Imagined Globalization

Autor: García Canclini, Néstor; Yúdice, George
Editor: Duke University Press
Col·lecció: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
ISBN: 9780822354611
eISBN Pdf: 9780822378891
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 2014
Mes: Març
Pàgines: 288
DDC: 303.48/2
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

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.

Contents
Translator’s Introduction
Introduction - Culture and Politics in the Imaginaries of Globalization
Part I - Narratives, Metaphors, and Theories
- One. Globalize or Defend Identity: How to Get Out of This Binary
- Two. Globalization: An Unidentified Cultural Object
- Three. Market and Interculturality: Latin America between Europe and the United States
- Four. We Don’t Know What to Call Others
Part II - Interlude
- Five. Disagreements between a Latin American Anthropologist, a European Sociologist, and a U.S. Cultural Studies Scholar
Part III. Policies for Interculturality
- Six. From Paris to Miami via Nueva York
- Seven. Capitals of Culture and Global Cities
- Eight. Toward a Cultural Agenda of Globalization
- Nine. Toward an Anthropology of Misunderstandings: A Methodological Discussion on Interculturality
Epilogue - Social and Imaginary Changes in Globalization Today
References
Index