Globalization

Arjun Appadurai (Editor)

Description

Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites-local, regional, diasporic-are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of violence.Seeking an alternative to the dead-end debate between those who see globalization as a phenomenon wholly without precedent and those who see it simply as modernization, imperialism, or global capitalism with a new face, the contributors seek to illuminate how space and time are transforming each other in special ways in the present era. They examine how this complex transformation involves changes in the situation of the nation, the state, and the city. While exploring distinct regions-China, Africa, South America, Europe-and representing different disciplines and genres-anthropology, literature, political science, sociology, music, cinema, photography-the contributors are concerned with both the political economy of location and the locations in which political economies are produced and transformed. A special strength of the collection is its concern with emergent styles of subjectivity, citizenship, and mobilization and with the transformations of state power through which market rationalities are distributed and embodied locally.Contributors. Arjun Appadurai, Jean Francois Bayart, Jerome Binde, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Leo Ching, Steven Feld, Ralf D. Hotchkiss, Wu Hung, Andreas Huyssen, Boubacar Toure Mandemory, Achille Mbembe, Philipe Rekacewicz, Saskia Sassen, Fatu Kande Senghor, Seteney Shami, Anna Tsing, Zhang Zhen

Sujets

• Globalization
• Political economy

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 03 septembre 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822383215
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 12 Mo

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Globalization

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edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar

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by Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff

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Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock,

Homi K. Bhabha, & Dipesh Chakrabarty

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Globalization

Edited by Arjun Appadurai

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©  Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Typeset in Adobe Minion by Tseng Information Systems Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. The book originally was published as vol. , no.  ofPublic Culturewith the exception of Rekacewicz ‘‘Mapping Concepts,’’ which originally appeared in vol. , no.  ofPublic Culture,and Bayart ‘‘The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity,’’ originally inLa Reinvention du Capitalisme(Karthala, ).

Support for this book in part came from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Division of the Arts and Humanities’ support of the special issue ofPublic Cultureby the same name. Support is also acknowledged from the Globalization Project at the University of Chicago.

Dedicated to Neelan Tiruchelvam

 January – July 

Friend, Scholar, Political visionary, International citizen

Neelan Tiruchelvam’s violent and untimely death robbed the world of an extraordinary scholar, legislator, and political activist. He brought together scholars and activists on a global scale to discuss problems of civil society, law, and ethics. In so doing, he reminded us of the social life of theory and of the importance of placing local problems in the widest comparative perspective. He also reminded us of the importance of working on solutions to the difficult problems of ethnic terror in our midst. For this he paid with his life. Those who took Neelan’s life acted in the name of one kind of poli- tics. Neelan lived and died in the name of another kind of politics. That was a politics of knowledge, of radical moderation, and of systematic opposition to violence. At the time of his death, he was helping produce constitutional solutions to some of Sri Lanka’s worst ethnic deadlocks. Neelan wrote tirelessly and read widely in the midst of distractions and urgencies of every kind. He wrote in Tamil as well as in English so that the debate about Sri Lanka’s future could be democratic. He made many of us welcome in Colombo’s International Centre for Ethnic Studies and in his home, with his children and his wife, Sithie, who was his tireless co-worker. His death was senseless. But his life has opened examples of thought and practice that will expand the possibilities of moral intervention for many of us whose ordinary interests he helped throw into sharper ethical light. We mourn his passing and celebrate his example.

I have incurred many debts while editing this collection. The first and foremost is to Carol A. Breckenridge, who encouraged, prodded, and brainstormed throughout the process and who conceived of the Mil- lennial Quartet book series. The contributors to this volume have been

models of serious engagement. Kaylin Goldstein, in her role at Public Culture, has been of assistance throughout, as has Robert McCarthy, who contributed in many capacities, including his copyediting of the original manuscript and his preparation of the index. Caitrin Lynch has been, once again, a most valued associate, attentive to a host of orga- nizational and intellectual issues, most recently in the handling of the final proofs. Ken Wissoker and other staff members of Duke University Press have shown themselves to be thoughtful partners in seeing that there are many roads to a fine book. Above all, I owe a debt to another institution—the journal Public Culture and the project with which it is associated—for creating the institutional space in which this book was made possible, as part of its push toward new geographies and econo- mies of publication and circulation— Arjun Appadurai

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Arjun AppaduraiGrassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 

Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia

Contents

Andreas Huyssen

Boubacar Touré Mandémory

Ralf D. Hotchkiss

Wu Hung

Jérôme Bindé

Zhang ZhenMediating Time: The ‘‘Rice Bowl of Youth’’ in Fin de Siècle Urban China 

On Wheels

On Foot

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Inside the Economy of Appearances

Steven Feld

Anna Tsing

Achille MbembeAt the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa 

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Mapping Concepts

On the Uddered Breast

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A Sweet Lullaby for World Music

Toward an Ethics of the Future

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A Chinese Dreamby Wang Jin

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Philippe Rekacewicz

Seteney ShamiPrehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion 

Fatu Kande SenghorOn the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman’s Claim to Locality 

Néstor García CancliniFrom National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City 

Saskia SassenSpatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization 

Leo ChingGlobalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital 

Jean-François BayartThe Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity 

Contributors

Index

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Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination

Arjun Appadurai

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Globalization is certainly a source of anxiety in the U.S. academic world. And the sources of this anxiety are many: Social scientists (espe- cially economists) worry about whether markets and deregulation pro- duce greater wealth at the price of increased inequality. Political scien- tists worry that their field might vanish along with their favorite object, the nation-state, if globalization truly creates a ‘‘world without borders.’’ Cultural theorists, especially cultural Marxists, worry that in spite of its conformity with everything they already knew about capital, there may be some embarrassing new possibilities for equity hidden in its work- ings. Historians, ever worried about the problem of the new, realize that globalization may not be a member of the familiar archive of large-scale historical shifts. And everyone in the academy is anxious to avoid seem- ing to be a mere publicist of the gigantic corporate machineries that celebrate globalization. Product differentiation is as important for (and within) the academy as it is for the corporations academics love to hate.

This essay draws on two previous publications by the author: ‘‘The Research Ethic and the Spirit of Internationalism,’’Items(Social Science Research Council, New York) (December ) (), part I; and ‘‘Globalization and the Research Imagi- nation,’’International Social Science Journal(Blackwell/UNESCO) (June ) : –. The author is grateful to the Open Society Institute (New York) as well as to the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and UNESCO for pro- viding occasions for developing the ideas contained in this essay. Srilatha Batliwalla, Ben Lee, Achille Mbembe, Sheela Patel, Kenneth Prewitt, Toby Volkman, and my col- leagues in the Regional Worlds Project at the University of Chicago may recognize their provocations. My friends in SPARC (Bombay), especially Sheela Patel, might wish to regard it as a promissory note.