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Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments: 3 (Asian Visual Cultures) - Hardcover

 
9789462981126: Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments: 3 (Asian Visual Cultures)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9462981124 ISBN 13: 9789462981126
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination is integral to global cultural processes, questions still arise about how the imagination of life with a global span is made possible at the level of everyday social practices. This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics ― both spatially grounded and mediatized ― and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global. After the ‘performative turn’ of the 1960s, it has been understood that shared experience of performance as event or spectacle can transform interpretations of the global and the local and create new meanings, and this book continues in the direction of this important tradition, while also fully expanding on its consequences.

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About the Author

Dr Chris Hudson is Associate Professor of Asian Media and Culture and Director of Higher Degrees by Research in the School of Media and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. She has published widely on Asia, including >Beyond the Singapore Girl: Discourses of Gender and Nation in Singapore.>
Bart Barendregt is an associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. He is editor of Sonic Modernities in the Malay World (Brill, 2014), and co-editor of Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic (Bloomsbury, 2013).

From the Back Cover

Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination is integral to global cultural processes, questions still arise about how the imagination of life with a global span is made possible at the level of everyday social practices. This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics -- both spatially grounded and mediatized -- and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global. After the 'performative turn' of the 1960s, it has been understood that shared experience of performance as event or spectacle can transform interpretations of the global and the local and create new meanings, and this book continues in the direction of this important tradition, while also fully expanding on its consequences.

From the Inside Flap

Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination is integral to global cultural processes, questions still arise about how the imagination of life with a global span is made possible at the level of everyday social practices. This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics both spatially grounded and mediatized and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global. After the performative turn of the 1960s, it has been understood that shared experience of performance as event or spectacle can transform interpretations of the global and the local and create new meanings, and this book continues in the direction of this important tradition, while also fully expanding on its consequences.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9462981124
ISBN 13 
9789462981126
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
242
Editor
Hudson Chris, Barendregt Bart