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Global/local : cultural production and the transnational imaginary / Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Asia-Pacific.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercultural communication--Asia.
- Intercultural communication.
- Intercultural communication--Pacific Area.
- Regionalism--Asia.
- Regionalism.
- Regionalism--Pacific Area.
- Asia--Civilization.
- Asia.
- Pacific Area--Civilization.
- Pacific Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a ""new world space"" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays examine the dynamic between the movement of capital, images, and technologies without regard to national borders and the tendency toward fragmentation of the world into increasingly contentious enclav
- Contents:
- Introduction : tracking the global/local / Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake
- The global in the local / Arif Dirlik
- Localism, globalism, and cultural identity / Mike Featherstone
- A borderless world? From colonialism to transnationalism and the decline of the nation-state / Masao Miyoshi
- Real virtuality / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
- Phobic spaces and liminal panics : independent transnational film genre / Hamid Naficy
- From the imperial family to the transnational imaginary : media spectatorship in the age of globalization / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
- Flirting with the foreign : interracial sex in Japan's "international" age / Karen Kelsky
- Desiring the involuntary : machinic assemblage and transnationalism in Deleuze and Robocop 2 / Jonathan L. Beller
- In whose interest? Transnational capital and the production of multiculturalism in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell
- Globalism's localisms / Dana Polan
- The oceanic feeling and the regional imaginary / Christopher L. Connery
- Goodbye Paradise : global/localism in the American Pacific / Rob Wilson
- The case of the emergent cultural criticism columns in Taiwan's newspaper literary supplements : global/local dialectics in contemporary Taiwanese public culture / Ping-hui Liao
- South Korea as social space / Fredric Jameson interviewed by Paik Nak-chung
- Afterword : "global/local" memory and thought / Paul A. Bove.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612904363
- 9781282904361
- 1282904361
- 9780822381990
- 0822381990
- OCLC:
- 850214148
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