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Appadurai,
Arjun, ed. Globalization.
Duke University Press, 2001.
This second installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet seeks to
intervene in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions
of globalization, which includes debates about what globalization is and whether
it is a meaningful term. The volume focuses in particular on the way that changing
sites—local, regional, diasporic—are the scenes of emergent forms
of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new
legalities and new kinds of violence.
Seeking an alternative to the dead-end debate between those who see globalization
as a phenomenon wholly without precedent and those who see it simply as modernization,
imperialism, or global capitalism with a new face, the contributors seek to illuminate
how space and time are transforming each other in special ways in the present
era. They examine how this complex transformation involves changes in the situation
of the nation, the state, and the city. While exploring distinct regions—China,
Africa, South America, Europe—and representing different disciplines and
genres—anthropology, literature, political science, sociology, music, cinema,
photography—the contributors are concerned with both the political economy
of location and the locations in which political economies are produced and transformed.
A special strength of the collection is its concern with emergent styles of subjectivity,
citizenship, and mobilization and with the transformations of state power through
which market rationalities are distributed and embodied locally. (Amazon-book
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Morley,
David and Kevin Robins. Spaces of Identity:
Global Media, Electronic,
Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries.
London: Routledge, 1995.
We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender
are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural
identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and
a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address
current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between
Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show
that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now
being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature
of contemporary cultural identities. (Amazon-book description) |
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Discovery
Channel
Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: “The Other
Side of Outsourcing” (44:57)
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=jQaHrcwKsoc
Why are so many high-tech jobs going to India?
You might be surprised at what started it all.
Join New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman
as he explores the growing trends of outsourcing
American jobs. Don't miss the Discovery Times program, Thomas
L. Friedman Reporting: The Other Side of Outsourcing.
DVD
http://shopping.discovery.com/product-56037.html |
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Timeline of outsourcing
http://times.discovery.com/convergence/outsource/slideshow/slideshow.html |
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Follow the jobs:
A quiz
http://times.discovery.com/convergence/outsource/quiz/quiz.html |
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Life Series-Bullfrog Films (2000) Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ls.html
The Life series of thirty 24-minute programs tackles the issue of globalization and its effect on ordinary people in countries throughout the world. In 1995, there was a meeting of the world's leaders in Copenhagen called the Social Summit. The group promised action on poverty, employment and social integration -- pledging governments to deliver greater social justice to the world's six billion inhabitants.
But in the five years since Copenhagen, the gap between the rich and the poor actually widened, while development assistance from the industrialized donor countries went into sharp decline. The global economy and technological advancement are progressing hand in hand, but a mere few are monopolizing its rewards.
The Life series takes us to India, Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, Mexico, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and the United States to examine the problems that the global economy is continuing, if not propagating for billions of people. The films suggest that everyone on this planet has a social responsibility to everyone else, and that all should be afforded the same human rights and a share in the fruits of the new world economy. |
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City Life - A Series of 22 Programs
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .C58
2001
9. Barcelona Blueprint -
Barcelona today is a model of urban planning that may prove sustainable. |
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Life III - A Series of 12 Programs
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .L5412
2000
4. Kosovo: Rebuilding
the Dream - Assesses the success of UN efforts in rebuilding Kosovo.
8. Cheated of Childhood -
The International Labor Organization tries to rescue and rehabilitate the street
children of St. Petersburg. |
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Life - A Series of 30 Programs
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .L54
2000
28. The Outsiders -
Explores the moral and economic dilemmas that adolescents face in the Ukraine
today. |
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Life 4 - A
Series of 27 Programs
Nonprint Media Services DVD JZ1318 .L5413
2005
13. Crisis Control:
Stemming the Spread of HIV/AIDS - Ukraine's emerging HIV epidemic is contrasted
with Africa's longstanding HIV/AIDS catastrophe.
16. How Green Is My
Valley? Documents efforts to revitalize the polluted, impoverished communities
in the former coal and steel producing valleys of South Wales.
19. Blue Danube? Connecting
more than 18 countries in Western Europe, the Danube River is at the heart of
a dilemma over shared resources in the growing European Union.
23. Return to Srebrenica Survivors
of the massacre in Srebrenica struggle to heal their community and build a new
future. |
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