1. Global Public Procurement: Introduction -- Part I. Procurement Preferences -- 2. Public Procurement in Lithuania: (Dis)Balance between Profitability and Environmental Protection -- 3. Analyzing Local and SME Participation in Public Procurement: Evidence from Seven Cities -- 4. The Social Value in Social Clauses: Methods of Measuring and Evaluation in Social Procurement -- Part II. Performanc…
Palgrave Critical Universities Studies Series Editor: John Smyth, University of Hudderfield, UK This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors…
Protest and Power -- Alter-globalization in Southern Europe -- Lifestyle Stereotypes -- Music and Politics, a Utopian Narrative -- A Ternary Model of Political Resistance: Subject, Action, and Object.Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and…
Chapter 1: Introduction: Refugee, Language, and Literacy -- Chapter 2: “But, we are Karenni. We are not Burmese.”: Historical Contexts and Lived Experiences of Karenni Refugees from Burma -- Chapter 3: The Three Families -- Chapter 4: Life, Liberty, and (the Pursuit of) English -- Chapter 5: Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, and Transnational Literacy -- Chapter 6: Digital Literacy in …
Part I - Abuse of Dominant Position and Globalization: International Report by Pinar Akman -- Austria by Gerhard Fussenegger, Florian Schuhmacher and Rainer Tahedl -- Belgium by Pierre M. Sabbadini -- Bulgaria by Anton Petrov -- France by Mathilde Boudou, Clément Hubert, Thibaut Marcerou, Georges Poulakos, Michaël Vaz d'Almeida and Martina Isola -- Germany by Marco Hartmann-Rüppel -- Japan b…
Foreword; Terence Lovat -- Introduction: Towards The Simultaneity Of IC?; Fred Dervin & Zehavit Gross -- PART I: ADDING TO PREVIOUS PERSPECTIVES: MAKING IC MORE EFFECTIVE? -- Chapter 1. Meta-Pragmatic Awareness And Intercultural Competence: The Role Of Reflection And Interpretation In Intercultural Mediation; Troy Mcconachy & Anthony J. Liddicoat -- Chapter 2. Intercultural Competence In Host S…
Preface -- Chapter 1. Universities and Ranking in Globalized Higher Education -- Chapter 2. Tools to Capture and Measure the Rise and Fall of Universities -- Chapter 3. Winners and Losers According to Rankings -- Chapter 4. A Closer Look at the Ranked: Ten Case Studies in Asia, Europe and North America -- Chapter 5. Why Universities Rise and Fall? The Crucial Factors -- Chapter 6. Going Back to…
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
Introduction. Post-Soviet Migration and Diaspora: From Global Perspectives to Everyday Perspectives; David Carment and Milana Nikolko -- Chapter 1. Diasporas, Development, and Homelands in Eurasia After 1991; Timothy Heleniak -- Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Russian-speaking migration to the UK: the discourses of visibility and accountability; Anna Pechurina -- Chapter 3. Migrant Self-Reflectivity and…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Cultural and Educational Traditions in the MENA Region -- Chapter 2. Education in a Globalised Knowledge Economy -- Chapter 3. Educational Challenges in the Arab World -- Chapter 4. Structure and Agency in the MENA Region - Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 5 -- Modernism Confronts Tradition -- Chapter 6. Reflections on the End of History -- Chapter 7. Bridging the …