CCR711 – Xiaohe – Ethical Issues in Knowledge Economy
Xiaohe, Lu. “Ethical Issues in the Globalization of the Knowledge Economy.” Business Ethics: A European Review 10 2 (2001): 113-19. Print. In this article Xiaohe considers China’s relationship to knowledge economies and globalization. Because Xiaohe sees China’s economy as already globalized, it follows that – despite being primarily composed of manufacture and industrial applications – China’s economy is also becoming converted to a knowledge economy on... Read More
CCR711 – Wright – Globalizing Governance
Wright, Sarah. “Globalizing Governance: The Case of Intellectual Property Rights in the Philippines.” Political Geography 27 7 (2008): 721-39. Print. Wright’s article investigates the passage of the Philippine Plant Variety Protection Act. Passed in the Philippines in 2002, this piece of legislation restricts the ability of Philippine farmers to save and exchange the seeds they use to plan crops each year. What is remarkable about this law is the fact that the... Read More
CCR711 – Tawfik – The Internationalization of IP Law
Tawfik, Myra J. “No Longer Living in Splendid Isolation: The Globalization of National Courts and the Internationalization of Intellectual Property Law.” Queen’s Law Journal 32 2 (2007): 573-601. Print. Tawfik uses this journal article to achieve two purposes. First, she is interested in establishing a coherent definition of “transjudicialism” or the reference and application of foreign laws in domestic court cases. Despite having been confined primarily... Read More
CCR711 – Rose – Workplace Literacy
Rose, Mike. “At Last: Words in Action: Rethinking Workplace Literacy.” Research in the Teaching of English 38 1 (2003): 125-28. Print. Rose attempts to disrupt the traditional conceptions about how much knowledge is required to complete blue collar work in this piece. Specifically, Rose focuses in on the use of numeracy and graphics to demonstrate that what some researchers have called “lower order mathematics” leads to “a rich source of higher-order thinking”... Read More
CCR711 – Mills – Multiliteracies
Mills, Kathy A. “Multiliteracies: Interrogating Competing Discourses.” Language & Education: An International Journal 23 2 (2009): 103-16. Print. Mills argues that the diverse cultural and linguistic contexts of life in a transnational and sometimes digitized world have led to the development of “multiliteracies” or, as the New London Group defined it, the “new literacies and changing forms of meaning making” that proliferate modern life. ... Read More
