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Global Culture Mike Featherstone

Global Culture By Mike Featherstone

Global Culture by Mike Featherstone

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In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system.

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Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity by Mike Featherstone

In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state? Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system. Will the intensification of global contact produce increasing tolerance of other cultures? Or will an integrating culture produce sharper reactions in the form of fundamentalist and nationalist movements?

The contributors explore the emergence of `third cultures', such as international law, the financial markets and media conglomerates, as elements which transcend the boundaries of the nation state. As well as examining the extent, causation and consequences of global homogenization, the authors consider its implication for the social sciences.

Global Culture was published simultaneously as Volume 7, issues 2-3 of Theory, Culture & Society.

Global Culture Reviews

`An impressive collection of essays focused on topics such as the possible emergence of a world culture, the character of the transnational culture of international law, financial markets and global media conglomerates, and the reactive possibilities of nationalist and fundamentalist movements. Pernicious perhaps to select from such a stimulating bunch but Bauman on Modernity and Ambivalence, Dezalay on the Big Bang and the Law, O'Neill on AIDS and Tenbruch on development policies indicate the quality of the field' - Network

`Provides some interesting and useful overviews and numerous individual insights into the debate of sociologists over the issues of local and global cultural analysis. The writing and editing are crisp, and arguments flow well' - Futures

`The contributors to this stimulating special issue of Theory, Culture & Society reflect on the causes and consequences of the rise of global society. GlobalCulture offers a timely report on work-in-progress at the limits of the discipline' - Sociology

`This is a rich and stimulating collection of heterogeneous reflections on the theme of `the global'. Rich in the variety of themes and perspectives' - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

About Mike Featherstone

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA : Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds Henning Bech University of Copenhagen Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury David Frisby University of Glasgow Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury Andrew Travers Somerset Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University Sam Whimster London Guildhall University Elizabeth Wilson University of North London Cas Wouters University of Utrecht

Table of Contents

Global Culture(s) - Mike Featherstone An Introduction Mapping the Global Condition - Roland Robertson Culture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein Culture and the World-System - Roy Boyne Culture as the World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein A Reply to Roy Boyne Turning World-Systems Theory on its Head - Alberg Bergesen Models of the Modern World-System - Peter Worsley Theory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society - Margaret Archer The Idea of Revolution - Alain Touraine Modernity and Ambivalence - Zygmunt Bauman Towards a Global Culture? - Anthony D Smith The Dream of a Secular Ecumene - Friedrich H Tenbruck The Meaning and Limits of Policies of Development Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity - Johann Arnason Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture - Ulf Hannerz Conflicts of Culture in Cross-Border Legal Relations - Volkmar Gessner and Angelike Schade A Research Topic in the Sociology of Law The Big Bang and the Law - Yves Dezalay The Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal Field Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun Appadurai Being in the World - Jonathan Friedman Globalization and Localization AIDS as a Globalizing Panic - John O'Neill The Two Faces of Sociology - Bryan S Turner Global or National? Norbert Elias's Theory of Humanity as a Very Long-Term Social Process - Stephen Mennell Privatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society - Peter Beyer Architecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture - Anthony King

Additional information

GOR003280813
9780803983229
0803983220
Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity by Mike Featherstone
Mike Featherstone
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
1990-07-03
416
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