What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? This book explores the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction - Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash
PART ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE
Growth and Failure - Richard Sennett
The New Political Economy and Its Culture
Simulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality - Timothy W Luke
The Political Economy of Cyberspace
Digital Networks and Power - Saskia Sassen
PART TWO: CULTURAL MAPPING
The Postmodern Urban Condition - Michael Dear and Steven Flusty
Roaming the City - Hilary Radner
Proper Women in Improper Places
PART THREE: REFLEXIVE SPACE
Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner
Modernity and Contingency
Moving Culture - Ron Eyerman
Radiated Identities - Barbara Adam
In Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of Conceptual Cultural Practices
PART FOUR: CARTOGRAPHIES OF A NATION
Triumphalist Geographies - Michael J Shapiro
The Anti-Reflexivist Revolution - G[um]oran Dahl
On the Affirmationism of the New Right
PART FIVE: TRANSCULTURAL PLACE
Transculturality - Wolfgang Welsch
The Puzzling Form of Cultures Today
Towards a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights - Boaventura de Sousa Santos
The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush - Jonathan Friedman
Narrating the Postcolonial - Couze Venn
