Thursday, November 5, 2009

Neverveen Pieterse Chapter 2

Terms:

Dialectics-(similar to circuit media model)
Viewers Producers
Sitcoms < - > Sitcoms
Dramas < - > Dramas
  • Producers change what they do and viewers change what the want
  • Viewers change what they want and producers change what they do
Reification- "thingification"

Questions:
  • What is the effect of globalization on nations and the idea of "nation"?
  • What are the different form of the globalization?
  • What is the future of the nation state?
    • Uptopia like the global village?
    • Fragmentation?

Points:
  • Everyone is a migrant.
  • Cultural mixing
    • Once this happens what happens to identity?
      • Tension between maintaining culture and integrating
  • International achievements
    • constant exchange of information
  • Globalization in deep historical context
    • contrast between older historical forms and "accelerated globalization"
  • History in relation to space
    • Space-how we break down geography
      • East or West, countries, states, cities etc.
    • Our relationship with other olaces
  • Nation states are becoming less relevant because now people are talking more about ethnicity than nations states.
Critiques:
  • Doesn't define terms
  • Playing with language



Nederveen Pieterse Chapter 3

Questions:
  • Who belong to a culture?
  • What constitutes cultural identity?

Points:
  • McDonaldization and culture convergence
    • Homogenization/westernization
    • Efficiency and control
  • Three Theories
    • Cultural Convergence
    • Cultural Differentiation (clash of civilizations)
      • Human mosaic (people keenly aware of differences)
    • Hybridization

  • Cultural Language-Surface manifestation of culture such as music, food and clothing
  • Cultural Grammar-Deep into the culture itself such as the values, traditions and world views
    • Cultural language and cultural grammar are directly linked together

Critiques:
  • Obvious bias for hybridity

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