Expediency of Culture - Uses of Culture in the Global Era

Informationen zum Autor George Yúdice Klappentext Deals with global flows of capital, information and popular culture, questions of hybridity, identity politics, postcoloniality and the state, with a focus on Latin America. Zusammenfassung Presents a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly global world. This book explores how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in! contested! and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 The Expediency of Culture 9 2 The Social Imperative to Perform 40 3 The Globalization of Culture and the New Civil Society 82 4 The Funkification of Rio 109 5 Parlaying Culture into Social Justice 133 6 Consumption and Citizenship? 160 7 The Globalization of Latin America: Miami 192 8 Free Trade and Culture 214 9 Producing the Cultural Economy: The Collaborative Art of inSITE 287 Conclusion 338 Notes 363 Works Cited 391 Index 453

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: George Yudice, Yudice, George Yudice, George Yúdice
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 23.01.2004
• EAN: 9780822331803
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3180-3
• Pagine: 480
• Dimensioni: 171 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali