China and the West.- Part II: Theory of International Order Building and Revisionism.- Chapter 2: Falling Short: International Order and Revisionism in IR Theory.- Chapter 3: Strategic Choices: Neoclassical Realist Model of Order and Revisionism.- Part III: Western Triumph & Non-western Accommodation in the 1990s.- Chapter 4: False History: Globalization of the US-led Liberal West and its Delusions.- Chapter 5: Russia’s Fall: Resentful Accommodation to Grim Post-Cold War Realities.- Chapter 6: China’s Rise: Strategic Accommodation to Post-Cold War Opportunities.- Part IV: Western Crisis & Anti-western Revisionism From the Late 2000s.- Chapter 7: Return of History: Outgrowth amidst Erosion of the US-led Liberal Order.- Chapter 8: Russia’s Nightmare: Destructive Revisionism for Great Power Survival.- Chapter 9: China’s Dream: Constructive Revisionism for “Great Rejuvenation”.- Part V: Conclusion.- Chapter 10: Geopolitical Realities: The Case for Neo-Containment against Russia and China.
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Walter de Gruyter New Consumers in the Global South
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de Gruyter Disconnectivity and Globalisation
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Föderative Rechtsdurchsetzung in der EU
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Kohlhammer Wer Bestimmt, Was Wir Essen?: Ernahrung Zwischen
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Harrassowitz Verlag Die Doppelstadt Frankfurt Oder Slubice als
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Campus Verlag Accelerate Your Experience
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Springer Globalization: Prerequisites, Effects,
Book SynopsisThis textbook deals with the progressive global dissolution of political, economic, and social boundaries, which has significant implications for labor markets, the international division of labor, social security, and income distribution. Politically, it is eroding the sovereign ability of nation-states to shape their own affairs; socially, it conjures up the specter of an increasingly global culture of unity. Against the background of the empirical effects of globalization processes in a number of areas, the book discusses to what extent these fears are justified, whether they cannot also be explained by other developments, and whether the benefits of globalization justify the costs and risks resulting from it.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Globalization and technological development: production, transport and communication.- Political globalization: democracy, international organizations and global civil society.- Trade.- Foreign investment.- World financial flows.- Migration and globalization.- Globalization and employment.- Globalization and income distribution.- Statehood.- Globalization and the welfare state.- Globalization and democracy.- Globalization and culture.- Globalization and its adversaries.- Global governance.- Drying up of the sources of globalization or resilience.
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de Gruyter Images of Industry
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Lit Verlag The Regional and Local Shaping of World Society
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Lit Verlag Adapting Universities to the Global Society: A
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Lit Verlag Resistance to Globalization: Political Struggle
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Lit Verlag Rethinking the State in the Age of Globalisation:
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BoD - Books on Demand Think Talentedpædagogik
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The University of Chicago Press Buffalo Bill in Bologna The Americanization of
Book SynopsisReveals that the globalization of American mass culture that seems unstoppable today began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. This book narrates how the circuses, amusement parks, vaudeville, mail-order catalogs, dime novels, and movies that developed after the Civil War actually doubled as agents of American cultural diplomacy abroad.Trade Review"The book illuminates its subject brilliantly.... The lively, absorbing, and unusually insightful text wears its learning gracefully and, perhaps unexpectedly, alludes to older notions of American exceptionalism in explaining the national talent for cultural entrepreneurship." (American Historical Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press Challenges to Globalization Analyzing the
Book SynopsisEvaluates the arguments of proglobalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets and wage levels, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices.
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The University of Chicago Press The Internationalization of Palace Wars Lawyers
Book SynopsisHow does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America the authors show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Latin America have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economics since World War IITrade Review"The Internationalization of Palace Wars is an extraordinary book. A major contribution, it is original yet connected in multiple ways to several new research concerns and debates about law and globalization, the nature of the state today given globalization, and the formation of transnational elites." - Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo
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The University of Chicago Press Beyond Solidarity Pragmatism and Difference in a
Book SynopsisThis text looks at the difference that differences make in a globalized world. Gunn uses the work of Henry James, John Dewey and others, as well as postcolonial writings, literature on the Holocaust and other literature to show how pragmatism can better account for the consequences of diversity.
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The University of Chicago Press Building Globalization Transnational Architecture
Book SynopsisFrom the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. This title scrutinizes the growing phenomenon of transnational architecture and its profound effect on the development of urban space.
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The University of Chicago Press Buffalo Bill in Bologna
Book SynopsisAs symbols of America's version of the good life, cultural products became a primary means for people around the world, especially in Europe, to reimagine both America and themselves in the context of America's growing global sphere of influence.Trade Review"The results of a unique collaboration between American and European authors, Buffalo Bill in Bologna is a graceful re-examination of the origins of America's cultural domination at home and abroad. Robert Rydell and Rob Kroes refashion conventional wisdom by showing that mass culture served as an instrument for promoting American values well before World War I. While this topic has been amply covered for the twentieth century, it is virtually untouched for the nineteenth. Thus breaking new ground, Buffalo Bill in Bologna will be appreciated by readers on both sides of the Atlantic." - Mick Gidley, University of Leeds"
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The University of Chicago Press Birth of Hegemony
Book SynopsisWith American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge - and are able to create conditions for lasting stability - is of utmost importance in international relations. The author draws attention to the critical role played by finance in the emergence of these liberal hegemons.Trade Review"As the United States faces both military and economic challenges to its international status, Birth of Hegemony speaks to important and timely debates. Drawing on the insights of political science, history, finance, and economics, Andrew C. Sobel provides a masterly critique of existing hegemonic theories, extending our understanding of how states develop into international leaders and how they stabilize the global system." (William T. Bernhard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Eyes of the World Mining the Digital Age in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Eyes of the World is a groundbreaking, brilliantly written book about Congo’s place in the global economy. Smith places artisanal miners of coltan at the center of his study. Contrary to most popular views of the Congolese as victims of global corporations and brutal state authorities, miners recognize their value as experienced workers who often can protect their interests. . . . Smith deftly weaves insights drawn from an array of anthropological theory with gripping, moving case studies of individual miners and mining sites. . . . Strikingly, Smith shows how Western efforts to crack down on 'blood diamonds' end up, in actuality, to be a tool to weaken the leverage of artisanal miners and allow wily state authorities to cash in on their ability to selectively enforce their will on Congolese workers. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the Democratic Republic of Congo today." * Choice *"Chock-full of fascinating details on the people and communities that have lived off mining in the chaos of the wars in Congo." * Foreign Affairs *"Beautiful and evocative. . . . Smith produces one of the richest and most thought-provoking ethnographies I have read in a very long time. The Eyes of the World is likely to become an anthropological classic." * Reviews in Anthropology *“Blood minerals: a global cause ‘intended to do one thing, but under the surface, invisible to many, . . . doing something else.’ Smith offers a whirlwind of research on the varied actors who extract coltan—often in the ruins of colonial concessions—making it available to international markets. The Eyes of the World skillfully cuts through metropolitan stereotypes, drawing readers instead into the astounding vortex of the mines.” * Anna Tsing, coeditor of Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene *“A riveting, wonderful potpourri of story, theory, and history. The Eyes of the World hugs closely to people’s lives, words, and theories, vividly unpacking multiple dimensions of movement in the mining of those digital minerals that end up in global devices. One of the most brilliant, important, and utterly teachable ethnographies to appear on Congo in a long time.” * Nancy Rose Hunt, author of A Nervous State: Violence, Reveries, and Remedies in Colonial Congo *“Smith gives us a rare glimpse into the complex dynamics of otherwise largely invisible local worlds that do nonetheless matter on a global scale. A great observer and talented narrator, he convincingly argues how, in the vortex of these Congolese mining worlds, destructive forms of extra-statecraft undid existing socio-cultural assemblages while generating the basis for new transformative orders.” * Filip De Boeck, author of Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds *"Smith’s book is bound to become a classic in the anthropology of mining and the conflict minerals literature. . . . This book is an absolute joy to read and sets the bar very high for future researchers working on the issue of conflict minerals. This is mining anthropology at its very best." * The Journal of Development Studies *Table of ContentsPart One: Orientations Prologue: An Introduction to the Personal, Methodological, and Spatiotemporal Scales of the Project 1. The Eyes of the World: Themes of Movement, Visualization, and (Dis)embodiment in Congolese Digital Minerals Extraction (an Introduction) Part Two: Mining Worlds 2. War Stories: Seeing the World through War 3. The Magic Chain: Interdimensional Movement in the Supply Chain for the “Black Minerals” 4. Mining Futures in the Ruins Part Three: The Eyes of the World on Bisie and the Game of Tags 5. Bisie during the Time of Movement 6. Insects of the Forest 7. The Battle of Bisie 8. Closure 9. Game of Tags: Supply Chain Auditing as Purification Project Conclusion: Chains, Holes, and Wormholes Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Challenges of Globalization in the Measurement of
Book SynopsisAn essential collection at the intersection of globalization, production supply chains, corporate finance regulation, and economic measurement. The substantial increase in the complexity of global supply chains and other production arrangements over the past three decades has challenged some traditional measures of national income account aggregates and raised the potential for distortions in conventional calculations of GDP and productivity. This volume examines a variety of multinational business activities and assesses their impact on economic measurement. Several chapters consider how global supply chains complicate the interpretation of traditional trade statistics and how new measurement techniques can provide information about global production arrangements. Other chapters examine the role of intangible capital in global production, including the output of factoryless goods producers and the problems of measuring R&D in a globalized world. The studies in this volume also explTable of ContentsPrefatory Note Introduction Nadim Ahmad, Brent R. Moulton, J. David Richardson, and Peter van de Ven I. Underlying Measurement Challenges 1. Addressing the Challenges of Globalization in National Accounts Brent R. Moulton and Peter van de Ven 2. Meaningful Information for Domestic Economies in the Light of Globalization: Will Additional Macroeconomic Indicators and Different Presentations Shed Light? Silke Stapel-Weber, Paul Konijn, John Verrinder, and Henk Nijmeijer 3. National Accounts for a Global Economy: The Case of Ireland John FitzGerald 4. Eliminating the Pass-Through: Towards FDI Statistics That Better Capture the Financial and Economic Linkages between Countries Maria Borga and Cecilia Caliandro 5. Multinational Profit Shifting and Measures throughout Economic Accounts Jennifer Bruner, Dylan G. Rassier, and Kim J. Ruhl Comment: Stephen J. Redding 6. Strategic Movement of Intellectual Property within US Multinational Enterprises Derrick Jenniges, Raymond Mataloni Jr., Sarah Atkinson, and Yiran XinComment: J. Bradford Jensen 7. The Relationship between Tax Payments and MNE’s Patenting Activities and Implications for Real Economic Activity: Evidence from the Netherlands Mark Vancauteren, Michael Polder, and Marcel van den BergComment: Robert E. Yuskavage II. Global Value Chains for Intermediate Products 8. Accounting Frameworks for Global Value Chains: Extended Supply-Use Tables Nadim Ahmad 9. Accounting for Firm Heterogeneity within US Industries: Extended Supply-Use Tables and Trade in Value Added Using Enterprise and Establishment Level Data James J. Fetzer, Tina Highfill, Kassu W. Hossiso, Thomas F. Howells III, Erich H. Strassner, and Jeffrey A. YoungComment: Susan N. Houseman 10. The Role of Exporters and Domestic Producers in GVCs: Evidence for Belgium Based on Extended National Supply and Use Tables Integrated into a Global Multiregional Input-Output Table Bernhard Michel, Caroline Hambÿe, and Bart Hertveldt 11. Measuring Bilateral Exports of Value Added: A Unified Framework Bart Los and Marcel P. Timmer III. Globally Intangible Capital 12. A Portrait of US Factoryless Goods Producers Fariha KamalComment: Teresa C. Fort 13. R&D Capitalization: Where Did We Go Wrong? Mark de Haan and Joseph HaynesComment: Michael Connolly 14. Capturing International R&D Trade and Financing Flows: What Do Available Sources Reveal About the Structure of Knowledge-Based Global Production? Daniel Ker, Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Francisco Moris, and John JankowskiComment: Nune Hovhannisyan
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The University of Chicago Press Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation
Book SynopsisExamining the geographical dimensions of environmental management and conservation activities implemented on landscapes worldwide, this title collects case studies to explore the interaction of humans and their environment. Bridging the gap between geography and life science, it is of interest to students of the environment.
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Columbia University Press Globalization Challenged
Book SynopsisOutlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. The author believes that the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. He also criticizes secularists who fail to recognize the role of religion.Table of ContentsPreface Part I. Conviction, Conflict, Community 1. Conviction in an Age of Globalization 2. Local Conflict, Global Migration 3. Globalization and the Challenge of Inclusive Community Part II. Critical Responses to Globalization Challenged 4. Arguing for Pluralism, by Jagdish Bhagwati 5. Secularism and the Limits of Community, by Jeremy Waldron 6. Religious Convictions and Global Justice, by Wayne Proudfoot Part III. Globalization Challenged-Again 7. Another Look at Conflict, Community, and Conviction Index
£56.00
Columbia University Press Globalization Challenged
Book SynopsisOutlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. The author believes that the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. He also criticizes secularists who fail to recognize the role of religion.Table of ContentsPreface Part I. Conviction, Conflict, Community 1. Conviction in an Age of Globalization 2. Local Conflict, Global Migration 3. Globalization and the Challenge of Inclusive Community Part II. Critical Responses to Globalization Challenged 4. Arguing for Pluralism, by Jagdish Bhagwati 5. Secularism and the Limits of Community, by Jeremy Waldron 6. Religious Convictions and Global Justice, by Wayne Proudfoot Part III. Globalization Challenged-Again 7. Another Look at Conflict, Community, and Conviction Index
£17.60
Columbia University Press Workers Unions and Global Capitalism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, the author makes a comprehensive and persuasive case for global labor reform. CHOICE A well-researched book on the subject of global capitalism and workers' rights... BizIndiaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Emancipatory Action Research Into Workers' Struggles 2. Defining Globalization 3. Four Sources of the Global Crisis of 2008 4. Capital, the State, and Trade Union Rights 5. Employees' Unions: An Experiment in Union Democracy 6. Informal Labor: The Struggle for Legal Recognition 7. Working Women and Reproductive Labor 8. Employment Creation and Welfare 9. International Strategies 10. Conclusion: Toward Global Solidarity Notes References Index
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Indiana University Press African Migrations Patterns and Perspectives
Book SynopsisDetails African populations in motionTrade Review[Explores] new terrain and [gives] nuance to our understanding of African migrations and the African Diaspora.56.1 March 2015 * Journal of African History *[T]he theoretical insights coupled with a strong selection of empirical case studies make overall for an informative and enjoyable read. * African Affairs *The 14 engaging case studies assembled here add to understanding the social processes of voluntary and forced displacement within the continent and across the seas. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: African Patterns of Migration in a Global Era: New PerspectivesAbdoulaye Kane and Todd H. LeedyPart I. Psychological, Socio-cultural and Political Dimensions of African Migration1. Overcoming the Economistic Fallacy: Social Determinants of Voluntary Migration from the Sahel to the Congo Basin Bruce Whitehouse2. Migration as Coping with Risk: African Migrants' Conception of Being far from Home and States' Policy of Barriers Isaie Dougnon3. Navigating Diaspora: The Precarious Depths of the Italian Immigration Crisis Donald Carter4. Historic Changes Underway in African Migration Policies: From Muddling Through to Organized Brain Circulation Rubin PattersonPart II. Translocal and Transnational Connections: Between Belonging and Exclusion5. Belonging amidst Shifting Sands: Insertion, Self-exclusion, and the Remaking of African Urbanism Loren Landau6. Securing Wealth, Managing Social Relations: Rural-urban Migration and the Moral Politics of Reciprocity, Gender, and Belonging in Neoliberal Tanzania Hansjoerg Dilger7. Voluntary and Involuntary Homebodies: Adaptations and Lived Experiences of Hausa Left Behind in Niamey, Niger Scott Youngstedt8. Strangers are like the Mist: Language in the Push and Pull of the African Diaspora Paul Stoller9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora Afe Adogame10. Somali Assistance Networks: the Social Dynamics of Sending Remittances Cindy HorstPart III. Feminization of Migration and the Appearance of Diasporic Identities11. The Feminization of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives Jane Freedman12. Migration as Factor of Cultural Change Abroad and at Home: Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou13. What the General of Amadou Bamba saw in New York City: Gendered Displays of Devotion among Migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa Beth A. Buggenhagen14. Towards Understanding a Culture of Migration among 'Elite' African Youth: Educational Capital and the Future of the Igbo Diaspora Rachel R. ReynoldsContributorsIndex
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