The didactic thesis of this paper is that web-supported learning tools (Schwartz et al., 2003) have to facilitate BLOCKINintercultural BLOCKINunderstanding. This paper's approach suggests that deeper dialogue-induced cognition in Dewey's sense (Berding, 1999) can enhance interparadigmatic understanding, civilisational evolution and mul-ticultural education towards democratisation (Purnendu & Tr...

Instead of generating a grand theory from urban China, I have rather modest aim – how we might use the political-economic perspective to better understand China's development politics. Rather than treating empirical materials and theoretical insights as discrete entities, describing China should itself be regarded process theorisation, contributing more global Urban Studies. We illustrate ‘stat...

Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in China’s Guangdong and Zhejiang Provinces, the author asks how postsocialist unions respond to worker unrest and why the development of sectoral-level bargaining has been uneven in different regions of China. While Zhejiang has had relative success in establishing the organizational infrastructure for sectoral bargaining, Guangdong has had little success despi...

Since 1916, the Dutch city of Nijmegen annually organizes Four-Day Marches, world’s largest international walking event, shaping along way. This paper studies ‘coeval becoming’ March and through lens ‘glocal’ topological arrangements, drawing on a ‘wheeling’ racialized assemblage perspective. wheeling, we argue, scripts its four arrangements: as Host, Global Node, Haunted Body, Empty Green. In ...