Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction

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A&C Black, 1 Jan 2001 - Culture - 187 pages
 

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Contents

Media Imperialism
34
Cultural Imperialism and the Discourse
68
The Culture of Capitalism
102
Modernity Development and Cultural Fate
140
Conclusion From Imperialism to Globalisation
173
Index
180
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Page 13 - Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and determined to develop and to increase the means of communication between their peoples and to employ these means for the purposes of mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other's lives...
Page 78 - It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion...
Page 125 - Most of the prevailing needs to relax, to have fun, to behave and consume in accordance with the advertisements, to love and hate what others love and hate, belong to this category of false needs.
Page 125 - We may distinguish both true and false needs. "False" are those which are superimposed upon the individual by particular social interests in his repression: the needs which perpetuate toil, aggressiveness, misery, and injustice. Their satisfaction might be most gratifying to the individual, but this happiness is not a condition which has to be maintained and protected if it serves to arrest the development of the ability (his own and others) to recognize the disease of the whole and grasp the chances...
Page 145 - To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
Page 89 - Invented tradition' is taken to mean a set of practices, normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of a ritual or symbolic nature, which seek to inculcate certain values and norms of behaviour by repetition, which automatically implies continuity with the past.
Page 145 - But it is a paradoxical unity, a unity of disunity: it pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal, of struggle and contradiction, of ambiguity and anguish.
Page 80 - Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony he performs is being replicated simultaneously by thousands (or millions) of others of whose existence he is confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion.
Page 6 - ... cultural' without being directly 'signifying'. For our purposes, a sense between the all-embracing 'complex whole' and the more restricted 'semiotic' sense of 'signifying practices' is required. What we are after is a general sense of culture as the context within which people give meanings to their actions and experiences, and make sense of their lives.

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