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NATION AS (IS) A BRAND. PART 2

Vilmar hybridthoughts wrote 2 weeks ago: movable type as created by Johannes Gutenberg around 1439 in Mainz, Germany   The previous blog … more →

Tags: Culture, History, Politics, Branding, nation branding, Nation Brand, Brand Strategy, Competitive Identity, Competitive advantage

Thinking about Nationalism

Jaideep A. Prabhu wrote 1 month ago: Nations, like G-d, have proven to be quite elusive: intellectuals and scholars have proclaimed both … more →

Tags: theory & philosophy, Nationalism, Nation, Race, Miroslav Hroch, Benedict Anderson, Anthony Smith, john breuilly, Eric Hobsbawm

NATION AS (IS) A BRAND. PART 1

Vilmar hybridthoughts wrote 4 months ago: In the next few weeks I will be posting excerpts from my study of the Nation Branding praxis and its … more →

Tags: nation branding, Nation Brand, Brand Strategy, Competitive Identity, Competitive advantage, Reputation, country image, Country Image Effect, country of origin

A Nation of Business Junkies

Joslyn O. wrote 6 months ago: Are we all A Nation of Business Junkies? Dr. Arjun Appadurai examines this trend on the Anthropology … more →

Tags: publications, Anthro in the Media, anthropology news

Our Corruption, Our Selves: Arjun Appadurai22 comments

Aarti Sethi wrote 9 months ago: This is a guest post by ARJUN APPADURAI Partha Chatterjee and Shuddhabrata Sengupta rightly argue th … more →

Tags: capitalism, Debates, Theory, Politics, corruption, Anna Hazare, People, Bureaucracy, Weber

A letter to Thomas Robert Malthus1 comment

chb wrote 12 months ago: May 14, 2011 Dear Malthus Yeah, but if I’m hungry You were right: the world population expands faste … more →

Tags: Science, Pondering, considering, Money, Environment, Economy, poverty, Nature, sustainability

Een brief aan Thomas Robert Malthus

chb wrote 1 year ago: Betreft: Ja, maar als ik honger heb Amersfoort, 28 april 2010 Beste Malthus, Je had gelijk: de werel … more →

Tags: Science, considering, Milieu, Thomas Robert Malthus, bevolkingsgroei, bevolking, voedsel, Duurzaam, Malthus

Global but not the Same, Different but not Together.

RR wrote 1 year ago: This is a very long paper (12 pp) on the effects of globalization on culture, and that we as a globa … more →

Tags: Information, essays, idea space, global issues, Globalization, INTERNATIONAL, Nation, state, Design

The Grilled Cheese Truck and "Local-ness"

Chloe Nguyen wrote 1 year ago: Last Friday, I learned that the infamous Grilled Cheese Truck was on campus after reading Facebook s … more →

Tags: class writings, Assignments, Food and Stuff, restaurant review, Los Angeles, Carlo Petrini, the grilled cheese truck, food truck, Food truck movement

GSU Film 4810: Media and Popular Culture Syllabus

tedfriedman wrote 1 year ago: Media and Popular Culture Film 4810, Spring 2011 Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45, Aderhold 303 Of … more →

Tags: Centaur Manifesto, Comics, commons, cultural studies, Fantasy, Fredric Jameson, Ideology, Karl Marx, Lists

a thing on things2 comments

nandita wrote 1 year ago: In “The Thing Itself”[1], Arjun Appadurai engages with the idea that persons and things are “not rad … more →

Tags: visuality, Capitalism 2, Object/Thing, cultures of consumption, commodity, consumption, Marx, Marxism, Bill Brown

Annotation: Mollay Wallace's "Tropics of Globalization" (2001)1 comment

Frances wrote 2 years ago: Peer-Review: 1 This annotation is for a paper I am currently writing for my ENGL 391W course at Quee … more →

Tags: american studies, contemporary american fiction, Asian-American Fiction, Globalization, Annotations, Asian American Studies, Capitalism 2, Karen Tei Yamashita, Tropic of Orange

Biography of Place

admin wrote 2 years ago: Biography of Place: Local Studies and the Nation-State in Chinese Historiography Jeremy Murray (2005 … more →

Tags: historiographical essays, maurice meisner, Edited Volume, mark selden, leo ou-fan lee, madeleine yue dong, joseph w. esherick, perry link, David Strand

VINTAGE POLITICS: Appadurai, Fashion and Nostalgia

mimi thi nguyen wrote 2 years ago: The “French Explorer” Jacket from “vintage style” retailer J. Peterman (rece … more →

Tags: THEORY TO THINK WITH, VINTAGE POLITICS, Nostalgia, Lifestyle Politics, J. Peterman, Patina

The Place of Place: Besmilr Brigham's Run Through Rock1 comment

rogueembryo wrote 2 years ago: (See my previous post for Brigham’s complete poem.) The Place of Place: Besmilr Brigham’s Run … more →

Tags: Poetry, Geography, Besmilr Brigham, Miles Richardson, james clifford, "Akhil Gupta", James Ferguson, Margaret Rodman, J. Nicholas Entrikin

What is neoliberalism and how can we tell?3 comments

kevinkarpiak wrote 2 years ago: I just came across a neat blog called Decasia: critique of academic culture run by Eli Thorkelson, a … more →

Tags: Commentary, Analysis, Scholarship of note, police nationale, Academia, Liberalism, Albert HIrschman, neoliberalism, Foucault

You can hear Arjun Appadurai's keynote ...

mcincrisis wrote 2 years ago: You can hear Arjun Appadurai’s keynote speech at the Beyond Multiculturalism Conference recent … more →

Tags: counterrealism, beyond multiculturalism

Appadurai Audio 1 comment

sia360 wrote 2 years ago: Here is the recording from the recent Arjun Appadurai opening speech from HKW coference Beyond Multi … more →

Tags: Audio_pool, difference, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism

The Romance of the Nation-State: Ashis Nandy

sacredfig wrote 3 years ago: On a recent Sunday afternoon,  I accidentally stumbled upon  the video of a lecture  Ashis Nandy gav … more →

Tags: Culture, Politics, Ashis Nandy, New School, Nationalism, nation-state, Savarkar


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