The discourse of sustainable development represents a consensus between environmental conservation and industrial use. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that was held in the summer of 1992 attempted to initiate sustainable development policies aimed at improving the quality of human life. The major focus of UNCED was on the 400-page Agenda 21 and its initiativ…
A review of literature on intercultural communication reveals that the research community has failed to provide sufficient illumination on the role of gender in the discussion of intercultural communication and international business. Gender issues of a culture are as crucial as any other research or training influences being examined by researchers. Gender plays an important cultural role in t…
This paper uses Jean Comoroff's argument in Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance to reflect on the changing nature of religious practice in the contemporary world. It draws on Comaroff's method, which situates "religion" in a complex social, economic, and political field that is itself in the process of unfolding. Using Hindu practices among Indian IT workers in the diaspora as a case in point, …
This article puts into perspective the results of a collective research project carried out in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Ivory Coast, South Korea, Colombia, Bulgaria, and Russia. It analyzes the nature of the more or less informal networks through which pirated audiovisual products circulate, the modes through which they are appropriated, and the changes occurring with the rise of Internet. Pl…
Cities and communities are adversely affected by economic globalization and information technologies. The two international forces reduce the control of communities over hypermobile capital. Thus, community research should consider the impact of economic globalization and information technologies on communities. This would lead to a better understanding of emerging class hierarchies and power s…
The globalization of the economy creates new challenges for social work in the arenas of social and economic justice. This article outlines social justice issues related to the debt crisis of the Global South and sweatshops. A presentation of colonial precursors is followed by a detailed examination of these global institutions with an emphasis on the vulnerability, disempowered status, and exp…