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decentre
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decentre decenter (US) [diːˈsentəʳ] VTdescentrar


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Re-thinking the essence of globalization, theorists Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt in their book Empire (2000) argue that the new political form is no longer centered on the nation state but is now a decentered "network" of power relations.
Historians cover three challenges to the field of Chinese and overseas Chinese business history; an institutional view of Chinese business beyond networking; the rise of Hong Kong as a decentered network society; the colonial syndrome and technology choices in Indian industry; and implications of Indian business, state, and civil society for global participation.
Some theories of globalization aspire to make the world a homogenous "village" in which place would be a uniform constant, or as Northcott puts it "a depthless and decentered world in which the human identification with locality, place and neighborhood is often fractured and undermined" (Northcott 1995: 122).
 
 
 
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