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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778156603321

Titolo

Constellations of the transnational [[electronic resource] ] : modernity, culture, critique / / editor, Sudeep Dasgupta ; with the assistance of Esther Peeren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Rodopi, c2007

ISBN

94-012-0370-9

1-4294-8148-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Thamyris intersecting, , 1481-1312 ; ; no. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

DasguptaSudeep

PeerenEsther

Disciplina

148

Soggetti

Culture diffusion

International relations and culture

Representation (Philosophy)

Transnationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material / Editors Constellations of the Transnational -- Cultural Constellations, Critique and Modernity: An Introduction / Sudeep Dasgupta -- Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Cultural Politics of Space: In the Footsteps of the Italian Forum / Joseph Pugliese -- “Here to Stay”: The Performance of Accents in the Work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn Sissay / Cornelia Gräbner -- Carnival Politics and the Territory of the Street / Esther Peeren -- Shadow Republic: The Concept of Place in Patriot Movement Discourse / Deborah Noel Kaplan -- Politics of Identity and Critical Judgment: Gesher Theater in Israel / Olga Gershenson -- Where in the World? Cultural Geopolitics of East/West Identities / Bianca Kai Isaki -- Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural Studies / Sudeep Dasgupta -- Notes on the Contributors / Editors Constellations of the Transnational -- Index / Editors Constellations of the Transnational.

Sommario/riassunto

In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual



discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on ‘culture’ in contemporary theories of globalization are analysed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analysis of cultural objects and practices. The essays thus intervene in the debate around modernity, globalization and cultural politics, and the volume as a whole provides a critical constellation through which the complexity of transnational culture can be framed. Thinking through the particular, the essays limn the absent universality of forms of capitalist globalization and the volume as a whole provides multiple perspectives from which to enter the singular modernity of our times in all its complexity.