This paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region
legendarily resistant to change will further enliven our ongoing
debate about whether ""the world is flat."" The U.S. South, long
defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving
out of this national and oppositional frame of reference into one
more international and integrative. Likewise, as the South goes
global (it is home to UPS, CNN, KFC, and other international
brands) people are emigrating there from countries like India,
Mexico, and Vietnam - and becoming southerners. Much has been made
of the demographic and economic aspects of this shift. Until now,
though, no one has systematically shown what globalism means to the
southern sense of self. Anthropologist James L. Peacock looks at
the South of both the present and the past to develop the idea of
""grounded globalism,"" in which abstract global forces and local
cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate
against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways.
Peacock's focus is on a particular part of the world; however, his
model is widely relevant: ""Some kind of grounding in locale is
necessary to human beings."" ""Grounded Globalism"" draws on
perspectives from fields as diverse as ecology, anthropology,
religion, and history to move us beyond the model of the South,
advanced by such scholars as C. Vann Woodward, as a region
paralyzed by the burden of its past. Peacock notes that, while
globalism may lift old burdens, it may impose new ones. He also
maintains that earlier regional identities have not been replaced
by rootless cosmopolitanism of cyberspace or other abstracted
systems. Attachments to place remain, even as worldwide markets
erase boundaries and flatten out differences and distinctions among
nations. Those attachments exert their own pressures back on
globalism, says Peacock, with subtle strengths that we should not
discount.
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