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334 pages : illustrations, color map ; 25 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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A millenial quartet book |
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Millennial quartet
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"A Millennial Quartet Book." |
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"Public culture books." |
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Parts of the text of this book was originally published in vol. 12, no. 1 and 3 of Public culture |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Grassroots globalization and the research imagination / Arjun Appadurai -- At the edge of the world: boundaries, territoriality, and sovereignty in Africa / Archille Mbembe -- Mapping concepts / Philippe Rekacewicz -- Present pasts: media, politics, amnesia / Andreas Huyssen -- On foot / Boubacar Touré Mandémory -- On wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss -- Toward an ethics of the future / Jérôme Bindé -- A Chinese dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung -- Mediating time: the "rice bowl of youth" in fin de siècle urban China / Zhang Zhen -- Inside the economy of appearances / Anna Tsing -- A sweet lullaby for world music / Steven Feld -- On the uddered breast -- Prehistories of globalization: Circassian identity in motion / Seteney Shami -- On the predicament of the sign: the modern African woman's claim to locality / Fatu Kande Senghor -- From national capital to global capital: urban change in Mexico City / Néstor García Canclini -- Spatialities and temporalities of the global: elements for a theorization / Saskia Sassen -- Globalizing the regional, regionalizing the global: mass culture and Asianism in the age of late capital / Leo Ching -- The paradoxical invention of economic modernity / Jean-François Bayart. |
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This collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites -- local, regional, diasporic -- are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of violence. Seeking an alternative to the dead-end debate between those who see globalization as a phenomenon wholly without precedent and those who see it simply as modernization, imperialism, or global capitalism with a new face, the contributors seek to illuminate how space and time are transforming each other in special ways in the present era. They examine how this complex transformation involves changes in the situation of the nation, the state, and the city. While exploring distinct regions -- China, Africa, South America, Europe -- and representing different disciplines and genres -- anthropology, literature, political science, sociology, music, cinema, photography -- the contributors are concerned with both the political economy of location and the locations in which political economies are produced and transformed |
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Globalization
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International relations
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| Alt Author |
Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
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Public culture (Durham, N.C.),
0899-2363. v. 12, no. 1 and 3
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