Metaculture

Greg Urban

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 8
• It is one thing to comprehend how culture makes its way through the world in those cases where something old is reproduced in the same physical shape-... Lees meer

Translation and Subjectivity

Naoki Sakai, Meaghan Morris

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 3
• An excursion across the boundaries of language and culture, this provocative book suggests that national identity and cultural politics are, in fact, ... Lees meer

Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico

Claudio Lomnitz

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 9
• In Mexico, as elsewhere, the national space, that network of places where the people interact with state institutions, is constantly changing. How it ... Lees meer

Small Nation, Global Cinema

Mette Hjort

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 15
• Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural co... Lees meer

Abiding by Sri Lanka

Qadri Ismail

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 16
• The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is commonly portrayed as a consequence of a violent, ethnonationalist conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the T... Lees meer

Modernity at Large

Arjun Appadurai

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 1
• Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea express... Lees meer

Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

Alev Cinar

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 14
• What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European form... Lees meer

Hong Kong

Ackbar Abbas

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 2
• The Culture of Hong Kong encompasses Jackie Chan and John Woo, British colonial architecture and postmodern skyscrapers. Ironically, it was not until ... Lees meer

Calibrations

Ato Quayson

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 12
• Proposes an entirely new socially and politically conscious way of reading. Ato Quayson explores a practice of reading that oscillates rapidly between... Lees meer

Electronic Elsewheres

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 17
• Media do not simply portray places that already exist; they actually produce them. In exploring how world populations experience "place" through media... Lees meer

The Politics of Selfhood

Richard Harvey Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 13
• Looks at the ways social change is expressed through debates over identities and bodies. In bodies and selves, we can see politics, economics, and cul... Lees meer

Race and Reconciliation

Daniel Herwitz

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 11
• A meditation on the lessons to be learned from South Africa's transformation in the wake of apartheid. Justice, truth, and identity; race, society, an... Lees meer

Spaces of Their Own

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang

• Paperback | Engels | Public Worlds | nr. 4
• How are the public and political lives of Chinese women constrained by states and economies? And how have pockets of women's consciousness come to be ... Lees meer