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This week The Conversation Global launched a new series, Globalisation Under Pressure. In inviting scholars from an array of fields to contribute, our aim is to both broadly debate the contested concept of globalisation (and its discontents) and to surface specific local stories showing what globalisation looks on the ground. The first five instalments are compiled below.
Stay tuned next week for the end of our globalisation series and more international news, arts, science and culture.
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Reema Rattan, The Conversation; Fabrice Rousselot, The Conversation; Stephan Schmidt, The Conversation; Clea Chakraverty, The Conversation; Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
The rise in nationalism. Brexit and Trump. Reactionary far-right parties wooing millions of voters around the world. The facts on the ground are clear: globalisation – and the international economic and…
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Rodrigo Zeidan, NYU Shanghai
A fundamental insight into the distributive effects of free trade from almost 90 years ago.
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Léa Barreau Tran, Sciences Po Bordeaux
Brazilian soap operas are wildly popular in Portuguese-speaking Angola, influencing women's fashion and creating a business opportunity for thousands of Angolan female entrepreneurs.
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Jianghong Li, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.; Wen-Jui Han, New York University
Ever more people are stuck with shift work in a globalised economy that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Frédéric Keck, Collège de France
Pandemics are global threat but not everyone prepares for them in the same way.
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César Renduels Menendez de Llano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Donatella Della Porta, Institute of Human and Social sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here's what history tells us about today.
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