Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-310) and index.
Contents:
global twists and local turns in the formation of China's skateboarding community / cultural autonomy, politics, and global capitalism / Tim Sedo. Our ways of knowing globalization : the end of universalism? / Arif Dirlik -- Bioeconomics, culture, and politics after gloabalization / Eric Cazdyn -- Globalization, postmodernism, and (autonomous) criticism / Imre Szeman -- The world, the literary, and the political / Peter Hitchcock -- Global public intellectuals, autonomy, and culture : reflections inspired by the death of Edward Said / Neil McLaughlin -- The politics of indigenous knowledge in environmental assessment : James Bay Crees and hydroelectric projects / Wren Nasr and Colin Scott -- Global humanitarianism and racial autonomy in Roméo Dallaire's Shake hands with the devil / Heike Härting -- Global activism and the visual grammar of nature / Petra Rethmann -- Making big noise : the Northern resonance of Zapatismo / Alex Khasnabish -- Anti-facist gluttons of the world unite! The cultural politics of slow food / Susie O'Brien -- Autonomy on the market : China and India change tracks / Anna Greenspan -- Dead-stock boards, blown-out spots, and the olympic games : global twists and local turns in the formation of China's skateboarding community / Tim Sedo.
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