Consumers and Citizens

by Garcia Canclini, Nestor

• ISBN13: 9780816629879
• ISBN10: 0816629870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

In Consumers and Citizens, Nestor Garcia Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens and shows that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state), but also new openings for expanding citizenship.

Garcia Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant, as in the fashion and entertainment industries. He shows how identity issues, brought to the fore by the aligning of citizenship and consumption, can no longer be understood strictly within the purview of territory or nation. Defining a new space structured along the lines of markets, Garcia Canclini seeks to formulate a participatory and critical approach to consumption in which national culture, far from being extinguished, is reconstituted in transnational, cultural interactions.

Author Biography

Nestor Garcia Canclini is the director of the Program of Studies on Urban Culture at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City George Yudice teaches in the American Studies program and in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction
From Hybridity to Policy
For a Purposeful Cultural Studies	ix
Author's Preface to the English-Language Edition
The North-South Dialogue on Cultural Studies	3	(12)
Introduction
Twenty-first-Century Consumers, Eighteenth-Century Citizens	15	(22)
Part I Cities in Globalization
Consumption Is Good for Thinking	37	(12)
Mexico Cultural Globalization in a Disintegrating City	49	(18)
Urban Cultural Policies in Latin America	67	(10)
Narrating the Multicultural	77	(12)
Part II Postnational Suburbias
Identities as a Multimedia Spectacle	89	(8)
Latin America and Europe as Suburbs of Hollywood	97	(12)
From the Public to the Private The ``Americanization'' of Spectators	109	(14)
Multicultural Policies and Integration via the Market	123	(14)
Part III Negotiation, Integration, and Getting Unplugged
Negotiation of Identity in Popular Classes?	137	(14)
How Civil Society Speaks Today	151	(12)
Notes	163	(20)
Index	183