GLOBALISATION
Is globalisation a predominantly negative force? Is it synonymous with environmental destruction and big business interests or can it help mobilise otherwise disempowered social justice movements?
Laurie Taylor is joined by counter globalisation campaigner Susan George and by Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance to debate the issue.
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
The English have a predilection for plain speaking; works by thinkers like Jacques Derrida have been dismissed as inaccessible and unnecessarily complicated. But for many European cultures speaking or writing in the abstract isn't considered elitist.
Laurie Taylor weighs up the complexity of academic language with Susan Bassnett, Professor at the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies.
Additional information:
Susan George
Associate Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, Vice President of ATTAC-France, former member of the Board of Greenpeace International
Another world is possible if...
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN 1844675106
Transnational Institute
ATTAC-France
Mary Kaldor
Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance
Principal Research Fellow and Programme Director
Centre for the Study of Global Governance
Centre for the Study of Human Rights
Global Civil Society 2003
Mary Kaldor, Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius (Editors)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN 019 926656 5
Global Civil Society 2004/05
Mary Kaldor, Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius (Editors)
Publisher: Sage Publications
ISBN 1 4129 0307 6
Professor Susan Bassnett
Founder of the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
Reading: 'A Demi-mot'
Joseph N. Riddel (1931-1991)
From 'The work of Mourning'
Jacques Derrida
Edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN 0 226 14281 7
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