1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823635803321

Autore

Wallerstein Immanuel Maurice <1930->

Titolo

Does capitalism have a future? / / by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Gorgi Derluguian and Craig Calhoun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-19-933087-5

0-19-933085-9

0-19-933086-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Classificazione

POL000000POL023000BUS069000

Altri autori (Persone)

CollinsRandall

MannMichael

DerluguianGorgi

CalhounCraig

Disciplina

330.12/2

Soggetti

Capitalism

Middle class

Technological innovations - Forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- THE NEXT BIG TURN -- STRUCTURAL CRISIS, OR WHY CAPITALISTS MAY NO LONGER FIND CAPITALISM REWARDING -- TECHNOLOGICAL DISPLACEMENT OF MIDDLE-CLASS WORK AND THE LONG-TERM CRISIS OF CAPITALISM: NO MORE ESCAPES -- THE END MAY BE NIGH, BUT FOR WHOM? -- WHAT COMMUNISM WAS -- WHAT THREATENS CAPITALISM NOW? -- GETTING REAL.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Great Recession has prompted many reassessments of the finance-driven economic order that achieved world dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about every observer has focused on only two issues: why things went wrong, and what we need to do in order to return the system to stability. Virtually no one has questioned whether the system as such can continue. In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a quintet of globally eminent scholars - Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall



Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, and Craig Calhoun - survey the current global landscape and cut their way through to the most crucial issue of all: whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite all its current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that capitalism cannot break down permanently because there is no alternative. The authors shatter this assumption, arguing that this generalization is not supported by theory, but is rather an outgrowth of the optimistic nineteenth-century claim that human history ascends through stages to an enlightened equilibrium of liberal capitalism. Yet as they point out, all major historical systems - from the Roman Empire to the Qing dynasty in China - have broken down in the end. In the modern epoch there have been several cataclysmic events - notably the French revolution, World War I, and the collapse of the Soviet bloc - that came to pass mainly because contemporary political elites had spectacularly failed to calculate the consequences of the processes they presumed to govern. At present, none of our governing elites and very few intellectuals can fathom an ending to our current reigning system. How possible is a systemic collapse in the medium-run of coming decades is the central question of this debate. While the contributors arrive at different conclusions, they are in constant dialogue with one another and therefore able to construct a relatively seamless--if open-ended--whole. Written by five of world's most eminent scholars of global historical trends, this ambitious book asks the biggest of questions: are we on the cusp of a radical world historical shift or not?"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910746290503321

Autore

Dervin Fred

Titolo

Critical and Reflective Intercultural Communication Education : Practicing Interculturality Through Visual Art / / by Fred Dervin, Xiaowen Tian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031407802

3031407806

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (110 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

TianXiaowen

Disciplina

418.0071

Soggetti

Teachers - Training of

Intercultural communication

Art - Study and teaching

Arts

Inclusive education

Teaching and Teacher Education

Intercultural Communication

Creativity and Arts Education

Fine Art

Inclusive Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 – The power of art? (Fred Dervin) -- Chapter 2 – Reflecting on identity metamorphoses -- Chapter 3 – (Re-)encountering -- Chapter 4 – Rethinking how we meet interculturally -- Chapter 5 – “Shut your eyes and see” (Joyce) (Fred Dervin).

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides answers to the following questions: How could visual art support us in reflecting about interculturality critically? When we look at, engage with and experience art, what is it that we can learn, unlearn and relearn about interculturality? The book adds to the multifaceted and multidisciplinary field of intercultural communication education by urging those working on the notion of interculturality



(researchers, scholars and students) to give art a place in exploring its complexities. No knowledge background about art (theory) is needed to work through the chapters. The book helps us reflect on ourselves and on our engagement with the world and with others, and learn to ask questions about these elements. The authors draw on anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and sociology to enrich their discussions of critical interculturality. Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Xiaowen Tian is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a lecturer at the Art Academy of Minzu University, China.