Dislocating Globality : Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance

Sar& Paunksnis

ISBN 10: 9004304045 / ISBN 13: 9789004304048

Published by Brill Nov 2015, 2015

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Neuware - Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization and its effects analysing it both on a theoretical level, and basing the analysis in using cases from different parts of the world.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dislocating Globality : Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance
• Publisher: Brill Nov 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004304045
• ISBN 13: 9789004304048
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 155H x 23D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 567 grams

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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 Mažeikis, Dennis Mehmet, Beatriz Miranda-Galarza, Mustafa Mustafa, Abhijeet Paul, Šarūnas Paunksnis, and Némésis Srour.

About the Author

Šarūnas 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.