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The Practices of Global Citizenship

What is global citizenship, exactly? Are we all global citizens? In The Practices of Global Citizenship, Hans Schattle provides a striking account of how global citizenship is taking on much greater significance in everyday life. This lively book includes many fascinating conversations with global citizens all around the world. Their personal stories and reflections illustrate how global citizenship relates to important concepts such as awareness, responsibility, participation, cross-cultural empathy, international mobility, and achievement. Now more than ever, global citizenship is being put into practice by schools, universities, corporations, community organizations, and government institutions. This book is a must-read for everyone who participates in global events-all of us.

This book is a must-read for everyone who participates in global events-all of us.

What is Citizenship?

Structured analytically, the book introduces the reader to all the facets of citizenship.

This book provides an invaluable introduction to this concept for students, teachers, and the general reader interested in the debates about citizenship today.

Insurgent Citizenship

Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil

Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of São Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. James Holston argues that for two centuries Brazilians have practiced a type of citizenship all too common among nation-states--one that is universally inclusive in national membership and massively inegalitarian in distributing rights and in its legalization of social differences. But since the 1970s, he shows, residents of Brazil's urban peripheries have formulated a new citizenship that is destabilizing the old. Their mobilizations have developed not primarily through struggles of labor but through those of the city--particularly illegal residence, house building, and land conflict. Yet precisely as Brazilians democratized urban space and achieved political democracy, violence, injustice, and impunity increased dramatically. Based on comparative, ethnographic, and historical research, Insurgent Citizenship reveals why the insurgent and the entrenched remain dangerously conjoined as new kinds of citizens expand democracy even as new forms of violence and exclusion erode it. Rather than view this paradox as evidence of democratic failure and urban chaos, Insurgent Citizenship argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies--emerging and established. Focusing on processes of city- and citizen-making now prevalent globally, it develops new approaches for understanding the contemporary course of democratic citizenship in societies of vastly different cultures and histories.

A monumental achievement of engaged scholarship."--Jeremy Adelman, author of Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic "This is a major book, and should provoke significant debate among Brazilianists and beyond.

Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction

Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.

Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.

Citizenship

"Citizenship has become one of the most important political ideas of out time. It is an idea that at once recognises the individual's entitlement to rights and the collective responsibilities on which stable governance rests. In this overview of the subject Keith Faulks explores citizenship's historical and conceptual origins, its contemporary dilemmas and its emancipatory potential for the future."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"Citizenship has become one of the most important political ideas of out time. It is an idea that at once recognises the individual's entitlement to rights and the collective responsibilities on which stable governance rests.

Shaping the Future of Global Leadership

Finding a Peaceful Solution

Leaders have come and gone, but few can be considered exemplary. War, destruction, and political corruption run rampant in the world. A wake-up call is needed to tackle the increasing polarization among nations from various unresolved conflicts. Leaders with sound morals and character must rise. In Shaping the Future of Global Leadership, author Dr. Salar A. Khan explores how to develop the mindset of a leader and train and select these people to create a more peaceful and just world. He reviews failures of the current leadership system and presents ideas for creating a new, independent global leadership organization (IGLO) that will generate standards for best practices and accountability for any wrongdoing among leaders. Khan demonstrates how this organization creates a system by which global leaders must undergo a thorough mental evaluation, personality and values development, and basic knowledge before engaging in the election process. In addition, he proposes a screening tool identifying global leaders with the highest chance of functioning well in making high-level decisions that impact the course of nations. Shaping the Future of Global Leadership demonstrates that by identifying and training the right leaders, we can work together to make the world a better place to live, one in which society is more harmonized and regulated.

Leaders must have cultural and geopolitical awareness to lead and understand other viewpoints and avoid conflicts that could lead to war. Leadership initiatives define ... I worry about the next generation. I don't want them to look at ...

Ticketmaster and Live Nation

A Report on the Anticipated Merger Between Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc and Live Nation, Inc

The Competition Commission (CC) has decided to clear the proposed merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation in the UK. Both Ticketmaster and Live Nation operate in the live music and entertainment industry in the UK. Ticketmaster is a ticketing agent, whilst Live Nation is a live music promoter and venue operator. Both Ticketmaster and Live Nation are headquartered in the USA, and the merger is also being investigated by the US competition authorities.In its final report, the CC has concluded that the merger will not result in a substantial lessening of competition in the market for live music ticket retailing or in any other market in the UK, including live music promotion and live music venues.

On 10 June 2009, the Office of Fair Trading referred the anticipated merger of Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc and Live Nation, Inc to the Competition Commission for investigation and report.

Digital Bank

La rivoluzione digitale nel sistema bancario: strategie e casi di successo nel mondo

Il problema cruciale delle odierne banche commerciali è che non catturano efficacemente i ricavi attraverso i dispositivi mobili, il web, i tablet e altri canali, come fanno invece quasi tutti gli altri settori. Se vogliono sopravvivere, le banche devono aggiornarsi radicalmente. A quelle che si sentono incerte sul futuro e a quelle impegnate a cambiare, questo libro fornisce una mappa per orientarsi, per riprogettare servizi e procedure, per costruire nuove dinamiche di relazione con il cliente sulla base delle tecnologie odierne. Come tenere il passo della domanda dei clienti nel momento in cui utilizzano tecnologia mobile e tablet? Quali servizi nuovi offrire? Come proteggere le banche dagli attacchi informatici? Sono necessarie nuove, diverse filiali? Che tipo di personale assumere in una banca digitale? Il volume include non solo una estesa panoramica sulla rivoluzione digitale nel sistema bancario, ma anche un'analisi approfondita delle attività di banche emergenti come Barclays nel Regno Unito e mBank in Polonia, di nuove start-up come Metro Bank, di modelli di rottura come FIDOR Bank in Germania e un'introduzione agli ultimi modelli di finanza, come Zopa e Bitcoin. «Skinner è noto nel settore per le sue acute osservazioni su come la tecnologia sta cambiando il modello di business nel settore bancario. È una lettura imperdibile per chiunque sia interessato al futuro dei servizi finanziari». Kenneth Cline direttore esecutivo di "BAI Banking Strategies" «Le banche sono impreparate, incapaci e lente. Se non sono in grado di gestire le informazioni – il nucleo del denaro – allora forse dovrebbero uscire dai giochi. Una lettura davvero illuminante per chiunque creda che le banche potrebbero tornare al vecchio sistema dopo la crisi finanziaria». Michael Mainelli professore emerito del Gresham College di Londra «Skinner è forse il primo autore a prendere il polso del settore dei servizi finanziari non solo dal punto di vista europeo o americano, ma da una prospettiva davvero globale. Emmanuel Daniel fondatore e direttore editoriale di "The Asian Banker" «Chris Skinner ha dato un contributo importantissimo al dibattito sul passaggio alle banche digitali. Raccomando caldamente questa lettura. Brett King, autore di Bank 2.0 e fondatore di Moven «Chris Skinner è un grande esperto, un commentatore e un blogger di tecnologia nella finanza. In questo libro riunisce le sue opinioni su come cambierà l'erogazione di servizi finanziari quando le banche realizzeranno il proprio 'futuro digitale'. Forte di tre decenni di esperienza nello sviluppo della tecnologia bancaria, ci fornisce una guida preziosa e illustrata con una serie di interessanti case study, grazie alla quale potremo orientarci fra i cambiamenti che ci aspettano in questo vitale settore in rapido movimento. Annie Shaw, commentatrice del "Daily Express" ed esperta di finanza per Radio London

L'intenzione era quella e Shaiming credeva di avere realizzato proprio una cosa del genere. Era stato semplice, perché non si trattava di attaccare la DTCC o la Borsa di New York, ma Goldman Sachs. Grazie alle autorità superiori, ...

Managing Democracy in the Digital Age

Internet Regulation, Social Media Use, and Online Civic Engagement

In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the ‘Internet of Things,’ this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political participation, political election campaigns and political regulation of the Internet. Within the context of Western democracies and China, the contributors analyze these challenges and opportunities from three perspectives: the regulatory state, the political use of social media, and through the lens of the public sphere. The first part of the book discusses key challenges for Internet regulation, such as data protection and censorship, while the second addresses the use of social media in political communication and political elections. In turn, the third and last part highlights various opportunities offered by digital media for online civic engagement and protest in the public sphere. Drawing on different academic fields, including political science, communication science, and journalism studies, the contributors raise a number of innovative research questions and provide fascinating theoretical and empirical insights into the topic of digital transformation.

Internet Regulation, Social Media Use, and Online Civic Engagement Julia Schwanholz, Todd Graham, Peter-Tobias Stoll. McCool D (ed) (1995) Public policy theories, models, and concepts: an anthology. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall ...