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Consumers And Citizens - Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts (Paperback)
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Consumers And Citizens - Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas
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In "Consumers and Citizens, " N(r)stor Garc a Canclini, the
best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin
America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media
and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that
the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain
traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client
state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship. Garc a
Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies
recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and
dissonant, as in the fashion and entertainment industries. He shows
how identity issues, brought to the fore by the aligning of
citizenship and consumption, can no longer be understood strictly
within the purview of territory or nation. Rather, the postmodern
citizen-consumer inhabits a transterritorial and multilingual
space, structured more along the lines of markets than states.
Defining this space, Garc a Canclini seeks to formulate a
participatory and critical approach to consumption in which
national culture, far from being extinguished, is reconstituted in
transnational, cultural interactions. "
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