Globalization

a Public Culture Book

by Arjun Appadurai, lco014000 (adapter), international_edition (technical_editor)

This second installment of Public Culture?s Millennial Quartet seeks to intervene in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization which includes debates about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term The volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites?local regional diasporic?are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style sensibility and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of violence Seeking an alternative to the deadend debate between those who see globalization as a phenomenon wholly without precedent and those who see it simply as modernization imperialism or global capitalism with a new face the contributors seek toilluminate how space and time are transforming each other in special ways in the present era They examine how this complex transformation involves changes in the situation of the nation the state and the city While exploring

Genres: Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Academic

Unbound

First published February 18, 2000

About the author

Arjun Appadurai is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization

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