Globalization on the Line - Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders

Summary

Instead of viewing globalization and nation states as two separate and opposed domains of theorization and politics, this volume contextualizes US borders within global processes that are reconstituting the relationship between nation states and private corporations at the site of US borders.

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"Exceptional for the outstanding quality and internal coherence of the articles included throughout, Globalization on the Line is a timely and consistent critique of the all too-facile"global multiculturalism" that has dominated academic discourse since Gloria Anzaldúa's publication of Borderlands. T he contributors question the validity of "theorizing from the border" when in fact the border, as a place, remains largely unstudied and unknown. [U]nusual for its dual focus on both the U.S.-Canada and the U.S.-Mexico borders, Globalization on the Line will be not only necessary reading in cultural studies courses but it will shape our discussions in the field in the years to come." - Silvia Spitta, author ofBetween Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America
"In this collection Sadowski-Smith has brought together an exciting range of essays by scholars, artists, and activists on culture and globalization. The strength of this collection is in the essays; it is not so much a "new take" on globalization and culture as it is a close look at a variety of cultural practices in which the effects of globalization are especially visible." - Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

Product details

• Assisted by: C. Sadowski-Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer EN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2002
• EAN: 9780312294823
• ISBN: 978-0-312-29482-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 480 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 248 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Migration, B, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Bevölkerung und Migrationsgeographie, Political Sociology, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, geology, Migration, immigration and emigration, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Emigration and immigration, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Politics and International Studies, Political Science and International Relations, general, Structural Geology, Geomorphology & geological surface processes, Human Migration, Population and migration geography