Yúdice / George Yudice / Fish The Expediency of Culture

Uses of Culture in the Global Era
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8537-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Deals with global flows of capital, information and popular culture, questions of hybridity, identity politics, postcoloniality and the state, with a focus on Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yúdice, George

George Yudice, Yudice

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 The Expediency of Culture 9

2 The Social Imperative to Perform 40

3 The Globalization of Culture and the New Civil Society 82

4 The Funkification of Rio 109

5 Parlaying Culture into Social Justice 133

6 Consumption and Citizenship? 160

7 The Globalization of Latin America: Miami 192

8 Free Trade and Culture 214

9 Producing the Cultural Economy: The Collaborative Art of inSITE 287

Conclusion 338

Notes 363

Works Cited 391

Index 453

Über Autor(innen)

George Yúdice is Professor of American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He is the coauthor of Cultural Policy and coeditor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture.