Culture, State, Globalization

2011

Suggesting cultural analysis of the phenomenon of globalization needs to take into account more than studies of subjectivity and communications technology, the author suggests a deconstructive methodology that seeks reconciliation of postmodernism with structuralism and idealism with materialism. Demonstrating points of contact between various social actors in the globalization arena, a sketch is made of the state as a pluralist agent articulating the process of globalizing capital. Motivations to globalize are said to point to a real social by which the political structure of the state is revealed. Subversion of the dominant discourse through self-determined practices of liberty are suggested as a means of constructing alternativesto global capital. Keywords: culture; state; globalization; resistance; social change An opportunity exists for communications and cultural scholars to contribute more poignant critiques to the discourse of globalization of capital and suggest

This research paper attempts to project the failure of politico-cultural globalization due to the politics of Western affluent countries. The research examines how the promise of globalization-ruling the world through single governance-is no longer meaningful in the postmodern time. The issue of nationalism in contemporaryworld has been discussed openly and the world is divided into center periphery structures, which pushes the essence of globalization at bay. By taking the theoretical insights on globalization and anti globalization proposed by the theorists like ArjunAppadurai, Jacque Derrida, ShaoboXie and Timothy Brennan, the study reveals unpredictable sufferings of refugee and migrants, and reversing the idea of global village. The journey of Saeed and Nadia, refugee, towards Western hemispheres has been stocked with many obstacles. They could not feel oneness and friendship during their journey. Due to Westerners' imperial mindset the bank of justice is bankrupted and humanity is deserted all over the world. The diverse phenomenaof globalization; multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, multinational plurality and multilingual existence of individual as well as entire society are at threat. It shows the discourse of intergovernmentalism and multiple-citizenship turned into isolationist policy in the world and failure of Western grand narratives of globalization.

Antipode, 2011

In contrast to assertions that the capitalist state is either losing control or that it has returned, this article argues that during the last two decades the state itself has been reshaped. To understand the processes that the capitalist state is exposed to it is necessary to conceive of it as a series of form-specific practices. Which practices form "the state" is not a result of pre-given institutions but of conflicts and struggles. The capitalist state, separated as it is from the relations of production, must not be made synonymous with the national state. Only as a result of certain relations of force does bourgeois rule acquire the form of the national state. These relations between classes are currently being dissolved by the ruling classes. The capitalist state is being reorganized and is constructing new elements of a transnational network state, whilst the state itself is governed through new techniques-that is, those of governance.

Law & Social Inquiry, 1998

Eve Darian-Smith's review of my book is an excellent, engaging, thoughtful, and provocative essay, and I am happy for having provided the pretext for it. It raises several issues, all of them relevant. I shall concentrate on two of them, in my view the most important ones. The first issue concerns the character and epistemological location of the critical theory I propose in the book. According to Darian-Smith, my position, which I call oppositional postmodernism, is not sufficiently spelled out. The second issue concerns the conceptualization of globalization and the hierarchies of the world system. According to my reviewer, I accept all too acritically such modernist dichotomies as global/local, core/periphery, and North/South, thereby indicating my "deeper ideological and moral leanings" (Darian-Smith 1998, 115) at the cost of coherence and consistency with my epistemological concerns laid out in the first part of the book. Rather than responding intra-textually to these criticisms-that is to say, rather than resorting to passages in my book where Darian-Smith's criticisms may be said to be partially preempted, an easy strategy in the case of such a lengthy book-in this comment I will develop my position on the two issues I have singled out and let the reader grasp the project I undertake in the book and the direction of my current thinking.

The globalization is an economical, technological and social phenomenon that we may base upon many factors like the development of communication and economic reasons (market seeking etc.) based on the colonial states search of the countries which completed its industry revolution postwar , immigration of the group who are unemployed due to the mechanization, to the large cities and the international dimension of the production and commerce. It is at the same time a concept that points the dependency of the individuals and communities one another. This concept is not just related with economics, communication or commerce. It a process that grows like a balloon that takes air in it each day and includes the art and involves it into its negative or positive struggle. Today, the effort of interpreting the artworks in a different way as the result of the globalization, presents the necessity to emphasize the respect to the works and the artists as it should be. With the simplest example to portray, use " Mona Lisa " the work of Leonardo da Vinci in different shapes and to reflect these changes to the individuals as it is normal in the fast growing communication process, shows the negative effect of the globalization on art. The moustache and beard parody that Marcel Duchamp has drown in reproduction of Mona Lisa, is an attack to the selfish western middle class within today's or his own period's imperialist nostalgias, not to the artist or art. The period of this activity, is the period that the modernism has developed and moved in its most firm status. But maybe the parody of Mona Lisa which is fast spreading as the result of Marcel Duchamp taking this icon as an example, made the destruction in the globalization process unavoidable. 'The rebellion period to modernism movement that is formed with the concern to convert the tradition to global and the arrival of this rebellion to the level that probes the ethical dimension of the art brings along the inevitable concern, the concern of determining the limits of the art, artist protection and critical approach. 516 For sure the development of the technology and settlement of the communication problems is a process that glamour the human. The negative results of this process target not only the states that are being exploited but also the culture, art and artist of these states. Under these circumstances, the concern to art for the path that the art shall be followed or directed, have importance. Besides the concerns that are felt for the results of postmodernism, in this study some examples are given for showing that the postmodernism can be evaluated with its inspiration sense more of the one to one counterfeiting.

2009

Abstract Interest in postmodernity that has stagnated over the past decade has come to be replaced by a concern with globalization. While the two terms are often considered to be divergent there is a continuity as theoretical discourse transfers from one to the other. In what follows, we first distill the heuristic models employed by various knowledge-geographical traditions of social thought in conceptualizing postmodernism. We then transpose these models into recent debates on globalization.

Canadian Social Science, 2005

Abstract: 'Globalization' -a term that entered popular discourse in the late 1980s has certainly been become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of the new millennium. The nature and impact of globalization has been the subject matter of profound debates and concerns in economic, political, cultural studies and academic circles since the mid-1990s. However, mainstream economic thought promises that globalization would lift the poor above poverty, dissolve dictatorship, protect the environment, integrate cultures, and reverse the growing gap between rich and poor countries of the world. But in reality, globalization has brought about the devastating destruction of the traditions, the continued subordination of poorer nations and regions by richer countries of the west, environmental degradation, and posed a serious threat to indigenous and non-western cultures and economies. The globalization has resulted in the penetration and expansion of western food, film, clothing, mus...

Acta Sociologica, 2000

PJIA, 2019

What is globalization? It is difficult to define globalization with a single definition although it is a buzz word of this century; this term has mesmerized and fascinated the world significantly. It is considered as the large scale convergence process, it is a multidimensional phenomenon the main agent to activate the merger of economy and culture of the local and distant as a result growing interdependence in all walk of life is eradicating the cultural, social, territorial and religious barriers. The advocates of globalization predict that that through this process poor or developing countries can improve their economies and can raise the standard of living of their common people while the opponents of globalization claim that uncontrolled or free international market economy is benefitting the multinational corporations mostly operated by the entrepreneurs of the western world at the expense of local businesses, local cultures and common people. The advancement of technology and free market economy are working together to create a new globalized and interconnected world. The dynamic and ever-changing technological revolution involving the creation of a computerized network of communication, transportations, and exchange the acceptance of a globalized economy, the enlargement of world capitalist market system is absorbing ever more areas of the world and orbit of production, exchange, and consumption. As the world is experiencing and exploring the massive waves of ideas, norms, values, beliefs and hard products through direct as well as indirect channels not only media but tourists, businessmen, NGO's, migrants are transferring their ideas, beliefs, and ideas from one part of the world to another. Social media is another medium contributing