{"product_id":"imagined-globalization-9780822354734","title":"Imagined Globalization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Néstor García Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization. In this book, newly available in English, he considers how globalization is imagined by artists, academics, migrants, and entrepreneurs, all of whom traverse boundaries and engage in multicultural interactions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For those engaging the question of howwemay move beyond narrow geopolitical horizons to embrace world anthropologies, this important book offers an exemplary model and abundant food for thought.\" -- Florence E. Babb * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"[O]ffers a nuanced examination of globalization…García Canclini creatively marshals autoethnographies, fictional scenarios, metaphors and cultural theorizing to compel the reader to consider global horizons broader than those imagined and channeled by the United States’ and Europe’s anthropological purview.\" -- Dustin Welch García * Ameriquests *\u003cbr\u003e\"Néstor García Canclini’s \u003ci\u003eImagined Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e urges a rearticulation of globalization discourse away from a solely economic or political focus to include the ways in which art, literature, fi lm, music, and television demonstrate interculturality…. Above all, this text gives the reader tangible examples of the exclusionary repercussions inherent to globalization, including a rich analysis proving imaginaries are culturally constructed.\" -- Christine Preble * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is recommended to anyone interested in ways to manage globalization using the tools of culture, art, politics, and democracy. Most of the book uses accessible prose, and the translator, George Yúdice, has done a fantastic job of inserting notes where minor updates to the original text are necessary.\" -- Amentahru Wahlrab * The Latin Americanist *\u003cbr\u003e“This translated version of \u003ci\u003eImagined Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e is bookended by a highly insightful reading guide prepared by the translator, George Yúdice, and a uniquely compelling Epilogue consisting of a conversation between Garía Canclini and Toby Miller in 2011. Together they serve to update the text, helping readers to situate it within a larger trajectory of scholarly research on globalisation and Garía Canclini’s own body of work. \u003ci\u003eImagined Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e deserves the attention of social scientists and Latin Americanists interested in the ‘possibilities-impossibilities of intercultural cooperation’ (p. 71) in a global age.” -- Sarah Lyon * Bulletin of Latin American Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Culture and Politics in the Imaginaries of Globalization\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Narratives, Metaphors, and Theories\u003cbr\u003e 1. Globalize or Defend Identity: how to Get Out of This Binary\u003cbr\u003e 2. Globalization: An Unidentified Cultural Object\u003cbr\u003e 3. Market and Interculturality: Latin America between Europe and the United States\u003cbr\u003e 4. We Don't Know What to Call Others\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Interlude\u003cbr\u003e 5. Disagreements between a Latin American Anthropologist, a European Sociologist, and a U.S. Cultural Studies Scholar\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Politics for Interculturality\u003cbr\u003e 6. From Paris to Miami via Nueva York\u003cbr\u003e 7. Capitals of Culture and Global Cities\u003cbr\u003e 8. Toward a Cultural Agenda of Globalization\u003cbr\u003e 9. Toward an Anthropology of Misunderstandings\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Social Imaginary Changes in Globalization today\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406075928919,"sku":"9780822354734","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822354734.jpg?v=1730494444","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagined-globalization-9780822354734","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}