In Search of Boundaries (Paperback)

Joseph M. Chan

ISBN 10: 1567505716 / ISBN 13: 9781567505719

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport, 2001

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Paperback. In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed. This collection of essays by noted scholars in many fields provides a wide range of theoretical approaches and empirical studies that, together, shed light on how local cultural identities resist the forces of globalization by virtue of tradition, transculturation, domestication and hybridization. Examining how people make sense of the world and their own identities as cultural and national boundaries are crossed, In Search of Boundaries transcends many traditional dichotomies between East and West and, more importantly, between tradition and modernity.Interest in the study of boundaries has grown in sociology, anthropology, geography, and other social sciences, but it has not focused on communication processes. This book fills that void with a series of wide-ranging approaches, from the critical to the liberal, the empirical to the cultural, and the Occidental to the Oriental, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the increasingly global nature of nationality, culture, and identity. In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Search of Boundaries (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567505716
• ISBN 13: 9781567505719
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed. This collection of essays by noted scholars in many fields provides a wide range of theoretical approaches and empirical studies that, together, shed light on how local cultural identities resist the forces of globalization by virtue of tradition, transculturation, domestication and hybridization. Examining how people make sense of the world and their own identities as cultural and national boundaries are crossed, In Search of Boundaries transcends many traditional dichotomies between East and West and, more importantly, between tradition and modernity.

Interest in the study of boundaries has grown in sociology, anthropology, geography, and other social sciences, but it has not focused on communication processes. This book fills that void with a series of wide-ranging approaches, from the critical to the liberal, the empirical to the cultural, and the Occidental to the Oriental, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the increasingly global nature of nationality, culture, and identity.

About the Author

Bryce T. McIntyre taught journalism at California State University, Northridge, Stanford University, and the University of Wisconsin. He worked at many newspapers around the country, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, and The Arizona Republic. He received his PhD from Stanford, and co-authored Writing Opinion: Editorials.