Globalizing Cultures

Author : John Tomlinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745656501
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Culture written by John Tomlinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization. The book starts with an analysis of the relationship between the globalization process and contemporary culture change and goes on to relate this to debates about social and cultural modernity. At the heart of the book is a far-reaching analysis of the complex, ambiguous "lived experience" of global modernity. Tomlinson argues that we can now see a general pattern of the dissolution between cultural experience and territorial location. The "uneven" nature of this experience is discussed in relation to first and third world societies, along with arguments about the hybridization of cultures, and special role of communications and media technologies in this process of "deterritorialization". Globalization and Cultureconcludes with a discussion of the cultural politics of cosmopolitanism. Accessibly written, this book will be of interest to second year undergraduates and above in sociology, media studies, cultural and communication studies, and anyone interested in globalization.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321699
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultures of Globalization written by Fredric Jameson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pervasive force, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. Here an international panel of intellectuals consider the process of globalization and how the global character of technology, communication networks, consumer culture, intellectual discourse, the arts, and mass entertainment have all been affected by recent worldwide trends. Photos.

Author : Michael Minkov
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857246135
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Differences in a Globalizing World written by Michael Minkov and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the relationship between national culture and national differences in crucially important phenomena, such as speed of economic growth, murder rates, and educational achievement. This book also explains differences in suicide rates, road death tolls, female inequality, happiness, and a number of other phenomena.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004272836
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Cultures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comparative analysis of representations of globalization the book Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization and how people negotiate a sense of identity and belonging in a global context.

Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825180
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Destruction written by Tyler Cowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of a fiercely debated issue, Tyler Cowen makes a bold new case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade. Creative Destruction brings not stale suppositions but an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? On the whole, argues Cowen in clear and vigorous prose, they are friends. Cultural "destruction" breeds not artistic demise but diversity. Through an array of colorful examples from the areas where globalization's critics have been most vocal, Cowen asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, whether "globalized" culture is dumbing down societies everywhere, and if national cultures matter at all. Scrutinizing such manifestations of "indigenous" culture as the steel band ensembles of Trinidad, Indian handweaving, and music from Zaire, Cowen finds that they are more vibrant than ever--thanks largely to cross-cultural trade. For all the pressures that market forces exert on individual cultures, diversity typically increases within society, even when cultures become more like each other. Trade enhances the range of individual choice, yielding forms of expression within cultures that flower as never before. While some see cultural decline as a half-empty glass, Cowen sees it as a glass half-full with the stirrings of cultural brilliance. Not all readers will agree, but all will want a say in the debate this exceptional book will stir.

Author : Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520241251
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization written by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803983229
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Culture written by Mike Featherstone and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1990-07-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state? Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system. Will the intensification of global contact produce increasing tolerance of other cultures? Or will an integrating culture produce sharper reactions in the form of fundamentalist and nationalist movements? The contributors explore the emergence of `third cultures', such as international law, the financial markets and media conglomerates, as

Author : Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742566617
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Culture written by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now fully revised and updated, this seminal text asks if there is cultural life after the "clash of civilizations" and global McDonaldization. Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that what is taking place is a global culture of hybridization. In a new chapter, the author explores East-West hybridities—the idea that globalization is a process of braiding rather than simply a diffusion from developed to developing countries. His historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding.

Author : Roland Robertson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473914086
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization written by Roland Robertson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1992-07-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world. This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional distinctions between the global and the local and between the universal and the particular. Its cultural approach emphasizes the political and economic significance of shifting conceptions of, and forms of participation in, an increasingly compressed world. At the same time the book shows why culture has become a globally contested issue - why, for example, competing conceptions of ′world order′ have political and economic consequences.

Author : Anne Cooper-Chen
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433103681
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartoon Cultures written by Anne Cooper-Chen and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1993 to 2003, exports of Japan's cartoon arts tripled in value, to $12.5 billion. Fan phenomena around the world - in U.S. malls, teen girls flock to purchase the latest Fruits Basket graphic novel; in Hungary, young people gather for a summer «cosplay» (costume dress-up) event - illustrate the global popularity of manga and anime. Drawing on extensive research and more than 100 original interviews, Anne Cooper-Chen explains how and why the un-Disney has penetrated nearly every corner of the planet. This book uses concepts such as cultural proximity, uses and gratifications, and cultural variability to explain cross-cultural adaptations in a broad international approach. It emphasizes that overseas acceptance has surprised the Japanese, who create manga and anime primarily for a domestic audience. Including some sobering facts about the future of the industry, the book highlights how overseas enthusiasm could actually save a domestic industry that may decline in the contracting and graying country of its birth. Designed for courses covering international mass media, media and globalization and introduction to Japanese culture, the book is written primarily for undergraduates, and includes many student-friendly features such as a glossary, timeline and source list.