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• 13:5416. 1. 2025, 13:54 VCSEwiki:Case study development (historie | editovat) [6 495 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „ == What is a case study? == A detailed examination of a single particular issue, a case study represents a PRACTICAL contribution to the theme based on experience from more than readings. It is: "...'''a complex example''' which provides insight into the context of a problem as well as illustrating the main point."<ref>Fry H, Ketteridge S and Marshall S (1999) A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Kogan Page, Glasgow, pp408</ref>…“) značka: přepnuto z Vizuálního editoru
• 13:3516. 1. 2025, 13:35 Student Area (historie | editovat) [2 108 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „This is the introductory page of the Student area of the VCSE Wiki. Check the Knowledge base for the courses you are involved in. __NOTOC__ == Knowledge base for (online) courses== '''Sustainable Regional Development case studies''' - regional SD issues (highlighted social capital point of view) *Sustainable tourism in Šumava national park - participatory design of sustainable tourism indicators in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Fore…“)
• 13:3316. 1. 2025, 13:33 VCSE Guidebook/Introduction/The VCSE Network of Experts (historie | editovat) [656 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== The VCSE Networks of Experts == *Eftichios S. Sartzetakis *Benjamin Karatzoglou *Sophia Gregou *Erato Kostopoulou *Rietje van Dam-Mieras *Joseph Leinders *Ron Cörver *Joop de Kraker *Friedrich M. Zimmermann *Filippina Risopoulos *Susanne Janschitz *Gerald Steiner *Judith Pizzera *Johanna Ehetreiber *Elisabeth Görsdorf *El…“)
• 13:3216. 1. 2025, 13:32 VCSE Guidebook/Introduction/The VCSE Network’s Vision and Mission for the Future (historie | editovat) [1 382 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== 1.4. The VCSE Network’s Vision and Mission for the Future == The VCSE-partners during the materialization of the VCSE – eLearning Project have jointly formulated the vision of the VCSE Network, as follows: {| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" | === VCSE Vision === ''"Our vision is to be part of the global debate and at the cutting edge of learning for sustainability achieving a knowledge-based future society for a sustainable Europe…“)
• 13:3216. 1. 2025, 13:32 VCSE Guidebook/Introduction/The VCSE-partners (historie | editovat) [390 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „==1.3. The VCSE-partners== *The University of Macedonia *Open University of the Netherlands, School of Science *University of Graz, Institute of Geography and Regional Science *Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication *Charles University in Prague, Charles University Environment Center Category:VCSE Guidebook“)
• 13:3116. 1. 2025, 13:31 VCSE Guidebook/Introduction/The VCSE Project: main goals and objectives (historie | editovat) [2 044 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „==1.2. The VCSE Project: main goals and objectives== The “Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe” tackles the need to address the complex process of integrating principles of sustainable development at the different levels and areas of policy in line with the EU Sustainable Development Strategy. There is a real need to engage with current and future decision-makers and opinion-creators in order to develop and implement effective strategies for m…“)
• 13:3116. 1. 2025, 13:31 VCSE Guidebook/Introduction/Why e-learning for sustainable development in the first place? (historie | editovat) [2 583 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „==1.1. Why e-learning for sustainable development in the first place?== Problems of sustainable development are typically complex and perspectives on the nature and solution of these problems are likely to vary with national, cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. Trans-boundary competence, the ability to communicate and collaborate across the boundaries of a nation, culture and discipline, is therefore an essential competence for sustainable develo…“)
• 13:3116. 1. 2025, 13:31 VCSE Guidebook/Introduction (historie | editovat) [4 236 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== 1. Introduction == ''Dr. Sophia Gregou, Dr. Venos Karatzoglou and Associate Professor Eftichios Sartzetakis, University of Macedonia, Greece'' The ''“Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe” (VCSE)'' Project, co-financed under the eLearning 2006 Programme (2007-2009), comprises an innovative Virtual Campus of Higher Academic Institutes, which surpasses the gates of academia and invites relevant societal actors…“)
• 13:3016. 1. 2025, 13:30 Message by VCSE Project Manager (historie | editovat) [4 931 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" | '''Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract "sustainable development" and turn it into a reality for all the world's people.''' '' Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, March 2001'' |} Struck by successive food, energy, financial and environmental crises, our economies are now threatened by recession, unemployment, and poverty aggravation, whi…“)
• 13:3016. 1. 2025, 13:30 VCSE Guidebook (historie | editovat) [428 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Message by VCSE Project Manager *1. /Introduction/ *2. /How to organize and implement a Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe/ *3. /Strategies for developing and running e-courses for the VCSE/ *4. /Enlargement of the Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe/ *5. /How to promote the VCSE-model/ *6. /Creating regional (e-)learning networks/ *7. /Conclusions/ Category:VCSE Guidebook“)
• 13:1516. 1. 2025, 13:15 Multi-Actor Learning For Sustainable Regional Development in Europe: A Handbook of Best Practice (historie | editovat) [109 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Multi-Actor Learning - full text of textbook Category:Textbooks“)
• 13:0816. 1. 2025, 13:08 “The Low Price” of the textile discounter KiK – consequences for labour conditions in textile factories in Bangladesh (historie | editovat) [27 703 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „__NOTOC__ === 1) Introduction === This case study wants aims to highlight a special part of the worldwide globalisation movement. The It concentration focuses lies thereby on the textile industry of in low wage countries exemplified at by the case of Bangladesh. The Sstarting point for this study is the German garment discounter KiK and its pricinge politicspolicies. To bBuying cheap clothes in Germany is something really normal for us today, but most…“)
• 13:0716. 1. 2025, 13:07 The overfishing along the coast of South-West India (historie | editovat) [8 901 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „__NOTOC__ == Introduction == The south-west coast of India consists mainly of two states, Karnataka and Kerala. Both of them are among the richer regions (Kerala is one of the richest) of India and they play a leading role in India's fishing industry. Some of the fishing centers are Mangalore and Karwar in Karnataka, and Kotchi in Kerala. Both regions have a typical tropical climate and rich sea life (the Arabian Sea). There are numerous fish speci…“)
• 13:0616. 1. 2025, 13:06 The local impacts of global data streams (historie | editovat) [3 797 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „=== Leading Paraphrase<br> === The old world of doing business, communication to each other and gaining information on all spheres of life has fundamental changed. To define it abstract, the world sustains a new layer on nearly everything, this layer can be called internet, but what fits better is the item of ''global data streams''. In order to refer to the content of Module 1, the three dimension of sustainability *the economic, *the ecologic…“)
• 13:0516. 1. 2025, 13:05 The impact of multinational corporations, global trade and extreme weather on agriculture in West Africa (historie | editovat) [7 058 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== The impact of multinational corporations, global trade and extreme weather on agriculture in West Africa == == Introduction: == Agriculture is the most common source of income in the developing countries and especially in West Africa. Sadly it's also very fragile system. It's the most weather-dependent of all human activities and in this region it's highly threatened by climate change represented by major droughts and desertification. Unfortuna…“)
• 13:0516. 1. 2025, 13:05 The impact of multinational corporations, global trade and extreme weather in West Africa (historie | editovat) [8 872 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== Introduction == Agriculture is the most common source of income in the developing countries and especially in West Africa. Sadly it's also very fragile system. It's the most weather-dependent of all human activities and in this region it's highly threatened by climate change (major droughts) and destruction and degradation of the natural resource base (desertification, decreasing soil fertility and water availability). Unfortunately these are not…“)
• 13:0416. 1. 2025, 13:04 The global vs. local space for gender inequality (historie | editovat) [1 530 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „The case study deals with the gender (in)equality in the global arena and its effects on the local space. This raises many questions like, if women in the 21st century have the same possibilities as men have? Is there a difference in the labour market? How involved is the historical background in the current situation? First of all, we should define the term gender mainstreaming. “The concept of bringing gender issues into the mainstream of society…“)
• 13:0016. 1. 2025, 13:00 Sustainable tourism in Šumava national park (historie | editovat) [22 435 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „{{Infobox |záhlaví = Šumava Biosphere Reserve |styl záhlaví = background: #80B0E0; padding: 5px 2 |styl nadpisů = background: #80B0E0; |styl těla = float: right; border: 3 px solid #aaa |obrázek = 250px |popisek = Šumava - Chalupská slať |nadpis1 = Overview |popis2 = |data2 = Basic data: *1670 km is the area of the biosphere reserve itself (BR), anot…“)
• 13:0016. 1. 2025, 13:00 Sustainable Regional Development case studies (historie | editovat) [1 470 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== Case studies with regional scope == Include learning materials and sources developed to convey research on sustainable regional development factors: *Black Triangle case study - resources for 2014/15 EVS course **Surrounding region in the Czech Republic: Ore Mountains case study *Sustainable tourism in Šumava national park - case study of participatory research on sustainable tourism indicat…“)
• 12:5916. 1. 2025, 12:59 Sustainable development - Austria versus the Czech Republic (historie | editovat) [6 745 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Nowadays, the environmental, economic and social spheres are strongly connected. Harmony between them is very important for successful sustainable development that takes into account the current as well as the future needs of our society. Environmental-friendly technologies, saving energy or supporting local production – these are some of the ways how to follow up on this idea. Thanks to our excursions in Styria we had the chance to discover that it…“)
• 12:5816. 1. 2025, 12:58 Shopping centres (historie | editovat) [24 014 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „'''Heart of Europe Stifling Under Concrete:The construction boom of shopping centres in Prague''' == Foreword == The Shopping Gallery Harfa opened in November 2010. The Fenix Shopping Gallery opened in 2008. They both lie at a driving distance of approximately 5 minutes from the biggest shopping area in Prague and the Czech Republic - OC Letňany built in 1999. I visited Fenix on 23 December 2010 and it felt like a ghost town. And on one of the busi…“)
• 12:5816. 1. 2025, 12:58 Other case studies (historie | editovat) [1 118 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „*Ore Mountains case study *Wolves in Yukon – forming consensus over a controversial issue *New Zealand: Mining in Schedule 4 *Goat Cheese production - FjellTopp - Bo Jensen *Dispute over the Soutok PLA ==Case studies written by students== *Case study: Project ECOPROFIT *Green University in the Czech Republic *Shopping centres *The impact of multinational corporations, globa…“)
• 12:5716. 1. 2025, 12:57 Green University in the Czech Republic (historie | editovat) [13 795 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== Green University in the Czech Republic == === Carbon neutral University of Graz - their project and approach to climate protection === The main goal of the project "Klimaneutrale Universität Graz" is the reduction of CO₂ emissions at the University of Graz and also a vision of carbon neutrality. The head of the project is PhD. student, Christian Kozina, from the Institute of Geography and Regional Science at the University of Graz. It…“)
• 12:4216. 1. 2025, 12:42 List of references - civil society (historie | editovat) [2 724 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Bello, Walden (2001). The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance, Food First Books, Oakland, CA. Bello, Walden (2002a). What's Wrong with the OXFAM Trade Campaign? Focus on the Global South. Bello, Walden (2002b). The OXFAM Debate: From Controversy to Common Strategy, Food First. Castells, Manuel (2000). The Rise of Network Society. Oxford, Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers. Castells, Manuel (1997). The Power of Identity. Ox…“)
• 12:3916. 1. 2025, 12:39 The need for fair trade negotiations (historie | editovat) [14 088 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „=== Map === '''My general Purpose:''' Show that fair trade is prevented by many countries and show what has to change to promote a fairer trade system which can initiate more development in developing countries. '''Overview:''' *Introduction *Why is the existing trade system unfair? **Examples of unfair trade restrictions **Examples of unfair subsidies *How can a fair trade system be promoted? **The need to cut down subsidies **The need to make…“)
• 12:3916. 1. 2025, 12:39 The market and the global public goods (historie | editovat) [15 012 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „__NOTOC__ === "Steam and Ice": Positive and Negative Impacts of Global Markets === The global market is but one of the fundamental dimensions of globalisation. Increasingly free flows of goods, services, investment, and capital on the one hand, and the continuing strict regulation of human flows, however, bear ambiguous fruit. German sociologist Claus Offe captures this paradox of modern societies in his ‘steam and ice’ theory. Each increment in…“)
• 12:3816. 1. 2025, 12:38 Neo-liberal concept and its consequences (historie | editovat) [11 649 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „__NOTOC__ Under fire of criticism (mostly by the civil society), which has pointed out the massive social costs of insensitive, blanket enforcement of structural adjustment programmes, the neo-liberal concept has been weakened somewhat. Its advocates have attenuated their rhetoric, and added new elements to their policies that have, to some extent, begun to reflect external costs and the broader context of development (the need for public goods, servi…“)
• 12:3716. 1. 2025, 12:37 Market-based Solutions to Globalisation Problems (historie | editovat) [3 409 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „=== Liberal and Regulatory Approaches === The core dissension within the current debate over (economic) globalisation is the conflict between competition and regulation. Advocates of liberalism, free market and globalisation in general argue for the benefits of competition, free interaction of independent, private players, and against the deleterious governmental interventions and inflexible state bureaucracies; for the capacity of the market to allo…“)
• 12:3616. 1. 2025, 12:36 Fair Trade and the need of changing consumption patterns (historie | editovat) [14 055 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== Map == ===My general Purpose=== Show that fair trade is prevented by many countries and show what has to change to promote a fairer trade system which can initiate more development in developing countries. ===Overview=== *Introduction *Why is the existing trade system unfair? **Examples of unfair trade restrictions **Examples of unfair subsidies *How can a fair trade system be promoted? **The need to cut down subsidies **The need to make fair…“)
• 12:3616. 1. 2025, 12:36 Corporate Responsibility (historie | editovat) [10 726 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Networks and projects that should increase the corporate responsibility - examples: [http://www.wbcsd.ch/ '''World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)'''] – a coalition of 180 international corporations from 30 countries and 20 sectors; its mission is to light the way to the world of business on its way toward sustainable life, eco-effectiveness, and corporate responsibility. The work includes efforts to collaborate on the formatio…“)
• 12:3416. 1. 2025, 12:34 Society and Globalization (historie | editovat) [14 019 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== Introduction == In this wiki the aspects of Globalization are analysed in relation to and in the disciplinary perspectives of sociology. To discuss the focused theme the ideas of Zygmunt Baumann (Globalization: The Human Consequences, 1998), Ulrich Beck (What is Globalization?, 2000) and Anthony Giddens (Runaway World: How Globalization is reshaping our lives, 1999), summarized by Nicholas Gane in his article “Chasing the ‘Runaway World’: Po…“)
• 12:3316. 1. 2025, 12:33 Integration and tolerance (historie | editovat) [11 272 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== Introduction == Quite a controversial topic frequently discussed in last years is the position of Islam and Islamists within the European society. The fact is that Europe has not yet been able to deal with this issue in a satisfactory manner and its importance is rising. The number of European inhabitants who profess this religion has been increasing rapidly. Public opinion remains divided on this trend. Considerable part of the citizens and even s…“)
• 12:3216. 1. 2025, 12:32 The social dimension and sociological treatment of globalisation (historie | editovat) [15 928 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „__NOTOC__ Author: Miloslav Petrusek, sociology, theoretical sociology, and sociology of contemporary societies at Charles University of Prague Faculty of Social Science *Global Ambition of Early Sociology *Defining the Sociological Interest in Globalisation === Globalisation as the Central Topic in Sociology === By mentioning the three classic sociologists – Comte, Marx, and Simmel (while of course I should also include at least Durkheim a…“)
• 12:3216. 1. 2025, 12:32 The Issue of Westernisation – Russia-Formulated Zapadnisation (historie | editovat) [2 949 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Russia’s relation to globalisation is crucial regardless of its military and economic impotence, moral anomie, (breakdown of normative system of values) and cultural degeneration. It is crucial because if we are not interested in Russia, Russia will always be interested in us – unquestionably. However, Russia’s relation to globalisation is also interestingly inconsistent. The sociological-philosophical reflection of the world’s drift towards…“)
• 12:3116. 1. 2025, 12:31 The Issue of the Nature of Globalisation Processes (historie | editovat) [2 438 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „So, one of the many ideological disputes is deeply rooted in the question whether globalisation is a deliberate, intentional, programmed process, or rather one that would correspond to the vision of Friedrich von Hayek, the critic of totalitarianism of any kind – that is, a spontaneous process. In other worlds and an adequate diction: will the ‘new world order’, dubbed ‘new world un-order’ by an American diplomat and journalist, be a spontan…“)
• 12:3116. 1. 2025, 12:31 The Issue of the Cultural and Civilisational Dominant (historie | editovat) [1 777 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Theme of the universal global civilisation opens up an enormous issue – that of the cultural and civilisational dominant, of the role and function of imitation, of cultural export and imperialism, etc. This issue was opened up in full colour by Benjamin R. Barber in his book ''Jihad versus McWorld ''(1995). Barber points out strongly that we should not fall to the illusion that we live in a globalising world. No, we live in a two-scenario world (inc…“)
• 12:3016. 1. 2025, 12:30 The Issue of Asserting Particular Interests (historie | editovat) [2 211 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „It is not one dimension – that of the idyllically uniting world (there is no idyll in the union at any rate) - which is interesting in the globalisation process, but how the two dimensions – the tribalising and the universalising one – connect and meet. The paragon of an idyllically globalising world is a situation once described to me by the Czech historian and archaeologist Zdeněk Vašíček: I, a Czech, am standing, in the garden of my Fren…“)
• 12:3016. 1. 2025, 12:30 The End of History Theory (historie | editovat) [1 424 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „American diplomat and philosopher Francis Fukuyama published his famous article ''The End of History'' in 1989. This was one of perhaps twenty articles, not books, which changed the make-up of social sciences, and to some extent (in some cases a greater extent) of the social conscience and nature of public discourse in this century. In this example we see the fundamental reflexivity of the social sciences. ,. Fukuyama (1992) attempted to demonstrate…“)
• 12:2916. 1. 2025, 12:29 The Clash of Ideologies and Civilisations Theories (historie | editovat) [2 161 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „It is inherent that Fukuyama’s optimism was crushed in polemics immediately afterwards, and the global crushing, in part resulting from misunderstanding, culminated in a positive alternative: the celebrated 1996 article by Samuel P. Huntington ''Clash of Civilisations'', which the author later developed in what he called a ‘paradigm for viewing global politics which should be useful both to politicians and scientists.’ Huntington’s thesis is s…“)
• 12:2916. 1. 2025, 12:29 Global Ambition of Early Sociology (historie | editovat) [1 303 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Since the Cartesian Revolution and since gaining autonomy, all social sciences have sought to approximate the ideal of natural sciences, sometimes even to become natural sciences. The founder of sociology, a discipline that once claimed to act as the keystone amid the other humanities and social sciences, Auguste Comte, bestowed upon sociology – among other things – two directives: *to '''be exact in the sense of natural sciences''', that is, to…“)
• 12:2416. 1. 2025, 12:24 Defining the Sociological Interest in Globalisation (historie | editovat) [7 603 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „ === Globalisation Dynamic as Seen by “early Sociology” === Three outstanding sociological authorities referred to globalisation as such roughly in the mid 1840s and at the turn of the 19^th century: Auguste Comte with his idea of ‘global sociology’, Karl Ma…“)
• 12:2316. 1. 2025, 12:23 Security – global safety or collective danger? (historie | editovat) [15 180 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „== Introduction == The word “globalisation” is a term almost everybody has already heard of, but although quite everybody has got an idea concerning the term globalisation, it is doubtful if everybody associates the same with this term. The reason for this is the fact that there is no standard definition and moreover the meaning of this term contains different areas of widespread different topics. In general the word globalisation describes a pr…“)
• 12:2216. 1. 2025, 12:22 Justifiable Risk or headless Fear? The Difference between experienced and factual Disadvantages of a Process called Globalisation (historie | editovat) [20 771 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „'''Which of the major concerns are synonymous to the actual risks during the process of globalisation and which result of individual environment or lack of information?''' == Introduction: Definitions and Terms == Globalisation is a concept nowadays every single one of us has heard of. However, not many people deal with the subject of globalisation. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for instance refers to this easily…“)
• 12:2116. 1. 2025, 12:21 Global-labor, Risk or Opportunity? (historie | editovat) [14 376 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „There are many term concerning labor. They are all started as academic terms and mass media have been using them ever since as popularize the terms. Migrant worker, global labor, forced labor, free labor, female labor, skill labor, and international labor are some of them to name a few. As we live around "fast-flows" society, people interact, intersect, intermingle and intermix with each other. There are 45 million new entrances to the global market…“)
• 12:1916. 1. 2025, 12:19 Types of Migration full text (historie | editovat) [7 539 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „People have always migrated for a variety ofreasons, However, in the last half- century three types of primary migration have been most common: permanent settlement migration, temporary labor migration and refugee move- ment. Each of these often led to family reunion, which often became the largest flow as a movement matured. The tendencies of the last two decades have been towards a diversffication, proliferation and intermingling of types of flows.…“)
• 12:1916. 1. 2025, 12:19 Transnational Comunities and Global Cities full text (historie | editovat) [3 206 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „The ambiguous character of transnational communities and the ambivalence of their consciousness and identity is particularly evident when it is linked to discourses on global cities. The idea that immigrants may find their primary sense of identity at the level of the city rather than the nation-state is implicit in some current research approaches, such as the Canadian Metropolis Pro- gram. As the boundaries ofthe nation-state become blurred and poro…“)
• 12:1816. 1. 2025, 12:18 Transnational communities and citizenship full text (historie | editovat) [4 281 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Nation-state citizenship was the adequate form for a world of relatively autonomous nation-states. Such citizenship was meant to be singular and exclusive, and naturalization was seen as an exceptional and irreversible act implying loss of the original citizenship. But this model is no longer appropriate for a world in which flows are replacing places as the key loci of economic and social organization. If people move frequently between different coun…“)
• 12:1816. 1. 2025, 12:18 The volume and Significance of migration full text (historie | editovat) [2 825 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „UN figures show that about 120 million people were resident outside their country ofbirth in 1990, and that the number ofinternational migrants was growing only slightly faster than world population as a whole (Zlotnik, 1999). Even allowing for faster growth in the 1990s and for the fact that many temporary migrants return home after a period abroad, this indicates that international migrants are a minority of 2—4 percent of global population. Some…“)
• 12:1716. 1. 2025, 12:17 Significance of transnational communities for national identity full text (historie | editovat) [3 274 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „Individuals and groups develop transnational linkages because these provide the best ways of dealing with the social situations and opportunity structures they encounter in the context of globalization. The states and civil societies of both sending and receiving countries do much to shape these contextual factors. The governments ofemigration countries often try to bind their expatriates to the homeland, because this can bring economic, political or…“) značka: editace z Vizuálního editoru
• 12:1516. 1. 2025, 12:15 Shaping globalization: Braindrain in times of globalization (historie | editovat) [12 629 bajtů] Admin (diskuse | příspěvky) (založena nová stránka s textem „The old version of the text which includes all discussion (with peer review) is available at Shaping globalization: migration in times of globalization == Introduction - what is globalisation? == Globalization is a very far-reaching concept. It is defined differently by people around the world. People from the area of policy define it differently than people from the industry. Fact is, therefore, that globalization affects everyone. Globalization…“)