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Living with the Inugguit

25 Nov 2011

A film documenting the disappearing oral traditions of the northernmost settled people on Earth offers a glimpse into how their way of life is...

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Stephen Leonard in Greenland.

Death by monoculture

02 Sep 2011

Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen...

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Safinatun Najah School - In the class

Classroom lessons in Islamic reform

08 Apr 2011

A Cambridge conference is set to reveal how Islamic faith schools, and other educational institutions, are adapting to far more than political...

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Men Shopping for Clothing Accessories

Fashioning the value chain

01 Jan 2009

Changes in the clothing industry have fashioned a new look for how manufacturing and retail is managed globally.

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Huangpu River, Shanghai from a China Navigation Company steamship

Tracing the history of modern globalisation in China

01 May 2008

A Sino-British project is examining the history of China’s first age of modern globalisation, enabling China and Britain to rediscover their...

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Shanghai

Globalisation today: Chinese big business

01 May 2008

This year is the 30th anniversary of China’s policy of ‘reform and open up’. What has happened to China’s strategic industries and how competitive...

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