Global America?
The Cultural Consequences of Globalization
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
264 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2004
Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Natan Sznaider and Rainer Winter
PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Rooted Cosmopolitanism: emerging from a Rivalry of Distinctions - Ulrich Beck
2. Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and Globalization - George Ritzer and Todd Stillman
3. Culture, Modernity and Immediacy - John Tomlinson
PART II: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES
4. Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalization the American Way - Jan Nederveen Pieterse
5. Debating Americanization: The Case of France - Richard Kuisel
6. Consumption, Modernity and Japanese Cultural Identity: The Limits of Americanization? - Gerard Delanty
7. Americanization, Westernization, Sinification: Modernization or Globalization in China? -Yu Keping
PART III: TRANSNATIONAL PROCESSES
8. Techno-Migrants in the Network Economy - Aihwa Ong
9. The Americanization of Memory: The Case of the Holocaust - Natan Sznaider
10. From the Lisbon Disaster to Oprah Winfrey: Suffering as Identity in the Era of Globalization - Eva Illouz
11. Global Media, Cultural Change and the Transformation of the Local: the Contribution of Cultural Studies to a Sociology of Hybrid Formations - Rainer Winter
12. 'Rockization': Diversity within Similarity in World Popular Music - Motti Regev
13. The Internet: An Instrument of Americanization? - Rob Kroes
PART IV: EPILOGUE
Rethinking Americanization - Roland Robertson
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Natan Sznaider and Rainer Winter
PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Rooted Cosmopolitanism: emerging from a Rivalry of Distinctions - Ulrich Beck
2. Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and Globalization - George Ritzer and Todd Stillman
3. Culture, Modernity and Immediacy - John Tomlinson
PART II: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES
4. Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalization the American Way - Jan Nederveen Pieterse
5. Debating Americanization: The Case of France - Richard Kuisel
6. Consumption, Modernity and Japanese Cultural Identity: The Limits of Americanization? - Gerard Delanty
7. Americanization, Westernization, Sinification: Modernization or Globalization in China? -Yu Keping
PART III: TRANSNATIONAL PROCESSES
8. Techno-Migrants in the Network Economy - Aihwa Ong
9. The Americanization of Memory: The Case of the Holocaust - Natan Sznaider
10. From the Lisbon Disaster to Oprah Winfrey: Suffering as Identity in the Era of Globalization - Eva Illouz
11. Global Media, Cultural Change and the Transformation of the Local: the Contribution of Cultural Studies to a Sociology of Hybrid Formations - Rainer Winter
12. 'Rockization': Diversity within Similarity in World Popular Music - Motti Regev
13. The Internet: An Instrument of Americanization? - Rob Kroes
PART IV: EPILOGUE
Rethinking Americanization - Roland Robertson
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