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"What is culture? What is the relation between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the speed and complexity of cultural production demand new forms of analysis?" "In Spaces of Culture an international cast of scholars examines the implications of these questions for sociology and social theory. They explore the key themes in social theory: the nation state, the city, modernity, post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city." "Spaces of Culture will be required reading for students and scholars in sociology, social theory and cultural studies. It will be an essential reference in any critical discussion of the relations between globalization and technology; and culture, politics and the public sphere."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

Growth and failure : the new political economy and its culture / Richard Sennett -- Simulated sovereignty, telematic territoriality : the political economy of cyberspace / Timothy W. Luke -- Digital networks and power / Saskia Sassen -- The postmodern urban condition / Michael Dear and Steven Flusty -- Roaming the city : proper women in improper spaces / Hilary Radner -- Not all that is solid melts into air : modernity and contingency / Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner -- Moving culture / Ron Eyerman -- Radiated identities : in pursuit of the temporal complexity of conceptual cultural practices / Barbara Adam -- Triumphalist geographies / Michael Shapiro -- The anti-reflexivist revolution : on the affirmationism of the new right / Gr̲an Dahl -- Transculturality : the puzzling form of cultures today / Wolfgang Welsch -- Towards a multicultural conception of human rights / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- The hybridization of roots and the abhorrence of the bush / Jonathan Friedman -- Narrating the postcolonial / Couze Venn

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