Cultural Globalization

A User's Guide
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-631-23539-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wise explores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order to give students a new perspective on issues of globalization. - Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music
- Draws on interdisciplinary research from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies
- Considers how global processes carry with them the ethical questions of how to act in the world and how to care for others
- Provides an original and stimulating overview of theories of culture and globalization, encouraging
students think more broadly about the key issues

Zielgruppe

Upper-level undergraduates, graduates and faculty in the fields of cultural studies, media studies, globalization, and youth culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wise, J. MacGregor

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Culture at Home.

Culture.

Territory.

Identity.

Home.

Ideology and Hegemony.

2. Culture and the Global.

Non-Local Connections.

Globalization.

Global Flows.

Form and Content, Local and Global.

3. Global Youth.

Youth as a Contested Category.

Constructing Youth.

Surveillance and Youth.

Global Youth.

Core and Periphery.

4. Global Music.

World Music and Cultural Imperialism.

Global Flows of Music.

Forms of Global Music.

5. Territories of Cultural Globalization.

Faye Wong.

Dick Lee.

Panlatinidad.

Audiotopias.

Citizenship.

Conclusion: Opening Windows.

References.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

J. Macgregor Wise is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Exploring Technology and Social Space (1997), co-author (with Jennifer Daryl Slack) of Culture and Technology: A Primer (2005), and co-author (with Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney) of the second edition of MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (2006).