Description
Book SynopsisGlobalization is one of the most widely circulated, high-stakes buzzwords of the past generation; yet discussion of the topic is often encased in paradox and contention over what globalization is, to whom and where it may (or may not) apply, and to what effect. In
Talking Back to Globalization: Texts and Practices, contributors provide a series of case studies that stress the interplay between culture, politics, and commerce.
Interviews with Natalie Fenton and Radha S. Hegde survey globalization and its interpenetration with the spheres of journalism, activism, social media, and identity. The overview furnished by the interviews is followed by the volume's two additional extended sections, Texts and Practices.
Chapters in the Texts section seek clues about globalization through its insinuation into mediated forms. The diverse selection of cases cover television, films, online travel web pages, blues music, and the political valences of Portuguese neo-fado.
Chapters
Trade Review«Global what? Global how? Global who? We’re all struggling with how to make sense of globalization. Through an agile blend of interview, theorization, and case study, the editors of
Talking Back to Globalization have both answered these questions and added a further – how to respond, how to contest, how to think otherwise. Bravo!» (Toby Miller, Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
«This wide-ranging collection highlights how opportunities for cultural mixing are both bait and consequence of a pervasive social system prioritizing market-driven exchange. The chapters stress the importance not just of ‘talking back’ but of completely reframing conversations about neoliberal-driven globalization.» (Erika Polson, University of Denver)
«Global what? Global how? Global who? We’re all struggling with how to make sense of globalization. Through an agile blend of interview, theorization, and case study, the editors of
Talking Back to Globalization have both answered these questions and added a further – how to respond, how to contest, how to think otherwise. Bravo!» (Toby Miller, Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
«This wide-ranging collection highlights how opportunities for cultural mixing are both bait and consequence of a pervasive social system prioritizing market-driven exchange. The chapters stress the importance not just of ‘talking back’ but of completely reframing conversations about neoliberal-driven globalization.» (Erika Polson, University of Denver)
Table of ContentsContents: Brian Michael Goss/Joan Pedro-Carañana/Mary Rachel Gould: Washed Up on the Shores of Neoliberal Globalization – Joan Pedro-Carañana/Natalie Fenton: A Conversation With Natalie Fenton: «Resocializing the Political and Re-politicizing the Economy» – Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre/Radha S. Hegde: A Conversation With Radha S. Hegde: Globalization: «It’s Everywhere; It’s Nowhere» – Brian Michael Goss: «Petting the Burning Dog» of Orientalism: Implications of Occupation (2009) and Generation Kill (2008) for Cosmopolitan Assumptions About Globalization – Christopher Chávez/Mary Rachel Gould: Courting the LGBTQ Consumer: A Global Perspective – Josep Pedro-Carañana: The Globalization of Blues: Rural, Urban, Transatlantic. – Michael Arnold: «Ai, é tão bom ser pequenino!»: OqueStrada’s Fado-Chanson-Ska and Local Sustainable Capitalism – Joan Pedro-Carañana: The Globalization of Universities: European Higher Education Area Viewed From the Perspectives of the Enlightenment and Industrialism – Marion Wrenn: Strategic Sociability: US-led Journalist Reorientation Programs and Cold War Media Practices – Staša Tkalec: Defending Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? – Delia Dumitrica: Facebook’s Global Imaginary: The Symbolic Production of the World Through Social Media – Cameron McCarthy: The Global City and the Uses of the New Multiculture.
