Imagined Globalization

by Néstor García Canclini

A leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Néstor García Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization on the relations between Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and among Latin American countries. In this book, newly available in English, he considers how globalization is imagined by artists, academics, migrants, and entrepreneurs, all of whom traverse boundaries and, at times, engage in conflicted or negotiated multicultural interactions. García Canclini contrasts the imaginaries of previous migrants to the Americas with those who live in transnational circuits today. He integrates metaphor and narrative, working through philosophical, anthropological, and socioeconomically grounded interpretations of art, literature, crafts, media, and other forms of expression toward his conclusion that globalization is, in important ways, a collection of heterogeneous narratives. García Canclini advocates global imaginaries that generate new strategies for dealing with contingency and produce new forms of citizenship oriented toward multiple social configurations rather than homogenization. This edition of Imagined Globalization includes a significant new introduction by George Yúdice and an interview in which the cultural theorist Toby Miller and García Canclini touch on events including the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Néstor García Canclini (Argentina, 1939) es Doctor en Filosofía por las universidades de París y de La Plata. Ha sido profesor en las universidades de Austin, Duke, Stanford, Barcelona, Buenos Aires y São Paulo. Recibió la Beca Guggenheim, el Premio Ensayo Casa de las Américas en reconocimiento a Culturas populares en el capitalismo y el Book Award de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos por el libro Culturas híbridas. Estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad. Otros trabajos destacados son Consumidores y ciudadanos, La globalización imaginada y Diferentes, desiguales y desconectados: mapas de la interculturalidad. En la actualidad enfoca su investigación en las relaciones entre estética, arte, antropología, estrategias creativas y redes culturales de los jóvenes.

Reviews

[Qing Liu · Rating 4 out of 5]

For second comp. A nice one.

[Yaroslav · Rating 2 out of 5]

English below
Тематика і погляд автора досить цікаві, але читати це було край важко. Або дуже невдалий переклад, або це дійсно занадто науковий, а не науково-популярний текст. У 2023 (та навіть у рік виходу перекладу, 2016) читати висновки 1999 вкрай дивно. Бо життя пішло геть не так як написано. Але це мій погляд і я можу помилятись.
The topic and the author's point of view are quite interesting, but it was extremely difficult to read. Either a very bad translation, or it really is too scientific, not a popular science text. In 2023 (and even in the year of publication of the translation, 2016), it is extremely strange to read the conclusions of 1999. Because life didn't go as planned. But this is my opinion and I could be wrong.

[Gebanuzo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lectura para una clase, a grandes rasgos el texto habla sobre un imaginario colectivo mundial que se va moldeando con los avances tecnológicos, las nuevas herramientas de comunicación, y la globalización.