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Informationen zum Autor Mike Featherstone is the author of Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (1990) and Undoing Culture (1995) ; editor of Cultural Theory and Cultural Change (1992); Georg Simmel ( 1991); Global Culture (1990 ) , Postmodernism (1988); The Body (1991); and Global Modernities (1995); Scott Lash is the co-author of Economies of Signs and Space (1993) and editor of Risk, Environment and Modernity (1996), all SAGE Publications . CONTRIBUTORS Professor Richard Sennet London School of Economics Dr Tim Luke Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Professor Saskia Sassen University of Columbia Professor Michael Dear University of Southern California Steven Flusty University of Southern California Dr Hilary Radner University of Notre Dame Professor Peter Wagner University of Warwick Heidrun Friese Dr Ron Eyerman University of Lund Professor Barbara Adam University of Wales Dr Michael Shapiro University of Hawaii Professor Goran Dahl University of Lund Professor Wolfgang Welsch Otto Von-Guericke University Dr Jonathan Friedman Institute of Sociology, Lund Dr Couze Venn University of East London Klappentext What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? This book explores the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. Zusammenfassung What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? This book explores the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash PART ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE Growth and Failure - Richard Sennett The New Political Economy and Its Culture Simulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality - Timothy W Luke The Political Economy of Cyberspace Digital Networks and Power - Saskia Sassen PART TWO: CULTURAL MAPPING The Postmodern Urban Condition - Michael Dear and Steven Flusty Roaming the City - Hilary Radner Proper Women in Improper Places PART THREE: REFLEXIVE SPACE Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner Modernity and Contingency Moving Culture - Ron Eyerman Radiated Identities - Barbara Adam In Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of Conceptual Cultural Practices PART FOUR: CARTOGRAPHIES OF A NATION Triumphalist Geographies - Michael J Shapiro The Anti-Reflexivist Revolution - G[um]oran Dahl On the Affirmationism of the New Right PART FIVE: TRANSCULTURAL PLACE Transculturality - Wolfgang Welsch The Puzzling Form of Cultures Today Towards a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights - Boaventura de Sousa Santos The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush - Jonathan Friedman Narrating the Postcolonial - Couze Venn ...
