Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide is a personal
and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization.
Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wise
explores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order to
give students a new perspective on issues of globalization.
* Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and North
American youth culture and popular music
* Draws on interdisciplinary research from the fields of
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media
studies
* Considers how global processes carry with them the ethical
questions of how to act in the world and how to care for
others
* Provides an original and stimulating overview of theories of
culture and globalization, encouraging
students think more broadly about the key issues
Table of Content
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Culture at Home.
Culture.
Territory.
Identity.
Home.
Ideology and Hegemony.
2. Culture and the Global.
Non-Local Connections.
Globalization.
Global Flows.
Form and Content, Local and Global.
3. Global Youth.
Youth as a Contested Category.
Constructing Youth.
Surveillance and Youth.
Global Youth.
Core and Periphery.
4. Global Music.
World Music and Cultural Imperialism.
Global Flows of Music.
Forms of Global Music.
5. Territories of Cultural Globalization.
Faye Wong.
Dick Lee.
Panlatinidad.
Audiotopias.
Citizenship.
Conclusion: Opening Windows.
References.
Index
About the author
J. Macgregor Wise is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Exploring Technology and Social Space (1997), co-author (with Jennifer Daryl Slack) of Culture and Technology: A Primer (2005), and co-author (with Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney) of the second edition of Media Making: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (2006).
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