Globalization and Sense-making Practices: Phenomenologies of the Global, Local and Glocal

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media, such as television, popular music, digital media, and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global, the local, and the glocal, to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality.

A unique contribution, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, media studies, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, globalization studies, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, and social anthropology.

Simi Malhotra, Professor, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Zahra Rizvi, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Shraddha A. Singh, Associate Professor, Department of English, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.