21st Century Dissent: Anarchism, Anti- Globalization and Environmentalism

The Evaluation and Analysis of Globalization Components in a City (Case Study: Metropolis of Mashhad)

Globalization has been mainly based on the initiatives and new demands of hegemonic capitalism system and its general outcome has been a transition from 20th century industrial society to 21st century information society and building relative integrity in the system of traditional relations between countries, cities and creation of network world. The result of globalization in the cities of thi...

Globalization and international migration in Latin America and the Caribbean: trends and prospects for the 21st century; final report; 1999

Poststructuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 I. Ontological Justifications for Anarchism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 II. Origins of an Epistemological Defense of Anarchism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A. ...

Globalization and the sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein: A critical appraisal

By the turn of the 21st century the concept of globalization had earned its place in the social sciences and debate turned more squarely to the theoretical significance of globalization. Yet not all scholars were happy with the notion of globalization. Some claim that is merely a new name for earlier theories and concepts. Among those who reject new paradigmatic thinking on the current age is I...

Using Simple NLP Tools to Trace the Globalization of the Art World

We introduce a novel task, that of associating relative time with cities in text. We show that the task can be performed using NLP tools and techniques. The task is deployed on a large corpus of data to study a specific phenomenon, namely the temporal dimension of contemporary arts globalization over the first decade of the 21st century.