This book explores how discourses of the local, the particular, the everyday, and the situated are being transformed by new discourses of globalization and tran

A pervasive force, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels

Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first tim

Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on extensive examples and int

Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An