Culture, Globalization and the World System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity

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Anthony D. King
U of Minnesota Press, 1991 - 186 pagina's

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Globalization and Ethnicity
19
Old and New Identities Old and New Ethnicities 41 117
41
Social Theory Cultural Relativity and the Problem 69
69
Can There Be Such 91 16
91
Scenarios for Peripheral Cultures
107
Interrogating Theories of the Global
129
Languages and Models for Cultural Exchange
139
Specificity and Culture
145
Globalization Totalization and the Discursive Field
155
Reconciling Conflicting
161
Name Index
175
Notes on Contributors
185
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Pagina 155 - This was the moment when language invaded the universal problematic, the moment when, in the absence of a center or origin, everything became discourse — provided we can agree on this word — that is to say, a system in which the central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences.
Pagina 35 - The re-creation, the reconstruction of imaginary, knowable places in the face of the global post-modern which has, as It were, destroyed the identities of specific places, absorbed them into this post-modern flux of diversity. So one understands the moment when people reach for those groundings, as it were, and the reach for those groundings is what I call ethnicity.8...
Pagina 34 - Paradoxically in our world, marginality has become a powerful space. It is a space of weak power but it is a space of power, nonetheless.
Pagina 10 - ... a unit with a single division of labor and multiple cultural systems. It follows logically that there can, however, be two varieties of such world-systems, one with a common political system and one without. We shall designate these respectively as world-empires and world-economies.
Pagina 28 - It is wanting to recognize and absorb those differences within the larger, overarching framework of what is essentially an American conception of the world.
Pagina 77 - But this repatriation or export of the designs and commodities of difference continuously exacerbates the internal politics of majoritarianism and homogenization, which is most frequently played out in debates over heritage. Thus the central feature of global culture today is the politics of the mutual effort of sameness and difference to cannibalize one another and thus to proclaim their successful hijacking of the twin Enlightenment ideas of the triumphantly universal and the resiliently particular.
Pagina 73 - It rests largely on the thesis that we are, in the late twentieth century, witnesses to - and participants in - a massive, twofold process involving the interpenetration of the universalization of particularism and the particularization of universalism, a claim that I will flesh out in reference to the three quotations with which I began this chapter.
Pagina 34 - The emergence of new subjects, new genders, new ethnicities, new regions, new communities, hitherto excluded from the major forms of cultural representation, unable to locate themselves except as decentered or subaltern, have acquired through struggle, sometimes in very marginalized ways, the means to speak for themselves for the first time.
Pagina 25 - The erosion of the nation-state, national economies and national cultural identities is a very complex and dangerous moment. Entities of power are dangerous when they are ascending and when they are declining and it is a moot point whether they are more dangerous in the second or the first moment. The first moment, they gobble up everybody and in the second moment they take everybody down with them.
Pagina 21 - To be English is to know yourself in relation to the French, and the hot-blooded Mediterraneans, and the passionate, traumatized Russian soul. You go round the entire globe: when you know what everybody else is, then you are what they are not. Identity is always, in that sense, a structured representation which only achieves its positive through the narrow eye of the negative. It has to go through the eye of the needle of the other before it can construct itself. It produces a very Manichean set...

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