Using Appadurai, 1990 article help answer these questions: Nutshell Statement: O

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Using Appadurai, 1990 article help answer these questions:
Nutshell Statement: One-sentence summary of the main point or argument
Key Concepts: Three principal terms / ideas the author invented or employed, and explain them
Secondary Ideas: List as many as five one-phrase summaries of supporting evidence or concepts
Critical Questions: List at least one important question you would like to discuss in class

Disjuncture and Difference in the Global The central problem of today's global interactions is the tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization. A vast array of empirical facts could be brought to bear on the side of the 'homogenization' argument, and much of it has come from the left end of the spectrum of media studies (Hamelink, 1983 Mattelart, 1983; Schiller, 1976), and some from other, less appeal- ing, perspectives (Gans, 1983; lyer, 1988). Most often, the homo- genization argument subspeciates into either an argument about very often the two arguments are closely linked. What these arguments fail to consider is that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way: this is true of music and housing styles as much as it is true of science and terrorism, spectacles and constitutions. The dynamics of such indigenization have just begun to be explored in a sophisticated manner (Barber 1987: Feld, 1988; Hannerz, 1987, 1989: Ivy, 1988; Nicoll, 1989 Yoshimoto, 1989), and much more needs to be done. But it is worth noticing that for the people of Irian Jaya, Indonesianization may be as Japanization may be for Koreans, Indianization for Sri Lankans, Vietnamization for the Cambodians, Russianization for the people of Soviet Armenia and the Baltic Republics. Such a list of alternative fears to Americaniza- tion could be greatly expanded, but it is not a shapeless inventory: for polities of smaller scale, there is always a fear of cultural absorp- tion by polities of larger scale, especially those that are near by. One man's imagined community (Anderson, 1983) is another man's poli- tical prison. This scalar dynamic, which has widespread global manifesta- tions, is also tied to the relationship between nations and states, to Theory, Culure& Society (SAGE, London, Newbury Park and New Delhi, Vel.7 (1990), 295-310 from the SNG Social Science Collections Al Rights Reserved

Explanation / Answer

1)Global world of today is so complex and dynamic that it can only be understood by exploring and understanding the disjunction between polity economy and culture.

2)

a) There is a debate between homezination or Americanisation at one hand and heterogenisation at the other. But a new concept called indegeisation needs to be studied and looked which refers to localisation of commidisation or homogenisation. It may pose a greater danger than honeginsation.

B)commidisation is made a bigger threat to spread it hegemonisatiin by majority ruler in its country. People will not focus on hegemony rather made to focus on americisation.

C) The five factors that can be explored for understanding the disjunctive between political economy and culture are ethnoscape, techno's spends Cape, finances Cape and ideoscape.

3)

a) Indians is more dangerous to srilanka than americisation as is japanisation for Korea.

B) Some people live in imagined world that changes as per persons wish

C)there is a fear of cultural absorption by nation of larger scale.

D)ethnoscap includes refugee , frequently shifting population , immigrants and guest worker.

E)Technoscape refers to technology transgressing all boundaries.

4) Does one need to worry more about commodisation or it ahouldslook into more pressing problem that emerged from complex global economy.?

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