Published in International Politics (The Hague)
Russian actions since 2007 appear increasingly to constitute a realist approach to international affairs. Russia appears to be behaving as a rising power, attempting to become a regional or global superpower. Essential to this pursuit, a state must gather information strategically. We examine one feature of strategic information gathering, called a...
Orientalism was a term developed by post-colonial theorist Edward Said to describe the ways in which Europeans, or the West, portrayed the Orient as inferior, uncivilized, and wholly anti-Western. Netflix Inc., the world’s largest subscription-based streaming service, which as of 2018, expanded its streaming venue to over 190 countries globally, is...
In this article, we intend to analyze the insertion of the CD “Carnival of Nostalgia” in the cultural policies of the Pará State Culture Department, in the context of the claiming for political and cultural hegemony in the city of Belém. The research is based on documentary and bibliographical sources. By means of a case study, we seek to locate th...
This article presents a research that considered as a hypothesis a critical interpretation of the history of non-formal education in Brazil. Here we address its emergence linked to a conservative project to mitigate the strength of popular education during the period of the military dictatorship. The investigation started from such indications and ...
This essay focusses on the area of hegemonic studies in global politics, framing the discussion between the rise of China and the positioning of the united States. The purpose of this study is to show that China does not threaten the economic hegemony of the US due to the pivotal role the US Dollar holds in the global economy. A statistical analysi...
Published in The Politics of Diversity in Music Education
In higher education, internationalization is often seen as an exclusively positive development, even though there has been increased critique. This critique concerns a superficial understanding of internationalization as copying what globally successful universities do, thus ignoring local or national needs. But it is also related to the danger of ...
Published in Cultural Economy and Television in Jamaica and Ghana
This chapter comparatively evaluates the cultural outcomes of the liberalization of television in Jamaica and Ghana using the PIEGO analytical framework. A case is made for a behavioral approach to the examination of the formation of cultures and their economic contexts. Through the “personification” of the CCI sector, “personality” trends and trai...
This thesis investigates how networked hierarchies structure global and regional orders. This question unfolds in a twin research problem, which requires a combined solution. Firstly, it raises the question of how international hierarchies and international orders relate. Secondly, it inquires how global and regional orders connect and shape one an...
Published in Postdigital Science and Education
This text starts with the premise that ‘normative democracy’ has rendered our societies vulnerable and burdened with unaddressed social inequalities. I highlight three central arguments: (1) Social media, and, consequently, citizen engagement are becoming a significant filter that can potentially re-imagine the political, economic, and social world...
Published in Globalization and Health
BackgroundGlobal Health has increasingly gained international visibility and prominence. First and foremost, the spread of cross-border infectious disease arouses a great deal of media and public interest, just as it drives research priorities of faculty and academic programmes. At the same time, Global Health has become a major area of philanthrop...
