Global Communications Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
by Chakravartty, Paula; Zhao, YuezhiFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-04-28
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary
This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this international group of authors follows interesting developments, from communication NGOs in Africa to affirmative action in India's information technology job market. Other cases spotlight China, Singapore, Venezuela, Palestine, Arab nations, Ghana, Canada, the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Theoretically driven and empirically grounded, Global Communications avoids alarmist or celebratory approaches.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy of Global Communications | p. 1 |
| The State and Communication Politics in Multiple Modernities | |
| Neoliberal Strategies, Socialist Legacies: Communication and State Transformation in China | p. 23 |
| Media, State, and Responses to Globalization in Post-Communist Russia | p. 51 |
| Regional Crisis, Personal Solutions: The Media's Role in Securing Neoliberal Hegemony in Singapore | p. 75 |
| Regulating the Consciousness Industry in the European Union: Legitimacy, Identity, and the Changing State | p. 95 |
| Media, Democracy, and the State in Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution" | p. 113 |
| Embedded Markets and Cultural Transformations | |
| Cultures of Empire: Transnational Media Flows and Cultural (Dis)Connections in East Asia | p. 143 |
| Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian Adinkra | p. 163 |
| Critical Transculturalism and Arab Reality Television: A Preliminary Theoretical Exploration | p. 189 |
| Rethinking the U.S. Spanish-Language Media Market in an Era of Deregulation | p. 201 |
| Civil Society and Multiple Publics | |
| Gender and Empire: Veilomentaries and the War on Terror | p. 219 |
| Neoliberalism, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa | p. 243 |
| Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes ... Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian State | p. 263 |
| Labor In or As Civil Society? Workers and Subaltern Publics in India's Information Society | p. 285 |
| References | p. 309 |
| Index | p. 343 |
| About the Contributors | p. 357 |
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