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Global Fragments
Author | : Anke Bartels,Dirk Wiemann |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042021822 |
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While the world seems to be getting ever smaller and globalization has become the ubiquitous buzz-word, regionalism and fragmentation also abound. This might be due to the fact that, far from being the alleged production of cultural homogeneity, the global is constantly re-defined and altered through the local. This tension, pervading much of contemporary culture, has an obvious special relevance for the new varieties of English and the literature published in English world-wide. Postcolonial literatures exist at the interface of English as a hegemonic medium and its many national, regional and local competitors that transform it in the new English literatures. Thus any exploration of a globalization of cultures has to take into account the fact that culture is a complex field characterized by hybridization, plurality, and difference. But while global or transnational cultures may allow for a new cosmopolitanism that produces ever-changing, fluid identities, they do not give rise to an egalitarian 'global village' - an asymmetry between centre and periphery remains largely intact, albeit along new parameters. The essays collected in this volume offer readings of literary, theoretical, and filmic texts from the postcolonial world. These texts are read as attempts to articulate the global with the local from a perspective of immersion in the actual diversity of life-worlds, focusing on such issues as consumption, identity-politics, and modes of affiliation. In this sense, they are global fragments: locally refractured figurations of an experience of world-wide interconnectedness.
Global Fragments
Author | : Eduardo Mendieta |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791479278 |
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Global Fragments offers an innovative analysis of globalization that aims to circumvent the sterile dichotomies that either praise or demonize globalization. Eduardo Mendieta applies an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most fundamental experiences of globalization: the mega-urbanization of humanity. The claim that globalization unsettles our epistemic maps of the world is tested against a study of Latin America. Mendieta also recontextualizes the work of three major theorists of globalization—Enrique Dussel, Cornel West, and Jürgen Habermas—to show how their thinking reflects engagement with central problems of globalization and, conversely, how globalization itself is exemplified through the reception of their work. Beyond the epistemic hubris of social theories that seek to accept or reject a globalized world, Mendieta calls for a dialogic cosmopolitanism that departs from the mutuality of teaching and learning in a world that is global but not totalized.
Fragments of the City
Author | : Colin McFarlane |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520382237 |
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Pursuing fragments -- Pulling together, falling apart -- Knowing fragments -- Writing in fragments -- Political framings -- Walking cities -- In completion.
Nature in Fragments
Author | : Elizabeth A. Johnson,Michael W. Klemens |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2005-11-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780231127790 |
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This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on biodiversity and the measures that can be taken to alleviate it. Leading biological and social scientists, conservationists, and land-use professionals examine how sprawl affects species and alters natural communities, ecosystems, and natural processes. The contributors integrate biodiversity issues, concerns, and needs into the growing number of anti-sprawl initiatives, including the "smart growth" and "new urbanist" movements.
World in Fragments
Author | : Cornelius Castoriadis,David Ames Curtis |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804727635 |
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This collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the most recent work in philosophy, politics, and psychoanalysis by a world-renowned figure in contemporary thought.
Global Shanghai 1850 2010
Author | : Jeffrey N Wasserstrom |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2008-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134613724 |
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This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies and anyone interested in the history of Shanghai.
Altova StyleVision 2010 User Reference Manual
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Altova, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 969 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781933210513 |
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Fragments of the World Uses of Museum Collections
Author | : Suzanne Keene |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2006-08-11 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781136402340 |
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During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventional exhibitions can only ever utilise a tiny proportion of them, what other uses of the collections are possible? Will their exploitation and use now destroy their value for future generations? Should they simply be kept safely and as economically as possible as a resource for the future? Fragments of the World examines these questions, first reviewing the history of collecting and of collections, then discussing the ways in which the collections themselves are being used today. Case studies of leading examples from around the world illustrate the discussion. Bringing together the thinking about museum collections with case studies of the ways in which different types of collection are used, the book provides a roadmap for museums to make better use of this wonderful resource.