Global Market Capitalism and Social Change

2004 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Market Capitalism

Thou Shalt Not Speak One Language

2018 ◽  
pp. 93-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charis Boutieri
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heavy Burden ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Market Capitalism

It is the contention of this chapter that official promotions of multilingualism partake in a broader neoliberal state strategy to shield highly stratified and unequal economic interests by placing the heavy burden of global adaptability on individual speakers as students, laborers, and citizens. In its rhetoric, this strategy endorses individual multilingualism as an instrument for balancing out opportunity and access among the population. Policies on multilingualism reify previous hierarchies by recasting certain languages as those of modernity, opportunity, and progress within the actualities of global market capitalism. In sum, the chapter exposes current modes of discrimination that determine who is left out of national and global discourses on development. It also raises urgent questions about the possibility of public deliberation in an ostensibly developing and democratizing Morocco, questions that resonate with the wider Maghreb region and especially within the Algerian and Tunisian contexts. This chapter aims to probe the relationship between multilingualism and diversity with two aims: first, to examine the social impact of Moroccan multilingualism within the frame of global market capitalism, and, second, to use social experience to unsettle the assumed tautology between institutionalized diversity and liberal democratization.

scholarly journals Discerning urban spiritualities: Tahrir Square, Occupy Wall Street and the idols of global market capitalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvyn C. Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
Global Market ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Urban Discourse ◽  
Tahrir Square ◽  
Market Capitalism ◽  
Urban Spirituality

Discernment might be said to be a process of searching for meaning in the light of an (un) articulated Absolute. This search takes place in the tension between the private and public spheres of life, mostly mitigated by a community. Intermediate communities, such as churches or social movements, construct symbolic spirituality systems for its adherers to search for meaning in the light of an (un)articulated Absolute. The urban events of Occupy Wall Street and Tahrir Square also step into the tension between the public and private spheres of life, creating a (temporary) symbolic spirituality system for its adherers. These events were attempts to construct alternatives to the meta-narrative of global market capitalism. As events attempting to symbolise an urban spirituality, Tahrir Square and Occupy Wall Street dissipated rapidly, effecting rather little change at the heart of global market capitalism. This article theorises a possible reason for these urban spiritualities� dissipation, namely an overlap with global market capitalism�s idols of instant gratification and technology.Interdisciplinary Implications: Viewing Occupy Walls Street and Tahrir Square as symbolic systems of spirituality further strengthens theological urban discourse whilst adding weight to viewing mass movements as spiritualities attempting discernment.

Subalternity, Neoliberal Seductions, and Freedom: Decolonizing the Global Market of Social Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohan J. Dutta ◽  
Ambar Basu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Global South ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
And Gender

In this essay, working through our journeys as academic-activists collaborating with subaltern communities in the global South on social change processes, we perform autoethnographically a politics of decolonizing the neoliberal reproduction of social change in postcolonial spaces. Through our conversation, we interrogate the White/Brown privileges of race, caste, class, and gender that remain erased in much postcolonial theorizing of culture and social change. Our autoethnographic dialogue, on one hand, interrupts the seduction of neoliberal tropes in communication for social change and, on the other hand, decolonizes autoethnography as a practice for (re)producing privileged identities within the imperial sites of primarily U.S.-based academic institutions. Through the interrogation of our own caste, class, and gender positions within postcolonial social change collaborations that erase spaces for subaltern articulation, we seek to decolonize the postcolonial privileges that are created, circulated, and promoted in the multicultural Anglo-Saxon/Asian university. Our conversations amid the impossibilities of co-creation in subaltern spaces suggest strategies of decolonizing the production of postcolonial knowledge, offering radical frames that fundamentally redefine the interpretations, practices, and politics of communication and social change in postcolonial contexts.

Komersialisasi dan Tanggung Jawab Pendidikan: Sekelumit Pembicaraan

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-413
Author(s):  
Wan Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Legal Institution ◽  
Market Capitalism ◽  
Change Attitude

One of crucial pictures of our education recently is expensive education expense. This happen parallel with pragmatism mental on every side of social life. Commercialization and capitalism often become cause of human values destruction that actually should to be preserved by education. Therefore, we have to do awareness movement to change attitude and action of education’s actor. BHP and BHMN (State’s owner legal institution) status, that giving autonomy to education institution to raise fund from community shouldn’t accentuate commercialization of education at school or campus. Its also prevail on entrepreneurial university that its network source from global market capitalism expansion. School and campus must revitalize its public and humanity responsibility to independent, quality, creative, and responsible human. According to Kuntowijoyo, education task and responsibility is on humanizing human (humanization) effort, liberation, and spiritualizing human (transcendent).  

scholarly journals The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global. Risk Based Versus Ethical Investments

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Heidi Rapp Nilsen ◽  
Beate Sjåfjell ◽  
Benjamin J. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Risk ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Sovereign Wealth Funds ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Ethical Investments ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Market Capitalism

Summary: Access to finance is crucial if we are to achieve the fundamental transition of our time: securing a safe and just society operating within the planetary boundaries. In the era of global market capitalism and deregulation, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) offer one of the few public economic institutions capable of injecting ecological and social values into global markets. This article undertakes a case study of one of the world’s largest SWF, the Norwegian Government Pension Global (The Fund). The Fund is well-known for its Ethical Guidelines recommending exclusion of companies based on products and conduct as well as the Fund’s public statements when withdrawing from companies. Still, the ethical basis of overlapping consensus leads to responding to public opinion and media controversy when considering divestment, rather than undertaking due diligence beforehand. In addition, and not well known, more firms have been excluded from the Fund based on the financial risk against the portfolio than based on the Ethical Guidelines. In this article we discuss the basis of both the Ethical Guidelines and of the financial risk management of the portfolio. Still, the majority of the Fund’s investments are on an unsustainable path of ‘business as usual’. A principal thesis of this article is the paradox that the more unsustainable ‘business as usual’ becomes, the importance of financial risk assessment increases and the relevance of the Ethical Guidelines decreases.

Imperial cooperative experiments and global market capitalism,c.1900–c.1960

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Kamenov
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
British India ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Cooperative Movement ◽  
Indian Experience ◽  
Cooperative Institution ◽  
Market Capitalism ◽  
Economic Function

AbstractConcentrating on the connection between the cooperative movements in colonial India and Ghana, the article has two aims. First, it counters the diffusionist story portraying the cooperative institution as indigenous to Europe, from where it was exported to the rest of the world. Second, it draws attention to the contribution and overall importance of cooperatives in the global market economy. Pursuing these two aims, and following a review of the existing literature, the article discusses the development of the cooperative movement in British India between 1900 and 1950. It then turns to the global establishment of the Indian experience as a role model for other colonial regions, notably West Africa. The article then considers the practical implementation of cooperatives in the Gold Coast and Ashanti (both now in Ghana) around 1930, and their development until 1955. Finally, based on the two main cases, as well as on the Cooperative Wholesale Society in Britain, it explores the economic function of cooperatives beyond national particularities, and tentatively analyses the relation of the institution to the broader forces of capitalism.

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