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Informationen zum Autor Arjun Appadurai is Samuel N. Harper Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Klappentext Public Culture's Millennial Quartet: "Alternative Modernities, " Edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar"Globalization, "Edited by Arjun Appadurai"Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, " Edited by Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff"Cosmopolitanism, " Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, & Dipesh Chakrabarty Zusammenfassung A special issue of 'PUBLIC CULTURE'! this volume of essays explores the experiences and political economies of globalisation in various locales. Inhaltsverzeichnis Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination / Arjun Appadurai 1 At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa / Achille Mbembe 22 Mapping Concepts / Philippe Rekacewicz 52 Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia / Andreas Huyssen 57 On Foot / Boubacar Touré Mandémory 78 On Wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss 81 Toward an Ethics of the Future / Jérôme Bindé 90 A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung 114 Mediating Time: The "Rice Bowl of Youth" in Fin de Siècle Urban China / Zhang Zhen 131 Inside the Economy of Appearances / Anna Tsing 155 A Sweet Lullaby for World Music / Steven Feld 189 On the Uddered Breast 217 Prehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion / Seteney Shami 220 On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Women's Claim to Locality / Fatu Kande Senghor 251 From National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City / Néstor García Canclini 253 Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization / Saskia Sassen 260 Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital / Leo Ching 279 The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity / Jean-François Bayart 307 Contributors 335 Index 339...
