Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity - Softcover

King, Anthony D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816629536 ISBN 13: 9780816629534

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1997

Synopsis

A foundational work in the study of the globalization of culture.

First published in 1991, Culture, Globalization and the World-System is one of the inaugural books discussing the increasing tendency of cultural practices to cross national boundaries. Now widely available in the United States for the first time and updated with a new preface, these influential essays by a distinguished group of scholars and cultural critics lay the groundwork for a vital and exciting new field of inquiry.

Culture, Globalization and the World-System views culture through different prisms and categories-including race, gender, ethnicity, class, and nation. The contributors consider how socially organized systems of meaning are produced and represented. Drawing from sociology, art history, film studies, and anthropology, these essays-many of them representing their authors’ only treatment of globalization-provide paradigms for understanding cultures and the representation of identity in “the world as a single place.”

Contributors: Barbara Abou-El-Haj, SUNY, Binghamton; Janet Abu-Lughod, New School for Social Research; Stuart Hall, Open U, UK; Ulf Hannerz, U of Stockholm, Sweden; Roland Robertson, U of Pittsburgh; John Tagg, SUNY, Binghamton; Maureen Turim, U of Florida, Gainesville; Immanuel Wallerstein, SUNY, Binghamton; Janet Wolff, U of Rochester.

About this title

About the Author

Anthony King is professor of art history and sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamtom.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816629536
• ISBN 13: 9780816629534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200