The Global Village Myth

by Patrick Porter
The Global Village Myth
Author: Patrick Porter
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1626161925
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Porter challenges the powerful ideology of "Globalism" that is widely subscribed to by the US national security community. Globalism entails visions of a perilous shrunken world in which security interests are interconnected almost without limit, exposing even powerful states to instant war. Globalism does not just describe the world, but prescribes expansive strategies to deal with it, portraying a fragile globe that the superpower must continually tame into order. Porter argues that this vision of the world has resulted in the US undertaking too many unnecessary military adventures and dangerous strategic overstretch. Distance and geography should be some of the factors that help the US separate the important from the unimportant in international relations. The US should also recognize that, despite the latest technologies, projecting power over great distances still incurs frictions and costs that set real limits on American power. Reviving an appreciation of distance and geography would lead to a more sensible and sustainable grand strategy.

Whose Global Village?

by Ramesh Srinivasan
Whose Global Village?
Author: Ramesh Srinivasan
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1479856088
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1. Technology myths and histories -- 2. Digital stories from the developing world -- 3. Native Americans, networks, and technology -- 4. Multiple voices : performing technology and knowledge -- 5. Taking back our media.

The Global Village Revisited

by Kathleen Dixon
The Global Village Revisited
Author: Kathleen Dixon
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2009-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0739140787
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Cultural studies scholarship on the television talk show, especially the 'audience discussion' genre, was guardedly hopeful about its democratic or feminist potential. In this exciting new volume, Kathleen Dixon investigates the relationship between the talk genre and democracy, but through a new emphasis on art, broadly defined. The Global Village Revisited: Art, Politics, and Television Talk Shows explores three case studies from Belgium, Bulgaria, and the United States, and reveals how these cases interanimate to produces a new view of the talk show as a global phenomenon, and as a negotiation among the forces of late capitalism, the unnamed but still palpable audience, and the individual rhetors, artists, and technicians who make the shows. Dixon treats the globalization of media and culture as a dynamic process that yields different results according to time and place. While the way in which television talk shows serve democracy may be hard to define precisely, The Global Village Revisited demonstrates the importance and necessity of this question in cultural studies.

Vicarious Warfare

by Thomas Waldman
Vicarious Warfare
Author: Thomas Waldman
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529207002
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This compelling account charts the historical emergence of vicarious warfare and its contemporary prominence. It contrasts its tactical advantages with its hidden costs and potential to cause significant strategic harm.

Compassion for one another in the Global Village

by Ulrike Elsdörfer
Compassion for one another in the Global Village
Author: Ulrike Elsdörfer
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2016
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3643907230
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The International Council on Pastoral Care and Counselling (ICPCC) met in October 2015 in San Francisco for its 10th International Congress. Recent results from worldwide projects underlined the importance of an exchange within the globalized network. Interreligious encounters in spiritual care and counseling led to new insights, while aspects of social justice brought along new challenges. Sections on technology and internet communication opened a space for new reflections in the realm of spiritual experience. This volume presents documents from a joint meeting of ICPCC with American organizations for Pastoral Care and Counselling. It shows the enduring process of formation of a worldwide community of spiritual counsellors. (Series: Pastoral Care and Spiritual Healing - Spiritualit�¤t interkulturell, Vol. 4) [Subject: Sociology, Pastoral Care]

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

by Chiara Bottici
The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
Author: Chiara Bottici
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136951199
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While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world? Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority countries, and call for a renewed critical attitude towards it. By analysing a process of elaboration of this myth that took place in academic books, arts and media, comics and Hollywood films, they show that the clash of civilizations has become a cognitive scheme through which people look at the world, a practical image on the basis of which they act on it, as well as a drama which mobilizes passions and emotions. Written in a concise and accessible way, this book is a timely and valuable contribution to the academic literature, and more generally, to the public debate. As such, it will be an important reference for scholars and students of political science, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, Middle Eastern politics and Islam.

Local Heroes in the Global Village

by David B. Audretsch
Local Heroes in the Global Village
Author: David B. Audretsch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2006-06-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387234756
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Entrepreneurship and growth are central concerns of policy makers around the world. Local Heroes in the Global Village introduces public policies for the promotion of entrepreneurship on a comparative, primarily German-American level. The book contributes to the debate what role public policies play in stimulating national and regional economic growth. With a better understanding of the complexity and variety of existent entrepreneurship policies in the U.S. and Germany the reader of this volume will be able to formulate best practice, hands-on strategies which aim to promote nations as well as regions in an "entrepreneurial economy".

The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture

by Tomasz Jacheć
The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture
Author: Tomasz Jacheć
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2024-03-18
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 104001657X
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This book examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. Drawing on work in sport studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, business, and media, this book helps us to understand how myths are made in modern society and highlights the importance of myths in a ‘post‐truth’ world. It unpacks the underlying ‘monomythical’ structure of the Jordan myth, including the universality of the ‘hero’s journey’, and explores those features that are inherently American but that also carried Jordan to the status of a global superstar. This book traces the contours of his career and looks at how the intersection of commercial interests, media narratives, and supreme athletic talent, in a particular social, political, and historical context, generated a myth that continues to resonate today, long after the end of Jordan’s playing career. Drawing on original research and adding new theoretical depth to our understanding of Michael Jordan’s place in popular culture, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the relationship between sport and wider society.