Imagining Globalization

Author : H. Leung,M. Hendley,R. Compton,B. Haley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230101586

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Imagining Globalization by H. Leung,M. Hendley,R. Compton,B. Haley Pdf

This collection gives voice to the peoples and groups impacted by globalization as they seek to negotiate their identities, language use, and territorial boundaries within a larger global context. Rather than viewing globalization as one-dimensional (i.e., cultural, economic, or political), the approaches taken by the authors reflect a nuanced and multifaceted discussion of globalization that integrates all three perspectives. They explore identity, boundaries, language use, and other issues in the context of specific temporal and spatial contexts.

Author : Michael Walonen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351120449

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Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction by Michael Walonen Pdf

We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather than production-based capitalism, digital information and cultural flows, and the attendant large-scale social and ecological consequences of these are drastically remaking our world, cultural producers from across the globe are seeking to make sense of, and provide insights into, these complex changes. Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction takes a broad cross-cultural approach to analyzing the literature of our increasingly transnationalized world system, considering how its key constituent features and local-level manifestations have been thematized and imaginatively seized upon by literary fiction produced from the perspective of the periphery of the capitalist world system. Textual renderings of globalization are not simply second-order approximations of it, but constitutive elements of globalization that condition how it will be understood and responded to, and so coming to terms with the narrativizations of globalization is vital scholarly work, as, among other things, it allows us to see to what extent it is currently possible to imagine alternatives to globalization’s more baleful aspects. This work will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of areas including contemporary literary/cultural studies, globalization studies, international relations, and international political economy.

Author : A. Brah,M. Hickman,M. Mac an Ghaill,Máirtin Mac an Ghaill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230378537

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Global Futures by A. Brah,M. Hickman,M. Mac an Ghaill,Máirtin Mac an Ghaill Pdf

Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. Together, the various chapters in the collection offer a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the classic story of European modernity with its attendant narratives of ostensibly unfettered movement of people, unmitigated economic growth and social progress.

Author : Angus Cameron,Ronen Palan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761972110

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The Imagined Economies of Globalization by Angus Cameron,Ronen Palan Pdf

Shortlisted for the Inaugural International Political Economy Group annual book prize '...amongst the most important books yet written on globalization' - Review of International Political Economy "In this original and very accessible work Cameron and Palan make a major contribution to the narrative turn in political economy. Skillfully combining sustained theoretical critiques and contemporary empirical analyses, this politically engaged book promotes a paradigm shift that sheds new light on the changing relations among the economy, the political, and the social. It will quickly become a major reference point for its account of globalization as a persuasive story and a flawed reality. I recommend it unreservedly" Bob Jessop How do theories, discussions and debates about globalisation shape the very subject they reflect on? How are conceptions of the state, society and politics are changing in the age of globalisation? This book critically introduces the main contemporary debates on globalization and demonstrates how conventional versions or narratives of globalization have served to shape policy responses at both state and corporate levels. Rather than accepting the disintegration of the state thesis, the authors present an alternative transition from the nation-state as a homogenous `imagined community', to a more complex and fluid series of normative economic spaces or `imagined economies'. They illustrate how this respatialization of the contemporary state is rapidly taking shape in concrete institutions, processes, people and places serving to recast the boundaries of the social, political and economic in fundamental ways. By accessibly demonstrating the way in which the discourse of globalization has itself become an integral part of the politics of globalization, The Imagined Economies of Globalization serves as an ideal introduction to key contemporary debates in politics, international relations, geography, international political economy and sociology.

Author : Néstor García Canclini
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822378891

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Imagined Globalization by Néstor García Canclini Pdf

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 on the relations between Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and among Latin American countries. 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, at times, engage in conflicted or negotiated multicultural interactions. García Canclini contrasts the imaginaries of previous migrants to the Americas with those who live in transnational circuits today. He integrates metaphor and narrative, working through philosophical, anthropological, and socioeconomically grounded interpretations of art, literature, crafts, media, and other forms of expression toward his conclusion that globalization is, in important ways, a collection of heterogeneous narratives. García Canclini advocates global imaginaries that generate new strategies for dealing with contingency and produce new forms of citizenship oriented toward multiple social configurations rather than homogenization. This edition of Imagined Globalization includes a significant new introduction by George Yúdice and an interview in which the cultural theorist Toby Miller and García Canclini touch on events including the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.

Author : Fabienne Darling-Wolf
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472052431

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Imagining the Global by Fabienne Darling-Wolf Pdf

A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global

Author : Marco de Waard
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089643674

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Imagining Global Amsterdam by Marco de Waard Pdf

Imagining Global Amsterdam gaat over het beeld van Amsterdam in film, literatuur, visuele kunst en in het moderne stedelijke discours, in het bijzonder in de context van de mondialisering. De essays gaan onder andere dieper in op Amsterdam als een lieu de mémoire van de vroeg-moderne wereldhandel. Wat betekent deze herinnering in de hedendaagse cultuur? Waarom verwijzen zo veel contemporaine films en romans naar dit verleden terug? Ook het (inter)nationale imago van Amsterdam als een multicultureel en ultra-tolerant ‘%x;global village’%x; komt aan bod. Waarom is dit beeld zo persistent, en hoe heeft het zich in de loop van de laatste decennia ontwikkeld? Tot slot wordt ingegaan op de vraag hoe mondialiseringsprocessen ingrijpen in de stadscultuur, zoals in het prostitutiegebied op de Wallen en via de erfgoedindustrie. Hoe manifesteert de mondialisering zich in de stad, en welke rol speelt beeldvorming daarbij? Deze bundel vormt een rijk geschakeerd onderzoek naar de relatie tussen Amsterdam, mondialisering en stedelijke beeldvorming. Marco de Waard is als docent literatuurwetenschap verbonden aan het Amsterdam University College.

Author : A. Brah,Mary J. Hickman,Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cultural relations
ISBN : 0333717759

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Global Futures: Imagining Globalization: Power-Geometries of Time-Space by A. Brah,Mary J. Hickman,Mairtin Mac an Ghaill Pdf

Author : Kristen Sharp,Elizabeth Grierson
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Arts and globalization
ISBN : 1841507318

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Re-imagining the City by Kristen Sharp,Elizabeth Grierson Pdf

Re-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization, and Urban Spaces examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture, and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artifacts, and attitudes. This book recasts how we understand cities--how knowledge can be formed, framed, and transferred through cultural production and how that knowledge is mediated through the construction of aesthetic meaning and value.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 145290006X

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Modernity At Large by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Author : Jane Kenway,Johannah Fahey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135266080

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Globalizing the Research Imagination by Jane Kenway,Johannah Fahey Pdf

In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global imaginations and communities with the capacities to think, 'be' and 'become' differently in a world of research increasingly governed by rampant reductionist rationality. To support this view there follows a series of detailed interviews with some of the world's leading intellectuals where the editors explore what it might mean to globalize the research imagination. The interviewees, Arjun Appadurai, Raewyn Connell, Doreen Massey, Aihwa Ong, Fazal Rizvi and Saskia Sassen, are foremost in their research fields and their views related here are both influential and inspirational. This thought-provoking book for students and researchers identifies and critically interrogates the various ways in which globalization reshapes research investigates the challenges that globalization poses for the social sciences and humanities creates an understanding of how globalization is transforming the practice of research and doctoral research training Progressive researchers in the social sciences and humanities urgently need to decide for themselves how best to globalize research methodologies and communities, and this book will be an invaluable resource for them.

Author : Gönül Pultar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815652595

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Imagined Identities by Gönül Pultar Pdf

How are identities being forged during the age of globalization? This collection of essays, by scholars from various disciplines and regions of the world, discusses both the construction and deconstruction of identity in its engagement with culture, ethnicity, and nationhood. The authors explore the tension resulting from the desire to create a new cultural space for identities that are at once national, regional, linguistic, and religious. Among the wide-ranging approaches, Tanja Stampfl looks at the elusiveness of cultural identity in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner; Dawn Morais investigates issues of ethnicity and nationality in Malaysia’s tourism advertising; and Cathy Waegner explores ethnic identities as globalized market commodities. Throughout the volume, identity is approached from a variety of sites—fiction, news analysis, film, theme parks, and field work—to contribute new insight and perspective to the well-worn debate over what identity signifies in societies where the existence of minorities, both indigenous and immigrant, challenges the dominant group.

Author : Kjetil Fallan,Grace Lees-Maffei
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781785331565

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Designing Worlds by Kjetil Fallan,Grace Lees-Maffei Pdf

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

Author : Stephen J. Hartnett,Lisa B. Keränen,Donovan Conley
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1611862574

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Imagining China by Stephen J. Hartnett,Lisa B. Keränen,Donovan Conley Pdf

Standing as the world’s two largest economies, marshaling the most imposing armies on earth, holding enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons, consuming a majority share of the planet’s natural resources, and serving as the media generators and health care providers for billions of consumers around the globe, the United States and China are positioned to influence notions of democracy, nationalism, citizenship, human rights, environmental priorities, and public health for the foreseeable future. These broad issues are addressed as questions about communication—about how our two nations envision each other and how our interlinked imaginaries create both opportunities and obstacles for greater understanding and strengthened relations. Accordingly, this book provides in-depth communication-based analyses of how U.S. and Chinese officials, scholars, and activists configure each other, portray the relations between the two nations, and depict their shared and competing interests. As a first step toward building a new understanding between one another, Imagining China tackles the complicated question of how Americans, Chinese, and their respective allies imagine themselves enmeshed in nations, old rivalries, and emerging partnerships, while simultaneously meditating on the powers and limits of nationalism in our age of globalization.

Author : Adom Getachew
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781946511744

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Imagining Global Futures by Adom Getachew Pdf

A collection of post-colonial visions for a more just world. What does a just world look like? This volume begins with a planet beset by accumulating crises—environmental, social, and political—and imagines how we can move beyond them. Drawing on the legacy of post-colonial struggles for liberation, Imagining Global Futures explores a range of radical visions for a world after neoliberalism and empire. Centered on movements in the Global South, the collection challenges dominant patterns of social and political life and sketches more just and sustainable futures we might build in their place. What can we learn from alternative conceptions of the good life? How can we build a world where people are both freer and more equal? An urgent resource for collective imagination, Imagining Global Futures counterposes thick visions of a better world to our dystopian present.