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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814204603321

Autore

García Canclini Néstor

Titolo

Consumers and citizens : globalization and multicultural conflicts / / Néstor García Canclini ; translated and with an introduction by George Yúdice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2001]

©2001

ISBN

0-8166-8830-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; volume 6

Altri autori (Persone)

YúdiceGeorge

Disciplina

972.08/3

Soggetti

Popular culture - Mexico

Communication and traffic - Social aspects - Mexico

Technology - Social aspects - Mexico

Consumers - Mexico - Attitudes

Nationalism - Mexico

Mexico Civilization 20th century

Mexico Relations

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 (pages 163-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Consumption is good for thinking -- Mexico : cultural globalization in a disintegrating city -- Urban cultural policies in Latin America -- Narrating the multicultural -- Identities as a multimedia spectacle -- Latin America and Europe as suburbs of Hollywood -- From the public to the private : the "americanization" of spectators -- Multicultural policies and integration via the market -- Negotiation of identity in popular classes? -- How civil society speaks today.

Sommario/riassunto

In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship. García Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions,



however heterogeneous and dissonant,