In this article I will argue that the globalisation process has carried two major implications for intercultural communication research: 1) It has provided a new target group; professional practitioners in multiethnic societies. 2) It has made ‘cultural identity’ one of the most important concepts in intercultural research. The challenge for intercultural research today is to provide analytical...

This paper argues that NGDOs should focus their attention on revealing how, despite the ‘pro-poor’ development discourse that has underlined the international project of poverty reduction, poor people still lose in grassroots practice. This is because conflicts in perceptual meanings (image-conflicts) involved in interfaces among actors operating from different frames of reality are not properl...

There is no general consensus on the definition of globalisation. Put simply, it is a process of increasing connectivity, where ideas, capital, goods, services and people are transferred across country borders. This briefing paper discusses an aspect of economic globalisation – market access – and how this affects the rural poor. Despite all the criticisms lodged against globalisation, it is in...

From a social systems theory perspective, globalisation can be conceptualised as an evolutionary social process. By fusing systems theories, evolutionary theories, and organisation theories, globalisation becomes apparent as a historical social process, which encompasses the emergence and reproduction of social systems such as firms or other organisations within the wider process of the globali...

"Thus we arrive at today: a project of synthesis, an integral age at the leading edge...just now beginning with the dawn of the new millennium." ~ Ken Wilber In recent human history few topics could rival the amount of writing and diversified debate carried out in the name of globalisation. Globalisation is a topic that no voice seems to have a definitive word on, no author appears to forward t...

From a social systems theory perspective, globalisation can be conceptualised as an evolutionary social process. By fusing systems theories, evolutionary theories, and organisation theories, globalisation becomes apparent as a historical social process, which encompasses the emergence and reproduction of social systems such as firms or other organisations within the wider process of the globali...