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Book Cultural Imperialism

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Tomlinson
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780826450135
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Cultural Imperialism written by John Tomlinson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romantic Imperialism

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  • Author : Saree Makdisi
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998-04-16
  • ISBN : 9780521586047
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Romantic Imperialism written by Saree Makdisi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over a hundred and fifty million people brought under British imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernisation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with and contested in Romanticism. Saree Makdisi argues that this process has to be understood in global terms, beyond the British and European viewpoint, and that developments in India, Africa, and the Arab world (up to and including our own time) enable us to understand more fully the texts and contexts of British Romanticism. New and original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Scott emerge in the course of this searching analysis of the cultural process of globalisation. Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1998.

Book Cultural Imperialism

Download or read book Cultural Imperialism written by John Tomlinson and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Cultural Imperialism," John Tomlinson deals with issues ranging from the ideological effects of imported cultural products, to the process of cultural homogenization, to the nature of cultural autonomy. He examines a number of related discourses: thedebate about "media imperialism" the discourse of national cultural identity; the critique of multinational capitalism and the critique of cultural modernity. His analysis reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural, as distinct from economic or political, imperialism is formulated.

Book Culture and Imperialism

Download or read book Culture and Imperialism written by Edward W. Said and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Book  Post colonial Narratives

Download or read book Post colonial Narratives written by Michael Petersen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modernity At Large

Download or read book Modernity At Large written by Arjun Appadurai and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modernization as Ideology

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  • Author : Michael E. Latham
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2003-06-19
  • ISBN : 0807860794
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Modernization as Ideology written by Michael E. Latham and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.

Book Why Men Rebel

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  • Author : Ted Robert Gurr
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-11-17
  • ISBN : 1317248945
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Why Men Rebel written by Ted Robert Gurr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its holistic, people-based understanding of the causes of political protest and rebellion. With its close eye on the politics of group identity, this book provides new insight into contemporary security challenges.

Book Globalization  Development and the Mass Media

Download or read book Globalization Development and the Mass Media written by Colin Sparks and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, Development and the Mass Media gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization. It examines two main currents of thought. Firstly, the ways in which the media can be used to effect change and development. It traces the evolution of thinking from attempts to spread ′modernity′ by way of using the media through to alternative perspectives based on encouraging participation in development communication. Secondly, the elaboration of the theory of media imperialism, the criticisms that it provoked and its replacement as the dominant theory of international communication by globalization.

Book Modernization Or Cultural Imperialism  A Critical Reading of Taiwan0  9s National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study

Download or read book Modernization Or Cultural Imperialism A Critical Reading of Taiwan0 9s National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study written by Yun-Shiuan Chen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research critically analyzes Taiwan0́9s long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study. It focuses on the program0́9s development between 1955 and 2000. The National Scholarship Program can be seen as Taiwan0́9s governmental pursuit of strategic modernization for national and social development. Strategic modernization does not necessarily imply a linear, progressive and teleological modernity; but should be viewed as an adjustable, flexible, and sustainable modernization that constantly transforms and assists a nation, like Taiwan, to adapt itself within its constrained and changing post-colonial condition. This view of strategic modernization is based upon an interrogation of the discourses surrounding the scholarship program, while using post-colonial theories as a referential framework. Furthermore this research included an ethnographic analysis of discourse to investigate the program from two perspectives: one was the researcher0́9s critical discourse analysis of historical texts and the other derives from the narratives provided by program stakeholders including scholarship fellows, a policy maker and a program conductor. The juxtaposition of these two discursive perspectives revealed different facets of the program. In terms of policy discourse, the discursive shifts of the program demonstrated productivity and transformability in their emergence, continued development and integration of various broader political, economic and cultural structures. Ethnographic interviews, in spite of the fact that the emergent themes of the interviewees were not directly associated with the grand policy discourse of modernization for national and social development, revealed a shared sense of honor derived from their being national scholarship fellows; and seemed to drive their contributions to the various national agendas over different eras. Additionally, their different experiences of studying abroad in respective eras revealed the zeitgeists of their eras in varying ways. The discourse shifts of making contributions to Taiwan 0́3 serves as an example of nationalisms. Fellows in the 1960s and 1970s were required to return to Taiwan and oftentimes were appointed as high-ranking governmental officials on national projects of an anti-communist nature, because of their advanced education and hybrid cultural experiences. Meanwhile, because of the changing discourse of nationalism, fellows and program conductors in the 1990s were convinced that staying overseas could also make significant contribution to Taiwan0́9s development because fellows0́9 professional development and their connections within 0́−advanced0́+ countries can be seen as an invisible extensive power of Taiwan. In brief, when the program resumed in Taiwan, the discursive shifts can be understood as having four stages: Inception, Emerging, Expansion, and Transformation. Under the overarching grand discourse of modernization for national and social development, there were individual shifting discourses within the four stages of program development. On one hand, various structural conditions and contingent incidents, such as the Cold War and its ramifications, produced discourses that drove and perpetuated the program. On the other hand, scholarship became a means for Taiwan to adopt herself to her continuously changing world condition 0́3 a post-colonial condition which produced a complex, ever-changing set of interrelationships between Taiwan, China, and the United States.

Book Power  Culture and Modernity in Nigeria

Download or read book Power Culture and Modernity in Nigeria written by Oluwatoyin Oduntan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Oluwatoyin Oduntan offers a critical intervention in the scholarly fields of Nigerian, and West African history, as well as towards understanding the intellectual ideas by which modern African society was formed, and how it functions. The book traces the shifting dynamics between various segments of the African elite by critically analyzing existing historical accounts, traditions and archival documents. First, it explores the lost world of native intellectual thoughts as the perspective through which Africans experienced the colonial encounter. It thereby makes Africans central to contemporary debates about the meanings and legitimacy of colonial empires, and about the African cultural experience. It shows that the resettlement of liberated and Westernized Africans in Abeokuta and after them, European missionaries, merchants and colonial agents from the 1840s, did not dismantle preexisting power structures and social relations. Rather, educated Africans and Europeans entered into and added their voices to ongoing processes of defining culture and power. By rendering a continuing narrative of change and adaptation which connects the pre-colonial to the post-colonial, Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria leads Africanist scholarship in new directions to rethink colonial impact and uncover the total creative sites of changes by which African societies were formed.

Book Cultural imperialism

Download or read book Cultural imperialism written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonialism   Modernity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Gillen
  • Publisher : UNSW Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780868407357
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Colonialism Modernity written by Paul Gillen and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books tell such a broad global history using an interdisciplinary approach that blends historical and cultural scholarship. Author based at UTS.

Book Globalization and Culture

Download or read book Globalization and Culture written by John Tomlinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization. The book starts with an analysis of the relationship between the globalization process and contemporary culture change and goes on to relate this to debates about social and cultural modernity. At the heart of the book is a far-reaching analysis of the complex, ambiguous "lived experience" of global modernity. Tomlinson argues that we can now see a general pattern of the dissolution between cultural experience and territorial location. The "uneven" nature of this experience is discussed in relation to first and third world societies, along with arguments about the hybridization of cultures, and special role of communications and media technologies in this process of "deterritorialization". Globalization and Cultureconcludes with a discussion of the cultural politics of cosmopolitanism. Accessibly written, this book will be of interest to second year undergraduates and above in sociology, media studies, cultural and communication studies, and anyone interested in globalization.

Book Colonial Modernity in Korea

Download or read book Colonial Modernity in Korea written by Gi-Wook Shin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation versus Korean resistance that has dominated the study of Korea’s colonial period (1910–1945) by adopting a more inclusive, pluralistic approach that stresses the complex relations among colonialism, modernity, and nationalism. By addressing such diverse subjects as the colonial legal system, radio, telecommunications, the rural economy, and industrialization and the formation of industrial labor, one group of essays analyzes how various aspects of modernity emerged in the colonial context and how they were mobilized by the Japanese for colonial domination, with often unexpected results. A second group examines the development of various forms of identity from nation to gender to class, particularly how aspects of colonial modernity facilitated their formation through negotiation, contestation, and redefinition.

Book Modernization Or Cultural Imperialism

Download or read book Modernization Or Cultural Imperialism written by Yun-shiuan Chen and published by Global Studies in Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the development of Taiwan's long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The research includes an ethnographic analysis of discourse, investigating the program from two perspectives: the researcher's critical discourse analysis of historical texts, and the narratives provided by program stakeholders.