Cultural Identity And Global Process

Author : Jonathan Friedman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848609129

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This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture. Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts of historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of world market and local cultural transformations, and demonstrates the complex interrelations between globally structured social processes and the organization of identity. Jonathan Friedman also documents the development and significance of a global perspective in an anthropology that illuminates a wide variety of domains from prehistory to world hegemony. In so doing, he interrogates the emergence of the concept of culture and suggests that anthropology itself is best understood within the trajectory of modernity.

Author : Jonathan Friedman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803986386

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Cultural Identity and Global Process by Jonathan Friedman Pdf

This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture. Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts of historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of world market and local cultural

Author : Jari Kupiainen,Erkki Sevänen,John Stotesbury
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 8126903740

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Cultural Identity in Transition by Jari Kupiainen,Erkki Sevänen,John Stotesbury Pdf

Cultural Identity In Transition Analyses The Challenges That Globalisation And Modernisation Have Brought To Cultural Identity In Recent Years. This Collection Of Articles Highlights Some Of The Central Theoretical Ideas And Models Currently Used In The Analysis Of Cultural Identity In The Social And Cultural Sciences.While The Book S Main Regional Focus Is On Northern Europe, This Is Complemented By Several Case Studies Addressing Issues Of Cultural Identity In Indigenous And Ethnic Communities, In Literary And Artistic Expression, And In Terms Of National Politics Around The World.The Book Discusses In Detail The Questions Like : What Is At Stake In The Global Culture Industry In Terms Of Cultural Identity? How Do The Internet And Information Technology In General Empower Local Communities? What Kinds Of Political Struggles And Conflicts Can Be Associated With The Processes Of Cultural Identity? Cultural Identities Are In Transition, But In What Direction Are They Moving?Cultural Identity In Transition Will Be Essential Reading For University Students And Researchers In Sociology, Anthropology, And Cultural And Literary Studies.

Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 1452901538

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Culture, Globalization and the World System by Anthony D. King Pdf

Author : Roland Robertson,Kathleen E. White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415236916

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Globalization: Culture and identity by Roland Robertson,Kathleen E. White Pdf

Containing articles on approaches to and theories of globalization, this collection addresses the making of the modern world from different disciplinary perspectives.This set investigates the major components of globalization in its most comprehensive sense: the nation-state and the system of international relations; the question of self-identity and the individual in the globalization process; human rights, citizenship and the environment; institutional questions including matters of media communication, education, tourism, multinational corporations, migration and intercultural communication.New introductions and a thorough index make this work an indispensable research tool.

Author : Joseph Zajda,Suzanne Majhanovich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789402420142

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Globalisation, Cultural Identity and Nation-Building by Joseph Zajda,Suzanne Majhanovich Pdf

This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to cultural identity, set against the current backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses current discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to constructing national, ethnic and religious identities in the global culture. It explores the ambivalent and problematic connections between the state, globalisation, the construction of cultural identity, and the nation-building process – also in connection with history education and the history textbooks used in schools. The book also explores conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches applicable to research on the state, globalisation, nation-building and identity politics. Drawing on diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to globalisation, the book, by focusing on globalisation, ideology and cultural identity, critically examines recent research in history education and its impact of identity politics, as well as the most significant dimensions defining and contextualising the processes surrounding nation-building and identity politics globally. Given the need for a multiple perspective approach, the authors, who have diverse backgrounds and hail from different countries and regions, offer a wealth of insights, contributing to a more holistic understanding of the nexus between the nation-state and national identity.

Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135306120

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Global Culture, Island Identity by Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

Author : J. P. Singh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231147194

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Globalized Arts by J. P. Singh Pdf

The spread of Islam around the globe has blurred the connection between a religion, a specific society, and a territory. One-third of the world’s Muslims now live as members of a minority. At the heart of this development is, on the one hand, the voluntary settlement of Muslims in Western societies and, on the other, the pervasiveness and influence of Western cultural models and social norms. The revival of Islam among Muslim populations in the last twenty years is often wrongly perceived as a backlash against westernization rather than as one of its consequences. Neofundamentalism has been gaining ground among a rootless Muslim youth—particularly among the second- and third-generation migrants in the West—and this phenomenon is feeding new forms of radicalism, ranging from support for Al Qaeda to the outright rejection of integration into Western society. In this brilliant exegesis of the movement of Islam beyond traditional borders and its unwitting westernization, Olivier Roy argues that Islamic revival, or "re-Islamization," results from the efforts of westernized Muslims to assert their identity in a non-Muslim context. A schism has emerged between mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world—including Hamas of Palestine and Hezbollah of Lebanon—and the uprooted militants who strive to establish an imaginary ummah, or Muslim community, not embedded in any particular society or territory. Roy provides a detailed comparison of these transnational movements, whether peaceful, like Tablighi Jama'at and the Islamic brotherhoods, or violent, like Al Qaeda. He shows how neofundamentalism acknowledges without nostalgia the loss of pristine cultures, constructing instead a universal religious identity that transcends the very notion of culture. Thus contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is not a single-note reaction against westernization but a product and an agent of the complex forces of globalization.

Author : Fiona Blaikie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000392630

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Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults by Fiona Blaikie Pdf

This collection brings together the ideas of key global scholars focusing on the lives of youth and young adults, examining their visual and cultural identity constructs. Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South, chapters explore expressions and performances of youth and young adults as shifting and entangled, in and through the clothed body, gender, sexuality, race, artistic and pedagogical making practices, in spaces and places, framed by new materialism, social media, popular and material culture. The overarching emphasis of the collection is on youth and young adults’ strategies for engaging in and with the world, becoming a someone, and belonging, in settings that include a juvenile arbitration program, an artist community, high schools, universities, families and social media. This truly interdisciplinary and international collection will have resonance not just within cultural and media studies, but also in education, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, child and youth studies, visual culture, and communication studies.

Author : Adam Muller
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552381670

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Concepts of Culture by Adam Muller Pdf

How do we define 'culture?' In this volume, Adam Muller brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars in a number of different disciplines who each examine the concept of culture as it is understood and deployed within their respective fields.

Author : Federica G. Pedriali,Cristina Savettieri
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 3030427935

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Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War by Federica G. Pedriali,Cristina Savettieri Pdf

This book tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation. It explores eight different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it interrogates one of the most challenging facets of the history of the Great War, one that keeps raising key questions on the way cultures respond to times of crisis. Mobilization during the First World War was a major process of material and imaginative engagement unfolding on a military, economic, political and cultural level, and existing identities were dramatically challenged and questioned by the whirl of discourses and representations involved.

Author : Vanessa Knights
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317091608

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Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location by Vanessa Knights Pdf

How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has consistently demonstrated a determination to seek out and procure for itself a stake in the management of 'its' popular musics. Similarly, popular musics have been used 'from the ground up' as sites for both populist and popular critiques of nationalist sentiment, from the position of both a globalizing and a 'local' vernacular culture. The contributions in this book arrive at a critical moment in the development of the study of national cultures and musicology. The book ranges from considerations of the ideological focus of cultural nationalism through to analyses of musical hybridity and musical articulations of other kinds of identities at odds with national identity. The processes of global homogenization are thereby shown to have brought about a transitional crisis for national cultural identities: the evolution of these identities, particularly with reference to the concept of 'authenticity' in music, is situated within broader debates on power, political economy and constructions of the self. Theorizations of practice are employed after the manner of Bourdieu, Gramsci, Goffman, Gadamer, Habermas, Bhabha, Lacan and Zizek. Each contribution acts as a case study to characterize the strategies through which differing modes of musical discourse engage, critique or obscure discourses on national identity. The studies include discussions of: musical representations of Irishness; the relationship between Afropop and World Music; Norwegian club music; the revival of traditional music in Serbia; resistance to cultural homogeneity in Brazil; contemporary Uyghur song in Northwest China; rap and race in French society; technobanda from the barrios of Los Angeles, and Spanish/Moroccan raï. In this way, the book seeks to characterize the ideological configurations that help to activate and sustain hegemonic, amb

Author : Taiwo, Rotimi
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781615207749

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Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction by Taiwo, Rotimi Pdf

A compendium of over 50 scholarly works on discourse behavior in digital communication.

Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405137102

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A World Beyond Difference by Ronald Niezen Pdf

A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalizationliterature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright,yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers tocounter relativist and globalist discourses. Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we thinkabout the emerging socio-political world, and above all how wethink politically about human cultural differences Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to worldculture Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparingthem to classical social theorists in an instructive manner Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographicresearch

Author : Cosmin Cercel,Alexandra Mercescu,Mirosław Michał Sadowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781003812951

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Law, Culture and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe by Cosmin Cercel,Alexandra Mercescu,Mirosław Michał Sadowski Pdf

Mirosław Michał Sadowski is Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland; Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Global Studies, Alberta University in Lisbon, Portugal; Postdoctoral Researcher at CEBRAP – Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning in São Paulo, Brazil; Research Assistant at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.