In response to the recently rising number of academic papers that empirically examine local variances in China’s Belt and Initiative (BRI) projects various foreign lands, this paper points out tension between attempts theorize BRI projects. The Sino-localized approach assemblage theory were two main used by scholars from disparate disciplines conceptualize agency understand how conditionalities...

This study critically examines sustainable development (SD) within the contemporary practices of city branding, a prominent business philosophy that underpins market-led strategies urban areas. In pursuing uniqueness, different cities often seem to hint at very same themes differentiation, and this reflects tendency embrace pre-given sets place-development discourses. work casts critical perspe...

Spread over continents, countries and cultures, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) takes us on a tour de force into the realms multiculturalism hybridity in Indian culture. It focuses changing face India, amidst East - West encounter, globalization glocalization. novel as postcolonial text puts forth, authority politics cultural imperialism, even after independence India. This paper a...

The paper is devoted to development of theoretical and methodological foundations, conceptual provisions practical recommendations for the innovation ecosystems Ukraine. foundations concept ecosystem as a result theory are improved; interconnection between glocalization world economy processes revealed. research revealed leading role industry in ecosystems. Scientific methodical approach assess...

Abstract From the late 1980s, foreign—primarily American—missionaries started to travel Ukraine in large numbers. This article is concerned with impact of American Baptist missionaries and how their influence was perceived locally 2016, time my fieldwork. When I set out conduct fieldwork research among believers Lviv, surprised that local denied foreign on communities worship style. Moreover, m...

Bölgesel kalkınmanın günümüzde sadece ekonomik gelişmeden ibaret olmadığı, iktisadi boyuta sahip olmanın yanı sıra sosyolojik, çevresel ve yönetsel boyutları da içerdiği akademik düzeylerde genel kabul görmektedir. Söz konusu boyutlarıyla kalkınma ancak sürdürülebilir olduğunda nitelikli bir anlam kazanmaktadır. politikalarının niteliğe olması politikalarındaki küresel gündem hedefleri takip et...

We examine world migration as a social-spatial network of countries connected via movements of people. We assess how multilateral migratory relationships at global, regional, and local scales coexist (“glocalization”), divide (“polarization”), or form an interconnected global system (“globalization”). To do this, we decompose the world migration network (WMN) into communities—sets of countries ...