The Neocolonialism of the Global Village by Ginger Nolan

The Neocolonialism of the Global Village by Ginger Nolan

Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan The term “global village”—coined in the 1960s by Marshall McLuhan—has persisted into the twenty-first century as a key trope of techno-humanitarian discourse, casting economic and technical transformations in a utopian light. Against that tendency, this book excavates the violent history, originating with techniques of colonial rule in Africa, that gave rise to the concept of the global village. To some extent, we are all global villagers, but given the imbalances of semiotic power, some belong more thoroughly than others. Reassessing McLuhan’s media theories in light of their entanglement with colonial and neocolonial techniques, Nolan implicates various arch-paradigms of power (including “terra-power”) in the larger prerogative of managing human populations. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Ginger Nolan is a postdoctoral fellow in urban studies at Basel University.

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ISBN 13	9781517904869
ISBN 10	1517904862
Title	The Neocolonialism of the Global Village
Author	Ginger Nolan
Series	Forerunners: Ideas First
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	2018-07-10
Number of pages	80
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