Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places

by Hannerz,Ulf

• ISBN13: 9780415143080
• ISBN10: 041514308X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Transnational Connectionsprovides a lucid account of culture in an age of globalization, arguing that, in an increasingly interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community," "nation" and "modernity," engaging not only theoretical debates about culture and globalization but issues of how we think and live today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Nigerian Kung Fu, Manhattan Fatwa	1	(16)
Part I Culture
The Local and the Global: Continuity and Change	17	(13)
When Culture is Everywhere: Reflections on a Favorite Concept	30	(14)
The Global Ecumene As a Landscape of Modernity	44	(12)
Seven Arguments for Diversity	56	(9)
Kokoschka's Return: Or, the Social Organization of Creolization	65	(16)
Part II People
The Withering Away of the Nation?	81	(10)
A Polish Pope Among the Maya: On Community and Globality	91	(11)
Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture	102	(10)
Trouble in the Global Village: The World According to Foreign Correspondents	112	(15)
Part III Places
The Cultural Role of World Cities	127	(13)
Amsterdam: Windows on the World	140	(10)
Stockholm: Doubly Creolizing	150	(10)
Sophiatown: The View From Afar	160	(12)
Notes	172	(12)
References	184	(11)
Index	195