globalization

A dangerous translation: A case study of the Japanese periphery

Article

Catalina Amengual Ripoll

Ekaterina Gribkova

Hannah Dragon

Eef Janssen

17/11/2020

11 minutes to read

Even though international exchange has increased enormously over the past years, mistranslations are still not uncommon - but what if a mistranslation might actually lead to danger? Like being attacked by a wild bear in the middle of Japan?

Revealing racist words in the superdiverse era

Paper

Anne Marte Gardenier

Ruth Mollema

20/05/2020

11 minutes to read

This article focuses on Dutch vocabulary changes that are brought on by inter-cultural contact as a result of globalization. The superdiverse population of the Netherlands is raising awareness for racist Dutch vocabulary.

Chernobyl as a medium of global art

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

06/01/2020

14 minutes to read

People all around the world discover the topic of Chernobyl and rethink the tragedy of 1986 through works of art connected to nuclear energy, information, and politics. How does art creation on a global scale remind us of the tragedy?

Coffee places in Tilburg as linguistic landscapes

Article

Savina Karneva

Jekaterina Batireva

Simone Sprangers

07/12/2019

21 minutes to read

In this article, we analyze three different coffee places in Tilburg as linguistic landscapes in order to illustate hidden indexical meanings found in them, which point to their history, their present, and their future with customers.

2020: A Greek script Odyssey

Article

Francesca Iaboni

Wesly Ye

Ruben Westrik

Theodoros Arnaoutis

21/11/2019

14 minutes to read

A kind of lookalike English came about as a necessity for Greeks to adapt to the changes brought on by a digitalized world. To this day, "Greeklish" stirs public debate about the necessity to preserve and conserve cultural heritage.

André Rieu as a glocalization phenomenon

Article

Bettie Cörvers

06/11/2019

13 minutes to read

Dutch violinist André Rieu is operating on a global and local field of the music industry with enormous success. This article explores how Rieu strikes a balance in building a glocal identity through his language use and social media presence.

A once solely Jamaican based music style and culture started in the Jamaican dancehalls, inspired by ska and rocksteady, took over the world in the ’70s, Reggae.

Reggae as a global culture scape

Article

Naomi Hofman

02/10/2019

16 minutes to read

Jamaica is the center of a huge global culture scape: reggae. This article analyzes the globalization and history of reggae culture using Appadurai's concept of hard and soft globalization and Wallerstein's world-system analysis.

Globalization, commodification, social media, internet, cheap flights, global and local

Music festivals: Interconnectedness all over the world

Article

Vita van Hellenberg Hubar

24/09/2019

11 minutes to read

Cultural globalization produces global festivals with local music festival characteristics that include an increased focus on environmental issues. Communities on- and offline are thus connected with the help of social media and cheap flights.