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Consumers and citizens : globalization and multicultural conflicts / Néstor García Canclini ; translated and with an introduction by George Yúdice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- García Canclini, Néstor.
- Series:
- Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 6.
- Cultural studies of the Americas ; volume 6
- Standardized Title:
- Consumidores y ciudadanos. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Mexico.
- Popular culture.
- Communication and traffic--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Communication and traffic.
- Technology--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Technology.
- Consumers--Mexico--Attitudes.
- Consumers.
- Nationalism--Mexico.
- Nationalism.
- Mexico--Civilization--20th century.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship. García Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant,
- Contents:
- Consumption is good for thinking
- Mexico : cultural globalization in a disintegrating city
- Urban cultural policies in Latin America
- Narrating the multicultural
- Identities as a multimedia spectacle
- Latin America and Europe as suburbs of Hollywood
- From the public to the private : the "americanization" of spectators
- Multicultural policies and integration via the market
- Negotiation of identity in popular classes?
- How civil society speaks today.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-182) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8830-3
- OCLC:
- 173240556
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