Rodanthi Tzanelli

Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters' (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking civility

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book reconsiders definitional relationships of 'national character' and 'national heritage' in the context of Western industrial modernity. It highlights the gendered and racialised histories of this modernity, arguing that today they continue to play a significant role in global circulations of national heritage by creative industries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136741586
• Artikelnr.: 38270121

Autorenporträt

Rodanthi Tzanelli is Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director, Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, at the University of Leeds. She has published widely on national identity, the anthropology of cosmopolitanism and the politics of cultural industries. She is author of The Cinematic Tourist: Explorations in globalization, culture and resistance (2007), Nation-building and Identity in Europe: The dialogics of reciprocity (2008) and The 'Greece' of Britain and the 'Britain' of Greece (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ethnographic Fiction and Autobiographical 'Truth' 2. Orientalist Vision
and the Carnivalesque of 'Revelations' 3. Foreground to Background: From
Locality to 'Nation' 4. 'The Winner Takes it All': The Coming of Second
Modernity 5. The Original Theft (and other treacherous religiosities) 6.
Leviathan Revealed