Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance - Couverture souple

 
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Synopsis

Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization, its effects, the critique of neoliberalism, and discusses various forms of resistance to its monocultural raison d'être. The authors in this volume address these issues from a variety of perspectives - theoretical, as well as geographically diverse case-based analyses ranging from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, and Australia in attempt to show the diverse effects of globalization, and varied forms of negotiating globalization on a local level.

Contributors are: Allie Biswas, Katherine Burrows, Jacob P. Chamberlain, Vytis Čiubrinskas, Maria Halouva, Jeanne Kay, Mara Matta, Gintautas Mazeikis, Dennis Mehmet, Beatriz Miranda-Galarza, Mustafa Mustafa, Abhijeet Paul, Sarūnas Paunksnis, and Némésis Srour.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sarūnas Paunksnis teaches Media Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is a Fulbright Alumnus, and previously held visiting fellowships at Columbia University, New York; SOAS, London; and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His interests include cultural theory, postcolonial theory, post-structuralism and postmodernism, globalization, dissent, social and cultural alternatives, social and cultural transformations in contemporary urban India, social and political aspects of cinema in India. He is currently writing a book on the critique of alternative Hindi cinema.

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