Glocal Conservatism

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Relli Shechter
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Business Press ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Philip Morris ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
New Tradition

Observers of Saudi society have often expressed bewilderment toward seemingly growing contradictions between “old” and “new,” “tradition” and “modernity,” “authentic” and “foreign,” or “Islamic” and “non-Islamic” in an age of mass consumption. Glocal conservatism in marketing decoupled such conceived binary oppositions, and therefore, the insurmountable tensions they implied. A unique mélange of global and local marketing practices facilitated new consumption patterns and social stratification based on consumption in the making of a Saudi mass consumer society. Glocal conservatism in marketing was encouraged through state discourse and Five-Year Plans; consumers’; selective participation in markets; and self-motivated or self-regulated enterprises. It further enhanced an existing sociocultural order, identity and ideal, as well as local governance. This article studies this critical phase in the remaking of Saudi Arabia using contemporary business press; literature on “doing business”; academic writings on local marketing; Philip Morris’;—a tobacco multinational—records; and by analyzing ads from Okaz, a Saudi daily.

Global and local governance, industrial and geographical dynamics: A tale of two clusters

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 1453-1473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengjun Zhu ◽  
Canfei He
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Industrial Upgrading ◽  
Local Embeddedness ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article closely examines two industrial clusters in China, and compares the various adaptations these two clusters have undergone, as well as the mechanisms underlying the industrial and geographical dynamics within these two clusters. Specifically, based on recent field investigation and in-depth interviews during 2011–2014, we examine two types of local governance, and pay attention to the articulation between “governance within global value chains” and “governance within local clusters,” and to how global and local governance co-shape the ways in which and the extents to which local firms participate in the global economy, producing diverse geographies of production and generating diverse trajectories of regional development. The article concludes that local and global governance co-determine domestic firms’ upgrading sources, the strength of their local embeddedness, and the ways in which they conduct spatial and organizational restructuring, such as factory consolidation, factory closure, industrial upgrading, and geographical relocation.

scholarly journals Globalization and consumption: a case study of cool roofs as socio-environmental alternative

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-163
Author(s):  
Anderson Luiz Godinho Belem ◽  
Mairon Melo Machado ◽  
Bruno de Borowski
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Society ◽  
Air Conditioner ◽  
Financial Return ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Asbestos Cement ◽  
Rainy Weather ◽  
Lower Temperature ◽  
Cool Roofs ◽  
Global And Local

Globalization and consumer society are discussed in their environmental biases and with a transition between global and local scale. From experimental research, the effect of white roofs for temperature reduction in internal buildings at São Borja-RS is investigated. Practical experimentation makes use of habitats, with asbestos cement tiles. Graphs and statistical analysis were used in the study. It was verified that, in days of sun predominance, the habitations with white tile had 2 °C of temperature less than the gray tile, being this smaller in cases of cloudy or rainy weather. It has been estimated that, as a consequence of the lower temperature under ideal conditions, a white tile will result in a reduction about 4.4 kWh/year/m² in electric consumption with air conditioner, which translates into approximately R$ 2.00/year/m² (energy values at São Borja). Despite the appreciable reduction in average temperature, the financial return will be in the long term.

Consumer Activism, Consumer Regimes, and the Consumer Movement: Rethinking the History of Consumer Politics in the United States

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence B. Glickman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
Consumer Activism ◽  
Consumer Movement ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paradigm Shifting

The historiography of consumer society in the United States has matured in the last decade. As David Steigerwald noted in an influential review essay in 2006, ‘consumer interpretations of American history have come of age’, interpretations that prominently emphasize the politics of consumption. Indeed, Steigerwald made his claim about the state of the field largely on the basis of an analysis of the paradigm-shifting books of T. H. Breen on ‘how consumer politics shaped independence’ (2005) and Lizabeth Cohen on ‘the politics of mass consumption in postwar America’ (2003). This article explores and disaggregates three core elements of consumer politics in America: what it calls consumer activism, the consumer movement, and consumer regimes.

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1972 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-292
Author(s):  
Alan Treherne ◽  
R. D. Whitley ◽  
Roy Fisher ◽  
Hugh Tinker ◽  
Robert E. Dowse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
English Education ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Agricultural Modernization ◽  
Crime And Delinquency

Halieutical commons in the Mediterranean: holistic and engendered governance forms for eco-social development pathways

2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Collet
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Fishing Communities ◽  
Long Span ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
To Come ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Relationship

By setting the uniqueness of inshore coastal fishing communities in the Mediterranean as a social halieutical morphology inscribed in the very long span of time, this article underlines why, without any romanticism, these communities have to be scaled up, valorized. It demonstrates how and why some of these robust communal appropriation forms have worked with a low discount rate, which embeds wisdom of the sea, or halieusophy, based on the principle of giving for keeping. Backed by these successful experiences, the author analyses the trajectories of community re-invention, the pathways of their empowering through the setting up of a new institution, ecomuseums for the sea, as ethically based local governance institutions capable of fine-tuning and improving the relationship between humans and marine entities. In the last, thought-provoking, part, the author raises the question: why does this strategic pathway have to come back to the very essence of the scope of the valuable, i.e. women? And he answers: because women in inshore coastal fishing communities ensure, more than in other communities, the holding and ordering of the fluctuations and contingency in family life, and, at a more ontological level of reflection, they embody a disposition for a long-term time horizon and a nondestruction principle. The governance perspectives in fisheries in their global and local modalities have to be en-gendered.

scholarly journals SUBSTANTIATION OF THE FASHION SYSTEM AS THE CONCEPT OF FASHION CONDUCT IN MODERN CONSUMER SOCIETY

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
N. V. Chuprina ◽  
M. V. Kolosnichenko
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Functional Categories ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Fashion Products ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Integrated Concept

Determination of the basic principles of formation and distribution of fashion innovations in society in the context of the functioning of the modern fashion system. Characteristics of fashion innovations as objects of the fashion system and means of fashion communication in the modern consumer society. The methods of systematization and actualization of literary-analytical information about the principles and stages of design-activity in the formation and distribution of fashion innovations are used in the paper. Accumulation, systematization and implementation of project information is carried out by studying of specialized professional literature on the design activities of leading design brands. The basic functional categories of the concept of formation and the occurrence of fashion trends in the fashion system are defined and characterized. The description of the main sources of fashion innovations is given, a comparative analysis of the activity of legislators and distributors of fashion objects is conducted, in the context of their role in the formation, introduction and consumption of fashion trends. The principles of mutual influence of the direction of spreading and the speed of the dissemination of fashion innovation in the society of mass consumption are characterized. In the paper, the main factors of the formation of fashion innovations in the system of fashion are formulated and the main functional categories of the fashion system as the integrated concept of fashion conduct in the modern society of consumption are defined. The paper describes the factors of the formation and realization of topical fashion products that are in line with fashion trends. The appropriateness of their adaptation and implementation in the design of fashion clothes of various classes, from prêt-a-porte to mass market as fashion products of the fashion system is substantiated.

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