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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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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