Modernity at large : cultural dimensions of globalization / Arjun Appadurai

By:

Appadurai, Arjun

Series: Public worlds ; 1Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, cop. 1996Description: xi, 229 pISBN:

0816627932

Summary: Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today's world, providing new resources for identity and energies for creating alternatives to the nation-state, whose era some see as coming to an end. Appadurai examines the current epoch of globalization, which is characterized by the twin forces of mass migration and electronic mediation, and provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patterns, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence. He considers the way images -of lifestyles, popular culture, and self-representation- circulate internationally through the media and are often borrowed in surprising (to their originators) and inventive fashions. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00042	1	Available		1900140285

Reimpressions: 2008

Acknowledgments -- 1. Here and now -- Part I. Global flows: 2. Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy ; 3. Global ethnoscapes: notes and queries for a transnational anthropology ; 4. Consumption, duration, and history -- Part II. Modern colonies: 5. Playing with modernity: the decolonization of Indian cricket ; 6. Number in the colonial imagination -- Part III. Postnational locations: 7. Life after primordialism ; 8. Patriotism and its futures ; 9. The production of locality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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