Marko Ampuja

Theorizing Globalization

A Critique of the Mediatization of Social Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

In Theorizing Globalization Marko Ampuja offers a critical reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, challenging their media-centrism and their lack of historical materialist analysis of global capitalism and the power of neoliberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9789004229617
• ISBN-10: 9004229612
• Artikelnr.: 35901853

Autorenporträt

Marko Ampuja, Ph.D. (2010), University of Helsinki, is a lecturer in the Department of Social Research at that university.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I. BACKGROUND AND THEORETICAL CONTEXTS
1. The Rise of Globalization Theory
2. Key Approaches to Media and the Problematic of Globalization
PART II. THE SPACE BEYOND THE PLACE: TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF MEDIA
AND GLOBALIZATION
3. Between the Old and the New: Manuel Castells, the Media and the Space of
Flows
4. Media as Life: Scott Lash and the Technological Order of Global
Information Culture
PART III. CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION THEORY AND THE MEDIA
5. National Nightmares and Cosmopolitan Dreams: Arjun Appadurai , John
Tomlinson and the Cultural Specificity of Mediated Globalization
PART IV. CONCLUSION
6. Conclusion: Globalization Theory and the Neoliberal Moment
Bibliography
Index