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- Consumers And Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas
summary
In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship.
García Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant, as in the fashion and entertainment industries. He shows how identity issues, brought to the fore by the aligning of citizenship and consumption, can no longer be understood strictly within the purview of territory or nation. Rather, the postmodern citizen-consumer inhabits a transterritorial and multilingual space, structured more along the lines of markets than states. Defining this space, García Canclini seeks to formulate a participatory and critical approach to consumption in which national culture, far from being extinguished, is reconstituted in transnational, cultural interactions.
García Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant, as in the fashion and entertainment industries. He shows how identity issues, brought to the fore by the aligning of citizenship and consumption, can no longer be understood strictly within the purview of territory or nation. Rather, the postmodern citizen-consumer inhabits a transterritorial and multilingual space, structured more along the lines of markets than states. Defining this space, García Canclini seeks to formulate a participatory and critical approach to consumption in which national culture, far from being extinguished, is reconstituted in transnational, cultural interactions.
Table of Contents
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- Part I: Cities in Globalization
- 1. Consumption Is Good for Thinking
- pp. 37-48
- 4. Narrating the Multicultural
- pp. 77-86
- Part II: Postnational Suburbias
- Part III: Negotiation, Integration, and Getting Unplugged
- 10. How Civil Society Speaks Today
- pp. 151-162
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816688302
Related ISBN(s)
9780816629879
MARC Record
OCLC
62239517
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No