Globalization and culture
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Globalization and culture
Polity, 1999
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- : pbk
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Note
Includes notes (p. [208]-218), bibliography (p. [219]-231), and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization. This book starts with an analysis of the relationship between the globalization process and contemporary culture change and goes on to relate this to debates about social and cultural modernity. At the heart of this book is a far-reaching analysis of the complex, ambiguous 'lived experience' of global modernity. Tomlinson argues that we can now see a general pattern of the dissolution between cultural experience and territorial location. The 'uneven' nature of this experience is discussed in relation to first and third world societies, along with arguments about the hybridization of cultures, and special role of communications and media technologies in this process of 'deterritorialization'. "Globalization and Culture" concludes with a discussion of the cultural politics of cosmopolitanism.
Accessibly written, this book will be of interest to second year undergraduates and above in sociology, media studies, cultural and communication studies, and anyone interested in globalization.
Table of Contents
1. Globalization and Culture. Globalization as Complex Connectivity. Culture as a Dimension of Globalization. Why Culture Matters for Globalization. Why Globalization Matters for Culture. 2. Global Modernity. Global Modernity as Historical Period. Globalization as a 'Consequence of Modernity'. Suspicion of Global Modernity. Conclusion. 3. Global Culture: Dreams, Nightmares and Scepticism. Dreams: Historical Imaginings of a Global Culture. Nightmares: Global Culture as Cultural Imperialism. Global Culture: The Sceptical Viewpoint. 4. Deterritorialization: The Cultural Condition of Globalization. The Concept of Deterritorialization. The Mundane Experience of Deterritorialization. Objections to Deterritorialization. Deterritorialization at the 'Margins'. Hybridization. 5. Mediated Communication and Cultural Experience. Mediation and Connectivity. Mediated Proximity 1: Intimacy Redefined. Mediated Proximity 2: Televisual Involvement and the Closing of Moral Distance. 6. The Possibility of Cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism: Idea, Ideology, Ideal. Cosmopolitans Without a Cosmopolis. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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