{"product_id":"globalizing-cultures-theories-paradigms-actions-9789004272828","title":"Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the crisis of the global capitalist economy the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of corporations, governments, ONG and social movements in shaping the terms of these flows? How do these flows of money, people, culture, goods and services work in practice? How do these flows affect the lives of the majority of regular people consuming and producing in the global marketplace? Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization.  Contributors are: Gwen I. Alexis, Andrea Borghini, Cory Blad, Jack Bratich, Enrico Campo, Rekha Datta, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Peter Kivisto, Vincenzo Mele, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Nancy Naples, Ino Rossi,Victoria Reyes, Saliba Sarsar, Manal Stephan,  Karen Schmelzkopf, and Marina Vujnovic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments       ix Notes on the Contributors       x Introduction: Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions       1 Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic  PART 1: THEORETICAL EXAMINATIONS AND CONCEPTS: GLOBAL CULTURE, GLOBAL IDENTITY, AND GLOBAL CIVIL SPHERE  1 Investigating Global Culture: Its Creation, Structure, and Meanings       23 Victoria Reyes  2 Global Interaction and Identity in Structuralist and Dialectic Perspectives: Toward a Typology of Psycho-cultural Identities       39 Ino Rossi Emeritus  3  The Civil Sphere beyond the Western Nation-State: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Alexander’s Cultural Sociology and Its Contribution to Civil Society Discourse       66 Peter Kivisto  PART 2: NEOLIBERALISM BETWEEN STATE AND MARKET: NATIONALISM, INTERNATIONAL FREE TRADE AND PERSISTENCE OF THE STATE  4  The Role of the Nation-State in the Global Age       89 Andrea Borghini  5  Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era       111 Cory Blad  6  Deification of Market; Homogenization of Cultures: ‘Free Trade’ and Other Euphemisms for Global Capitalism       124 Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis  PART 3: TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES AND RESISTANCE: GENDER, MEDIA, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS  7  Transnational Activism, Feminist Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance       143 Nancy A. Naples  8  Transnational Flash Publics: Social Media and Affective Contagions from Egypt to Occupy Wall Street       174 Jack Bratich  9  Transnational Feminist Media Practices: Seeking Alliance Against Global Capitalism        196 Marina Vujnovic  10  Shifting Contours in Latin American Cultures of Resistance       211 Ricardo A. Dello Buono  PART 4: GLOBAL CONSUMER CULTURE: TOURISM, TASTE, CONSUMPTION AND IMAGINARY  11  Distinction and Social Class in America and Europe. Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste in Cross-Cultural Comparison       233 Vincenzo Mele  12  Consumption, Identity, Space: Shopping Malls in Bogotá       258 Enrico Campo  13  Trafficking Gypsiness in the 21st Century       288 Mihaela Moscaliuc  14  Tourism, Expatriates, and Power Relations in Vieques, Puerto Rico       311 Karen Schmelzkopf  PART 5: HUMAN RIGHTS, EQUALITY AND CULTURE OF EMPOWERMENT  15  Overcoming the Divide: Arab Women between Traditional Life and a Globalizing Culture       331 Saliba Sarsar and Manal Stephan  16 The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equality, and Empowerment in India       353 Rekha Datta  Index       371","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210651099479,"sku":"9789004272828","price":160.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/globalizing-cultures-theories-paradigms-actions-9789004272828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}