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100			_aAppadurai, Arjun _917267
245			_aModernity at large: _bcultural dimensions of globalization
260			_aMinneapolis _bUniversity of Minnesota Press _c1998
300			_axi, 229 p.
365			_aINR _b0.00
490			_aPublic worlds series; Vol. 1
520			_aExamines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai places these challenges and pleasures of contemporary life in a broad global perspective. Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today's world, providing new resources for identity and energies for creating alternatives to the nation-state, whose era some see as coming to an end. Appadurai examines the current epoch of globalization, which is characterized by the twin forces of mass migration and electronic mediation, and provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patterns, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence. He considers the way images-of lifestyles, popular culture, and self-representation-circulate internationally through the media and are often borrowed in surprising (to their originators) and inventive fashions. Appadurai simultaneously explores and explodes boundaries-between how we imagine the world and how that imagination influences our self-understanding, between social institutions and their effects on the people who participate in them, between nations and peoples that seem to be ever more homogeneous and yet ever more filled with differences. Modernity at Large offers a path to move beyond traditional oppositions between culture and power, tradition and modernity, global and local, pointing out the vital role imagination plays in our construction of the world of today-and tomorrow. (https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816627936/modernity-at-large/)
650			_aCulture _92760
650			_aCivilization, Modern _92578
650			_aEthnicity _917268
650			_aMass media--Social aspects _913844
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