Paradoxically both immigration and indigeneity are common conditions for exclusion from full citizenship in contemporary settler nation-states. Marginalized populations such as immigrants Indigenous groups, resist the homogenizing rules dictated by dominant notions of culture deployed colonial states, entailing often hegemonic practices control institutions, school media. This essay discusses c...

Sustainability labels on products improve consumers’ product quality perceptions, suggests existing research. To understand this link in detail, the interaction of attitudes towards sustainability and brand are explored. Theoretically, a branding view is contrasted with moral consumer cosmopolitanism: that people consider issues planetary challenge must be met by all humanity. The theory tested...

In many parts of the Global North, imagined (and often illusionary) “whiteness” rural societies has been both exposed and contested by transnational movements racialised migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers other immigrants. Such dynamics have prompted a renegotiation ideas race rurality, with reactionary responses white populism more progressive that assert “rural cosmopolitanism” evokes ...

Abstract The notion of cosmopolitanism has been the subject many definitions and attracted renewed interest in context globalization. Cosmopolitanism, however, a sociological perspective, two main meanings. It can refer to skills individuals who are able move between different worlds precisely because their cosmopolitan cultural capital. also refers ethnic, religious plurality cities, some whic...

one of the most important fields in international relations discipline is the study of international organizations. indeed, the rise of international and regional organizations in last decades causes a pervasive controversy among western scholars. but among iranian scholars, we don't have any theoretical works on international organizations. this article attempt to investigate internationa...

This paper examines how community arts in Sydney, Australia, have created new narratives of multiculturalism, focusing on the everyday diversity found in Sydney’s disadvantaged western suburbs. These narratives respond to the post-9/11 demonization of western Sydney and its multicultural communities, particularly Muslim and Arab-Australians. In contrast to the largely symbolic multiculturalism ...

Despite the transnational interconnected nature of the internet, cross-national comparisons in internet usage and their effects are still relatively scarce. Moreover, one of the core intrinsic properties that internet theorists have distinguished, the ability to increase democracy and ‘global understanding’ through its connectivity, has hardly been empirically studied. This paper examines how i...

“Scientific and technical human capital” (S&T human capital) has been defined as the sum of researchers’ professional network ties and their technical skills and resources [Int. J. Technol. Manage. 22 (7–8) (2001) 636]. Our study focuses on one particular means by which scientists acquire and deploy S&T human capital, research collaboration. We examine data from 451 scientists and engineers at ...