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Globalization and language vitality
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ISBN: 9780826495143 9780826495150 0826495141 082649515X 9786612875694 1441170731 1282875698 9781441170736 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Continuum

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This book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previous studies, the contributors examine whether or not globalization is affecting African languages in the same ways and at the same rate in different countries, and how local experiences of language change vary from place to place. Rather than seeing English as the 'killer language' par excellence, the contributors probe ways in which languages are being used side by side to complement each other in some contexts while competing against European colonial languages in others. The result is a diverse canv

Between resistance and expansion : explorations of local vitality in Africa
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ISBN: 3825869806 9783825869809 Year: 2004 Publisher: Münster Lit


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Un système africain de protection sociale au temps de la mondialisation ou Venez m'aider à tuer mon lion
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ISBN: 2738495605 9782738495600 Year: 2000 Publisher: Montréal Paris : L'Harmattan,

Sound tracks : popular music, identity and place
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ISBN: 0415170273 0415170281 9780415170277 9780415170284 0203448391 9780203448397 9781134699131 1134699131 9781134699087 1134699085 9781134699124 1134699123 0203269292 9780203269299 1280106425 9781280106422 Year: 2003 Volume: 17 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music, examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on local, national and global scenes, from the 'Mersey' and 'Icelandic' sounds to 'world music', and explores the diverse meanings of music in a range of regional contexts.In a world of intensified globalisation, links between space, music and identity are increasingly tenuous, yet places give credibility to music, not least in the 'country', and music is commonly linked to place,


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Congo Inc. : le testament de Bismarck
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ISBN: 9782330030605 2330030606 9782330058876 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris : Actes Sud,

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Le jeune Isookanga quitte sa forêt et son village pygmée pour faire du business à Kinshasa. Sur son chemin, de nombreux personnages, des plus pauvres aux plus puissants, des plus vils aux plus naïfs, composent un saisissant tableau du Congo contemporain aux prises avec la mondialisation. Après Mathématiques congolaises (prix Jean Muno, grand prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire, prix littéraire de la SCAM, In Koli Jean Bofane n’a rien perdu de son énergie, de son humour ni de sa lucidité politique.

Making globalisation sustainable ? : The Johannesburg summit on sustainable development and beyond
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ISBN: 9054873507 Year: 2003 Publisher: Brussels : VUB University Press,

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened by the United Nations to provide renewed political impetus for a comprehensive effort to push forward the sustainable development agenda throughout the world and respond to the new challenges and opportunities that have arisen since the Rio Summit , held in 1992. The Johannesburg Summit resulted in a consensus on a plan of implementation and a short political declaration. The Department of Human Ecology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the Institut de Gestion de l'Environnement et d'Aménagement du Territoire of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the University Centre for Development Co-operation (UCOS) and the Brussels Office of the British Council organised a symposium on "Making Globalisation Sustainable ? The Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development and beyond". It took place on 12 November 2002, at the VUB, attended by about three hundred participants. These proceedings are a result of the symposium, which provided a forum for policy-makers and academics to review the results of the Summit and to analyse implications for the European Union and its Member States, the developing countries and North-South relations. It proved an excellent opportunity to debate on the main issue : the way forward beyond the UN Summit of Johannesburg ! The organisation of the symposium and the publication of these proceedings have been made possible by the financial support provided by the VUB and the ULB, the British Council, the Belgian State Secretary for Energy and Sustainable Development, the Flemish Inter-University Council (VLIR) and the Brussels-Capital Region.

The body impolitic : artisans and artifice in the global hierarchy of value.
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ISBN: 0226329135 0226329143 9780226329130 9780226329147 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago The University Chicago Press

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