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Globalization /

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 site...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 Toure Mandemory
  • On wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss
  • Toward an ethics of the future / Jerôme Binde
  • A Chinese dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung
  • Mediating time: the "rice bowl of youth" in fin de siecle 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 / Nestor 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.