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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Challenging, provocative, informative, and giving full substance to the interrelations of the global and local, these essays carry the reader through a marvelously rich range of materials just where intellectual life in the humanities and social sciences today is most vital."—Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tracking the Global/Local / Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake 1
I. Globalizations
The Global in the Local / Arif Dirlik 21
Localism, Globalism, and Cultural Identity / Mike Featherstone 46
A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State / Masao Miyoshi 78
Real Virtuality / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto 107
Phobic Spaces and Liminal Panics: Independent Transnational Film Genre / Hamid Naficy 119
From the Imperial Family to the Transnational Imaginary: Media Spectatorship in the Age of Globalization / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam 145
II. Local Conjunctions
Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial Sex in Japan's "International" Age / Karen Kelsky 173
Desiring the Involuntary: Machinic Assemblage and Transnationalism in Deleuze and
Robocop 2 / Jonathan L. Beller 193
In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell 219
III. Global/Local Disruptions
Globalism's Localisms / Dana Polan 255
The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional Imaginary / Christopher L. Connery 284
Goodbye Paradise: Global/Localism in the American Pacific / Rob Wilson 312
The Case of the Emergent Cultural Criticism Columns in Taiwan's Newspaper Literary Supplements: Global/Local Dialectics in Contemporary Taiwanese Public Culture 337
South Korea as Social Space / Fredric Jameson interviewed by Paik Nak-chung 348
Afterword: "Global/Local" Memory and Thought 372
Index 387
Contributors 397
