The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era

The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly globalized wor

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The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era 9780822385370
The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era 9780822385370

Deals with global flows of capital, information and popular culture, questions of hybridity, identity politics, postcolo

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The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency 9780226385686
The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency 9780226385686

In Argentina, tango isn’t just the national music—it’s a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever

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Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture 9780520974258
Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture 9780520974258

A generation of aspiring business managers has been taught to see a world of difference as a world of opportunity. In Ma

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Science on the Ropes: Decline of Scientific Culture in the Era of Fake News 9783030129774, 9783030129781
Science on the Ropes: Decline of Scientific Culture in the Era of Fake News 9783030129774, 9783030129781

In this controversial essay, Carlos Elías addresses the worldwide phenomenon that is threatening the scientific and econ

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The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culture 9780804790482
The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culture 9780804790482

The Schooled Society shows how mass education interjects itself and its ideologies into culture at large: from the dynam

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Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia 9780511814297
Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia 9780511814297

The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this study, Ver

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Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia 9780521815680, 0521815681
Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia 9780521815680, 0521815681

Vera Dika explores the reuse of images, plots and genres of film history from a broad range of critical perspectives. Ex

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The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication 9789048544509
The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication 9789048544509

Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This b

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Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication 9781487574956
Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication 9781487574956

Beyond the Word provides an implicit critique of postmodernism, redefining it as a further radical stage of modernism.

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Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity: The Politics and Ethics of Global Culture Exchange 9780755622870, 9780755631001
Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity: The Politics and Ethics of Global Culture Exchange 9780755622870, 9780755631001

Globalization, it seems, either holds the promise of new horizons and new worlds, or trammels local cultures and produce

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