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The Cultures of Globalization
F Jameson
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Description for The Cultures of Globalization
Paperback. Explores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender. Editor(s): Jameson, Fredric; Miyoshi, Masao. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 b&w photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JH; JPA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the process of globalization as it concerns the transformation of the economic into the cultural and vice versa; the rise of consumer culture around the world; the production and cancellation of forms of subjectivity; and the challenges it presents to national identity, local culture, and traditional forms of everyday life.
Discussing overlapping themes of transnational ... Read more
A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the process of globalization as it concerns the transformation of the economic into the cultural and vice versa; the rise of consumer culture around the world; the production and cancellation of forms of subjectivity; and the challenges it presents to national identity, local culture, and traditional forms of everyday life.
Discussing overlapping themes of transnational ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822321699
SKU
V9780822321699
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About F Jameson
Fredric Jameson is Professor and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the author of numerous books, including Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, published by Duke University Press. Masao Miyoshi is Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California at San Diego. He is the coeditor of Japan and the ... Read more
Reviews for The Cultures of Globalization
Review by Peter Burger appeared in the TLS, August 20, 1999. Completely hostile to the Marxist analysis of globalization and to the belief in all the essays that globalization has had only negative consequences ... "The conference at Duke University was an international gathering of people with monotonously identical views. Their approach is shaped by a particular mixture of neo-Marxism ... Read more