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Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
- A. Appadurai
- Sociology
- 1 June 1990
Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or an argument about 'commoditization', and very often the two arguments are closely linked. What… Expand
The social life of things: Introduction: commodities and the politics of value
- A. Appadurai
- Sociology
- 1 April 1986
This essay has two aims. The first is to preview and set the context for the essays that follow it in this volume. The second is to propose a new perspective on the circulation of commodities in… Expand
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective.
- J. Parry, A. Appadurai
- Sociology
- 1 June 1988
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
- A. Appadurai
- Sociology
- 2000
lobalization is certainly a source of anxiety in the U.S. academic world. And the sources of this anxiety are many: Social scientists (especially economists) worry about whether markets and… Expand
The Social Life of Things
- A. Appadurai
- Sociology, History
- 1986
The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume… Expand
The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition
- A. Appadurai
- Political Science
- 12 March 2013
This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large (1996), is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai… Expand
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Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics
- A. Appadurai
- Sociology
- 2002
Post-1989, the world seems marked by the global victory of some version of neoliberalism, backed by the ubiquitous presence of the United States and sustained by the common openness to market… Expand
How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India
- A. Appadurai
- Sociology
- 1988
Cookbooks, which usually belong to the humble literature of complex civilizations, tell unusual cultural tales. They combine the sturdy pragmatic virtues of all manuals with the vicarious pleasures… Expand
Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics
- A. Appadurai
- Economics
- 1 October 2001
This paper describes the work of an alliance formed by three civic organizations in Mumbai to address poverty - the NGO SPARC, the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan, a cooperative… Expand