Worlding Project Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization

Name: Worlding Project Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization
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ISBN: 9781556436802

ISBN-10: 1556436807

ISBN-13: 9781556436802

Edition: 2007

Authors: Christopher Leigh Connery, Rob Wilson, Christopher Leigh Connery

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Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range from the medieval Mediterranean to contemporary Jamaican music, from Hong Kong martial arts cinema to Taiwanese politics, writers such as David Palumbo-Liu, Meaghan Morris, James Clifford, and others use innovative cultural studies to challenge the globalization narrative with a new and trenchant tactic called “worlding.” The book posits that world literature,…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction: Worlded Pedagogy in Santa Cruz




Indigenous Articulations




Learning from Bruce Lee; Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts Cinema




Deprovincializing the Middle Ages




The World Sixties




Taiwan as Club 51: On the Culture of US Imperialism




"But I Did Not Shoot the Deputy": Dubbing the Yankee Frontier




Ridley Scott's Gladiator and the Spectacle of Empire: Global/Local Rumblings Inside the Pax Americana




Re-territorializing Asia Pacific: The Post-September 11 Logic of Hegemony




White Surfer Dude



Afterword: Worlding as Future Tactic



Contributors


Index