Arjun Appadurai (1 janv. 1949 – 12 h 16 min, 9 nov 2024 ans)

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ABOUT
- Indian, PhD at Chicago and taught at Yale, Chicago, NYU, and the New School
- highly influential in anthropology, global studies, cultural studies, and political science
- focuses on the interactions between local and global forces, emphasizing how global cultural dynamics shape identities, economies, and social structures

MAJOR WORKS
- Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990)
- Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996)
- The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (1986)
- Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- global cultural flows framework ("scapes")
- social life of things
- imagination as a social force in globalization

CRITIQUES
- scapes framework is too abstract and theoretical to be applied easily in empirical research
- work on globalization does not adequately address the structural inequalities and power imbalances that shape these flows
- imagination is limited by material realities such as poverty, restricted mobility, and lack of resources

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