Globalization / Globalisation edited by Arjun Appadurai. - 334 pages : illustrations, colour map ; 25 cm

"A Millennial Quartet Book.". "Public culture books.". Parts of the text of this book was originally published in vol. 12, no. 1 and 3 of Public culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination / At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa / Mapping Concepts / Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia / On Foot / On Wheels / Toward an Ethics of the Future / A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin / Mediating Time: The "Rice Bowl of Youth" in Fin de Siecle Urban China / Inside the Economy of Appearances / A Sweet Lullaby for World Music / On the Uddered Breast -- Prehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion / On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman's Claim to Locality / From National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City / Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization / Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital / The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity / Arjun Appadurai -- Achille Mbembe -- Philippe Rekacewicz -- Andreas Huyssen -- Boubacar Toure Mandemory -- Ralf D. Hotchkiss -- Jerome Binde -- Wu Hung -- Zhang Zhen -- Anna Tsing -- Steven Feld -- Seteney Shami -- Fatu Kande Senghor -- Nestor Garcia Canclini -- Saskia Sassen -- Leo Ching -- Jean-Francois Bayart.

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Globalization.
International relations.

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