Re-globalization

Benedikter, Roland

Kofler, Ingrid

Gruber, Mirjam

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, Ny : Routledge, 2022

As banks are widely—and rightly—vilified for causing the recent financial crisis and recession, this book traces the emergence of a different banking model, one with a conscience. It features alternative banking practices from Europe, Canada and the US.

Social Banking and Social Finance: Answers to the Economic Crisis (SpringerBriefs in Business)

Business & Money

Economics

Springer

COVID provoked a multi-dimensional crisis that overwhelmed existing concepts of social resilience that focus on a singular crisis. This volume proposes an alternative. In The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations on how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis has proven to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions. Before Corona, most concepts of a "resilient society" implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call "multi-resilience". "Multi-resilience" means to systematically enhance the universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, making them appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implementing multi-resilience, then it will ultimately have contributed to progress. This volume includes a Foreword by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger.

The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Politics & Social Sciences

Fathi, Karim

Sociology

Haymarket Books

Religion in the Age of Re-Globalization: A Brief Introduction (Culture and Religion in International Relations)

History

World

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book provides a concise introduction into twenty-one trends that are&nbsp;transforming the role of religion and spirituality in "re-globalizing" societies. In&nbsp;referring to processes of "re-globalization", the book draws attention to profound&nbsp;ongoing changes in the patterns and mechanisms of contemporary globalization.&nbsp;Inter- and transdisciplinary in its approach, clearly structured, and easy to read,&nbsp;the book analyzes the impact of religious self-understanding, rhetoric, and&nbsp;practice on five core fields: economics, politics, culture, demography, and&nbsp;technology. In turn, it describes the effects of these five fields on religion and&nbsp;spirituality themselves. This book represents a broad, encompassing overview of the main transformations&nbsp;that religion is undergoing today. Roland Benedikter combines a "big picture"&nbsp;approach with a keen attention to the details of specific case studies. With its&nbsp;clear and accessible structure and timely examples, this book is ideally suited for&nbsp;students of international relations and religious studies, and will also appeal to&nbsp;researchers engaged in those fields and to interested general readers. The book&nbsp;is also apt to serve as an encompassing basis for contemporary debates in civil&nbsp;society, including both grassroots and expert discussions.

Religion & Spirituality

This book describes what an “art of multiculturalism” could be and how in turn multiculturalism could be conceived as a form of art. It focuses on the early and middle work of Indian-born U.S. writer Bharati Mukherjee, in particular on her understanding of the “fusion” of literature and painting as a tool to inspire the creation of a “new global society” by empowering minorities through fostering and multiplying “differences in unity” and “unities in difference”. The book includes, in condensed ways, an explanation of Mukherjee’s use of ancient Indian painting techniques for postmodern writing; and it provides a short introduction to the relation between multiculturalism, postmodernity and “imaginal politics”. The book is written in an easy to read style accessible to all interested in the topic: high school and university students and teachers; those generally interested in the interface between literature, the arts and politics; and specialists in multicultural studies and global and international studies. The book is particularly suited to use in teaching.  

The Art of Multiculturalism: Bharati Mukherjee’s Imaginal Politics for the Age of Global Migration (SpringerBriefs in Sociology)

Hilber, Judith

Philosophy

Das Buch zeichnet das Gesamtbild der Situation und Perspektiven Chinas. Die Machtübergabe von einer im vergangenen Jahrzehnt erfolgreichen an eine noch wenig bekannte und von zahlreichen Umbrüchen erschütterte Generation von Eliten innerhalb der herrschenden Einheitspartei in den Jahren 2012-13 weckt Hoffnungen auf Liberalisierung, wenn nicht gar Demokratisierung. Der Optimismus von Dissidenten, Zivilgesellschaftern und Politikern scheint heute so groß wie selten an neueren historischen Übergangspunkten des Landes. Doch gibt es dem entgegengesetzt auch Tendenzen zur Rückkehr zu einem neuen Konservativismus und Nationalismus sowie zu einer expansiveren Haltung Chinas, etwa im Pazifik oder in Afrika. Das Buch, geschrieben in der Kaderschmide der amerikanischen Diplomatie, der Stanford Universität im Zentrum von Silikon Valley, zeichnet ein einmaliges, interdisziplinäres Gesamtbild der aktuellen Situation des „mittleren Reiches“ im Spannungsfeld zwischen Innen- und Außenpolitik. Es bezieht dabei Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur ebenso ein wie den Einfluss von Religion auf die Grundhaltung der Eliten. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele der aktuellen Gesellschaftsentwicklung stellt es erstens die Frage, ob aus heutiger Sicht Demokratisierung oder Entwicklung zum Rechtsstaat die realistische Perspektive für Chinas Zukunft ist; und zweitens, wie sich Zukunftsoptionen auf heutige, konkret im Raum stehende Gesellschaftsphänomene des „Reichs der Mitte“ aufbauen können.

China: Situation und Perspektiven des neuen weltpolitischen Akteurs (German Edition)

Nowotny, Verena

Politics & Government

Springer VS

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