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The Global Studies Journal, Volume 2, Number 4 available

The final issue of Volume 2 of  The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

Some of the papers included in Volume 2, Number 4:

The Global Studies Journal, Volume 2 now complete

The final issue of Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

Volume 2, Number 4 includes:

Announcing the winner of the International Award for Excellence

Congratulations to Joanne Jung-wook Hong, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in global studies for her paper Power of McDonald’s ‘Happy Meal’: Globalization of American Culture and Value

Abstract: This paper aims at exploring and discussing how powerfully McDonald’s ‘Happy Meal’ contributes to globalization of American culture and value in ‘alliance’ with representation and hence ideology in the American animation industry. In particular, as a critical linguistic research, the paper focuses on investigating intertextual and ideological meaning constructions in American animation and McDonald’s promotional discourse for Happy Meal. The discussion will be mainly based on social semiotic analysis and intertextual/interdiscursive analysis of American animations and McDonald’s global Happy Meal promotional leaflets, focusing on construction of socio-cultural values and identities of America and McDonald’s.

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Finalists for the International Award for Excellence

Congratulations to all of the International Award for Excellence finalists:

  • Natalie Achamallah, Jessica Nishiguchi, Shahriar Reza Rajaee, Maya Srinivasan and Julia Borovay: Medical Tourism: Social and Ethical Concerns (to be published in the upcoming issue)
  • William Acres: What Are “World Religions” Teaching Us? Post-Imperialism in Contemporary Views of Global Faiths
  • Rebecca Cameron: Identities and International Justice
  • Asha Chand: Political Activism: The New Mantra for Fiji Indians in Global Sydney
  • Tanya Kane: A Clinical Encounter of East Meets West: A Case Study of the Production of ‘American-style’ Doctors in a Non-American Setting (to be published in the upcoming issue)
  • MariaCaterina La Barbera: Intersectional Gender: Thinking about Gender and Cultural Difference in the Global Society
  • Raphael Nawrotzki, Mioara Diaconu and Sharon Pittman: Climate-Change-Induced Human Migration: The Necessity of Collective Global Action
  • Brian Robertson, Fiona Grant and Graeme Bowles: Transnational Education and Professional Recognition: Accreditation of Built Environment Courses from a UK Perspective
  • Ahmed Salem: Problems of Regionalizing Universal International Relations Theories: A Study on Rivalry Approach to War and Peace in African and Arab Civil Wars
  • The Global Studies Journal, Volume 2, Number 3 available

    The third issue of Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

    Volume 2, Number 3 contains:

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    Global Studies Journal Associate Editors

    The Associate Editors listing for Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal is now available.

    The Global Studies Journal, Volume 2, Number 2 available

    The second issue of Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

    Volume 2, Number 2 contains:

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    On Globalisation Imprint Launched

    Common Ground Publishing has launched a new imprint, On Globalisation.

    You can now submit proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:

    • individually and jointly authored books;
    • edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme;
    • collections of papers published in The Global Studies Journal.

    Books should be between 30,000 words to 150,000 words in length. They will be published simultaneously in print and electronic formats.

    The Global Studies Journal Volume 1

    The first volume of The Global Studies Journal is complete.

    Papers of interest include:

    Neo-isms: What’s New about Ideology in the Global Age? by Manfred B. Steger - plenary presenter at the Global Studies Conference

    Ecocentric Perspectives on Global Warming: Toward an Earth Jurisprudence by Patrick Tolan - plenary presenter at the Global Studies Conference

    Mobile Cities: Reinventing Urban Mobility by Oliver Schwedes and Stephan Rammler - winner of the first International Award for Excellence in the area of global studies.

    The second volume of the Journal is now in production.

    Plenary Presenters Papers Published in Volume 1

    Some papers of interest which were published in Volume 1 of  The Global Studies Journal include those published by plenary presenters at the conference:

    Neo-isms: What’s New about Ideology in the Global Age? by Manfred B. Steger.

    Ecocentric Perspectives on Global Warming: Toward an Earth Jurisprudence by Patrick Tolan.