Culture, Globalisation and the World System
Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity
Will be published approx. on 2. December 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 200 pages
978-0-333-53560-8 (ISBN)
Description
The ever-increasing trend towards the globalisation of culture presents a major challenge to traditions of social and cultural analysis developed and focussed at the level of the nation state. In this book major theorists from Cultural Studies, Sociology, Art History and Anthropology present and debate a range of paradigms for understanding the production and presentation of cultures, as socially organised systems of meaning, in 'the world as a single place'.
More details
Edition
1991
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XIII, 200 p.
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 14 cm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-53560-8 (9780333535608)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction.- A.D.King The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.- S.Hall Old and New Identities.- S.Hall Social Theory, Cultural Relativity and the Politics of Globality.- R.Robertson The National and the Universal: Can there be such a thing as World Culture?.- I.Wallerstein Scenarios for Peripheral Cultures.- U.Hannerz Interrogating Theories of the Global.- J.AbuLughod, B.Abou-el-Haj, M.Turim, A.King & J.Tagg The Global and the Specific: Reconciling Conflicting Theories of Culture.- J.Wolff.