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"Challenging, provocative, informative, and giving full substance to the interrelations of the global and local, these essays carry the reader through a marvelously rich range of materials just where intellectual life in the humanities and social sciences today is most vital."--Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh
List of contents
Introduction: Tracking the Global/Local / Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake 1
I. Globalizations
The Global in the Local / Arif Dirlik 21
Localism, Globalism, and Cultural Identity / Mike Featherstone 46
A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State / Masao Miyoshi 78
Real Virtuality / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto 107
Phobic Spaces and Liminal Panics: Independent Transnational Film Genre / Hamid Naficy 119
From the Imperial Family to the Transnational Imaginary: Media Spectatorship in the Age of Globalization / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam 145
II. Local Conjunctions
Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial Sex in Japan's "International" Age / Karen Kelsky 173
Desiring the Involuntary: Machinic Assemblage and Transnationalism in Deleuze and
Robocop 2 / Jonathan L. Beller 193
In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell 219
III. Global/Local Disruptions
Globalism's Localisms / Dana Polan 255
The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional Imaginary / Christopher L. Connery 284
Goodbye Paradise: Global/Localism in the American Pacific / Rob Wilson 312
The Case of the Emergent Cultural Criticism Columns in Taiwan's Newspaper Literary Supplements: Global/Local Dialectics in Contemporary Taiwanese Public Culture 337
South Korea as Social Space / Fredric Jameson interviewed by Paik Nak-chung 348
Afterword: "Global/Local" Memory and Thought 372
Index 387
Contributors 397
About the author
Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Reimagining the American Pacific and coeditor of Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, both published by Duke University Press. Wimal Dissanayake is editor of East-West Film Journal.
