Towards democratised psychiatry: building metacommunities for inclusive and equitable global mental health by Yansen Alberth Reba, M. Zaenul Muttaqin, Yovian Yustiko Prasetya

“…Through their study, George Ikkos & Nick Bouras reveal that the responsibilities of the psychiatric community are increasingly complex, especially amid the onslaught of globalisation and the confines of neoliberalism. ‘Metacommunity’ in this context refers not only to the history of psychiatrists but their role in strengthening and influencing mental health policies. …”
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Ukrainian Labour Migration to Europe During the War: A Review of Current Realities by Oleg M. Yaroshenko, Nataliia O. Melnychuk, Ivan P. Zhygalkin, Nataliia M. Shvets, Viktoriia I. Zholudieva

“…Labour migration, in particular, is integral to the redistribution of labour and capital, influenced by varying levels of economic development, natural resource availability, and technological progress. While globalisation has facilitated the movement of people and strengthened international cooperation, migration patterns are significantly affected by military conflicts. …”
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La « jeunesse » comme répertoire critique by Jeanne Lamaison-Boltanski

“…Asserting rap and Rasta cultures in Burkina Faso thereby contributes to the definition of a new African subject, and to the distancing of links based on primogeniture; it favours new affiliations with other groups, stemming from other political principles, based on Pan-Africanism (or blackness), Sankarism, or globalised representations of “youth”. For Rastas and rappers in Burkina Faso, the “youth” category therefore becomes a major operator in the development of their capacity for local political and social criticism, which is inseparable from criticism of what they call korocracy, that is to say the power of firstborns.…”
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Political Experience in Economic and Social Transformation by Christoph Bergner

“…The fall of the “Iron Curtain” gave the process of globalisation a considerable acceleration, which in turn made strengthening competitiveness a growing challenge for German politics.…”
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Comparing Welfare Regime Changes: Living Standards and the Unequal Life Chances of Different Birth Cohorts by Louis Chauvel

“…This article focuses on inter-and intra-cohort inequalities of living standards in a comparative perspective, underlining the diversity of national responses to the challenges of economic slow down, stronger economic competition and globalisation and their implications on different age groups. …”
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La conquête du littoral « indien » d’Afrique du Sud  by Sylvain Guyot, Julien Dellier

“…Different phases of this seafront conquest, with particular reference to the current post-apartheid connection to globalisation dynamics, are enlightened by examples linking history, stakeholders and various coastal development options. …”
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Dismissing class by Cotal San Martin Vladimir

“…Neoliberal globalisation has expanded transnational corporations’ (TNCs) boundaries of operation and sphere of exploitation, particularly in the Global South where much of the production of traditional TNC manufacturing now occurs. …”
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Crisis-tested Europe — Towards a Patchwork Union? by Heinz Handler

“…Abstract Based on an insufficiently consolidated “European identity”, the European Union has recently been exposed to the challenges of globalisation, financial disturbances, migration and populistic nationalism, Brexit, and the COVID 19 virus. …”
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Between exacerbation and alleviation? by Tom O’Regan

“…The same widening gap between rich and poor, the uneven and often skewed benefits of globalisation, and political disruption all sit alongside and intersect with a changing communication environment. …”
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RETHINKING HOMO AFRICANUS IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE: by A.R. Brunsdon

“…It argues that together with the ever-growing process of globalisation, the way that Africans, think, live and believe did not remain untouched. …”
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Untargeted metabolomics profiling for the geographical authentication of traditional pempek using high-resolution orbitrap mass spectrometry by Agus Supriadi, Sherly Ridhowati, Daniel Saputra, Wulandari, Shanti Dwita Lestari

“…The geographical authentication of traditional foods, such as Pempek, is increasingly important due to globalisation and rising consumer demand for product authenticity. …”
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Contradictions of Medical Tourism by Martin Zsarnoczky

“…The former pattern of local bundling techniques cannot seem to be adapted at global measures. The processes of globalisation urgently call for the harmonisation of legislative policies and practices. …”
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Pourquoi croire au modèle du développement territorial au Maghreb ? Une approche critique by Kirsten Koop, Pierre-Antoine Landel, Bernard Pecqueur

“…The failure of the industrial development approach on national level opened the way for local development in the late 1980’s, and the power of globalisation dynamics recently gave birth to the “territorial development” model. …”
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CHANGES TO RETAIL BUSINESS MODELS - OVERVIEW OF THE DETERMINING FACTORS by Maria Sławińska

“…This can be attributed to growing competition, changes to customer behaviour and expectations, globalisation, as well as the availability and development of new information technologies. …”
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Coordination for Policy in Transition Countries: Case of Croatia by Anamarija Musa, Zdravko Petak

“…In recent decades the need for coordination has increased due to the fragmentation caused by NPM reforms, decentralisation processes, the proliferation of the cross-cutting issues, as well as increased globalisation, Europeanisation, and professionalization. …”
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Towards the translation of multilingual Bible study guides for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Southern Africa by J. A. Naudé, G. Gelderbloem

“…The specific aims of the article include: to discover, by means of an empirical study, whether the translations are meeting the cultural and linguistic needs of the target audience and to determine their views on the current Bible Study Guides; to explore the future of translation in a multilingual, democratic South Africa; to ascertain by means of a survey the difficulties the translators face and to suggest improvements; to establish, by analysis, how the text can be translated functionally; and to establish the effect of globalisation and whether it would be possible to localise the source texts. …”
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Brand equity and competitive advantage in alcoholic beverage products by Emenike O., Kalu, Moses, Agaba

“…In the face of growing competition in modern business environment as a result of globalisation and development in information and communication technology, firms are required to gain and sustain competitive advantage. …”
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Ecclesiological implications for the church as intergenerational space focusing on families by P.R. Mans, P.A. Rosseau

“… The church is God’s primary vehicle to minister in a global landscape dotted with globalisation, social media, wars, environmental issues, global economics, global social developments, and politics. …”
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Conceptualising religion in the 21st century: Examining the proposal of Mark C. Taylor in After God

“…Hence, Taylor rejects any closed, rigid system of neo-foundationalism as found in our postmodern, globalised world. For Taylor, there are no solid grounds; there is only creative emergence, from which reality is figured and disfigured in an oscillating interplay. …”
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Visions of Sustainable Future Shaped Through a Dilemma: International Tourism Development and Lagoon Management in Bacalar by Eriko Yamasaki, Laura Meneghello

“…It analyses local narratives and interprets discourses of sustainability as being the outcome of translocal processes characterised by a productive friction between vernacular perceptions of the environment and the globalised concept of sustainability.…”
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