Narratives Of Difference In Globalized Cultures

Author : Belén Martín-Lucas,Andrea Ruthven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319621333

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Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures by Belén Martín-Lucas,Andrea Ruthven Pdf

This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, or linguistic - has become such a prominent element in the contemporary cultural field, and the effects of this prevalence on the production, circulation and reception of cultural commodities in the context of globalization. At the intersection of globalization, diaspora, postcolonial and feminist studies in world literature, these essays engage critically with a wide variety of representative narratives taken from diverse cultural fields, including humanitarian fiction, multilingual poetry, painting, text-image art, performance art, film, documentary, and docu-poetry. The chapters included offer counter-readings that disrupt hegemonic representations of cultural identity within the contemporary, neoliberal and globalized landscape.

Author : Constance DeVereaux,Martin Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317090427

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Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy by Constance DeVereaux,Martin Griffin Pdf

The story of arts and cultural policy in the twenty-first century is inherently of global concern no matter how local it seems. At the same time, questions of identity have in many ways become more challenging than before. Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World explores how and why stories and identities sometimes merge and often clash in an arena in which culture and policy may not be able to resolve every difficulty. DeVereaux and Griffin argue that the role of narrative is key to understanding these issues. They offer a wide-ranging history and justification for narrative frameworks as an approach to cultural policy and open up a wider field of discussion about the ways in which cultural politics and cultural identity are being deployed and interpreted in the present, with deep roots in the past. This timely book will be of great interest not just to students of narrative and students of arts and cultural policy, but also to administrators, policy theorists, and cultural management practitioners.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1153620666

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Identity and Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mehita Iqani,Fernando Resende
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429638732

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Media and the Global South by Mehita Iqani,Fernando Resende Pdf

What does the notion of the ‘global south’ mean to media studies today? This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and conditions of postcoloniality. Bringing together original empirical work from media scholars from across the global south, the volume highlights how contemporary thinking about the region as theoretical framework ・ an emerging area of theory in its own right ・ is incomplete without due consideration being placed on narrative forms, both analogue and digital, traditional and sub-cultural. From news to music cultures, from journalism to visual culture, from screen forms to culture-jamming, the chapters in the volume explore contemporary popular forms of communication as manifested in diverse global south contexts. A significant contribution to cultural theory and communications research, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, literary and critical theory, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and sociology and social anthropology.

Author : Julian C H Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783484447

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Narratives of Globalization by Julian C H Lee Pdf

The collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University to reflect on the lived-experience of globalization. It uses a narrative approach to explore how key concepts in the field of globalization studies relate to the experience of everyday life.

Author : Stuart C. Carr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402079436

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Globalization and Culture at Work by Stuart C. Carr Pdf

Behaviour at work can no longer be stereotyped as global or local – modern or traditional – with very little in-between. Instead work behaviour is a complex interplay between Global and Local values. It takes place in a Glocality. Thus individual achievement co-exists with group aspirations, pay diversity takes place in a social context, teamwork reflects cultural narrative, and labour mobility is bound by community bias. Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality breaks new ground by exploring such glocalities, and the implications they create for managing human potential better. The volume is essential reading for researchers, managers, culturalists and consultants of work behaviour alike.

Author : Natascha Gentz,Stefan Kramer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482094

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Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations by Natascha Gentz,Stefan Kramer Pdf

Explores the role of media in the construction of cultural identities.

Author : Newtona (Tina) Johnson,Shawn Simpson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848883680

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Bridging Differences: Understanding Cultural Interaction in Our Globalized World by Newtona (Tina) Johnson,Shawn Simpson Pdf

Written with passion, the stories told in this book are those of the search, loss and recreation of identities. From the Fiji-born women living in Canada looking for themselves to the Japanese of Korean origin having lost touch with their original culture, from the Catalonian demand for recognition to the quest for a common European heritage, we can read of the endless need of peoples to find their rightful place in our multicultural societies.

Author : Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791488553

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Beyond Dichotomies by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi Pdf

Confronts the cultural challenges of globalization.

Author : Michael G. Kenny,Kirsten Smillie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487593711

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Stories of Culture and Place by Michael G. Kenny,Kirsten Smillie Pdf

Stories of Culture and Place makes use of one of anthropology's most enduring elements—storytelling—to introduce students to the excitement of the discipline. The authors invite students to think of anthropology as a series of stories that emerge from cultural encounters in particular times and places. References to classic and contemporary ethnographic examples—from Coming of Age in Samoa to Coming of Age in Second Life—allow students to grasp anthropology's sometimes problematic past, while still capturing the potential of the discipline. This new edition has been significantly reorganized and includes two new chapters—one on health and one on economic change—as well as fresh ethnographic examples. The result is a more streamlined introductory text that offers thorough coverage but is still manageable to teach.

Author : Philip Robert Harris,Robert T. Moran,Sarah Virgilia Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750677363

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Managing Cultural Differences by Philip Robert Harris,Robert T. Moran,Sarah Virgilia Moran Pdf

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Author : Joseph Zajda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401797290

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Nation-Building and History Education in a Global Culture by Joseph Zajda Pdf

This book examines the nexus between nation-building and history education globally and the implication for cultural diversity and social justice. It studies some of the major education reforms and policy issues in history education in a global culture, and regards them in the light of recent shifts in history education and policy research. In doing so, the volume provides a comprehensive picture of the intersecting and diverse discourses of globalisation, history education and policy-driven reforms. It makes clear that the impact of globalisation on education policy and reforms is a strategically significant issue for us all. The book focuses on the importance of nation-building and patriotism in history education, and presents up-to-date research on global trends in history education reforms and policy research. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concerns in the field of globalisation, history education and policy research.

Author : Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819562823

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Global Cultures by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Pdf

An anthology of 62 stories from around the non-Euro-American world providing new definitions of cultural diversity and commonality and an invaluable tool for teachers responding to the growing need for multicultural literature. Over the past two decades, sweeping political changes and burgeoning new technologies have resulted in communities being increasingly defined in global as well as regional and national terms. Although the intellectual terra nova of world cultures remains largely uncharted, this anthology of sixty-two stories from around the non-Euro-American world provides what Elisabeth Young-Bruehl calls "an introductory map to the great wealth of literary works now being produced in, at once, the particular settings of the writers' experiences and the global setting." Young-Bruehl finds that while the cultural diversity the stories exemplify is amazing, so too is the similarity in thematic terms of the concerns that this diversity presents. Thus she organized Global Cultures thematically to highlight and clarify how these worldwide cultures both converge and diverge. A comprehensive general introduction outlines forces behind the transnational approach to literary study and chapter introductions contextualize each story. Stories from India, Cuba, South Africa, and Uruguay are connected by the theme of exile and immigration; tales from Nigeria, Guatemala, Cameroon, and Egypt share a theme of political violence and civil uprisings; works from Taiwan, Chile, Jamaica, and Syria describe commonalities of women facing effects of modernization, prejudice, war, and immigration. Global Cultures contributes to the fast-growing body of contemporary short fictions newly available in English and is an invaluable resource to meet the need for multicultural literature.

Author : Benno Werlen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319164779

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Global Sustainability, Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research by Benno Werlen Pdf

This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe. The theoretical foundations of ecological research and sustainability policies were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. They are largely based on investigations of living spaces and the evolution and differentiation of varied life forms. This perspective is embedded in the practical and theoretical European problem situations of the past and lacks social and cultural differentiation. The transformation of spatial and natural relations as a result of the globalization process is so radical that new theories are needed to solve 21st century ecological problems. Moreover, in view of the lack of an ontologically sound and promising strategy for transdisciplinary problem solving, as well as an acceptable consideration of the power of cultural schemas relating to natural living’s interpretations, there is a strong need to focus on sustainable social practices, habits and routines, rather than on predominantly living spaces or eco-topes. This book elaborates on the transdisciplinary approach by reflecting on the theoretical heritage and a global perspective of sustainability, by focusing on the primary role of a social approach in sustainability research and by putting emphasis on cultural dimension of sustainability. It postulates that global sustainability is grounded in a global understanding of our everyday activities.

Author : Rob Wilson,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0822317125

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Global/Local by Rob Wilson,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

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 enclaves of difference, ethnicity, and resistance. Ranging across issues involving film, literature, and theory, as well as history, politics, economics, sociology, and anthropology, these deeply interdisciplinary essays explore the interwoven forces of globalism and localism in a variety of cultural settings, with a particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. Powerful readings of the new image culture, transnational film genre, and the politics of spectacle are offered as is a critique of globalization as the latest guise of colonization. Articles that unravel the complex links between the global and local in terms of the unfolding narrative of capital are joined by work that illuminates phenomena as diverse as "yellow cab" interracial sex in Japan, machinic desire in Robocop movies, and the Pacific Rim city. An interview with Fredric Jameson by Paik Nak-Chung on globalization and Pacific Rim responses is also featured, as is a critical afterword by Paul Bové. Positioned at the crossroads of an altered global terrain, this volume, the first of its kind, analyzes the evolving transnational imaginary—the full scope of contemporary cultural production by which national identities of political allegiance and economic regulation are being undone, and in which imagined communities are being reshaped at both the global and local levels of everyday existence.