Cultures of Globalization

Fredric Jameson is Professor and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the author of numerous books, including Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, published by Duke University Press. Masao Miyoshi is Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California at San Diego. He is the coeditor of Japan and the World and Postmodernism and Japan, both published by Duke University Press.At the time of his death in 2009, Masao Miyoshi was Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California at San Diego. He is the coeditor of Japan and the World and Postmodernism and Japan, both published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments ixPreface / Fredric Jameson xiI. Globalization and Philosophy Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity / Enrique Dussel 3Globalization, Civilization Processes, and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures / Walter D. Mignlo 32Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue / Fredric Jameson 54II. Alternative Localities Global Fragments: A Second Latinamericanism / Alberto Moreiras 81Toward a Regional Imaginary in Africa / Manthia Diawara 103Negotiating African Culture: Toward a Decolonization of the Fetish / Ioan Davies 125The End of Free States: On Transnationalism of Culture / Subramani 146Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity in China / Liu Kang 164III. Culture and the Nation Globalization and Culture: Navigating the Void / Geeta Kapur 191Nations and Literatures in the Age of Globalization / Paik Nak-chung 218Media in a Capitalist Culture / Barbara Trent 230"Globalization," Culture, and the University / Masao Miyoshi 247IV. Consumerism and Ideology Dollarization, Fragmentation, and God / Sherif Hetata 273Social Movements and Global Capitalism / Leslie Sklair 291"Environmental Justice" (Local and Global) / Joan Martinez-Alier 312What's Green and Makes the Environment Go Round? / David Harvey 327Free Trade and Free Market: Pretense and Practice / Noam Chomsky 356In Place of a Conclusion / Masao Miyoshi 371Index 385Contributors 391

Review by Peter Burger appeared in the TLS, August 20, 1999. Completely hostile to the Marxist analysis of globalization and to the belief in all the essays that globalization has had only negative consequences ... "The conference at Duke University was an international gathering of people with monotonously identical views. Their approach is shaped by a particular mixture of neo-Marxism and so-called literary theory, which began as an intellectual fashion in France and has become a dreary orthodoxy in American academe. There was not a single dissenting voice."