Ann Cvetkovich, Douglas Kellner

Articulating the Global and the Local

Globalization and Cultural Studies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Unlike other studies that have focused on the politics and economics of globalization, Articulating the Global and the Local highlights the importance of culture and provides models for a cultural studies that addresses globalization and the dialectic of local and global forces. The essays explore a variety of local, national, and transnational contexts with particular attention to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality as categories that force us to rethink globalization itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780813332208
• ISBN-10: 0813332206
• Artikelnr.: 21719308

Autorenporträt

Ann Cvetkovich

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Thinking Global and Local
Theorizing the Global and the Local
Collective Identity and the Democratic Nation
State in the Age of Globalization
Looking for Globality in Los Angeles
The (Trans)National Basketball Association: American Commodity
Sign Culture and Global
Local Conjuncturalism
The Politics of Corporate Ecological Restorations: Comparing Global and Local North American Contexts
Cultural Studies and the Locations of Culture
Of Heccéités and Ritournelles: Movement and Affect in the Cajun Dance Arena
Cosmopolitanism and Communion: Renegotiating Relations in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days
In the Name of Audre Lorde: The Location of Poetry in the United States
Translocal Connections
Translating Resistance
License to Feel: Teaching in the Context of War(s)
Nationalism and Internationalism: Domestic Differences in a Postcolonial World