Globalization
By: edited by Arjun Appadurai.
Contributors: Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780822327257; 9780822327233
Subjects: Globalization; International relations; Relaciones internacionales; Mondialisation; Relations internationales; Globalização (aspectos sociais); Internationalisatie; Culturele aspecten
Other titles: Public culture (Durham, N.C.)
Notes: "A Millennial Quartet Book."

"Public culture books."

Parts of the text of this book was originally published in vol. 12, no. 1 and 3 of Public culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Grassroots globalization and the research imagination / Arjun Appadurai; title: At the edge of the world: boundaries, territoriality, and sovereignty in Africa / Archille Mbembe; title: Mapping concepts / Philippe Rekacewicz; title: Present pasts: media, politics, amnesia / Andreas Huyssen; title: On foot / Boubacar Touré Mandémory; title: On wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss; title: Toward an ethics of the future / Jérôme Bindé; title: A Chinese dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung; title: Mediating time: the "rice bowl of youth" in fin de siècle urban China / Zhang Zhen; title: Inside the economy of appearances / Anna Tsing; title: A sweet lullaby for world music / Steven Feld; title: On the uddered breast; title: Prehistories of globalization: Circassian identity in motion / Seteney Shami; title: On the predicament of the sign: the modern African woman's claim to locality / Fatu Kande Senghor; title: From national capital to global capital: urban change in Mexico City / Néstor García Canclini; title: Spatialities and temporalities of the global: elements for a theorization / Saskia Sassen; title: Globalizing the regional, regionalizing the global: mass culture and Asianism in the age of late capital / Leo Ching; title: The paradoxical invention of economic modernity / Jean-François Bayart.