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Book Globalizaciones m  ltiples

Download or read book Globalizaciones m ltiples written by Peter L. Berger and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muchas veces invocada, pero escasamente comprendida, la globalizacion es aplaudida como respuesta a todos los problemas del mundo a la vez que se la culpa de ellos, desde la contaminacion hasta la pobreza. En Globalizaciones multiples, Peter L. Berger y Samuel P. Huntington reunen a un elenco de expertos de todo el mundo que dibuja un retrato sutil y lleno de matices mostrando a un tiempo el poder y las consecuencias inesperadas de esta gran fuerza del mundo contemporaneo.En este libro los estereotipos que identifican la globalizacion con el imperialismo estadounidense, por un lado o con una especie de panacea economica por el otro acaban desmoronandose ante el examen riguroso de estos analistas. Al observar la globalizacion en paises como Chile, Japon, Sudafrica, Alemania, Turquia, Hungria, Taiwan, India y Estados Unidos los autores dan fe de la existencia de una cultura global incipiente de marcado origen y contenido estadounidense pero que no es ni una fuerza dirigida desde un centro como en el caso del imperialismo clasico, ni una mera "Disneylandia metastatica." Examinan las corrientes que transmiten esta cultura que van desde una clase mundial de jovenes profesionales hasta las organizaciones no gubernamentales y definen tanto las multiples variantes de la globalizacion -las influencias budistas, la modernidad islamica- como las subglobalizaciones que agrupan regiones enteras. Asimismo los autores llaman la atencion sobre fuerzas globalizadoras que han pasado inadvertidas al examen de los medios de comunicacion como por ejemplo el papel del protestantismo evangelico -que se adapta a los idiomas y las culturas locales e introduce valores estadounidenses caracteristicos-y el delOpus Dei el movimiento catolico conservador que tuvo su origen en Espana.Analitico, intens

Book Globalizaci  n y cultura

Download or read book Globalizaci n y cultura written by John Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoy se discute mucho sobre la globalizacion, pero los debates se restringen a los discursos disciplinarios especificos. Por primera vez, en este libro se reune una teoria social y el enfoque de estudios culturales para comprender la globalizacion. La obra comienza con un analisis de la relacion entre el proceso de globalizacion y los cambios contemporaneos en la cultura y se lo asocia con los debates sobre modernidad social y cultural. En la medula del libro esta presente un analisis de gran alcance sobre la compleja y ambigua "experiencia vivida" de la modernidad global. Tomlinson afirma que presenciamos ahora una tendencia general de disolucion de los vinculos entre experiencia cultural y ubicacion territorial. El autor estudia la naturaleza irregular de esta experiencia respecto a las sociedades del Primer y el Tercer Mundos, y reflexiona sobre la hibridacion de las culturas y el papel especial que desempenan las tecnologias de la comunicacion y los medios en este proceso de "desterritorializacion." Globalizacion y cultura concluye con un examen de la politica cultural del cosmopolitismo.

Book Globalizaci  n cultural y posmodernidad

Download or read book Globalizaci n cultural y posmodernidad written by José Joaquín Brunner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Br nner estudia el significado de globalizaci n y posmodernidad Para llegar al v nculo entre ambos fen menos a fin de abordar en conjunto las cuestiones morales y de orden social, la din mica del capitalismo y los problemas de identidad, los miedos de hoy y las configuraciones del poder en la sociedad.

Book La globalizaci  n que nos quieren vender

Download or read book La globalizaci n que nos quieren vender written by José C. Lisón Arcal and published by Nivola. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultura y transformaciones sociales en tiempos de globalizaci  n

Download or read book Cultura y transformaciones sociales en tiempos de globalizaci n written by Daniel Mato and published by Clacso. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultura y globalizaci  n

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  • Author : Eduardo Fernández Armendáriz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9789686331868
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Cultura y globalizaci n written by Eduardo Fernández Armendáriz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El mundo hispanohablante contempor  neo

Download or read book El mundo hispanohablante contempor neo written by Clara Mojica-Díaz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo: historia, política, sociedades y culturas is a comprehensive and innovative book for advanced students of Spanish. Offering a constructivist approach to the study of the civilizations, cultures and histories of the contemporary Spanish-speaking world, the book focuses on learning as an active process that enables learners to develop high-level critical thinking skills through the exposure, research, examination and discussion of a variety of authentic films, songs and literary texts. Divided into twelve chapters, each chapter begins with an introduction to the general topic followed by various activities that lead students to critically analyse a range of authentic materials. Learners are able to practice higher level critical-thinking and linguistic skills through a wealth of tasks and exercises which culminate in a capstone section that requires the application of the concepts learned and sources utilized throughout the lesson. El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo: historia, política, sociedades y culturas offers great flexibility and adaptability to suit advanced courses in Hispanic culture and civilization. Each chapter is methodologically designed with a balanced mix of activities for individual and teamwork. Additional resources are available online for both instructors and students. These include an instructor’s guide with answer key, a grammar supplement and links to the authentic materials referenced within the book.

Book Global America

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  • Author : Ulrich Beck
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780853239284
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Global America written by Ulrich Beck and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.

Book Global Culture

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  • Author : Diana Crane
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-05-06
  • ISBN : 1134955103
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Global Culture written by Diana Crane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book The Expediency of Culture

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  • Author : George Yúdice
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-23
  • ISBN : 0822385376
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book The Expediency of Culture written by George Yúdice and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-23 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Through a dazzling series of illustrative studies, Yúdice challenges the Gramscian notion of cultural struggle for hegemony and instead develops an understanding of culture where cultural agency at every level is negotiated within globalized contexts dominated by the active management and administration of culture. He describes a world where “high” culture (such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain) is a mode of urban development, rituals and everyday aesthetic practices are mobilized to promote tourism and the heritage industries, and mass culture industries comprise significant portions of a number of countries’ gross national products. Yúdice contends that a new international division of cultural labor has emerged, combining local difference with transnational administration and investment. This does not mean that today’s increasingly transnational culture—exemplified by the entertainment industries and the so-called global civil society of nongovernmental organizations—is necessarily homogenized. He demonstrates that national and regional differences are still functional, shaping the meaning of phenomena from pop songs to antiracist activism. Yúdice considers a range of sites where identity politics and cultural agency are negotiated in the face of powerful transnational forces. He analyzes appropriations of American funk music as well as a citizen action initiative in Rio de Janeiro to show how global notions such as cultural difference are deployed within specific social fields. He provides a political and cultural economy of a vast and increasingly influential art event— insite a triennial festival extending from San Diego to Tijuana. He also reflects on the city of Miami as one of a number of transnational “cultural corridors” and on the uses of culture in an unstable world where censorship and terrorist acts interrupt the usual channels of capitalist and artistic flows.

Book Continental Order

Download or read book Continental Order written by Vincent Mosco and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven contributions from North American scholars discuss "cybercapitalism" and the transnationalization of the capitalist political economy. They assess the extent of continental integration throughout the culture, media, telecommunications, and information industries since the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) and the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). A sampling of topics includes networking the North American higher education industry, the print media in Canada and Mexico, and the North American entertainment economy. c. Book News Inc.

Book Cultural Politics in Latin America

Download or read book Cultural Politics in Latin America written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relations of culture and politics in Latin America have been transformed in recent decades. Cultural Politics in Latin America offers unprecedented insights into this process, with contributions from leading intellectuals and academics working in and outside the region. Chapters range across fields as diverse as music and anthropology, sociology and cultural memory, politics and (post)modern theorizing, economics, communications and cultural globalization, poetry, narrative and drama, and all are contextualized in the extended Introduction in Latin America.

Book Cultural Identity in Transition

Download or read book Cultural Identity in Transition written by Jari Kupiainen and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Identity In Transition Analyses The Challenges That Globalisation And Modernisation Have Brought To Cultural Identity In Recent Years. This Collection Of Articles Highlights Some Of The Central Theoretical Ideas And Models Currently Used In The Analysis Of Cultural Identity In The Social And Cultural Sciences.While The Book S Main Regional Focus Is On Northern Europe, This Is Complemented By Several Case Studies Addressing Issues Of Cultural Identity In Indigenous And Ethnic Communities, In Literary And Artistic Expression, And In Terms Of National Politics Around The World.The Book Discusses In Detail The Questions Like : What Is At Stake In The Global Culture Industry In Terms Of Cultural Identity? How Do The Internet And Information Technology In General Empower Local Communities? What Kinds Of Political Struggles And Conflicts Can Be Associated With The Processes Of Cultural Identity? Cultural Identities Are In Transition, But In What Direction Are They Moving?Cultural Identity In Transition Will Be Essential Reading For University Students And Researchers In Sociology, Anthropology, And Cultural And Literary Studies.

Book Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies

Download or read book Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies written by Stephen Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies is a collection of new essays by recognised experts from around the world on various aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies. Essays are grouped in five distinct but interconnected sections focusing respectively on: (I) the theory of Latin American cultural studies; (II) the icons of culture; (III) culture as a commodity; (IV) culture as a site of resistance; and (V) everyday cultural practices. The essays range across a wide gamut of theories about Latin American culture; some, for example, analyse the role that ideas about the nation - and national icons  have played in the formation of a sense of identity in Latin America, while others focus on the resonance underlying cultural practices as diverse as football in Argentina, TV in Uruguay, cinema in Brazil, and the 'bolero' and soaps of modern-day Mexico. Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies has an introduction setting the ideas explored in each section in their proper context. The essays are written in jargon-free English (all Spanish terms have been translated into English), and are supplemented by a concluding section with suggestions for further reading.

Book Imagined Globalization

Download or read book Imagined Globalization written by Néstor García Canclini and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Néstor García Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization on the relations between Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and among Latin American countries. 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, at times, engage in conflicted or negotiated multicultural interactions. García Canclini contrasts the imaginaries of previous migrants to the Americas with those who live in transnational circuits today. He integrates metaphor and narrative, working through philosophical, anthropological, and socioeconomically grounded interpretations of art, literature, crafts, media, and other forms of expression toward his conclusion that globalization is, in important ways, a collection of heterogeneous narratives. García Canclini advocates global imaginaries that generate new strategies for dealing with contingency and produce new forms of citizenship oriented toward multiple social configurations rather than homogenization. This edition of Imagined Globalization includes a significant new introduction by George Yúdice and an interview in which the cultural theorist Toby Miller and García Canclini touch on events including the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.

Book Articulating The Global And The Local

Download or read book Articulating The Global And The Local written by Ann Cvetkovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how discourses of the local, the particular, the everyday, and the situated are being transformed by new discourses of globalization and transnationalism, as used both by government and business and in critical academic discourse. Unlike other studies that have focused on the politics and economics of globalization, Articulating the Global and the Local highlights the importance of culture and provides models for a cultural studies that addresses globalization and the dialectic of local and global forces. Arguing for the inseparability of global and local analysis, the book demonstrates how global forces enter into local situations and how in turn global relations are articulated through local events, identities, and cultures; it includes studies of a wide range of cultural forms including sports, poetry, pedagogy, ecology, dance, cities, and democracy. Articulating the Global and the Local makes the ambitious claim that the category of the local transforms the debate about globalization by redefining what counts as global culture. Central to the essays are the new global and translocal cultures and identities created by the diasporic processes of colonialism and decolonization. The essays explore a variety of local, national, and transnational contexts with particular attention to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality as categories that force us to rethink globalization itself.

Book Liderazgo Y Organizaciones de Peruanos en El Exterior  Culturas transnacionales e imaginarios sobre el desarrollo

Download or read book Liderazgo Y Organizaciones de Peruanos en El Exterior Culturas transnacionales e imaginarios sobre el desarrollo written by Teófilo Altamirano and published by Fondo Editorial PUCP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: