Globalization

by Appadurai, Arjun; Mbembe, Achille (CON); Rekacewicz, Philippe (CON); Huyssen, Andreas (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822327233
• ISBN10: 0822327236
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Public Culture's Millennial Quartet: "Alternative Modernities," Edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar"Globalization, "Edited by Arjun Appadurai"Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism," Edited by Jean Comaroff John L. Comaroff"Cosmopolitanism," Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Dipesh Chakrabarty

Table of Contents

Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination	1	(21)
Arjun Appadurai
At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa	22	(30)
Achille Mbembe
Mapping Concepts	52	(5)
Philippe Rekacewicz
Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia	57	(21)
Andreas Huyssen
On Foot	78	(3)
Boubacar Toure Mandemory
On Wheels	81	(9)
Ralf D. Hotchkiss
Toward an Ethics of the Future	90	(24)
Jerome Binde
A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin	114	(17)
Wu Hung
Mediating Time: The ``Rice Bowl of Youth'' in Fin de Siecle Urban China	131	(24)
Zhang Zhen
Inside the Economy of Appearances	155	(34)
Anna Tsing
A Sweet Lullaby for World Music	189	(28)
Steven Feld
On the Uddered Breast	217	(3)
Prehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion	220	(31)
Seteney Shami
On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman's Claim to Locality	251	(2)
Fatu Kande Senghor
From National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City	253	(7)
Nestor Garcia Canclini
Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization	260	(19)
Saskia Sassen
Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital	279	(28)
Leo Ching
The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity	307	(28)
Jean-Francois Bayart
Contributors	335	(4)
Index	339