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Volume 15 Issue 1

April 2021

Issue of New Global Studies

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Journal Overview

Publicly Available March 10, 2021

Articles

September 16, 2020

All the Difference in the World: In Search of a Critical Cosmopolitan Pedagogy for Global Citizenry

Kaan Agartan, Alexander Hartwiger

Page range: 1-21

Abstract

As the idea of citizenship has become a token for increasingly exclusionary manifestations of national identity, this article is a call for higher education institutions to honor their commitment to cultivating global citizens, yet with significant caveats. We argue that the proliferation of global learning initiatives in an increasingly neoliberalized university promotes a particular type of global citizen: a well-trained employee with intercultural skills which facilitate access to the global economy, and a global consumer of world cultures with no true commitment to global social justice. By offering a critique of pedagogical principles upon which global citizenship education is currently built, this article aims to demonstrate that the obligation to produce critical and civically engaged global citizens is not only urgent but also possible through novel pedagogical practices. Drawing on a semester-long partnership between two linked courses, we conclude that the interdisciplinary linked-course experience not only helps students delve into a conversation with what it means to be a global citizen in ways not possible through conventional pedagogical practices, but also allows instructors to explore new spaces that humanize abstract formulations of global citizenship for an ethical imperative towards the world and all its inhabitants.

Open Access September 21, 2020

Transnational State Elites and the Neoliberal Project in Mexico

Alejandra Salas Porras

Page range: 23-46

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This article explores the connection between the emergence of transnational state elites and the construction of a neoliberal project in Mexico. It argues that transnationalization of Mexican state elites was part of the process that led to the adoption of a neoliberal project since the 1980s and that it entailed an increasingly greater participation in global networks as well as a greater affinity with the standards, practices and norms of transnational organizations and global technocrats. The process was very dynamic, and it unfolded through a set of reforms that gradually, but steadily, transformed the political economy from a state-centered to a market-centered political economy. It launched a group of neoliberal reformers to transnational spaces following a combination of paths that included: (1) interlocking with regional and global corporate networks; (2) participation in regional and global think tanks and policy making bodies; (3) a long and active trajectory in international organizations; and (4) an academic and professional career allowing them to become global experts, acknowledged by the global corporate, financial and technocratic communities as the most qualified and trustworthy negotiators and intermediaries.

September 30, 2020

Of Comics and Charisma: Representing Transpacific White Masculinities

Christina D. Owens

Page range: 47-72

Abstract

This article employs palimpsestuous reading practices to query the transpacific reach and imperial pedigree of the comic strip “Charisma Man.” Turning to Max Weber’s theory of “charismatic authority” to understand the comic’s humorous portrayals of white male heterosexual privilege in Asia, the article proposes that the comic strip illuminates the patterns of raced and gendered “hereditary charisma” that continue to haunt transpacific relations. “Charisma Man,” penned by a team of North American men living in Japan, links contemporary white migrants across Asia – especially native English teachers – with a longue durée of Euro-American imperial actors abroad and builds meaning through intertextual engagement with the iconic cultural texts Superman and Madame Butterfly . The article concludes that “Charisma Man” makes light of white male hereditary charisma in Asia through a layering of temporally-disjointed transpacific discourses and, in turn, adds one more layer to a palimpsestuous sedimentation of sexist and racist hierarchies, normalizing their continuation within contemporary globalization.

Commentary

January 14, 2021

What is Re-Globalization?

Roland Benedikter

Page range: 73-84

Abstract

Roland Benedikter explores the meaning and the potential significance of a new term.

Documentation

November 2, 2020

Investigating the Uncertainty of Government Economic Policies on Inbound Tourism in Iran

Azam Mohammadzadeh, Mohammad Nabi Shahiki Tash

Page range: 85-99

Abstract

Over the past three decades, there has been an increasing focus on the subject of global tourism in Iran’s economy. This article examines the most important economic factors affecting this industry in this country, especially economic policy uncertainty. For this purpose, three models specify the number of tourists entering the country as a dependent variable and Consumer Price Index, Tehran Exchange Price Index, market exchange rate, semi-annual dummy variable, and exports as explanatory variables. To investigate the uncertainty of the government’s economic policies, three variables liquidity fluctuations, tax revenue fluctuations, and government expenditures fluctuations have been added along with the above variables. To obtain the fluctuations, the GARCH function is used then the relations are estimated by the GMM method. The estimation of models using monthly data from March 2011 to August 2018 shows that explanatory variables are significant. The results indicate that economic policy uncertainty has negatively affected the arrival of the tourist. An increase in exchange rate, consumer price index, exports, and stock market price index have a positive effect on the arrival of tourists. Therefore, due to inbound tourism sensitivity to shocks, the growth and survival of tourism depend on economic and political stability.

Book Reviews

October 30, 2020

Himanshu Prabha Ray: Decolonizing Heritage in South Asia: The Global, the National and the Transnational

Afonso Dias Ramos

Page range: 101-104

October 7, 2020

Daniel Deudney: Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity

Didem Buhari Gulmez

Page range: 105-107

October 9, 2020

Parag Khanna: The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21^st Century

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Page range: 109-111

About this journal

Objective
Local, universal, world-historical, world-systemic, or global historiographies as well as work in sociology, anthropology and international relations have shed increasing light on the common history of humankind. Only comparatively recently, however, has human global self-awareness broken through the confines of scholarly specialization, and begun to enter the everyday popular life, action, psyche, imagination and consciousness on a mass, global scale. The step into space and the resultant view of the planet, the new computer and media technologies of mass communication, the global spread of multinational corporations and human rights, the unprecedented environmental changes and challenges, the promise and threat of nuclear power and explosions, all have led to the increasing self-experiencing of the globe as a “spaceship earth.”

The field of interest of New Global Studies (NGS) therefore is both multidisciplinary and global. New Global Studies interprets globalization with a historical and sociological angle as opposed to history or sociology with a global angle. The journal addresses the process going on around us as a whole, and developing over time. It addresses globalization with a holistic perspective, which gives us a view on the past and present of the globalizing phenomena that will be invaluable to all who seek to comprehend this fundamental aspect of our society and its development. Our focus is unabashedly on the new globalization that has manifested itself so vigorously in the period starting sometime after World War II. Starting from this relatively contemporary perspective, we are fully aware that there are deep roots in the past that must be explored. Nevertheless, and in contrast with most historical journals, our primary emphasis is on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Topics
We welcome articles on all aspects of globalization: economic, social, cultural, and political. In particular, we encourage analyses, both theoretical and empirical, of the following:

Transnational manifestations of culture, and cultural synthesis
Patterns and local effects of economic globalization
Elite and popular perceptions of, and reactions to, global change
Global institutions and organizations, both public and private
The global media, and the emergence of a "global society"
The degradation and preservation of the global environment
Global pedagogy

Article formats
Research articles, Review essays, Book reviews, Documentations, Commentaries

Volume 15 Issue 1

Issue of New Global Studies

Frontmatter

All the Difference in the World: In Search of a Critical Cosmopolitan Pedagogy for Global Citizenry

Abstract

Transnational State Elites and the Neoliberal Project in Mexico

Abstract

Of Comics and Charisma: Representing Transpacific White Masculinities

Abstract

What is Re-Globalization?

Abstract

Investigating the Uncertainty of Government Economic Policies on Inbound Tourism in Iran

Abstract

Himanshu Prabha Ray: Decolonizing Heritage in South Asia: The Global, the National and the Transnational

Daniel Deudney: Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity

Parag Khanna: The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century

Parag Khanna: The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21^st Century