Author: Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135306133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.
Global Culture, Island Identity
Author: Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135306133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135306133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.
Spaces of Global Cultures
Author: Anthony King
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134644469
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
^SDraws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and also develop new ones.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134644469
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
^SDraws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and also develop new ones.
Culture, Globalization and the World System
Author: Anthony D. King
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452901534
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452901534
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Global Culture, Island Identity
Identity and Affect
Author: John R. Campbell
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745314235
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745314235
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.
Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds
Author: Ulrike Schuerkens
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412933404
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412933404
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity.
Small Worlds, Global Lives
Author: Russell King
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781855675483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Geologists, most from Australia and Britain but with some outliers from continental Europe and North America, focus on small islands, where the scarcity of people and resources make migration substantially important socially and economically. The topics include the Azores; historical, cultural, and literary perspectives on emigration from the minor islands of Ireland; Nevis and the post-war labor movement in Britain; islands and the migration experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid; from dystopia to utopia on Norfolk Island; Tongans online; the changing contours of migrant Samoan kinship; and finding a retirement place in sunny Corfu.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781855675483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Geologists, most from Australia and Britain but with some outliers from continental Europe and North America, focus on small islands, where the scarcity of people and resources make migration substantially important socially and economically. The topics include the Azores; historical, cultural, and literary perspectives on emigration from the minor islands of Ireland; Nevis and the post-war labor movement in Britain; islands and the migration experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid; from dystopia to utopia on Norfolk Island; Tongans online; the changing contours of migrant Samoan kinship; and finding a retirement place in sunny Corfu.
Small Islands, Large Questions
Author: Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135211051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135211051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean.
Diaspora, Identity and Religion
Author: Carolin Alfonso
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113439036X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Examines the development of the concept of diaspora and new perspectives on global networks and local identities. Features case histories on the Caribbean, Irish, Irish-American, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113439036X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Examines the development of the concept of diaspora and new perspectives on global networks and local identities. Features case histories on the Caribbean, Irish, Irish-American, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.
Debating Cultural Hybridity
Author: Pnina Werbner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783601884
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism. Starting from the reality that personal identities are multicultural identities, Debating Cultural Hybridity illuminates the complexity and the flexibility of culture and identity, defining their potential openness as well as their closures, to show why anti-racism and multiculturalism are today still such hard roads to travel.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783601884
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism. Starting from the reality that personal identities are multicultural identities, Debating Cultural Hybridity illuminates the complexity and the flexibility of culture and identity, defining their potential openness as well as their closures, to show why anti-racism and multiculturalism are today still such hard roads to travel.