Appadurai, Arjun “Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization,”

In “Modernity at Large:  Cultural Dimensions of Globalization,” Arjun Appadurai argues that intellectuals in the academy need to begin thinking postnationally about contemporary national crises–a claim that ultimately stimulates questions about the future of patriotism.  Appadurai’s thesis rests on the claim that study of discourse in the Western academy is divorced from other institutional forms [...]

Dirlik, Arif. Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Capitalism

In the introduction, Dirlik positions globalization as an ongoing discourse and process that produces a state of global modernity, which in essence is nothing short of modernity gone global and modern day colonialism that reeks of the colonial, economically, politically, socially, and culturally.  Dirlik claims our main challenge is to “achieve a globality beyond the [...]

Notes on Just Advocacy

Notes on Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation Edited by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol
Introduction:
Visual rhetorics of rescue rely on now-familiar narrative dualism of tradition and modernity to champion human rights within the framework of Western liberation (1).
Domesticity reinforces national hierarchies in which the US [...]

Rough Notes on Transnational Feminism and Rhetoric

Definition of Transnational Feminism
Nayereh Tohidi http://www.history.ucla.edu/dubois/Transnational%20Feminism.html
Transnational feminism is directly connected to the processes of globalization. Socioeconomic and socio-demographic changes at both the local national and global levels contributed to the emergence of transnational feminism in the mid-1908s and early-1990s. Transnational feminism is the academic and theoretical dimension of this phenomena.
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“Locational Feminism: Gender, Cultural Geographics, and Geopolitical Literacy”—Susan Stanford Friedman
In this article, Susan Stanford Friedman articulates a feminist geopolitics and a feminist spatial rhetoric/literacy, which have risen in Third Wave feminism from the need to develop a geographically situated feminism that is both local and global in scope and does not erase difference (21). [...]