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The Problem: Virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) share many features of digital learning networks (DLNs). Their work is ecosystemically connected, and they operate on overlapping continuums. This makes understanding how they function and decisions about which term to use difficult. The Solution: This article outlines points of convergence and divergence between VCoPs and DLNs. It explains how the term, complexly coevolving, clarifies their brackish connections, and the proposed term, glocal peer-learning practice networks (GPPNs), is needed to describe their intersecting existence. The Stakeholders: Organizations and networks that seek to quickly and comprehensively describe the scale and scope of their work. Researchers who seek to unify terminology for better evaluation and advancement of the field across societal sectors. Practitioners and funders who aim to develop or strengthen work against issues of global concern using combined features of VCoPs and DLNs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the impacts of the Russia–Ukraine conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic on the supply chain and logistics related to the management of agro-food production based on a comprehensive review of the scientific literature. The challenges and lessons posed by market dependence in a scenario of globalization through monopolies and oligopolies in the production and export of agro-food are assessed, highlighting the vulnerability and uncertainty faced when an international conflict occurs. The review examines the format of globalization versus glocalization, analyzing their respective advantages and disadvantages in supply chains and management in the context of two major crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Likewise, the resilience of agro-food and agro-industrial systems that were negatively affected by food insecurity and food price inflation in parts of Europe, Africa, and other regions of the planet is analyzed. By identifying opportunities arising from these challenges, the research offers insights into fostering a more robust agro-food supply chain that is more adaptable to global crises based on the geographic location and regional development of agribusinesses capable of responding to demand in the event of a global crisis such as a pandemic or armed conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the emergence of the concept of glocalization in contemporary societies and more precisely, the glocalization of sport to highlight a social innovation borne through the interaction between global dynamics and local specificities in the development of sport. The glocalization, considered as a theorical framework to rethink local social innovation which answered to the limit of the globalization, is examined in this article through an in-depth bibliographic analysis conducted using the Lillocat metasearch engine (covering 354 articles since 1992 across 11 thematic areas, 29 of which are related to sports). The use of IRaMuTeQ software version 0.7 alpha2 (Interface for Multidimensional Text and Questionnaire Analysis) enabled comprehensive textual and lexical analyses, including frequency analyses, hierarchical classifications, and principal component analyses (PCA). These analyses were presented in the form of figures such as histograms, dendrograms, and word clouds, thereby facilitating the identification of lexical co-occurrence relationships and the understanding of emerging trends. Findings reveal that glocalization enables sports organizations to integrate global strategies with local cultural identities, fostering fan engagement, economic sustainability, and cultural diversity. Global events such as the FIFA World Cup, the NBA's international expansion, and the Tour de France illustrate how global frameworks adapt to local contexts. Glocalization emerges as a strategic driver of social innovation, balancing internationalization with localized adaptation. This study provides insights for researchers and practitioners, considering glocalization as a theorical framework useful for the analysis of a local social innovation in the context of globalization and sport as a propitious field of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine how globally oriented-influencers from India utilize specific strategies of content creation to negotiate with the dominant logic of platform affordances to engage with global audiences. It involves individual negotiations by the influencers with the platform affordances in creating content that foregrounds their cultural realities and aspirations while remaining relevant to global audiences. We do so by deploying the critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA) framework to understand influencers' strategic choices and discursive practices as they interact and negotiate with the platform affordances. Our analysis shows two processes that help the influencers communicate their content to the global audience and sustain their local connections and followership: (1) Templatization: a process through which influencers from the global South attune themselves to the technological possibilities of the platform and utilize its features to produce content with a set of replicable patterns, formats, and practices; and (2) Cultural brokering: a negotiation strategy which allows the influencers to foreground and express their quotidian lived realities and cultural experiences in an increasingly globalized digital environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rapid technological developments have heightened global interest in pedagogically sound uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education. However, universal principles for ICT integration need to better align with the local realities of teachers and schools for optimal uptake. Using Chile and Finland as case studies, this research summarizes, appraises, and synthesizes literature on teachers' ICT uses before and during the pandemic. Adopting a 'glocal' framework (Manca et al., 2021), the study identifies local and global trends in ICT uses, including potential research shifts that carry implications for both theory and practice. A systematic literature review was conducted to examine Finnish and Chilean teachers' ICT uses as reported in studies across five databases. The search was limited to peer-reviewed, Englishlanguage publications over a thirteen-year period and yielded 26 high-quality papers that were analyzed using meta-aggregation. Findings reveal that the reported ICT uses depended on the research methods employed to study these where qualitative studies documented innovative uses and quantitative studies more traditional uses of ICT. During the pandemic, research shifted to focus more on teacher experiences with Finnish studies highlighting positive ICTrelated experiences and Chilean studies negative experiences including teachers' lack of training and practical issues. Based on the findings, recommendations are given to continue to enhance ICT integration both locally and globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the geography of translation by exploring the language of ‘spiritual consumerism’ in India. Drawing on examples from the Indian company Patanjali's ‘saffron capitalism’, we trace the politically, culturally, and religiously charged nature of ‘travelling translation’ and ‘self‐translation’. Our focus is on commercial language that has journeyed and returned ‘back home’, validating notions of Indian uniqueness in the context of globalisation and the rise of Hindu nationalism. This overarching theme is developed by way of three other arguments. First, we show the utility of bringing recent developments in translation studies to bear on geographical debates on globalisation and glocalisation. Second, we offer an expanded view of translation. With their many colours, fonts, and other devices, the Hindi and English texts found on Patanjali's products offer a complex and lively ‘visual language’. Our discussion shows that an understanding of the placing and patterning of this visual language sheds light on the complex character of ‘spiritual consumerism’. Third, in contrast to the emphasis on transgression, novelty, and resistance associated with earlier work on postcolonial translation, we draw out the splicing of nationalism, capitalism, and cosmopolitanism, and illustrate how Patanjali is creating and packaging a language of Hindu/Indian/global branding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study introduces a pedagogical framework incorporating multiliteracies, a new literacy concept proposed by the New London Group (1996, A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review, 66(1), 60–92. ), and glocalised marketing, the adaptation of marketing strategies to fit local markets, within an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) setting. The article first reviews ESP research that adopts a multimodal approach and outlines the main features of a multimodal pedagogical framework, which is then expanded to encompass a pedagogy of multiliteracies and glocalised marketing for an English for advertising and marketing curriculum. In doing so, the framework is further connected with disciplinary literacy, a subject-specific skill set combining knowledge construction and language communication that can be cultivated through the pedagogy. The study presents findings from multimodal projects and surveys completed by 28 university students from a university in Taiwan. Using case study analysis, the study investigates the effectiveness of the pedagogical framework in promoting multimodal meaning-making practices and assesses participants' perceptions of the learning benefits of this approach. The study hopes to provide pedagogical insights for ESP teachers to cultivate learners' communicative competence in a digitalised and globalised society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) sector employs sport to stimulate social and personal development beyond sports. However, limited attention has been given to environmental sustainability and SDP's role within the Anthropocene. This study examines how SDP stakeholders interpret macro policies and navigate climate action challenges. The concept of glocalization helps reveal the complexities of addressing climate change at a local level. Semi-structured interviews (N = 4) were conducted with SDP practitioners from NGOs in Brazil and the UK. Findings reveal two key themes: the barriers and opportunities presented by the SDGs and the role of personal experiences in making environmental engagement relevant. The findings shed new light on the diverse motivations that drive SDP NGOs in addressing environmental concerns, as well as the challenges they encounter in contributing to environmental sustainability. This study emphasizes the need for SDP-specific environmental policies, practices, and glocalized responses to the Anthropocene on various levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sharing of pregnancy photos and photos of infants is becoming a normative way of announcing pregnancy and birth, respectively, by women in the Global North. Even though this practice is gaining popularity in Ghana, women still experience tension between local and Western forces, causing a wide range of dilemmas. The study explores how women navigate global/Western forces, which promote a visual culture of maternity and normalize the sharing of pregnancy photos and photos of infants, and the local Ghanaian norms, which abhor this practice. Based on forty-two interviews with post-partum mothers aged between 24 and 42 years old in Accra, Ghana, the study shows that both local and Western ways influence the online performance of participants. The findings of the study indicate that the influence of Western maternity trends does not result in the total elimination of local traditions but rather, in most Western-inspired performances, there is the indigenization of Western trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is an extended review of Violence and Gender Disparities against Women: A Global Scenario, edited by Anupama Vohra, Jasbir Singh, Parveen Kumari, and Barbara Wejnert (Punjab, India: White Falcon, 2022), considering the multicultural and multi-perspective nature of its authors' research on gender disparities violence and against women and girls. The Western perspective on this pressing problem, dominant in public discourse, desensitizes us to the historical and socio-cultural aspects of violence against women and girls and its local specificity. The reviewed book is an attempt to expand this perspective to the Asian countries in a glocal approach, the result of collectively conducted and presented research effects "from home." Thus the book is the result of mapping the issues related to violence against women and girls different regions of the world. It is also an interventionist publication that points out what we as societies still have to do to address gender violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What happens when modern sports systems in noncore sports nations have undergone extended globalization? In this article, I draw on glocalization theory, particularly Roland Robertson and Richard Giulianotti's "duality of glocality" to explore the historical developments of the K League, South Korea's men's professional football league, launched in 1983. There are many reasons the K League has not yet firmly established its status: (a) the league imposed continuous rule changes on foreign field players while banning foreign goalkeepers, (b) the league introduced a distinct competition structure partially adopted from its Western counterparts, (c) a supporter culture was established which has a similar outlook to that of other supporter cultures but it had a different internal structure, and (d) the league produced media content reflecting local viewer needs while maintaining a structure similar to Western media formats. The notion of a two-step glocalization, the process of heterogenization followed by homogenization with other cultures based on the things that were already heterogenized for a lengthy period, is used to advance the debate on glocalization and to better understand the reasons for the failure to attract K League spectators since its establishment in 1983. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The collision of opera with Iranian musical culture can be considered one of the most important points of intersection between Western and Iranian culture, which took place under the influence of certain political and social developments in Iran. After the Persian Constitutional Revolution, Iran was affected by political, social and cultural changes. Countless changes were made to help Iran's entry into the modern world, in which elites and intellectuals played a significant role. They insisted on bringing the modern form of theatre to the culture of Iran. This is how operetta first entered Iran under the influence of immigrants from northern European countries. The first operettas of the constitutional era were created under the influence of the Caucasian operettas. During several decades of activity in the field of operetta production in Iran, and with the provision of academic education in the field of Western singing in the music conservatory, conditions were created for the production of the first operas in Iran. The coexistence of music and drama was praised by Iranians from the very beginning and prompted many playwrights to create operettas. Since the first operettas in Iran were created with hints of Iranian music and culture, some experts did not consider it correct to use the word operetta for these performances. This essay, based on the theory of glocalization and relying on the descriptive-analytical method based on library documents, has listed some of the effects of Western operas and operettas on the post-constitutional operettas, with the study of three operettas, namely Rastakhiz'e Shahriaran'e Iran, Parichehr and Parizad and finally Elahe. These operetta artists included musical profiles other than Iranian music in their works by using descriptions under the title of "European song and ballet" and using "Western Instruments" and "the songs close to Caucasian and Turkish music", and tried to step closer to the Western operettas. In such a situation, the juxtaposition of Western operetta and Iranian musical culture had effects on each other, which were examined in the article in three stages: exposure, cultural influence, and acculturation. At first, Iranians had a cultural exposure with Western opera by hearing, reading and seeing it. Using the name "operetta" and influences from Western music and song, they advanced to the stage of cultural influence. And since the presence of operetta in Iran did not pose any threat to Iranian music, Iranians did not take a step towards acculturation. As for the results of this article, we can mention the process of producing a kind of glocalized operetta in Iran. Iranians took the title of operetta as one of the successful globalized examples. They combined this globalized musical show with Iranian classical music and singing. Sometimes they used humorous stories appropriate to the society of that time and sometimes they used epic myths and stories from Iranian classical poetry and created a new type of operetta in Iran. It was under these conditions that the glocal type of Persian operettas was born, influenced by the global type of Western operettas.

Technology startups are integral to local and global economies, with distinctive cultural logics that shape the nature of work in this sector and the technological developments generated therein. As an emergent market, Australian technology startups offer a window into global-local dynamics and a lens on the cultural forces at play. Based on three years of ethnographic research (2019–2022), I identify prevailing values that drive and animate both culture and practice in Australia's startup domain. Findings show the sector suffused by a paired value set: failure and speed, converged into a failure-speed ethos. Through interviews, observations, and document analysis, I delineate and illustrate the failure-speed ethos, trace its path through migration and institutional enculturation, and examine how the demands and costs of failure and speed distribute unevenly between positions within the startup ecosystem. Findings have implications for the nature of innovation work in a globalized society, the context of technological development, and the sociological processes by which culture spreads, embeds, and endures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the twentieth century, there have been a large number of Africans in Guangzhou occupying multiple emplacements and engaging in diverse activities so that a whole zone of the urban area is designated 'Little Africa.' The article investigates the linguistic landscape in the African living areas of Guangzhou from a multimodality perspective, focusing on how street sign translation becomes an important means of cross-cultural communication and a symbol of 'low-end glocalization' and 'grassroots cosmopolitanism'. The translation landscape in the present study was investigated through an ethnographic process of photographing the translations and examining them within their contexts and spaces. The prevalence of bilingual, multilingual, and monolingual English signs in multifarious modes in the African inhabited area of Guangzhou deviates itself from other places of the city to create a translational and transnational space for people of heterogeneous ethnicities to develop social supporting networks and maintain structures of solidarity. The unusually diversified, multimodal translations, on the one hand, reflect the 'glocalized' nature of this African enclave while, on the other hand, demonstrating a 'transient' sense of belonging for foreigners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In multi-label learning (MLL), label-specific feature (LSF) learning assumes that labels are determined by their inherent characteristics. However, in multi-view multi-label learning (MVMLL), the heterogeneity problem persists within the feature space. The views with varying dimensions can result in different dimensions of extracted LSF. Existing algorithms extract the LSF for each view separately, suffering the inadequate communication of the LSF and poor classification accuracy. The subspace learning method can address the dimension-inconsistency problem in multi-views by extracting extract the shared subspace for each view by substituting the original view feature space. However, the individual subspaces contain relatively homogeneous information. Based on this analysis, the GLocal Shared Subspace Learning (GLSSL) algorithm was proposed for multi-view multi-label learning to access more informative subspaces. First, the label groups were obtained through spectral clustering, entirely considering the correlation between the label groups and features to identify the specific relevant view features corresponding to each label group. Subsequently, the global shared subspace (global subspace) and local shared subspace (local subspace) were extracted from the original feature space and feature sets, respectively. Finally, the local subspace was complemented with the global subspace for LSF learning. The proposed algorithm was validated through comparative experiments with several state-of-the-art algorithms on multiple benchmark multi-view multi-label datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examining some very old things using social-theoretical thinking can shed new light on some very recent ones. This paper argues that the movement into and through digital environs of ancient texts of religious, spiritual, and other forms of significance in recent years is just the latest iteration of very long-term glocalizing processes. These involve specific types of intricate and crisscrossing intra-and inter-civilizational modes of communication and mediation, namely translation practices. The paper sets out an account of inter-civilizational encounters in history, focusing on how texts often taken by many people today as direct expressions of the divine are in fact the results of the activities of those glocalizing actors known as translators. Studies of 21st century digital glocalization, virtual religion, and related areas will benefit from further considering textual translation practices, as these are embedded within the long-term history of contacts between civilizational constellations. The historical unfoldings of ancient texts, when these have been subjected to glocalizing inter-civilizational processes, are more akin to online forms of communication than one might think. Thinking through such matters generates more capacious accounts of historical and contemporary glocalization and the glocality of civilizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Should African countries be dependent on imported pandemic policies that are unworkable at the local level? This study delves into the under-researched contradictions in the adoption of foreign pandemic protocols and African peoples' alternative reliance on Afro-indigenous approaches to pandemic control. The study interrogates imported pandemic control regimes such as free movement restrictions, lockdowns, crowdpolicing, and social distancing policies, and their applicability in Africa. From insights on the COVID-19 real-life experiences, this study challenges Western pandemic measures adopted by African governments for being locally insensitive to the African environment and for perpetuating vaccine inequity. The study rejects Afro-pessimist pandemic narratives and highlights the growing reliance on Afro-indigenous approaches to pandemic control, including the use of traditional/herbal medicines. A mix of global and local alternatives, or pandemic "glocalization," with rich contents of Africa's scientific and local knowledge-based contributions, is imperative for pandemic decoloniality and freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 1950s, John K. Fairbank introduced the 'Impact–Response' paradigm for the study of the Christian mission in the non-Western world, focusing on the impact of Western civilization, including Christianity, in China, and the Chinese response. In the 1980s, Joseph Levenson and Paul Cohen proposed their 'Tradition-Modernity' and 'China-Centered' paradigms, respectively, shifting more focus onto the discovery of China's own history. In 2002, Dana Robert adopted the concept of 'globalization' to the study of the Christian mission, yet remained 'imperialistic' and overlooked the consequences of the interplay between globalization and localization. It was in 2012, when Xi Jinping introduced his 'China dream', that Chinese scholars began to think more seriously about its implication and the significance of the 'Sinicization of religion'. Zhuo Xinping, while exploring the concept of the 'Sinicization of Christianity', hinted at a new direction, where "China needs the world as the world needs China, ...in which Christianity would play an important role" (p. 227). Just as the study of Christianity can help one to understand the development of civilization in the Modern West, the paradigm of the 'Sinicization of Christianity' would help provide a better picture of the history of Christianity by seeing it through the interplay between globalization and localization and taking Western Christianity as merely a partial representation of the global Christianity developed in the West. Hence, in this paper, the author attempts to propose it as a new paradigm for the study of the history of Christianity in China today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graph pooling is an essential operation in Graph Neural Networks that reduces the size of an input graph while preserving its core structural properties. Existing pooling methods find a compressed representation considering the Global Topological Structures (e.g., cliques, stars, clusters) or Local information at node level (e.g., top- k informative nodes). However, an effective graph pooling method does not hierarchically integrate both Global and Local graph properties. To this end, we propose a dual-fold Hierarchical Global Local Attention Pooling (HGLA-Pool) layer that exploits the aforementioned graph properties, generating more robust graph representations. Exhaustive experiments on nine publicly available graph classification benchmarks under standard metrics show that HGLA-Pool significantly outperforms eleven state-of-the-art models on seven datasets while being on par for the remaining two. • Propose dual-fold pooling to capture global and local properties for classification. • Fold1 uses a developed rule-based method to identify overlapping nodes among cliques. • Develop dynamic scoring to rank the most informative global structures like cliques. • Fold2 uses LocalPool to refine cliques by focusing on key nodes within cliques. • The proposed method outperforms 11 state-of-the-art models on seven diverse datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalisation has significantly influenced preschool education around the world, including Hong Kong, where the official curriculum framework has recently integrated the Western notion of creativity as part of arts education, forming a new learning area: Arts and Creativity. The purpose of this study was to investigate how Hong Kong preschool stakeholders perceived Arts and Creativity and its viability in practice. We interviewed 20 teachers, 10 principals, and 20 teacher educators specialising in arts education (N = 50). Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis were used. Findings showed that Hong Kong preschool stakeholders: (1) perceived most Western pedagogical characteristics as important but not fully viable in the local context; (2) expressed that children's arts creativity is fostered from a low/null to a moderate extent, due to constraints such as parental demands, time, and resources; (3) suggested strategies to maximise children's arts creativity focusing on curricular amendments, parental education, teacher preparation, and societal changes at large. We conclude that Arts and Creativity is not perceived to be implemented in accordance to the official curriculum framework. The study reveals the need to 'glocalize' this learning area in the Hong Kong context. Implications for moving forward in arts creativity preschool education are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This case study explored three Taiwanese elementary school English teachers' pedagogical and collaborative practice of glocalization in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) lessons. Based on the framework on English teachers' designs and implementing glocalized CLIL lessons, the thematic analysis of the documents, observations of classroom practices and post-observation conferences, and interviews reached the following conclusion. Firstly, food was the major glocalized CLIL topic. Secondly, these three English teachers had positive attitudes towards their multimodal presentations of glocalized CLIL lessons. Thirdly, these three teachers possessed different levels of English language skills in their collaborative lesson planning. Fourthly, these teachers faced challenges in providing their learners with authentic tasks for pushed output (learners' production of the language of learning and content knowledge for contextualized and meaningful use) and using English as the medium of instruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How has global jihadi militancy affected the security landscape of West African states? This paper examines this question by considering the cases of Algeria and Mali as they became theaters of Al-Qā'idah in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) jihadi project. This interaction is examined through the perspective of glocalization. It maintains that a global jihadi drive is refracted via the locales it comes to encounter, necessarily becoming embedded in local politics and ecologies, and thereby generating specific glocalities. I describe the emergence of three glocalities: a relatively successful reestablishment of state control in Algeria when it comes to the (core) north of the country, the formation of a space across its southern regions and northern Mali where government control remained feebler, and an embattled Malian theater, where global jihadists found fertile ground to challenge the viability of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For over five years, Chrissy has developed and facilitated “Morals + Murals Hood Tours” of North and West Philadelphia that revere Black and local counter-narratives. In her presence, I was entrusted with such stories that I otherwise could not access. Since then, 2021, I have returned to Philadelphia (Philly) and taken Black-led tours in other locations. While in New Orleans, I learned from Mama Vera. In my hometown, Detroit, I finally met Baba Jamon Jordan during the Black Scroll Network History and Tour. Most recently, I took a solo trip to Portugal, where I learned from Naky during the African Lisbon Tour. My experiences with Chrissy, Mama Vera, Baba Jamon, and Naky, inspire me to question: How do Black storytellers honor, imagine, and amplify Black curricula, revelatory counter-narratives, and possibilities via curated city-based “street” tours? In doing so, how do they participate in glocal (simultaneously local and global) conversations that speak back to anti-Blackness. These wonderings frame my conceptualizing of curbside pedagogy (CP). Through witnessing, I have noticed these elements of CP: • Hearing One’s Own Voice • Summoning Responsibility & Resistance • Grief and Healing • Volume (Space-Making and Space-Taking) • Ujamaa • Decolonial Cartographies • Glocal Black Curricula Hearing One’s Own VoiceSummoning Responsibility & ResistanceGrief and HealingVolume (Space-Making and Space-Taking)UjamaaDecolonial CartographiesGlocal Black Curricula [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of K-pop cover dancers worldwide reveals how artists creatively adapt and transform this genre to suit local priorities. This ethnographic analysis examines two K-pop cover dancer influencers in Bali to illuminate their curation of authenticities through local events and social media. One dancer generates a version of K-pop in Bali as a cosmopolitan, upper-class elite judge and modern dancer; the other exhibits the flow of K-pop from Bali to Seoul as a diasporic, queerish waacking dancer. This study foregrounds the disjunctive flow of glocalization as K-pop's cultural capital extends beyond Korea for artistic, educational, and entrepreneurial benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the data of transnational and domestic intercity patent transfer, this paper depicts the evolution pattern of China's innovation network from the "glocal" perspective, and uses the PVAR model to explore and empirically test the endogenous mechanism of the evolution of the "glocal" innovation network. The results show that: (1) From 2004 to 2018, China's "glocal" innovation network scale and the degree of connection were increasing, and the degree of tightness and evolution speed of the domestic intercity technology transfer network was greater than that of the transnational technology transfer network; (2) The external node cities are concentrated in East Asia, Western Europe and North America, and show the trend of "moving eastward". The corresponding domestic gateway cities are concentrated in the eastern coastal areas. The internal and external connection degree of domestic cities presents isomorphic characteristics in the spatial pattern, and shows the difference in the order of internal and external connections; (3) In the evolution of the "glocal" innovation network, there is a one-way and two-way self-reinforcing effect of technology transfer, reflecting the convergence and expansion characteristics of urban nodes; (4) The gateway city is the carrier of the interaction between the global and local innovation networks, and there are complementary and competitive effects between transnational technology transfer and domestic technology transfer. For China, the complementary effect is mainly reflected between the transnational technology import and the domestic technology export, and the competitive effect is reflected in the substitution and squeezing effect of the transnational technology import and the domestic technology import and the domestic technology export on the transnational technology export [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Glocalization is the local adaptation of global trends, and though it has been extensively studied in other fields, there has been a lower emphasis on it in pedagogy. Glocalization is especially relevant in education given that pedagogical approaches to language learning such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Lingua franca (ELF) have gained global popularity. The current paper examines beliefs, attitudes, and training needs of in-service CLIL teachers from two contexts: Taiwan and Andalusia (Spain). To this avail, a common online questionnaire was designed. 244 teachers participated in the study, 158 from Taiwan and 86 from Spain. Data have been analyzed quantitatively using the constant comparative model. Results indicate that CLIL teachers have considerable methodological and linguistic needs. Notably, while all teachers indicated a metalinguistic identity aligned with ELF, Andalusian teachers expressed a higher need for linguistic training than Taiwanese teachers and put language accuracy prior to content knowledge when assessing bilingual learning effectiveness. Conversely, Taiwanese bilingual teachers valued content training for themselves and assessment in content knowledge for learners. The present study concludes with identifying different training needs in each context thus supporting the notion of glocalizing CLIL teacher training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article draws a generative parallel between two multimedia exhibitions, 55 Days at Peking (2017) and Diplomatic Residence Compound (2016) presented at DRC No. 12—a nonprofit art space located within the Diplomatic Residence Compound in Beijing, which is often abbreviated to DRC. Although it is not quite an area of extraterritoriality, DRC has created an alternative diplomatic domain of cross-border engagement partly outside the straitjackets of state control and regimentation. This article investigates how the works presented at DRC No. 12 construct a "migratory" site of aesthetic encounters—where things, bodies, and images are set in motion physically or conceptually, unsettling any notions of spatial stability and temporal continuity—and how DRC No. 12 as an exhibition space allows artists and viewers to reconsider and reconfigure the connections and boundaries between private and public, past and present, and domestic and foreign through immediate site-specific practice of making or perceiving art, bringing to the fore the contingency, heterogeneity, and mutability of one's sense of identity, place, history, and culture. It also delves into the ways in which DRC No. 12 explores and demonstrates a glocal model of art and exhibition making, concurrently aligning with and disrupting a range of institutional apparatuses of supports, constraints, and controls at the local, national, and transnational levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The story of Kenyans who travelled to study in the United States of America, in what is known as the airlifts program and, its resultant implications on the project of the nation building, is well known. So much has been extensively written and documented in various forms on this subject from multiple and multi-layered dimensions and perspectives. However, my entry into this subject is through a critical encounter with Philip Ochieng's life's story, who happens to be one of the airlift beneficiaries to the United States of America, as reconstructed by Liz Gitonga-Wanjohi. I am especially interested in the way that his (Ochieng's) life-story in this reconstruction is proliferated with aspects of nomadism. I discern nomadism in this discussion in a plural sense. As both literal and figurative, manifested through his practices of the everyday rituals of life. I argue that the nomadic tendencies, exhibited in his total lifestyle, define him as a glocal citizen: always oscillating between and betwixt the local and global spaces, languages and ideologies. In reading the nomadic subject, that is Ochieng, I consciously and cautiously, rely on Rosi Braidotti's ideas of nomadic subjects as accentuated in her book Nomadic Subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The protean concept of the Global South, now gaining traction in both academic and political imaginaries, is inflected by multiple significations. Key among those significations is the insight that the Global South is a radical epistemological reorientation, a multilocal context or location to speak from or look at and into the world. Subsequently, this essay mobilizes the concept of the Global South in order to look at the world from the standpoint of vernacular literary cultures produced by Muslims in the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Drawing on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's idea of the "globalectical imagination," I argue that vernacular literary cultures from the Global South allow us to imagine and think about the world in refreshing and powerful ways that usually get muted or short-changed within the paradigms set by the Euro-American normativity. Focusing, by way of illustration, on the greatly underexplored multilingual Tamil and Arabi Malayalam literary texts venerating the Prophet Muhammad, my essay will shed light on how the vernacular presents us with a "glocal" perspective: even as the vernacular culture grounds itself firmly in the local, it invariably transcends the local specificities in order to forge translocal, transregional, transnational and global connections and affiliations. The essay thus ventures a "vernacular globalectics" in the Global South with which to see the world and its various literatures contextually and relationally rather than unilocally and exclusively as is often the case in the regnant models for literary study in our times, including the meta-category of "world literature." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The collision of opera with Iranian musical culture can be considered one of the most important points of intersection between Western and Iranian culture, which took place under the influence of certain political and social developments in Iran. After the Persian Constitutional Revolution, Iran was affected by political, social and cultural changes. Countless changes were made to help Iran's entry into the modern world, in which elites and intellectuals played a significant role. They insisted on bringing the modern form of theatre to the culture of Iran. This is how operetta first entered Iran under the influence of immigrants from northern European countries. The first operettas of the constitutional era were created under the influence of the Caucasian operettas. During several decades of activity in the field of operetta production in Iran, and with the provision of academic education in the field of Western singing in the music conservatory, conditions were created for the production of the first operas in Iran. The coexistence of music and drama was praised by Iranians from the very beginning and prompted many playwrights to create operettas. Since the first operettas in Iran were created with hints of Iranian music and culture, some experts did not consider it correct to use the word operetta for these performances. This essay, based on the theory of glocalization and relying on the descriptive-analytical method based on library documents, has listed some of the effects of Western operas and operettas on the post-constitutional operettas, with the study of three operettas, namely Rastakhiz'e Shahriaran'e Iran, Parichehr and Parizad and finally Elahe. These operetta artists included musical profiles other than Iranian music in their works by using descriptions under the title of "European song and ballet" and using "Western Instruments" and "the songs close to Caucasian and Turkish music", and tried to step closer to the Western operettas. In such a situation, the juxtaposition of Western operetta and Iranian musical culture had effects on each other, which were examined in the article in three stages: exposure, cultural influence, and acculturation. At first, Iranians had a cultural exposure with Western opera by hearing, reading and seeing it. Using the name "operetta" and influences from Western music and song, they advanced to the stage of cultural influence. And since the presence of operetta in Iran did not pose any threat to Iranian music, Iranians did not take a step towards acculturation. As for the results of this article, we can mention the process of producing a kind of glocalized operetta in Iran. Iranians took the title of operetta as one of the successful globalized examples. They combined this globalized musical show with Iranian classical music and singing. Sometimes they used humorous stories appropriate to the society of that time and sometimes they used epic myths and stories from Iranian classical poetry and created a new type of operetta in Iran. It was under these conditions that the glocal type of Persian operettas was born, influenced by the global type of Western operettas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the process of glocalization in the tourism industry in Kuta, Bali, with a particular focus on tourist attractions. This research explores how local culture has been transformed into a marketable commodity to meet the demand of global tourists. Through the lens of Commodification, the study analyzes how traditional Balinese elements, such as rituals and architecture, have been integrated into the tourism landscape. This research is a qualitative research method that uses observation, document analysis, and interviews as data collection techniques. The study shows how Kuta has achieved a delicate balance between global appeal and local authenticity through a detailed analysis of various case studies, including Waterboom Park and the integration of traditional Balinese rituals into tourism activities. By examining the interaction between global market forces and local cultural practices, the study offers insights into the complexity of cultural tourism and its impact on host communities. These findings highlight the importance of glocalization in the tourism industry and provide valuable insights for destination management and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization is a commonly used term to describe the rapid changes and spatial transformations that have taken place on a global scale over the past forty years. The purpose of this paper is to examine how globalization has influenced pilgrimage from a geographical perspective. This paper begins with a discussion on globalization and glocalization. Attention is then turned to the changing use of the term and practice of pilgrimage in the modern, and post-secular world. The text then discusses ten ways in which modern pilgrimage travel has changed due to globalization, including: the democratization of pilgrimage; changes in the sacred laws of hospitality; the increasing medicalization of pilgrimage; pilgrims as an unwanted guest; technology and the pilgrimage experience; the over-commodification and monetization of pilgrimage; the segmenting of pilgrimage and tourism; pilgrimage as spectacle and play; transplanted pilgrimages; and pilgrimage as a sustainable practice(?), are discussed before concluding.

The subject of the study is the legal relations arising from the public authority’s organization and its levels’ interaction after the constitutional reform of 2020. The organized interaction of the public authority levels determines the effectiveness of this system itself. Nowadays the issue of coordinated interaction between levels (centers) of public authority has become important, especially considering new global challenges in the different spheres. Therefore, the public authority and its levels as well as its organization and interaction become the subject of the legal theory and serve as a catalyst for legal changes, including constitutional one.The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of public authority and analyze different approaches to the levels of it in theory and practice, paying the attention to the municipal level and its twofold role.Methodology. Formal-logical, comparative-legal, analysis methods were used. The interaction of levels of public authority is considered from the point of view of dialogism. This approach allows to establish that the interaction between levels of the public authority can be regarded as full only if they are organizationally isolated and financial and decision-making independent.Main results. The authors demonstrate the vitality of the theory that predetermined the ongoing changes in the Russian legal system, and examine approaches to the concept of public authority and its levels. It is however apparent that the created system does not include the level of community public authority. Based on the analysis of decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the evolution of levels of public authority in their interaction with each other is revealed. Besides, certain elements of centralization of public administration are essentially opposed to the principle of subsidiarity, the analysis of which is also presented in the paper since it determines the scope of competence of public legal entities and allows achieving maximum freedom and efficiency of the activities of bodies. At last, the authors give characteristics to the municipal level by two opposing trends: globalization and glocalization.Conclusions. In Russia the practice of organizing public authority does not fully comply with the principle of subsidiarity as well as the new legal term of the system of public authority does not include all the variety of elements that the constitutional scientists mentioned, including the community public authority. This one along with the municipal authority level assessed as a potential matter for further reforms necessary for the formation of a trust of public authorities and for the population’s participation in state affairs.

The authors develop an omni-brand orientation framework that is a bidimensional conceptualization allowing global (local) brand elements to coexist alongside local (global) elements to create a "gloCal" brand. Using an interpretive analysis of interviews with 50 executives, the authors offer new insights into building and succeeding as a gloCal brand. The study shows that global brands are trying to become gloCal by building and nurturing local authenticity. The building blocks of local authenticity are brand image local connection, local iconness, local insights, and originality. Local brands, in turn, try to become gloCal by achieving global acceptance, a perception identified closely with global brands. The building blocks of global acceptance are perceived brand globalness, innovation, product performance quality, and global brand power. A follow-up study with 19 executives dives deeper into the drivers of success and leads to a conceptualization of a gloCal success cycle, which identifies components and strategies that enable brands to win both globally and locally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This perspective article explores the interplay between death and glocalization in digitally saturated societies. The central question driving our perspective is how societal responses to death reflect and inform the process of glocalization within the context of increasing digital connectivity. In this study, we discuss that societal response to death provides a unique perspective on how global digital trends intersect with deep-seated beliefs and traditions in glocalization dynamics. Thus, themain section of the article (Section 3) examines the traits and limitations of digital glocalization in mortality contexts, revealing its multifaceted nature: digital glocalization is relational, post-metaphysical, naturally occurring, and a boundary solution to crises. Constraints in glocal forging in the context of bereavement include interpersonal challenges, social alienation, evolving local customs, religious considerations, and timing issues. Our perspective, informed by brief ethnographic insights fromcontemporary Romania, highlights the fusion of ancient customs, digital tools, and religious beliefs in shaping distinctive responses to death in digitally enriched environments. Ultimately, this study concludes that death serves as a catalyst for glocalization, harmonizing local traditions and digital advancements in navigating the complexities of life and loss in the digital age, portraying death as the great "glocalizer". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the GLocal dataset is to enable research in international development that requires both global scope and local precision. Leveraging modern geospatial analysis tools, we process a diverse array of sources to provide researchers with a growing set of economic, demographic, ecological and socio-political variables for geographic units relevant to public policy. We provide separate data files for different levels of administrative and periodic aggregation, along with ad-hoc files with more detailed information on specific topics. In this data descriptor paper, we discuss both our data processing methodologies and validation pipelines, and provide a short case study to illustrate the research potential of the dataset. We also introduce a simple web app, glocal.streamlit.app, which offers a user-friendly interface for exploring and visualizing the dataset. Given the growing number of public and granular sources of relevance for international development research, we hope to continue adding features and expand the GLocal dataset in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the level of fundamental didactic decisions and hermeneutic clarifications, this article examines the possible orientations of Shared Religious Education. The prerequisite for this is the assumption that in such lessons, the opportunity should be used to empower children and young people to become personally and creatively involved in teaching and learning when different denominations, religions, and worldviews come together in education. Against this background, four modes of possible activation are proposed as a structuring aid for didactic decisions: Pupils can (a) plan appropriate forms of encounter themselves and develop ways of dealing with mutually experienced foreignness and with bridges and gaps between traditions; (b) they can be activated to engage in existential discussions about ultimate questions, (c) they can carry out small-scale "research" projects into each other's religious practices and concepts; and (d) they can get involved in joint (ethical, ecological, neighbourly) projects that have an impact on the region around the school that may also have global applications. The model of these four modes can be represented graphically and this helps to analyse and locate existing concepts and approaches to RE. The article concludes with a closer look at the underlying concept of religion and current research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the culture of Japanese Gothic DJs and analyses their figures. The Gothic DJs are a part of the general Gothic art, and Goth subculture intercultural movements, taken from the West and re-invented in Japan. In Japan, those movements are a strong reaction towards the dominant, conservative culture, whereas, in the West, this classical opposition (described by, for example, Dick Hebdige) is not that strong nowadays. Japanese social collectivism is often seen as oppressive towards some artistic and free-spirited individuals. Artists like those DJs are the opposition to this collectivism, and their sets at the parties make a space for other Goths to express themselves in their safe space. This movement is also very innovative due to mixing different aesthetics (keis) and minimising the problem of subcultural gatekeeping. The paper describes the rebellion led by DJs' performances, music sets, and visual style. It is based on the bigger field research done in 2019 and 2023, where the method used was participatory observation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluating regionalism in a glocal lens is important because it reveals the local contexts associated with cross-border endeavors in the global era. This paper seeks to extend existing literature by propounding a metagovernance framework for analyzing the inter-jurisdictional and multi-scalar nature of the concept. The model premised on the territory, place, scale, networks (TPSN) schema outlines regionalism in a glocal lens in terms of entwinements or embeddedness, hybridization, hierarchization, spatialization, temporalization and instantiation. Much of the prevailing literature on glocal regional governance primarily focuses on North America and Europe. To address this gap, a case analysis of a city-region in sub-Saharan Africa (i.e. Accra, Ghana) was employed to empirically demonstrate the proposed conceptual framework. Here, a local context of centralization and public sector-led development based on the state-centric school defines metagovernance as the government of governance. Thus, sub-national foreign relations are shaped by the national context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The neglect of cultural values and dictates of varied domestic consumers in global campaigns of global companies has remained an issue of research concerns. Several researches have affirmed that the consistent and perhaps deliberate oversight in the adoption of cultural elements in global commercials had altered consumers' perception of brands and have subsequently affected their patronage. One particular study had blamed this on the distorted image of Nigeria by foreign media, which make it difficult for the multinationals to understand the true society and culture of Nigeria, its people, emerging social and consumption trends and technologies. Such lack of knowledge has further discourage prospective foreign investors in designing appropriate communication strategy for successfully marketing and selling of their products/services in Nigeria through their failure to adapt to social preferences, reveal cultural values and reflect the era people live in (glocal strategy). The study adopted mixed method design and covered three selected South Western States in Nigeria. A sample of 1,040 subscribers were proportionately distributed amongst the selected states while two each of the advertisements of the selected telecom providers - MTN, Airtel, Glo and 9Mobile were also content analyzed. The study showed that subscribers had positive attitudinal disposition towards adoption of cultural elements in telecoms television advertisements (M = 4.04); and that glocal advertising had a significant influence on effectiveness of telecommunications television advertisements (F(2, 777) =141.342, R2= 0.267, p<0.05). The study concluded that glocalized advertising enhance and improve subscribers' actual subscription to telecommunications services and recommended that telecoms companies should move to improve subscribers' perception of their glocal advertising strategies for improved subscription. The study concluded that glocalized advertising enhance and improve subscribers' actual subscription to telecommunications services and recommended that telecoms companies should move to improve subscribers' perception of their glocal advertising strategies for improved subscription. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present article aims to demonstrate the intersected relations between Indigenous communities and designers in the fashion industry. These interrelations are explained through a case study between Dotnit, an Otomí embroidery cooperative, and the Mexican designer Carla Fernández. An extensive multi-sited ethnography was carried out between 2013 and 2017 in Tenango de Doria, Hidalgo, and Mexico City. Both places were explored with the purpose of understanding the complex relationships between the local and the global through the introduction of tenango embroidery into the fashion world. This research aims to understand the consumption of Indigenous textiles in a glocalized world by following the paths of diversion that tenango embroidery navigates through artisans, designers and consumers. Through the article, interrelationships among different agents will be examined in an effort to understand the complexities within artisan–designer dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a qualitative investigation to examine the nature of diversity and identity through a higher education dance curriculum in Northeastern Thailand. Data were gathered through documentary review, observation, and interviews at Mahasarakham University and the nearby ethnic minority community of Renu Nakhon. The results are explored through the conceptual framework of glocalization to examine how ethnic minority identity has merged with the mainstream Thai culture in the sociocultural context of the Thai nationstate. Findings show that the Department of Performing Arts at Mahasarakham University has fostered a hybrid identity of indigenous and mainstream dance that furthers the creation of a harmonious society. The development of performing arts in higher education and the appearance of a unique artistic identity benefit the local community, the educational institution, and the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the role of local media in fostering a sense of community belonging among readers in the Ecuadorian context, focusing on how geographical coverage, news sources, and covered themes reinforce community identity. Through content analysis of 17 local media outlets and 6356 news pieces, we investigate how these elements cohesively contribute to the construction of an interconnected community. The findings indicate that predominantly local and regional coverage, along with reliance on primary sources within the community and the prevalence of topics related to politics, sports, and culture, play pivotal roles in creating a shared community fabric. By contextualizing the importance of "glocalization" in journalism, the study demonstrates how local media act as a mirror to community realities and aspirations, promoting a sense of intersubjectivity, adaptability, and civic engagement. This work underscores the critical importance of local media in representing the diversity of reality, facilitating civic participation, and strengthening the social fabric within the local context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]