http://onglobalisation.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:58:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Perry Anderson, in London Review of Books These days Orientalism has a bad name. Edward Said depicted it as a deadly mixture of fantasy and hostility brewed in the West about societies and cultures of the East. He based his portrait on Anglo-French writing about the Near East, where Islam ... http://onglobalisation.com/2010/02/01/sinomania/ From Michael J. Totten, in The New York Times The Egyptian Islamist theoretician Sayyid Qutb believed the West — in particular the United States — posed an existential threat to Islam. He feared that globalization, spearheaded by the American colossus, might eventually destroy Islam by tempting pious Muslims with freewheeling capitalism, ... http://onglobalisation.com/2010/01/30/sunday-book-review-the-shopping-cure-forces-of-fortune/ From Robert Fogel, in Foreign Policy In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly three times the economic output of the entire globe in 2000. China's per capita income will hit $85,000, more than double the forecast for the European Union, and also much higher than that of ... http://onglobalisation.com/2010/01/28/123000000000000-china%e2%80%99s-estimated-economy-by-the-year-2040-be-warned/ From Karl Sharro, in Spiked On Monday, the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, unveiled the much-anticipated Burj Dubai in a spectacular ceremony. The tower immediately took its place in the record books as the tallest manmade structure ever built. Standing at 828 metres tall, the tower surpassed the ... http://onglobalisation.com/2010/01/26/whats-wrong-with-towering-ambition/ From Christopher Hawthorne in the Los Angeles Times One of the odder, more complicated moments in the history of architectural symbolism will arrive Monday with the formal opening of the Burj Dubai skyscraper. At about 2,600 feet high -- the official figure is still being kept secret by developer Emaar Properties ... http://onglobalisation.com/2010/01/19/the-burj-dubai-and-architectures-vacant-stare/ From Joshua F. Leach in Butterfliesandwheels.com Had William Hazlitt written his essay “On Persons with One Idea” today, he would surely have found room for the field of postcolonial studies. It is a field with only one idea: namely, that imperialism and racism are such dominant features of modern life, and ... http://onglobalisation.com/2010/01/17/ashis-nandy-and-the-postcolonial-trap/ From Democracy Now http://onglobalisation.com/2009/12/16/tariq-ali-%e2%80%9cobama%e2%80%99s-afghan-pak-syndrome/ 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: A Clinical Encounter of East Meets West: A Case Study of the Production of ‘American-Style’ Doctors in a Non-American Setting by Tanya Kane. Impacts of Global Economy on Women’s ... http://onglobalisation.com/2009/12/14/the-global-studies-journal-volume-2-number-4-available/ The final issue of Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal has now been published. Volume 2, Number 4 includes: A Call for Integration of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in America’s Health Care System by Sarah Lambeth, Daniel Niku, Victoria Gershuni and Kristin Webb. The New Version of the Old History: Global Change, the ... http://onglobalisation.com/2009/12/09/the-global-studies-journal-volume-2-now-complete/ From Johann Hari, in The Independent Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time. Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and the Gucci ... http://onglobalisation.com/2009/12/07/a-morally-bankrupt-dictatorship-built-by-slave-labour/