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Title Globalizing cultures : theories, paradigms, actions / edited by Vincenzo Mele, Marina Vujnovic
Published Leiden : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages)
Series Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 82
Globalizing cultures ; volume 5
Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 82.
Contents Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions; PART 1: Theoretical Examinations and Concepts: Global Culture, Global Identity, and Global Civil Sphere; 1: Investigating Global Culture: Its Creation, Structure, and Meanings; 2: Global Interaction and Identity in Structuralist and Dialectic Perspectives: Toward a Typology of Psycho-cultural Identities
3: The Civil Sphere beyond the Western Nation-State: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Alexander's Cultural Sociology and Its Contribution to Civil Society DiscoursePART 2: Neoliberalism between State and Market: Nationalism, International Free Trade and Persistence of the State; 4: The Role of the Nation-State in the Global Age; 5: Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era; 6: Deification of Market; Homogenization of Cultures: 'Free Trade' and Other Euphemisms for Global Capitalism
Part 3: Transnational Practices and Resistance: Gender, Media, and Social Movements7: "Transnational Activism, Feminist Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance"; 8: Transnational Flashpublics: Social Media and Affective Contagions from Egypt to Occupy Wall Street; 9: Transnational Feminist Media Practices: Seeking Alliance against Global Capitalism; 10: Shifting Contours in Latin American Cultures of Resistance; PART 4: Global Consumer Culture: Tourism, Taste, Consumption and Imaginary
11: Distinction and Social Class in America and Europe: Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Taste in Cross-Cultural Comparison12: Consumption, Identity, Space: Shopping Malls in Bogotá; 13: Trafficking Gypsiness in the 21st Century; 14: Tourism, Expatriates, and Power Relations in Vieques, Puerto Rico; PART 5: Human Rights, Equality and Culture of Empowerment; 15: Overcoming the Divide: Arab Women between Traditional Life and a Globalizing Culture; 16: The Millennium Development Goals, Gender Equality, and Empowerment in India; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary "With the crisis of the global capitalist economy the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of corporations, governments, ONG and social movements in shaping the terms of these flows? How do these flows of money, people, culture, goods and services work in practice? How do these flows affect the lives of the majority of regular people consuming and producing in the global marketplace? Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization. Contributors are: Gwen I. Alexis, Andrea Borghini, Cory Blad, Jack Bratich, Enrico Campo, Rekha Datta, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Peter Kivisto, Vincenzo Mele, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Nancy Naples, Ino Rossi, Victoria Reyes, Saliba Sarsar, Manal Stephan, Karen Schmelzkopf, and Marina Vujnovic"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (BrillOnline, viewed February 2, 2016)
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century
Globalization -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century
Globalization -- Philosophy
Culture -- Economic aspects -- History -- 21st century
Consumers -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century
Commerce -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Social aspects
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Capitalism -- Social aspects
Civilization, Modern
Commerce -- Social aspects
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
Culture -- Economic aspects
Globalization -- Philosophy
Globalization -- Social aspects
Social aspects
Globalisierung
Kulturwandel
Kulturkontakt
Weltwirtschaft
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Mele, Vincenzo, editor.
Vujnovic, Marina, 1975- editor.
ISBN 9789004272835
9004272836