About the Author Preface 1. Globalization: A New Conceptualization Key Topics in the Study of Globalization Globalization Theories Glocalization and Grobalization Grobalization: The Major Processes Glocal, Grobal, and Local 2. Nothing (and Something): Another New Conceptualization Defining Nothing Defining Something The Something-Nothing Continuum Globalization and the Dimensions of Nothing 3. Meet the Nullities: Nonplaces, Nonthings, Nonpeople, and Nonservices Nonplaces (and Places) Nonthings (and Things) Nonpeople (and People) Nonservice (and Service) Relationships Among the Nullities An Illustrative Excursion to the Movies 4. Nothing: Caveats and Clarifications Conceptual Aids to Understanding Nothing Some Paradoxes The Social Construction of Nothing The Economics of Nothing (and Something) In Defense of Nothing 5. The Globalization of Nothing Elective Affinities Grobalization: Loose Cultural and Tight Structural Forms The Grobalization of Nothing: Enabling Factors 6. Theorizing Glocalization and Grobalization Theorizing the Globalization of Culture Analyzing Sport: Use and Abuse of the Concept of Glocalization Analyzing McDonaldization Anthropologically: More Use and Abuse of Glocalization Thinking About the Fate of the Local Contributions to Cultural Theories of Globalization 7. The Globalization of Consumer Culture---and Global Opposition to It Elements of Consumer Culture Driving Forces Behind the Globalization of Consumer Culture The Role of Branding Beyond the Usual "Consumer" Suspects Global Attacks on the Symbols of American Consumer Culture The Globalization of Nothing and September 11, 2001 8. Loss Amidst Monumental Abundance---and Global Strategies for Coping With It Theory and the Paradoxes of Consumer Culture Loss Amidst Monumental Abundance Strategies for Overcoming the Sense of Loss Notes Index

The Globalization of Nothing 2

Much organizational identity research has grappled with the question of identity emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on an analysis of...

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Collective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History

Prologue: the foundations of US information overseas 1. Getting the sheep to speak: the Truman years, 1945-53 2. Mobilizing 'the P-Factor': Eisenhower and the birth of the USIA, 1953-6 3. In the shadow of Sputnik: the second Eisenhower administration, 1957-61 4. Inventing truth: the Kennedy administration, 1961-3 5. Maintaining confidence: the early Johnson years, 1963-5 6. 'My radio station': the Johnson administration, 1965-9 7. Surviving detente: the Nixon years, 1969-74 8. A new beginning: the Ford administration, 1974-7 9. From the 'two-way' mandate to the second Cold War: the Carter administration, 1977-81 10. 'Project Truth': the first Reagan administration, 1981-4 11. Showdown: the second Reagan administration, 1985-9 Epilogue: victory and the strange death of the USIA, 1989-99 Conclusion: trajectories, maps, and lessons from the past of US public diplomacy.

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The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989

There is a vantage point situated at the intersection of economic and cultural sociology from which we can discern ever more clearly the material dimensions of culture and the non-material dimensions of goods. From this increasingly busy intersection, a recent focus on the consumption process has drawn attention to, among other things, the ways that consumption is mediated by the images, ideologies, the desires, the "texts" that are inscribed within them, so that the consumer often consumes more (or less) than he or she bargained for. Thus, all industries that produce commodities for mass consumption are essentially "cultural industries" involved in circulating cultural goods as much as they are in circulating economic goods, whether blue jeans, motor scooters, or safari gear from the "Banana Republic."' More pointedly, as Igor Kopytoff has asserted, "...the production of commodities is also a cultural and cognitive process: commodities must be not only produced materially as things, but also culturally marked as being a certain kind of thing."2

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Fast food in France

Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western Europe, with imperial traces scattered throughout popular and elite cultures, consumer goods, religious life, political formations, and ideological terrains. People were also inwardly mobile, including not simply Europeans returning 'home' but Asians, Africans, West Indians, and others who made their way to Europe to forge new lives. The result is a Europe fundamentally transformed by multicultural diversity and cultural hybridity and by the destabilization of assumptions about race, culture, and the meanings of place, and where imperial legacies and memories live on.

Richard F. Kuisel

Papers

Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization.