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Globalization and Culture

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ISBN-10: 0226807681

ISBN-13: 9780226807683

Edition: 1999 (Reprint)

Authors: John Tomlinson

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Globalisation is now widely discussed, but the debates often focus on economic issues. John Tomlinson goes far beyond traditional discussions to analyse the wide ranging cultural, social and moral aspects of globalisation.
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Globalization and Culture
Globalization as Complex Connectivity
Culture as a Dimension of Globalization
Why Culture Matters for Globalization
Why Globalization Matters for Culture
Global Modernity
Global Modernity as Historical Period
Globalization as a 'Consequence of Modernity'
Suspicion of Global Modernity
Conclusion
Global Culture: Dreams, Nightmares and Scepticism
Dreams: Historical Imaginings of a Global Culture
Nightmares: Global Culture as Cultural Imperialism
Global Culture: The Sceptical Viewpoint
Deterritorialization: The Cultural Condition of Globalization
The Concept of Deterritorialization
The Mundane Experience of Deterritorialization
Objections to Deterritorialization
Deterritorialization at the 'Margins'
Hybridization
Mediated Communication and Cultural Experience
Mediation and Connectivity
Mediated Proximity 1: Intimacy Redefined
Mediated Proximity 2: Televisual Involvement and the Closing of Moral Distance
The Possibility of Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism: Idea, Ideology, Ideal
Cosmopolitans Without a Cosmopolis
Notes
Bibliography
Index