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W'^.l m 10/ Globalization and Culture 3i2lSUTTERSTB£ET ^ mm ^ 5A»niANa6KX).CA For my Mother AND GLOBALIZATION CULTURE John Tomlinson The University of Chicago Press The University ofChicagoPress,Chicago60637 Polity Press,CambridgeCB2 lUR, UK Firstpublished in 1999by Polity Press inassociation with Blackwell Publishers Ltd. © JohnTomlinson 1999 All rightreserved. Published 1999 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 12 3 4 5 6 ISBN: 0-226-80767-3 (cloth) ISBN: 0-226-80768-1 (paper) LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tomlinson,John, 1949- Globalizationand culture / JohnTomlinson. p. cm. Includesbibliographical referencesand—index. ISBN0-226-80767-3 (cloth alk. paper). ISBN0-226-80768-1 : (pbk alk. paper) : 1. Culture. 2. Internationalism. I. Title. HM101.T633 1999 306—dc21 98-51046 CIP Typesetin lOYion 12'/2ptPalatinobyAceFilmsetting, Frome,Somerset Printed inGreatBritainbyMPG Books,VictoriaSquare, Bodmin,Cornwall Thisbookisprinted onacid-freepaper. Contents Acknowledgements vii 1 Globalization and Culture 1 Globalization as Complex Connectivity 1 Culture as a Dimension of Globalization 12 Why Culture Matters for Globalization 22 Why Globalization Matters for Culture 27 2 Global Modernity 32 Global Modernity as Historical Period 33 Globalization as a 'Consequence of Modernity' 47 Suspicion of Global Modernity 60 Conclusion 69 3 Global Culture: Dreams, Nightmares and Scepticism 71 Dreams: Historical Imaginings of a Global Culture 72 Nightmares: Global Culture as Cultural Imperialism 79 Global Culture The Sceptical Viewpoint 97 : vi Contents 4 Deterritorialization: The Cultural Condition of Globalization 06 1 The Concept of Deterritorialization 1 06 The Mundane Experience of Deterritorialization 1 1 3 Objections to Deterritorialization 128 Deterritorialization at the 'Margins' 1 38 Hybridization 141 5 Mediated Communication and Cultural Experience 50 1 Mediation and Connectivity 151 Mediated Proximity 1 : Intimacy Redefined 1 60 Mediated Proximity 2: Televisual Involvement and the Closing of Moral Distance 1 71 6 The Possibility of Cosmopolitanism 181 Cosmopolitanism: Idea, Ideology, Ideal 184 Cosmopolitans Without a Cosmopolis 1 98 Conclusion: Extending Solidarity's Short Hands 205 Notes 208 Bibliography 219 Index 232
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