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Imagined globalization / Néstor García Canclini ; translated and with an introduction by George Yúdice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- García Canclini, Néstor, author.
- Series:
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
- Standardized Title:
- Globalizaci. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acculturation.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Local Subjects:
- Acculturation.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Néstor García Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization. In this book, newly available in English, he considers how globalization is imagined by artists, academics, migrants, and entrepreneurs, all of whom traverse boundaries and engage in multicultural interactions.
- Contents:
- Contents; Translator's Introduction; Introduction - Culture and Politics in the Imaginaries of Globalization; Part I - Narratives, Metaphors, and Theories; One. Globalize or Defend Identity: How to Get Out of This Binary; Two. Globalization: An Unidentified Cultural Object; Three. Market and Interculturality: Latin America between Europe and the United States; Four. We Don't Know What to Call Others; Part II - Interlude; Five. Disagreements between a Latin American Anthropologist, a European Sociologist, and a U.S. Cultural Studies Scholar; Part III. Policies for Interculturality
- Six. From Paris to Miami via Nueva YorkSeven. Capitals of Culture and Global Cities; Eight. Toward a Cultural Agenda of Globalization; Nine. Toward an Anthropology of Misunderstandings: A Methodological Discussion on Interculturality; Epilogue - Social and Imaginary Changes in Globalization Today; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822378891
- 0822378892
- OCLC:
- 868989860
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