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A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the s

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A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "

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Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scie

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Can Africa develop businesses beyond the extractive or agricultural sectors? What would it take for Africa to play a maj

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Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an in

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Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the mark

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From climate change, debt, and refugee crises to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events tha

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This edited collection brings together scholars who draw on phenomenological approaches to understand the experiences of

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A multi-disciplinary approach to cosmopolitanism that explores its negative effects, including how subjects under global

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“Supermax” prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political cr

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