Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts - Brossura

Canclini, Nestor Garcia

 
9780816629879: Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts
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ISBN 10: 0816629870 ISBN 13: 9780816629879
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2001

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An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.

Social Theory/Latin American Studies

An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.

In Consumers and Citizens, NÉstor GarcÍa Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship.

GarcÍa Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant, as in the fashion and entertainment industries. He shows how identity issues, brought to the fore by the aligning of citizenship and consumption, can no longer be understood strictly within the purview of territory or nation. Rather, the postmodern citizen-consumer inhabits a transterritorial and multilingual space, structured more along the lines of markets than states. Defining this space, GarcÍa Canclini seeks to formulate a participatory and critical approach to consumption in which national culture, far from being extinguished, is reconstituted in transnational, cultural interactions.

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256 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 April

Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 6

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816629870
ISBN 13 
9780816629879
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
200
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