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Book SynopsisExplores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender.
Trade ReviewReview by Peter Burger appeared in the TLS, August 20, 1999. Completely hostile to the Marxist analysis of globalization and to the belief in all the essays that globalization has had only negative consequences ... "The conference at Duke University was an international gathering of people with monotonously identical views. Their approach is shaped by a particular mixture of neo-Marxism and so-called literary theory, which began as an intellectual fashion in France and has become a dreary orthodoxy in American academe. There was not a single dissenting voice."
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Preface / Fredric Jameson xi
I. Globalization and Philosophy
Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity / Enrique Dussel 3
Globalization, Civilization Processes, and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures / Walter D. Mignlo 32
Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue / Fredric Jameson 54
II. Alternative Localities
Global Fragments: A Second Latinamericanism / Alberto Moreiras 81
Toward a Regional Imaginary in Africa / Manthia Diawara 103
Negotiating African Culture: Toward a Decolonization of the Fetish / Ioan Davies 125
The End of Free States: On Transnationalism of Culture / Subramani 146
Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity in China / Liu Kang 164
III. Culture and the Nation
Globalization and Culture: Navigating the Void / Geeta Kapur 191
Nations and Literatures in the Age of Globalization / Paik Nak-chung 218
Media in a Capitalist Culture / Barbara Trent 230
"Globalization," Culture, and the University / Masao Miyoshi 247
IV. Consumerism and Ideology
Dollarization, Fragmentation, and God / Sherif Hetata 273
Social Movements and Global Capitalism / Leslie Sklair 291
"Environmental Justice" (Local and Global) / Joan Martinez-Alier 312
What's Green and Makes the Environment Go Round? / David Harvey 327
Free Trade and Free Market: Pretense and Practice / Noam Chomsky 356
In Place of a Conclusion / Masao Miyoshi 371
Index 385
Contributors 391
