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Globalization / edited by Arjun Appadurai.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Public culture books.
- Millennial quartet.
- a Public Culture Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this volume of essays explores the experiences and political economies of globalization in various locales.
- Contents:
- 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 Touré Mandémory
- On wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss
- Toward an ethics of the future / Jérôme Bindé
- A Chinese dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung
- Mediating time: the "rice bowl of youth" in fin de siècle 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 / Néstor 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.
- Notes:
- "A Millennial Quartet Book."
- "Public culture books."
- The book originally was published as vol. 12, no. 1 of Public Culture with the exception of Rekacewicz "Mapping concepts," which originally appeared in vol. 12, no. 3 of Public Culture, and Bayart "The paradoxical invention of economic modernity," originally in La Reinvention du capitalisme (Karthala, 1994).
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06308-5
- 9786613063083
- 0-8223-8321-7
- OCLC:
- 1097299173
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