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Learning from the Global South
Society, Politics & Law

Learning from the Global South

...world is upside down to show the perspective from the Global South. @@PLUGINFILE@@/image-hotspots-1000.h5p Transcripts for the videos Film 1 - The view from Glasgow, Scotland Film 2 - The view from Cape Town, South Africa Film 3 - The view from Bangladesh and Uganda Film 4 - The view from Brisbane, Australia and Santiago, Chile Film 5 - The view from Fiji and Aotearoa/New...
How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...world because they are an exceptionally good way of using up small scraps of meat and because they offer a means to preserve perishable flesh from rot and decay. European sausages such as the aforementioned chorizo or the Portuguese linguiça spread around the world from the 16th century, as European traders and explorers ventured ever further beyond their familiar...
20 years in English as a medium of instruction: an unstoppable train?
Languages

20 years in English as a medium of instruction: an unstoppable train?

...world...In egalitarian, welfare-state Denmark, it felt oddly out of place, and in intellectual circles, it was met with a degree of ridicule and mockery. Around the same time, people in Denmark began to worry that English was spreading through their universities so fast that one day, it would no longer be possible to talk about science at all in Danish. It took me almost...
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...world come together in great numbers in your city, but especially the Greeks, whose first port of call as they sail from their own lands is Venice. They have besides a familiar relationship with you; when they put ashore at your city it seems that they are entering another Byzantium. 2 But as this course shows, the use of the term ‘the East’ to describe all cultures...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...worlds. As you work through the course, you will see that social science enactment of participation is closely related to social science descriptions of, for example, voting or other citizenly practices, and related also to social science understandings of, for example, just how to define and evaluate poverty...This free course, Social science and participation, looks at...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...World. It is a highly complex and developed economy and yet the Office for National Statistics estimates that around 6.5% of the population of the UK were in ‘persistent poverty’ in 2014. This amounted to 3.9 million people, the 12th highest figure in the EU. In 2016, over 93,000 households were assessed as homeless in England, Scotland and Wales. The number of people...
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...world online [The World Online map as described in the text] Wherever you are in the world, though, if you have a computer, a tablet at work or at home, a smartphone or a smart TV, then the chances are that you're on the internet a lot. You'll be communicating with friends, family and colleagues using email and/or social media. You might be using the internet to undertake...
African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...world (Mauss, 1902–1903/2001). This ‘eternal’ debate has led only recently to a positive evaluation of the term fetish and of the relationship between people and material things. As argued by Matory, African objects come to be called fetishes precisely because Africans, Europeans, and their descendent have looked at them and intensely disagreed about the value and...