Globalization (A Public Culture book) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822327236 ISBN 13: 9780822327233

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2001

Synopsis

Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, 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. A special strength of the collection is its concern with emergent styles of subjectivity, citizenship, and mobilization and with the transformations of state power through which market rationalities are distributed and embodied locally.

Contributors. Arjun Appadurai, Jean François Bayart, Jérôme Bindé, Néstor García Canclini, Leo Ching, Steven Feld, Ralf D. Hotchkiss, Wu Hung, Andreas Huyssen, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Achille Mbembe, Philipe Rekacewicz, Saskia Sassen, Fatu Kande Senghor, Seteney Shami, Anna Tsing, Zhang Zhen

About this title

About the Author

Arjun Appadurai is Samuel N. Harper Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.

From the Back Cover

Public Culture's Millennial Quartet:
"Alternative Modernities, "
Edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
"Globalization,
"Edited by Arjun Appadurai
"Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, "
Edited by Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff
"Cosmopolitanism, "
Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, & Dipesh Chakrabarty

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822327236
• ISBN 13: 9780822327233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362
• Editor: Appadurai Arjun