George Yúdice

The Expediency of Culture

Uses of Culture in the Global Era

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Produktbeschreibung

Deals with global flows of capital, information and popular culture, questions of hybridity, identity politics, postcoloniality and the state, with a focus on Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331803
• ISBN-10: 0822331802
• Artikelnr.: 22096042

Autorenporträt

George Yúdice is Professor of American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He is the coauthor of Cultural Policy and coeditor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 The Expediency of Culture 9
2 The Social Imperative to Perform 40
3 The Globalization of Culture and the New Civil Society 82
4 The Funkification of Rio 109
5 Parlaying Culture into Social Justice 133
6 Consumption and Citizenship? 160
7 The Globalization of Latin America: Miami 192
8 Free Trade and Culture 214
9 Producing the Cultural Economy: The Collaborative Art of inSITE 287
Conclusion 338
Notes 363
Works Cited 391
Index 453