Cultural Globalization

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Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide is a personaland engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization.Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wiseexplores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order togive students a new perspective on issues of globalization. * Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and NorthAmerican youth culture and popular music * Draws on interdisciplinary research from the fields ofanthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and mediastudies * Considers how global processes carry with them the ethicalquestions of how to act in the world and how to care forothers * Provides an original and stimulating overview of theories ofculture and globalization, encouraging students think more broadly about the key issues

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J. MacGregor Wise

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Cultural Studies Globalisierung Kultursoziologie Kulturwissenschaften Sociology Sociology of Culture Soziologie

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"MacGregor Wise's meander through music and youth culture offers a vision of a free global sweet shop, in which fashionable kids can pick and mix their identities ... .A comparison of the manner in which the music press elevates certain types of 'world music' with British colonial approval of the Indian caste system provides ... originality." (Times Literary Supplement, February 2009)"Greg Wise's new book is an achievement in globalization"writ small," allowing us to feel and assess things that movebetween and across borders, hybrid things, things whosein-betweenness poses to us personal but necessary dilemmas.Finally, the subject of cultural globalization receives a delicateaffective treatment." -John Nguyet Erni, Professor of Cultural Studies,Lingnan University, Hong Kong "With rigour and elegance, Wise deftly captures themovement of culture through the world. CulturalGlobalization is rich in detailed cases, from a wide variety ofplaces and cultural genres. The author's engaging, accessibleanalytic voice make this both a perfect course text and animportant contribution to debates on globalization." -Will Straw, Professor of Art and CommunicationStudies, McGill University
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