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UNDOING CULTURE Theory, Culture & Society Theory, Culture & Society caters for the resurgence of interest in culture within contemporary social science and the humanities. Building on the heritage of classical social theory, the book series examines ways in which this tradition has been reshaped by a new generation of theorists. It will also publish theoretically informed analyses of everyday life, popular culture, and new intellectual movements. EDITOR: Mike Featherstone, University of Teesside SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Roy Boyne, University of Teesside Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen Scott Lash, University of Lancaster Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh Bryan S. Turner, Deakin University Recent volumes include: Baroque Reason The Aesthetics of Modernity Christine Buci-Glucksmann The Consuming Body Past Falk Cultural Identity and Global Process Jonathan Friedman The Established and the Outsiders Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson The Cinematic Society The Voyeur's Gaze Norman K. Denzin Decentring Leisure Rethinking Leisure Theory Chris Rojek Global Modernities Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson The Masque of Femininity The Presentation of Woman in Everyday Life Efrat Tsee'lon The Arena of Racism Michel Wieviorka UNDOING CULTURE Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity MIKE FEATHERSTONE SAGE Publications London · Thousand Oaks · New Delhi O Mike Featherstone 1995 First published 1995. Reprinted 1997, 2000 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 BonhiU Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash - I New Delhi 110 048 Published in association with Theory, Culture Ë Society, School of Human Studies, University of Teesside British Library Cataloguing In Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-8039-7605-4 ISBN 0-8039-7606-2 pbk Library of Congreaa catalog record available Typeset by Mayhew Typesetting, Rhayader, Powys Dedicated to the memory my mother and father CONTENTS Preface ix 1 Introduction: Globalizing Cultural Complexity 1 2 The Autonomization of the Cultural Sphere 15 3 Personality, Unity and the Ordered Life 34 4 The Heroic Life and Everyday Life 54 5 Globalizing the Postmodern 72 6 Global and Local Cultures 86 7 Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity 102 8 Travel, Migration and Images of Social Life 126 References 158 Index 173 PREFACE The various chapters of this book have been written over the last five or six years. Most of them started their lives as conference papers or essays written for edited collections. They have been selected from the range of papers written in this period because they have a certain coherence in terms of the themes they seek to address. In many ways they represent a deepening and extension of some of the issues developed in Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (1991a). Yet, rather than directly addressing postmodernism, they seek to explore the grounds for postmodernism via two main concerns. The first is the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere which addresses the question of the autonomization of culture and the type of autonomous person (the artist and intellectual as hero) associated with this process. The second concerns the process of globalization which I argue provides the wider intellectual context for many of the themes associated with postmodernism. My work in both areas has been sustained through the support and numerous discussions of these issues with many friends and colleagues. I have a special debt to my friends on the editorial board of the journal Theory, Culture & Society. Josef Bleicher, Roy Boyne, Mike Hepworth, Scott Lash, Roland Robertson and Bryan S. Turner, who will recognize many of the concerns addressed here. In particular Bryan Turner, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson have in their own ways worked across the same territory I've been seeking to traverse (Roland Robertson's pioneer ing work in developing the theory of globalization needs a special mention). I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of Mike Hepworth and Roger Burrows, who both read the whole manuscript, made many helpful editing suggestions and persuaded me to take my own medicine and follow the editor's maxim: the more you cut the better it gets. In addition I must acknowledge the support of my colleagues in the Sociology, Criminology and Social Policy subject group in the School of Human Studies at the University of Teesside for both their encouragement and tolerance for some of my wilder ventures. My immediate colleagues in the Centre for the Study of Adult Life, especially Robin Bunton and Roger Burrows, who have worked together with Bryan Turner and me to found the new associate journal to TCS, Body & Society have been particularly supportive. I also have a special debt to Barbara Cox, who has worked on Theory, Culture & Society for a number of years now and has found ways of channelling all our postmodern styles of work into a
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