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An Analysis of Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large - Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large - Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation (Hardcover)
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Arjun Appadurai's 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large:
Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how
anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood
the key topic of our times: globalization. Globalization has long
been recognized as one of the crucial factors shaping the modern
world - a force that allows goods, people, money, information and
culture to flow across borders with relative ease. But if
globalization is reshaping the world, it is also viewed with
increasing suspicion - and it is still not clear how to understand
and conceptualise the huge shifts that are taking place.
Appadurai's work is now considered one of the most influential
contributions to the field, largely because of its brilliantly
creative approach to the conceptual problems posed by the deep and
rapid changes that are involved. Critical thinking lies at the
heart of the author's approach to his writing. A common tactic
among gifted creative thinkers is to shift a problem or argument
into a novel interpretative framework, and this is exactly what
Appadurai did. Modernity at Large interrogates modernity through
Appadurai's notion of 'scapes,' a set of separate, interacting
flows that, he suggests, cross the globalized world: ethnoscapes
(the flow of people), mediascapes (flow of media), technoscapes
(technological interactions), financescapes (capital flow), and
ideoscapes (the flow of ideologies). By constructing this creative
framework, it becomes possible to undertake, as Appadurai does, a
brilliant and original investigation of what globalization really
means.
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