Some of the first discussions of globalization, expressed fears about cultures around the world converging on a Western, consumerist model. In the process, communities would lose cultural autonomy and their most cherished ways of life. Research shows that human beings and their communities are more adaptive and innovative than this simplistic view suggests. Struggles over cultural autonomy create innovative, unchartered borderlands in which the global, cultural, political, and artistic meet, creating and recreating both our understandings of globality and of the worlds in which we live.
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Read ArticleThis volume examines the transformations and ruptures produced by globalization in the wide range of cultural sites and practices through which meaning is created, circulated, and contested in the world today. It looks at the links between culture and autonomy and transformations of the autonomy of culture itself.
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