Eduardo Mendieta: Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · critical theory, critique, ethics, globalisation, latin america, modernity, philosophy, postmodern, religion
Global Fragments offers an innovative analysis of globalization that aims to circumvent the sterile dichotomies that either praise or demonize globalization. Eduardo Mendieta applies an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most fundamental experiences of globalization: the mega-urbanization of humanity. The claim that globalization unsettles our epistemic maps of the world is tested against a study of Latin America. Mendieta also recontextualizes the work of three major theorists of globalization—Enrique Dussel, Cornel West, and Jürgen Habermas—to show how their thinking reflects engagement with central problems of globalization and, conversely, how globalization itself is exemplified through the reception of their work. Beyond the epistemic hubris of social theories that seek to accept or reject a globalized world, Mendieta calls for a dialogic cosmopolitanism that departs from the mutuality of teaching and learning in a world that is global but not totalized.
Publisher SUNY Press, 2007
ISBN 0791472574, 9780791472576
Length 226 pages
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Aihwa Ong, Donald Nonini (eds.): Ungrounded Empires. The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (1996)
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, capitalism, china, cultural politics, cultural studies, ethnography, mass media, multiculturalism, political economy, transnationalism
In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new “flexible” capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism’s institutions–flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media–upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on “overseas Chinese” and their unique location in the global arena.
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Saskia Sassen: Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (1998–) [EN, CR]
Filed under book | Tags: · city, economy, global city, globalisation, immigration, migration, mobility
“Saskia Sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines worldwide. Now available in paperback, Globalization and Its Discontents is a collection of Sassen’s essays dealing with topics such as the “global city,” gender and migration (reconceived as the globalization of labor), information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. Sassen brings together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics, sociology, and political science, showing how vast the chasm between metropolitan business centers and low-income inner cities has become. Incisive and original, she takes on common political, cultural, and economic misconceptions of globalization and offers a thoughtful, provocative new look at our increasingly global society.”
Publisher New Press, 1998
ISBN 1565845188, 9781565845183
xxxvi+253 pages
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Globalization and Its Discontents (English, 1998, DJVU, updated on 2015-7-8)
Protugeografije globalizacije (Croatian, trans. Danijela Sestrić, Jakov Vilović and Tomislav Medak, 2003)