Crip times. Disability, globalization, and resistance

Population Mobility, Globalization, and Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

Population mobility is a main factor in globalization of public health threats and risks, specifically distribution of antimicrobial drug-resistant organisms. Drug resistance is a major risk in healthcare settings and is emerging as a problem in community-acquired infections. Traditional health policy approaches have focused on diseases of global public health significance such as tuberculosis,...

Regulating Transnational Bribery in Times of Globalization and Fragmentation

Is antimicrobial resistance also subject to globalization?

In recent years one of the more alarming aspects of clinical microbiology has been the dramatic increase in the incidence of resistance to antibacterial agents among pathogens causing nosocomial as well as community-acquired infections. There are profound geographic differences in the incidence of resistance among pathogens of the respiratory tract, only some of which can be explained by the lo...

Resistance to globalization: Language and Internet diffusion patterns in Uzbekistan

This paper discusses how the Internet can facilitate cultural expression that resists the homogenizing effects of globalization. It examines how local cultures adapt their linguistic behavior and language choices to the Internet and express themselves in culturally meaningful ways without being subsumed by a global agenda. The research reported in this paper is based on a survey administered in...

The Rhetoric of Resistance: Islamism, Modernity, and Globalization

Theorizing rebellion seems a self-contradictory task. The moment one encapsulates, staticizes, and, in effect, institutionalizes rebellion in academized walls of theory, is the moment at which one has stripped rebellion of its dignity and, in some respects, of its purpose. Rebellion, as Albert Camus deanes it, is the right to determine one’s own boundaries. It is the right to assert the truth a...