Globalization and Culture

256 Pages·1999·40.156 MB·English

by  John Tomlinson

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GLOBALIZATION
CULTURE
John Tomlinson
The University of Chicago Press
The University ofChicagoPress,Chicago60637
Polity Press,CambridgeCB2 lUR, UK
Firstpublished in 1999by Polity Press inassociation with
Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
©
JohnTomlinson 1999
All rightreserved. Published 1999
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ISBN: 0-226-80767-3 (cloth)
ISBN: 0-226-80768-1 (paper)
LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tomlinson,John, 1949-
Globalizationand culture / JohnTomlinson.
p. cm.
Includesbibliographical referencesand—index.
ISBN0-226-80767-3 (cloth alk. paper). ISBN0-226-80768-1
:
(pbk alk. paper)
:
1. Culture. 2. Internationalism. I. Title.
HM101.T633 1999
306—dc21 98-51046
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Typesetin lOYion 12'/2ptPalatinobyAceFilmsetting, Frome,Somerset
Printed inGreatBritainbyMPG Books,VictoriaSquare, Bodmin,Cornwall
Thisbookisprinted onacid-freepaper.
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
1 Globalization and Culture 1
Globalization as Complex Connectivity 1
Culture as a Dimension of Globalization 12
Why Culture Matters for Globalization 22
Why Globalization Matters for Culture 27
2 Global Modernity 32
Global Modernity as Historical Period 33
Globalization as a 'Consequence of Modernity' 47
Suspicion of Global Modernity 60
Conclusion 69
3 Global Culture: Dreams, Nightmares and
Scepticism 71
Dreams: Historical Imaginings of a Global Culture 72
Nightmares: Global Culture as Cultural Imperialism 79
Global Culture The Sceptical Viewpoint 97
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vi Contents
4 Deterritorialization: The Cultural Condition of
Globalization 06
1
The Concept of Deterritorialization 1 06
The Mundane Experience of Deterritorialization 1 1 3
Objections to Deterritorialization 128
Deterritorialization at the 'Margins' 1 38
Hybridization 141
5 Mediated Communication and Cultural
Experience 50
1
Mediation and Connectivity 151
Mediated Proximity 1 : Intimacy Redefined 1 60
Mediated Proximity 2: Televisual Involvement and
the Closing of Moral Distance 1 71
6 The Possibility of Cosmopolitanism 181
Cosmopolitanism: Idea, Ideology, Ideal 184
Cosmopolitans Without a Cosmopolis 1 98
Conclusion: Extending Solidarity's Short Hands 205
Notes 208
Bibliography 219
Index 232