Education And Culture News

World Puts the Brakes on the Rush to Globalization
July 5, 2025 - Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
This is the week each year when Americans revel in their nationalism, a summer brew of playful patriotism, boastful exceptionalism and a somewhat smug insularity.

But the events of the past few weeks suggest that the nationalist impulse may be more than seasonal this time, and certainly not limited to the United States. Certainly in the economic sense, the rush toward globalization has slowed, and "economic patriotism" is on the rise. The nation-state and the national economy, which only a few years ago were being written off in certain elite circles, are proving to be a lot more enduring than people thought.  Go...

Theodore Levitt, who coined term 'globalization,' dies at 81
July 6, 2025 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELMONT, Mass. --Theodore Levitt, the former Harvard Business Review editor who coined the term "globalization," has died. He was 81. Levitt first used the term "globalization" in a 1983 Harvard Business Review article about the emergence of standardized, low-priced consumer products. He defined that globalization as the changes in social behaviors and technology which allowed companies to sell the same products around the world.  Go...

Gendering the WSF Nairobi 2007 process
June 16, 2025
The author, a member of the WSF 2007 Secretariat, addresses extensively Gender and the WSF Open Space process, and concludes at the end of his critical text that "When one looks at the gender dynamics informing the WSF 2007 process, one is filled with optimism and left brimming with hope. This despite the parlous panorama painted in the preceding section; this despite the unflattering global audit of power relations between women and men around the world. "  Go...

Soccer, Football or the Beautiful Game (Call it Whatever You Want): Three Great Books
June 16, 2025 - World Hum - Travel Dispatches from a Shrinking Planet
Beyond being the world’s most popular sport, soccer—or football, as it’s called in most of the English-speaking world—reverberates well beyond the fields and stadiums where it’s played. The sport often reflects centuries-old ethnic, nationalist and religious tensions. It’s a global business. Its fans are wildly—and sometimes violently—passionate about their teams. In short, soccer is far more than just another game.  Go...

Funder Convening on Globalization
June 1, 2025 - FNTG
New Perspectives, Key Strategies, Success Stories and Funder Opportunities

San Francisco Bay Area Evening of June 6 – June 8, 2025

Join a community of funders from diverse fields and perspectives to analyze global trends and the evolving discourse around globalization, to share and celebrate successful civil society strategies, and to discuss how funders can use our resources most effectively to support positive change in these most fundamental driving forces, both at home and abroad.

* Mapping the global economy, and exploring terrains of intervention

* The changing discourse on globalization: Where is it now and where is it going?

* Revisiting trade, poverty and development… with new data

* Globalization of human rights: Breakthroughs and continuing challenges

* Bringing it home: Local organizing in a global context

* International cooperation vs. global domination, for security in an insecure world

* Funder Opportunities: What does it all mean; how do we continue moving forward?

For program details and registration please click here:  Go...

Students get a say in this course -Besides picking globalization as subject, they select instructors
April 9, 2025 - KENNETH AARON, TimesUnion.com
SCHENECTADY -- Union College had a question for students when it planned this spring's classes: Any special requests? And the students said: How about a class on globalization? And let's say we help design the curriculum? And how about you run the faculty by us before we show up? And so it happened.  Go...

Two New Members Added to FNTG Steering Committee
May 17, 2025
Marjorie Fine and Jacob Werksman join FNTG governing body.  Go...

Media Giants - The Merchants of Cool
April 13, 2025 - PBS - Frontline
The past decade's wave of media mergers has produced a complex web of business relationships that now defines America's media and popular culture. These relationships offer a massive opportunity for cross promotion and selling of talent and products among different companies owned by the same powerful parent corporation.  Go...

INSIDE THE YOUTH CAMP
February 8, 2025 - Qurratul-Ain-Tahmina, IPS/TERRAVIVA
The heart of the sprawling forum campus throbs with young life. Amid a sea of colourful tents, campers prepare for another day by sipping coffee or mate. They cook breakfast over the campfire or bath at open-air bathrooms. Some chant fiery slogans. Others set up makeshift trinket shops in stalls or dance. The queue at the registration tent gets longer and longer.  Go...

Tides Rapid Response Fund
ongoing
Tides Foundation is ready to accept contributions toward relief effort following the recent disaster in Indonesia, South Asia and Africa.  Go...

The New Indigenous Peoples Funding and Resource Guide
December 1, 2024 - International Funders for Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples Worldwide
A guide to help build the capacity for Indigenous communities to increase their participation as successful grant-seekers.  Go...

Trade accords can be bad for health
August 24, 2025 - Marwaan Macan-Markar, Asia Times/Inter Press Service
BANGKOK - Southeast Asia's march to create a regional free trade area by 2018 is causing heartburn among public health experts, given that this push to end trade tariff barriers could open the doors to an avalanche of cigarettes flooding local stores.  Go...

Doing well and doing good
July 29, 2025 - Opinion, The Economist
Why a new golden age of philanthropy may be dawning  Go...

UNCTAD XI ends in a rather good spirit
June 23, 2025 - Martin Khor,, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, 19 June 2025 The eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XI) ended on 18 June with a closing session in a rather good spirit with some useful results for developing countries.  Go...

UNCTAD XI consensus Declaration adopted after lengthy tussles
June 18, 2025 - Meena Raman, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, Brazil After lengthy tussles on controversial issues over the past nine months, UNCTAD XI has adopted the main text, called the Sao Paulo Consensus, which in effect is the Declaration of the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development . It was adopted at the closing session on 18 June.  Go...

Report from Mumbai The World Social Forum
February 18, 2025 - Frances F. Korten, to be published in YES! magazine
In mid-January, more than 80,000 global activists, scholars, Nobel laureates, poets, musicians, indigenous peoples, community organizers and many others gathered to declare once again 'Another world is possible.'  Go...

The Silent Depression
January 4, 2025 - Tapart News Advocate, Tapart News and Art that Talks
Tapart News and Art that Talks has added The Silent Depression article and Shopping our way out of our jobs by Ray Tapajna.  Go...

Social Forum Seeks Alternative to Globalisation
November 12, 2024 - Julio Godoy, Inter Press Service
The European Social Forum opening in Paris Wednesday will look for an economic model that could become an alternative to capital-led globalisation. PARIS, Nov 10 (IPS) - The European Social Forum opening in Paris Wednesday will look for an economic model that could become an alternative to capital-led globalisation.  Go...

Views of U.S. Plummet in Europe, Muslim World - Poll
June 5, 2025 - Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - While the speed of the U.S. conquest of Iraq and the general belief that Iraqis are better off without former President Saddam Hussein were moderating factors, the image of the United States is far more negative in Europe and the Muslim world than a year ago, according to a poll of 20 countries released here Tuesday.  Go...

Another World Is Possible -- and Necessary
February 14, 2025 - Mark Weisbrot, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services
PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- "I will tell the people at Davos that the world does not need war, the world needs peace and understanding," said President Lula da Silva to a cheering crowd of tens of thousands in this sunny port city in Southeastern Brazil.  Go...

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