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Informationen zum Autor Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English and Douglas Kellner is professor of philosophy, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English and Douglas Kellner is professor of philosophy, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext This book highlights the importance of culture and provides models for cultural studies that address globalization and the dialectic of local and global forces, demonstrating how global forces enter into local situations and arguing for the inseparability of global and local analysis. Zusammenfassung This book highlights the importance of culture and provides models for cultural studies that address globalization and the dialectic of local and global forces, demonstrating how global forces enter into local situations and arguing for the inseparability of global and local analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Thinking Global and Local -- Theorizing the Global and the Local -- Collective Identity and the Democratic Nation-State in the Age of Globalization -- Looking for Globality in Los Angeles -- The (Trans)National Basketball Association: American Commodity-Sign Culture and Global-Local Conjuncturalism -- The Politics of Corporate Ecological Restorations: Comparing Global and Local North American Contexts -- Cultural Studies and the Locations of Culture -- Of Heccéités and Ritournelles: Movement and Affect in the Cajun Dance Arena -- Cosmopolitanism and Communion: Renegotiating Relations in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days -- In the Name of Audre Lorde: The Location of Poetry in the United States -- Translocal Connections -- Translating Resistance -- License to Feel: Teaching in the Context of War(s) -- Nationalism and Internationalism: Domestic Differences in a Postcolonial World
