Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization By Arjun Appadurai
Publisher: Univ of Minne sota Press 1996 | 229 Pages | ISBN: 0816627924 , 0816627932 | DJVU | 5 MB
Publisher: Univ of Minne sota Press 1996 | 229 Pages | ISBN: 0816627924 , 0816627932 | DJVU | 5 MB
Appadurai's book, Modernity at Large, offers quite a few tools to help us think about that big fuzzy thing called "globalization." He coins quite a few words to describe multiply-constituted networks of culture - ethnoscapes, mediascapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, and technoscapes. All are different ways of looking at the global cultural flows that we're trying to describe, and all are strongly influenced by perspective, overlapping, and rapidly shifting (though the term doesn't quite capture the instability and mutability of global cultural flows).