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The Cultures of Globalization
- Editor(s): Fredric Jameson, Masao Miyoshi
- Contributor(s): Fredric Jameson, Enrique Dussel, Walter D. Mignolo, Alberto Moreiras, Ioan Davies, Subramani, Liu Kang, Geeta Kapur, Barbara Trent, Sherif Hetata, Joan Martinez-Alier, David Harvey, Noam Chomsky, Masao Miyoshi
- Published: 1998
- Pages: 416
- Illustrations: 5 b&w photographs, 2 tables
- Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
- Series Editor(s): Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
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- Acknowledgments ix
- Preface / Fredric Jameson xi
- I. Globalization and Philosophy
- Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity / Enrique Dussel 3
- Globalization, Civilization Processes, and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures / Walter D. Mignlo 32
- Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue / Fredric Jameson 54
- II. Alternative Localities
- Global Fragments: A Second Latinamericanism / Alberto Moreiras 81
- Toward a Regional Imaginary in Africa / Manthia Diawara 103
- Negotiating African Culture: Toward a Decolonization of the Fetish / Ioan Davies 125
- The End of Free States: On Transnationalism of Culture / Subramani 146
- Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity in China / Liu Kang 164
- III. Culture and the Nation
- Globalization and Culture: Navigating the Void / Geeta Kapur 191
- Nations and Literatures in the Age of Globalization / Paik Nak-chung 218
- Media in a Capitalist Culture / Barbara Trent 230
- "Globalization," Culture, and the University / Masao Miyoshi 247
- IV. Consumerism and Ideology
- Dollarization, Fragmentation, and God / Sherif Hetata 273
- Social Movements and Global Capitalism / Leslie Sklair 291
- "Environmental Justice" (Local and Global) / Joan Martinez-Alier 312
- What's Green and Makes the Environment Go Round? / David Harvey 327
- Free Trade and Free Market: Pretense and Practice / Noam Chomsky 356
- In Place of a Conclusion / Masao Miyoshi 371
- Index 385
- Contributors 391
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- Fredric Jameson
- Enrique Dussel
- Walter D. Mignolo
- Alberto Moreiras
- Ioan Davies
- Subramani
- Liu Kang
- Geeta Kapur
- Barbara Trent
- Sherif Hetata
- Joan Martinez-Alier
- David Harvey
- Noam Chomsky
- Masao Miyoshi
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Fredric Jameson is the recipient of the 2008 Holberg Prize
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“[C]hallenges current conceptualisations of globalisation to ask a set of important questions on modernity and globalisation, the rise of Americanisation and consumer culture and challenges to national cultural identity. . . . The volume is useful to those who have an interest in alternative conceptualisations of globalisation, as well as to those who have come to contemplate how countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa affect, and are affected by, globalisation processes.”—South African Journal of International Affairs
“[T]his volume provides a wealth of incisive analysis on a range of topics and is a rich and substantive contribution to the literature on globalization.”—Arvind Rajagopal, The Journal of Asian Studies
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Fredric Jameson is the recipient of the 2008 Holberg Prize
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“[C]hallenges current conceptualisations of globalisation to ask a set of important questions on modernity and globalisation, the rise of Americanisation and consumer culture and challenges to national cultural identity. . . . The volume is useful to those who have an interest in alternative conceptualisations of globalisation, as well as to those who have come to contemplate how countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa affect, and are affected by, globalisation processes.”—South African Journal of International Affairs
“[T]his volume provides a wealth of incisive analysis on a range of topics and is a rich and substantive contribution to the literature on globalization.”—Arvind Rajagopal, The Journal of Asian Studies
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Description
A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the process of globalization as it concerns the transformation of the economic into the cultural and vice versa; the rise of consumer culture around the world; the production and cancellation of forms of subjectivity; and the challenges it presents to national identity, local culture, and traditional forms of everyday life.
Discussing overlapping themes of transnational consequence, the contributors to this volume describe how the global character of technology, communication networks, consumer culture, intellectual discourse, the arts, and mass entertainment have all been affected by recent worldwide trends. Appropriate to such diversity of material, the authors approach their topics from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including those of linguistics, sociology, economics, anthropology, and the law. Essays examine such topics as free trade, capitalism, the North and South, Eurocentrism, language migration, art and cinema, social fragmentation, sovereignty and nationhood, higher education, environmental justice, wealth and poverty, transnational corporations, and global culture. Bridging the spheres of economic, political, and cultural inquiry, The Cultures of Globalization offers crucial insights into many of the most significant changes occurring in today’s world.Contributors. Noam Chomsky, Ioan Davies, Manthia Diawara, Enrique Dussel, David Harvey, Sherif Hetata, Fredric Jameson, Geeta Kapur, Liu Kang, Joan Martinez-Alier, Masao Miyoshi, Walter D. Mignolo, Alberto Moreiras, Paik Nak-chung, Leslie Sklair, Subramani, Barbara Trent
About The Author(s)
Fredric Jameson is Professor and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the author of numerous books, including Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, published by Duke University Press. Masao Miyoshi is Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California at San Diego. He is the coeditor of Japan and the World and Postmodernism and Japan, both published by Duke University Press.
At the time of his death in 2009, Masao Miyoshi was Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California at San Diego. He is the coeditor of Japan and the World and Postmodernism and Japan, both published by Duke University Press.
