* lower price * quality service catered to their needs * more availability of services * privacy in stigmatized situation --> sex change operations, face lifts, infertility treatments These are the benefits medical tourists are increasingly discovering, a result of the growing awareness that no one country has a monopoly on health care and that cheap doesn't necessarily … [Read more...]
Eat Locally: A Movement Resisting the Globalization of Food Production
RESISTING GLOBALIZATION CASE STUDY Alice Curchin, Joel Boone, Kiana Barry Around the world, people commit to buying local food. Local food improves the local economy and benefits the health of consumers. In a global food system, large corporations control production and consumption of food. People committed to eating local goods call themselves “locavores.” There is a … [Read more...]
Davidson Dining Goes Local
The Davidson college farm, located off of Grey Road, began this semester as a place to grow food exclusively for the college dining services. It currently grows lettuce, cilantro, spinach, and has the growth of numerous other veggies, berries, and plant products in the works. Although it is far to small to support the entire Davidson College community, it hopes to offer a … [Read more...]
Straight Out of Everywhere: The Localization of Hip-Hop in Japan and Korea
Hip-hop emerged in the mid-1970s in the predominantly black South Bronx, and although it holds its roots in the African American tradition, it was widely adapted into numerous cultures around the world in the following decades. American hip-hop became immensely popular in Japan and Korea with the globalization of popular culture in the 90s resulting from an increase in … [Read more...]
Compressing the World: The Global Fund for Women’s International Role in Effecting Change
The Global Fund for Women (GFW) was founded in 1987 by a group of women who believed that women’s rights were an essential part of advancing global agendas for social, economic, and political change. It is now the largest non-profit foundation in the world. The GFW functions as a grant making foundation that offers support to groups working to advance the human rights of women … [Read more...]
