Appadurai Globalization

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8321-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten

Reihe: a Public Culture Book

A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this volume of essays explores the experiences and political economies of globalization in various locales.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Appadurai, Arjun

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mbembe, Achille

Rekacewicz, Philippe

Huyssen, Andreas

Mandémory, Boubacar Touré

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination / Arjun Appadurai 1

At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa / Achille Mbembe 22

Mapping Concepts / Philippe Rekacewicz 52

Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia / Andreas Huyssen 57

On Foot / Boubacar Touré Mandémory 78

On Wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss 81

Toward an Ethics of the Future / Jérôme Bindé 90

A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung 114

Mediating Time: The "Rice Bowl of Youth" in Fin de Siècle Urban China / Zhang Zhen 131

Inside the Economy of Appearances / Anna Tsing 155

A Sweet Lullaby for World Music / Steven Feld 189

On the Uddered Breast 217

Prehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion / Seteney Shami 220

On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Women's Claim to Locality / Fatu Kande Senghor 251

From National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City / Néstor García Canclini 253

Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization / Saskia Sassen 260

Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital / Leo Ching 279

The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity / Jean-François Bayart 307

Contributors 335

Index 339

Über Autor(innen)

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.