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"With the crisis of the global capitalist economy the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of co...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in critical social sciences,
volume 82 Studies in critical social sciences. Critical global studies ; volume 5 |
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| Summary: |
"With the crisis of the global capitalist economy the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of corporations, governments, ONG and social movements in shaping the terms of these flows? How do these flows of money, people, culture, goods and services work in practice? How do these flows affect the lives of the majority of regular people consuming and producing in the global marketplace? Taking an in |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789004272828 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 9004272828 (hardback : alkaline paper) 9789004272835 (e-book) 9004272836 (e-book) |
| Index Number: | HC79 |
| CLC: | F014.5-09 |
| Call Number: | F014.5-09/G562 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Globalizing cultures: theories, paradigms, actions / Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic -- Investigating global culture: its creation, structure, and meanings / Victoria Reyes -- Global interaction and identity in structuralist and dialectic perspectives: toward a typology of psycho-cultural identities / Ino Rossi -- The civil sphere beyond the western nation-state: theoretical and empirical reflections on Alexander's cultural sociology and its contribution to civil society discourse / Peter Kivisto -- The role of the nation-state in the global age / Andrea Borghini -- Faustian |