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Marketing the glocal in narratives of national identity

Semiotica 2004 (150):197-225 (2004)

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Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture.Roland Robertson - 1992 - SAGE.details A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world. This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional distinctions between the global and the local and between the universal and the particular. Its cultural approach emphasizes the political and economic significance of shifting conceptions of, and forms of participation in, an increasingly compressed world. At the same time the book shows why (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 96 citations
Narrative Time.Paul Ricoeur - 1980 - Critical Inquiry 7 (1):169-190.details The configurational dimension, in turn, displays temporal features that may be opposed to these "features" of episodic time. The configurational arrangement makes the succession of events into significant wholes that are the correlate of the act of grouping together. Thanks to this reflective act—in the sense of Kant's Critique of Judgment—the whole plot may be translated into one "thought." "Thought," in this narrative context, may assume various meanings. It may characterize, for instance, following Aristotle's Poetics, the "theme" that accompanies the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 48 citations
The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality.Hayden White - 1980 - Critical Inquiry 7 (1):5-27.details To raise the question of the nature of narrative is to invite reflection on the very nature of culture and, possibly, even on the nature of humanity itself. So natural is the impulse to narrate, so inevitable is the form of narrative for any report of the way things really happened, that narrativity could appear problematical only in a culture in which it was absent—absent or, as in some domains of Western intellectual and artistic culture, programmatically refused. As a panglobal (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 78 citations
(1 other version)Global Modernities.Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash & Roland Robertson - 1995 - SAGE.details Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation-state' and `national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed. Download Export citation Bookmark 29 citations
Global Culture: An Introduction.Mike Featherstone - 1990 - Theory, Culture and Society 7 (2-3):1-14.details Download Export citation Bookmark 17 citations

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