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Author : Yoav Galai
Release : 2017
Genre : Collective memory
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Book Synopsis Transnational Constellations of the Past by : Yoav Galai
Download or read book Transnational Constellations of the Past written by Yoav Galai. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sudeep Dasgupta
Release : 2007
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Constellations of the Transnational by : Sudeep Dasgupta
Download or read book Constellations of the Transnational written by Sudeep Dasgupta. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on 'culture' in contemporary theories of globalization are analysed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analysis of cultural objects and practices. The essays thus intervene in the debate around modernity, globalization and cultural politics, and the volume as a whole provides a critical constellation through which the complexity of transnational culture can be framed. Thinking through the particular, the essays limn the absent universality of forms of capitalist globalization and the volume as a whole provides multiple perspectives from which to enter the singular modernity of our times in all its complexity.
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Release : 2015-06-29
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Constellations of the Transnational written by . This book was released on 2015-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on ‘culture’ in contemporary theories of globalization are analysed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analysis of cultural objects and practices. The essays thus intervene in the debate around modernity, globalization and cultural politics, and the volume as a whole provides a critical constellation through which the complexity of transnational culture can be framed. Thinking through the particular, the essays limn the absent universality of forms of capitalist globalization and the volume as a whole provides multiple perspectives from which to enter the singular modernity of our times in all its complexity.
Author : Jürgen Schriewer
Release : 2017-10-02
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis World Culture Re-Contextualised by : Jürgen Schriewer
Download or read book World Culture Re-Contextualised written by Jürgen Schriewer. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressive strands of research have shown the emergent reality of increasing world-level interconnection in almost every field of social action. As a consequence, theories and models have been developed which are aimed at conceptualising this new reality along the lines of an ‘institutionalised’ World Culture. This offers a new understanding of the worldwide diffusion of specifically modern – i.e. mainly Western – rules, ideologies and organisational patterns, and of attendant harmonisation and standardisation of fields of social action. World Culture theories have not gone unchallenged. Rather, cross-cultural studies have revealed much more complex processes of regional fragmentation and (re-)diversification; of the refraction, appropriation, and hybridisation, through distinct socio-cultural conditioning, of world-level models and ideas; and of the ongoing effectiveness both of structural path-dependencies and of specifically cultural aspects such as collective memories, social meanings, and religious (or ideological) belief systems. Comparative research has thus highlighted an intricate simultaneity of contrary currents: of the increasing world-level interconnection of communication and exchange relations on the one hand, and, on the other, the persistence of context-specific interpretations, translations, and deviation-generating re-contextualisations of world-level forces and challenges. This research provides the theoretical problematique that animates this volume. The chapters explore the conceptual tools and explanatory power of theories and models which do not just oppose or reject World Culture theory, but are instead suited to complementing and differentiating it. The volume offers an enlightening conceptualisation of the intricate interaction of global processes with local agency, and of world-level forces with the self-evolutionary potentials inherent in specific contexts, socio-cultural structures, and distinctive meanings constellations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education.
Author : Marcela A. Fuentes
Release : 2019-10-02
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 228/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performance Constellations by : Marcela A. Fuentes
Download or read book Performance Constellations written by Marcela A. Fuentes. This book was released on 2019-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the power of embodied and digital networks in confronting neoliberal sociopolitical regimes in the Americas
