Constellations of the transnational : modernity, culture, critique / editor, Sudeep Dasgupta ; with the assistance of Esther Peeren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dasgupta, Sudeep.

Peeren, Esther.

Series:

Thamyris intersecting ; no. 14.

Thamyris intersecting, 1481-1312 ; no. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture diffusion.

International relations and culture.

Representation (Philosophy).

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on ‘culture’ in contemporary theories of globalization are analysed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analysis of cultural objects and practices. The essays thus intervene in the debate around modernity, globalization and cultural politics, and the volume as a whole provides a critical constellation through which the complexity of transnational culture can be framed. Thinking through the particular, the essays limn the absent universality of forms of capitalist globalization and the volume as a whole provides multiple perspectives from which to enter the singular modernity of our times in all its complexity.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Constellations of the Transnational

Cultural Constellations, Critique and Modernity: An Introduction / Sudeep Dasgupta

Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Cultural Politics of Space: In the Footsteps of the Italian Forum / Joseph Pugliese

“Here to Stay”: The Performance of Accents in the Work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn Sissay / Cornelia Gräbner

Carnival Politics and the Territory of the Street / Esther Peeren

Shadow Republic: The Concept of Place in Patriot Movement Discourse / Deborah Noel Kaplan

Politics of Identity and Critical Judgment: Gesher Theater in Israel / Olga Gershenson

Where in the World? Cultural Geopolitics of East/West Identities / Bianca Kai Isaki

Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural Studies / Sudeep Dasgupta

Notes on the Contributors / Editors Constellations of the Transnational

Index / Editors Constellations of the Transnational.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0370-9

1-4294-8148-X

OCLC:

166342398

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401203708 DOI