scholarly journals Covid-19: Prospering Industries & Oversize Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Brondoni
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Economic Shock ◽  
Large Corporations ◽  
Tremendous Impact ◽  
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With COVID-19, many businesses have failed, while other industries and corporations have seen profits increase, and are likely to continue to do so post-pandemic, in line with the trend of the oversize economy. Coronavirus 2019 has caused a major economic shock, in addition to its tremendous impact on global health, pushing the biggest corporations towards an outburst of the new, basic drivers of global capitalism (Health; Energy; Food; Communication). That is, the pillars of global competition that start from an oversize management in order to fix the competitive landscapes of large corporations.

scholarly journals The World Health Organization in Crisis—Lessons to be Learned Beyond the Ebola Outbreak

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadja Meisterhans
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
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Blaming the World Health Organization (who) for its failures in the Ebola crisis was a common reaction of the media. However, exclusively denouncing the who for the spread of Ebola falls short as it does not recognize the structural deficits of those recent governance procedures financing global health that lead to a chronic underfunding of the who. Against this background, the article reflects perspectives of a democratic reform of global health funding. It concludes that only the who can provide a leadership on global health matters, but to do so it depends on states willing to rebuild the who’s capacities to act. To address the global health crisis properly, the revitalization of who’s constitutional mandate is critically necessary. The discussion is based on normative legal theory, which argues that processes of globalization have transformed international law into a global rule of law, placing specific duties on states and international institutions.

scholarly journals Becoming a global nurse: A thematic and interpretive analysis of bachelor's theses at the Swedish Red Cross University College

2021 ◽  
pp. 205715852110503
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Paillard Borg ◽  
Mia Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
University College ◽  
Caring Relations ◽  
Over Time ◽  
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The overall purpose of this study was to initiate the process of developing a comprehensive theoretical framework associating the three entities defining the Swedish Red Cross University College (SRCUC): global nursing, global health and Red Cross and Red Crescent's perspective (RCRC). To do so, an analysis of nursing bachelor's theses over two periods (2011–2012 and 2015–2016) was initially needed to capture the academic essence. Two specific aims were defined: 1) To describe how global nursing and global health, in conjunction with the RCRC perspective, were addressed and contextualized in nursing bachelor's theses; and 2) To investigate how students’ knowledge in global awareness and vision has developed over time. Two overarching themes were identified: Conceptualizing caring relations and moving towards the body of global awareness and Understanding the art of nursing and ethics in complex nursing actions. The Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research (SRQR) guidelines were used to ensure the trustworthiness of the findings. By promoting relevant knowledge, the SRCUC prepares future nurses for upcoming health needs at the planetary level.

scholarly journals Relationship between moral responsibility for zoonotic pandemics outbreaks and industrial animal farms

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-713
Author(s):  
Josip Guc
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Weakest Link ◽  
Animal Farms ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Livestock Health ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Moral Blame ◽  
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The responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic was first ascribed to persons associated with the Huanan Seafood Market. However, many scientists suggest that this pandemic is actually a consequence of human intrusion into nature. This opens up a whole new perspective for an examination of direct and indirect, individual and collective responsibility concerning this particular pandemic, but also zoonotic pandemics as such. In this context, one of the key issues are the consequences of factory-farming of animals, which contributes to circumstances in which zoonotic pandemics emerge. Moreover, it is part of a larger economic system, global capitalism, whose logic implies certain coercion toward its participants to keep it essentially unchanged and therefore to make sure that livestock health remains ?the weakest link in our global health chain? (FAO). However, even though the precise answer to the issue of moral responsibility for zoonotic pandemics outbreaks in general and the COVID-19 pandemic in particular cannot be given, it is possible to list certain indicators and make a framework helpful in ascribing moral responsibility to certain persons. The paper intends to do so by examining the notion of responsibility and by applying it to the issues mentioned. The results of this analysis show that it is misleading to place moral blame on people involved in actions that directly caused the animal-to-human transmission of a certain virus or on humanity as a whole.

The World Bank

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusra Ribhi Shawar ◽  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Health ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Internal Constraints ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Health ◽  
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The World Bank, one of the largest global health funders, continues to deny a formal legal obligation for human rights. Internal constraints limit the Bank’s ability to do so, since its Articles of Agreement explicitly forbid it from interfering in a country’s internal political affairs, making it unclear whether human rights risk management is within the institution’s mandate. This stands in contrast to the institution’s commitment to human rights, as reflected in its commitment to helping countries achieve universal health coverage and in its “twin goals” of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, which fundamentally contribute to the realization of social and economic rights. This chapter analyzes the ways in which rights-based discourse has evolved in the Bank’s global health policies and practices and identifies the institutional factors that have shaped its consideration of human rights.

Gender, Kin, and Markets in the Land of Peace

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ashley Kistler
Keyword(s):  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Market Women ◽  
Historical Identity ◽  
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This chapter examines marketing as the foundation of personhood for market women, their families, and Chamelco as a whole. Chamelco's vendors confront capitalist values, transforming capitalism's potentially alienating social effects into a model of Q'eqchi' identity for all. Although they participate in capitalist exchanges, they do so not simply for financial motives, but because marketing is an ancient occupation central to the town's historical identity. As vendors, Chamelco's women use exchange to define the logics of the Q'eqchi' house (junkab'al), the primary entity through which Chamelqueños define and live personhood. The chapter also sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the intersections of kinship, global capitalism, indigenous identity, and memory.

scholarly journals ‘TARMACKING’ IN THE MILLENNIUM CITY: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRAJECTORIES OF EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN KISUMU, KENYA

Africa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth J. Prince
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Western Kenya ◽  
The Past ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
The City ◽  
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ABSTRACTOver the past fifteen years, the city of Kisumu in western Kenya has emerged as an epicentre of ‘global health’ interventions, organized by non-governmental and transnational groups. These interventions involve concrete, practical engagements with the city's populations, but also imaginations and desires, as they intersect with residents’ expectations of development. This article follows the hopes, aspirations and trajectories of people who attach themselves as volunteers to these interventions, or who hope to do so through a process they describe as ‘tarmacking’. In exploring how volunteers orient themselves to ideas of ‘empowerment’ that are promoted by NGOs and also have influence outside institutional settings, it examines the relations between the landscapes of intervention, the spatial-temporal horizons, and the geographies of responsibility emergent in the city. Through its association with ‘moving ahead’ and with development, empowerment implies movement towards some kind of future. While there is a widely shared sense among volunteers that they are going somewhere, just where that might be is not clearly articulated. Rather than attempt to pinpoint this destination, this article follows their trajectories in an attempt to grasp why and how it remains obscure.

Democracy, Demography, and Sovereignty

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyla Benhabib
Keyword(s):  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
The Public ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
Global Law ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
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In this article I examine recent debates concerning the emergence of cosmopolitan norms that protect individuals’ rights regardless of their citizenship status, and the spread of what some have called “global law without a state.” I distinguish between the spread of human rights norms and the emergence of deterritorialized legal regimes, by focusing on the relationship between global capitalism and legal developments arguing that “cosmopolitan norms” can enhance popular sovereignty while other forms of global law do not do so. The latter “fragment the public sphere” and create “privatized” norms of justification.I suggest that Israel inhabits three spatio-temporal modalities of sovereignty simultaneously, and this accounts for the enormously complex and existential nature of the dilemmas it faces: First, Israel is in a pre-Westphalian zone; second, for the Jewish population within its borders and for its one and a half million Arab citizens, Israel is a Westphalian state, which in fact exhibits strong features of a liberal, social democracy; and third, Israel is part of the global techno-economic complex. Within the three distinct spatio-temporal zones of sovereignty inhabited by contemporary Israel, one can detect new reconfigurations of sovereignty and citizenship that have not been exhausted.

scholarly journals The Long Twentieth Century & The Cultural Turn: World-Historical Origins of the Cultural Economy

2011 ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Brewer
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Finance Capital ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Foundations ◽  
Modern Condition ◽  
Cultural Turn ◽  
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In this essay I link Giovanni Arrighi's world-historical framework in The Long Twentieth Centuryto debates about the "cultural turn" in global capitalism since the 1970s. I do so primarilythrough interrogation of the writings of one of the major figures in such debates: FredricJameson. In his Jameson's engagementwithArrighi's, he emphasizes the determinative influenceof finance capital on an expansion in the degree of cultural abstraction and fragmentation that isemblematic of the post-modern condition. Building on this linkage, I extend and elaborateArrighi's analysis of historical capitalism's cycles of accumulation, in which periods of materialexpansion give way to phases of financial expansion and accelerated restructuring of theorganizational and institutional foundations of the world-economy. I conclude that Jameson'sassertion of a link between the financialization of the world economy and post-modern culturalforms is best understand as a correlative rather than a causal relationship, for the growingsalience of finance capital and the new forms and degree of cultural abstraction are themselvesboth dimensions of the more fundamental socio-economic restructuring attending a period offinancial expansion.

scholarly journals Building Batik Craftsmen Learning Society (Design Case)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.33) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Luthfi Nurwandi ◽  
Ishak Abdulhak ◽  
Endang Sumantri ◽  
Jajat S Ardiwinata
Keyword(s):  
Universal Design ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
The Face ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Research Show ◽  
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This research was based on construction of the learning society in the face of global competition for batik craftsmen in small and medium enterprises (SME's) industrial sector of batik in Indonesia. Formation of the learning society was important to do, so that the important work of batik design experienced no piracy and extinct both from the design side as well as craftsmen. With regard to the phenomenon the purpose of the research is finding important the determinant factors in order to shaping the learning society, which becomes the container for batik craftsmen to get recognition of batik designs, as well as the competence of the profession. There were three factors that affect the formation of the learning society for batik craftsmen namely adult learning in an era of competition, the adult’s performance in the era of competition and universal design. In this study, the influence of these three factors that affect the learning society would be observed. The results of this research show that batik craftsmen build their knowledge and skill to form their performance before, construct learning society, while another batik craftsmen used their expertise to form their performance before construct learning society.  

Working conditions and protective measures in multinational companies during the pandemic: The case of Inditex

SEER ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-92
Author(s):  
Emirali Karadoğan
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Engine Room ◽  
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The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected working life. Workers who have to earn money to proceed with their lives have had to work during this time, even if they did not want to do so. Consequently, the question of whether adequate protective measures have been taken in the workplace for workers who have had to work during the pandemic is a critical one. In this article, the measures taken especially in respect of employees of multinational companies are examined in view of a survey of employees of Inditex, the Spanish ‘fast fashion’ company. Following a review of the literature on the place of multinational companies, along with their supply chains, in the engine room of global capitalism and on research into the working conditions of shopping mall employees, setting an appropriate context for the survey findings, the article explores what the findings reveal. Malls might well be new venues of insecurity in terms of the threat posed to the need for workplaces to be safe and secure for employees, but Covid-19 has ruthlessly exposed both the lack of protection and the risks which workers in such environments face on a day-to-day basis.

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