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Modernity at Large
Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in …
Abiding by Sri Lanka
The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is commonly portrayed as a consequence of a violent, ethnonationalist conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. Viewed in this …
Electronic Elsewheres
Media do not simply portray places that already exist; they actually produce them. In exploring how world populations experience "place" through media technologies, the essays …
Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey
What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Cinar's groundbreaking …
Postnational Self
What happens to a sense of belonging when national and regional governments, religious organizations, community groups, political parties, and corporations become unstable and …
Nomadic Identities
Small Nation, Global Cinema
Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural context of the international …
Translation and Subjectivity
An excursion across the boundaries of language and culture, this provocative book suggests that national identity and cultural politics are, in fact, "all in the translation". …
Politics Of Selfhood
Looks at the ways social change is expressed through debates over identities and bodies. In bodies and selves, we can see politics, economics, and culture play out, and the …
Black Body
Mohanram develops in Black Body a theory of identity situated within space and place rather the the more familiar models of identity formation that emphasize time.'
Metaculture
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-where, for example, a song is …