Mapping the Glocal Turn: Literature Streams, Scholarship Clusters and Debates
@article{Roudometof2015MappingTG, title={Mapping the Glocal Turn: Literature Streams, Scholarship Clusters and Debates}, author={Victor Roudometof}, journal={Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation}, year={2015}, volume={2015} }
Based on a bibliographical survey, this article presents evidence of a silent glocal turn in 21st century academia. Several terms compete for describing the newfound situations of hybridity and fusion in the world, and glocalization is a new term that offers a high level of precision in comparison to other contenders. Three specific clusters of inter-disciplinary scholarship are identified as cutting edge areas of research: the study of consumer culture, the field of urban studies and the study…
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