Globalization / edited by Arjun Appadurai.

Other author Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Description334 pages : illustrations, color map ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Grassroots globalization and the research imagination / Arjun Appadurai -- At the edge of the world: boundaries, territoriality, and sovereignty in Africa / Archille Mbembe -- Mapping concepts / Philippe Rekacewicz -- Present pasts: media, politics, amnesia / Andreas Huyssen -- On foot / Boubacar Touré Mandémory -- On wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss -- Toward an ethics of the future / Jérôme Bindé -- A Chinese dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung -- Mediating time: the "rice bowl of youth" in fin de siècle urban China / Zhang Zhen -- Inside the economy of appearances / Anna Tsing -- A sweet lullaby for world music / Steven Feld -- On the uddered breast -- Prehistories of globalization: Circassian identity in motion / Seteney Shami -- On the predicament of the sign: the modern African woman's claim to locality / Fatu Kande Senghor -- From national capital to global capital: urban change in Mexico City / Néstor García Canclini -- Spatialities and temporalities of the global: elements for a theorization / Saskia Sassen -- Globalizing the regional, regionalizing the global: mass culture and Asianism in the age of late capital / Leo Ching -- The paradoxical invention of economic modernity / Jean-François Bayart.
General note"A Millennial Quartet Book."
General note"Public culture books."
General noteParts of the text of this book was originally published in vol. 12, no. 1 and 3 of Public culture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other title Public culture (Durham, N.C.)
LCCN 2001023877
ISBN0822327252 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822327236 (pbk. : alk. paper)