Articulating The Global And The Local by Ann Cvetkovich, Doug... - 9780367314590

Taylor & Francis

This book highlights the importance of culture and provides models for cultural studies that address globalization and the dialectic of local and global forces, demonstrating how global forces enter into local situations and arguing for the inseparability of global and local analysis. > This book explores how discourses of the local, the particular, the everyday, and the situated are being transformed by new discourses of globalization and transnationalism, as used both by government and business and in critical academic discourse. Unlike other studies that have focused on the politics and economics of globalization, Articulating > \nIntroduction: Thinking Global and Local, PART ONE THEORIZING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL, 1 Collective Identity and the Democratic Nation-State in the Age of Globalization, 2 Looking for Globality in Los Angeles, 3 The (Trans) National Basketball Association: American Commodity-Sign Culture and Global-Local Conjuncturalism, 4 The Politics of Corporate.