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Globalizing cultures : theories, paradigms, actions / edited by Vincenzo Mele, Marina Vujnovic.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Globalizing cultures ; volume 5 | Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 82.Publisher: Leiden : Brill, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004272835
  • 9004272836
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Globalizing culturesDDC classification:
  • 303.48/2 23
LOC classification:
  • HC79.C6 G582 2016eb
Other classification:
  • MS 1170
  • MS 1170.
Online resources:
Contents:
Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions; PART 1: Theoretical Examinations and Concepts: Global Culture, Global Identity, and Global Civil Sphere; 1: Investigating Global Culture: Its Creation, Structure, and Meanings; 2: Global Interaction and Identity in Structuralist and Dialectic Perspectives: Toward a Typology of Psycho-cultural Identities
3: The Civil Sphere beyond the Western Nation-State: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Alexander's Cultural Sociology and Its Contribution to Civil Society DiscoursePART 2: Neoliberalism between State and Market: Nationalism, International Free Trade and Persistence of the State; 4: The Role of the Nation-State in the Global Age; 5: Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era; 6: Deification of Market; Homogenization of Cultures: 'Free Trade' and Other Euphemisms for Global Capitalism
Part 3: Transnational Practices and Resistance: Gender, Media, and Social Movements7: "Transnational Activism, Feminist Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance"; 8: Transnational Flashpublics: Social Media and Affective Contagions from Egypt to Occupy Wall Street; 9: Transnational Feminist Media Practices: Seeking Alliance against Global Capitalism; 10: Shifting Contours in Latin American Cultures of Resistance; PART 4: Global Consumer Culture: Tourism, Taste, Consumption and Imaginary
11: Distinction and Social Class in America and Europe: Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Taste in Cross-Cultural Comparison12: Consumption, Identity, Space: Shopping Malls in Bogot�a; 13: Trafficking Gypsiness in the 21st Century; 14: Tourism, Expatriates, and Power Relations in Vieques, Puerto Rico; PART 5: Human Rights, Equality and Culture of Empowerment; 15: Overcoming the Divide: Arab Women between Traditional Life and a Globalizing Culture; 16: The Millennium Development Goals, Gender Equality, and Empowerment in India; Author Index; Subject Index
Scope and content: "With the crisis of the global capitalist economy the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of corporations, governments, ONG and social movements in shaping the terms of these flows? How do these flows of money, people, culture, goods and services work in practice? How do these flows affect the lives of the majority of regular people consuming and producing in the global marketplace? Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization. Contributors are: Gwen I. Alexis, Andrea Borghini, Cory Blad, Jack Bratich, Enrico Campo, Rekha Datta, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Peter Kivisto, Vincenzo Mele, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Nancy Naples, Ino Rossi, Victoria Reyes, Saliba Sarsar, Manal Stephan, Karen Schmelzkopf, and Marina Vujnovic"--Provided by publisher.
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"With the crisis of the global capitalist economy the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of corporations, governments, ONG and social movements in shaping the terms of these flows? How do these flows of money, people, culture, goods and services work in practice? How do these flows affect the lives of the majority of regular people consuming and producing in the global marketplace? Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization. Contributors are: Gwen I. Alexis, Andrea Borghini, Cory Blad, Jack Bratich, Enrico Campo, Rekha Datta, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Peter Kivisto, Vincenzo Mele, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Nancy Naples, Ino Rossi, Victoria Reyes, Saliba Sarsar, Manal Stephan, Karen Schmelzkopf, and Marina Vujnovic"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (BrillOnline, viewed February 2, 2016).

Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions; PART 1: Theoretical Examinations and Concepts: Global Culture, Global Identity, and Global Civil Sphere; 1: Investigating Global Culture: Its Creation, Structure, and Meanings; 2: Global Interaction and Identity in Structuralist and Dialectic Perspectives: Toward a Typology of Psycho-cultural Identities

3: The Civil Sphere beyond the Western Nation-State: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Alexander's Cultural Sociology and Its Contribution to Civil Society DiscoursePART 2: Neoliberalism between State and Market: Nationalism, International Free Trade and Persistence of the State; 4: The Role of the Nation-State in the Global Age; 5: Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era; 6: Deification of Market; Homogenization of Cultures: 'Free Trade' and Other Euphemisms for Global Capitalism

Part 3: Transnational Practices and Resistance: Gender, Media, and Social Movements7: "Transnational Activism, Feminist Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance"; 8: Transnational Flashpublics: Social Media and Affective Contagions from Egypt to Occupy Wall Street; 9: Transnational Feminist Media Practices: Seeking Alliance against Global Capitalism; 10: Shifting Contours in Latin American Cultures of Resistance; PART 4: Global Consumer Culture: Tourism, Taste, Consumption and Imaginary

11: Distinction and Social Class in America and Europe: Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Taste in Cross-Cultural Comparison12: Consumption, Identity, Space: Shopping Malls in Bogot�a; 13: Trafficking Gypsiness in the 21st Century; 14: Tourism, Expatriates, and Power Relations in Vieques, Puerto Rico; PART 5: Human Rights, Equality and Culture of Empowerment; 15: Overcoming the Divide: Arab Women between Traditional Life and a Globalizing Culture; 16: The Millennium Development Goals, Gender Equality, and Empowerment in India; Author Index; Subject Index

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