Articulating The Global And The Local

Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English and Douglas Kellner is professor of philosophy, both at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Introduction: Thinking Global and Local, PART ONE THEORIZING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL, 1 Collective Identity and the Democratic Nation-State in the Age of Globalization, 2 Looking for Globality in Los Angeles, 3 The (Trans) National Basketball Association: American Commodity-Sign Culture and Global-Local Conjuncturalism, 4 The Politics of Corporate Ecological Restorations: Comparing Global and Local North American Contexts, PART TWO CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE LOCATIONS OF CULTURE, 5 Of Hecceites and Ritournelles: Movement and Affect in the Cajun Dance Arena, 6 Cosmopolitanism and Communion: Renegotiating Relations in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days, 7 In the Name of Audre Lorde: The Location of Poetry in the United States, PART THREE TRANSLOCAL CONNECTIONS, 8 Translating Resistance, 9 License to Feel: Teaching in the Context ofWar(s), 10 Nationalism and Internationalism: Domestic Differences in a Postcolonial World