Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and
including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of
essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated
debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While
including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is
a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that
changing sites--local, regional, diasporic--are the scenes of
emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style,
sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of
violence.
Seeking an alternative to the dead-end debate between those who
see globalization as a phenomenon wholly without precedent and
those who see it simply as modernization, imperialism, or global
capitalism with a new face, the contributors seek to illuminate how
space and time are transforming each other in special ways in the
present era. They examine how this complex transformation involves
changes in the situation of the nation, the state, and the city.
While exploring distinct regions--China, Africa, South America,
Europe--and representing different disciplines and
genres--anthropology, literature, political science, sociology,
music, cinema, photography--the contributors are concerned with
both the political economy of location and the locations in which
political economies are produced and transformed. A special
strength of the collection is its concern with emergent styles of
subjectivity, citizenship, and mobilization and with the
transformations of state power through which market rationalities
are distributed and embodied locally.
"Contributors. "Arjun Appadurai, Jean Francois Bayart, Jerome
Binde, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Leo Ching, Steven Feld, Ralf D.
Hotchkiss, Wu Hung, Andreas Huyssen, Boubacar Toure Mandemory,
Achille Mbembe, Philipe Rekacewicz, Saskia Sassen, Fatu Kande
Senghor, Seteney Shami, Anna Tsing, Zhang Zhen
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