Culture Globalization and the World System - Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity

Klappentext The ever-increasing trend towards the globalisation of culture presents a major challenge to traditions of social and cultural analysis developed and focussed at the level of the nation state. In this book major theorists from Cultural Studies! Sociology! Art History and Anthropology present and debate a range of paradigms for understanding the production and presentation of cultures! as socially organised systems of meaning! in 'the world as a single place'. Zusammenfassung The ever-increasing trend towards the globalisation of culture presents a major challenge to traditions of social and cultural analysis developed and focussed at the level of the nation state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction.- A.D.King The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.- S.Hall Old and New Identities.- S.Hall Social Theory! Cultural Relativity and the Politics of Globality.- R.Robertson The National and the Universal: Can there be such a thing as World Culture?.- I.Wallerstein Scenarios for Peripheral Cultures.- U.Hannerz Interrogating Theories of the Global.- J.AbuLughod! B.Abou-el-Haj! M.Turim! A.King & J.Tagg The Global and the Specific: Reconciling Conflicting Theories of Culture.- J.Wolff.

Product details

• Authors: D.anthony. King
• Assisted by: Anthony D. King (Editor), King Anthony D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.1991
• EAN: 9780333535608
• ISBN: 978-0-333-53560-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Current Debates in Art History; Current Debates in Art History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Tradition, Culture, Sociology, Globalization, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Anthropology, Identity, Communication Studies