Globalizing cultures : : theories, paradigms, actions / / edited by Vincenzo Mele, Marina Vujnovic.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Global Studies : Critical Global Studies, Volume 82
• TeilnehmendeR: Mele, Vincenzo,; Vujnovic, Marina, 1975-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences. Critical global studies ; Volume 82.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization. Contributors are: Gwen I. Alexis, Andrea Borghini, Cory Blad, Jack Bratich, Enrico Campo, Rekha Datta, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Peter Kivisto, Vincenzo Mele, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Nancy Naples, Ino Rossi,Victoria Reyes, Saliba Sarsar, Manal Stephan, Karen Schmelzkopf, and Marina Vujnovic.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic -- 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 States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era / Cory Blad -- Deification of Market; Homogenization of Cultures: ‘Free Trade’ and Other Euphemisms for Global Capitalism / Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis -- “Transnational Activism, Feminist Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance” / Nancy A. Naples -- Transnational Flashpublics: Social Media and Affective Contagions from Egypt to Occupy Wall Street / Jack Bratich -- Transnational Feminist Media Practices: Seeking Alliance against Global Capitalism / Marina Vujnovic -- Shifting Contours in Latin American Cultures of Resistance / Ricardo A. Dello Buono -- Distinction and Social Class in America and Europe: Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste in Cross-Cultural Comparison / Vincenzo Mele -- Consumption, Identity, Space: Shopping Malls in Bogotá / Enrico Campo -- Trafficking Gypsiness in the 21st Century / Mihaela Moscaliuc -- Tourism, Expatriates, and Power Relations in Vieques, Puerto Rico / Karen Schmelzkopf -- Overcoming the Divide: Arab Women between Traditional Life and a Globalizing Culture / Saliba Sarsar and Manal Stephan -- The Millennium Development Goals, Gender Equality, and Empowerment in India / Rekha Datta -- Author Index / Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic -- Subject Index / Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic.