TY - BOOK ID - 12024552 TI - Constellations of the transnational AU - Dasgupta, Sudeep AU - Peeren, Esther PY - 2007 SN - 9401203709 142948148X 9042021195 9781429481489 9789042021198 9789401203708 9789042021198 PB - Amsterdam Rodopi DB - UniCat KW - Culture diffusion. KW - International relations and culture. KW - Representation (Philosophy). KW - Transnationalism. KW - Representation (Philosophy) KW - Trans-nationalism KW - Transnational migration KW - Representationalism (Philosophy) KW - Representationism (Philosophy) KW - Culture and international relations KW - Cultural diffusion KW - Diffusion of culture KW - International relations KW - Culture KW - Philosophy KW - Social change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12024552 AB - In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on ‘culture’ in contemporary theories of globalization are analysed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analysis of cultural objects and practices. The essays thus intervene in the debate around modernity, globalization and cultural politics, and the volume as a whole provides a critical constellation through which the complexity of transnational culture can be framed. Thinking through the particular, the essays limn the absent universality of forms of capitalist globalization and the volume as a whole provides multiple perspectives from which to enter the singular modernity of our times in all its complexity. ER -