Globalization

by Arjun Appadurai

Book Overview

Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites--local, regional, diasporic--are the scenes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822327236
• ISBN13: 9780822327233
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"