The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era

George Yúdice

Published by Duke University Press 2003

The Expediency of Culture

Uses of Culture in the Global Era

George Yúdice
Edited by: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson

In the series Post-Contemporary Interventions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385370

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About this book

Deals with global flows of capital, information and popular culture, questions of hybridity, identity politics, postcoloniality and the state, with a focus on Latin America.

Author / Editor information

George Yúdice is Professor of American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He is the coauthor of Cultural Policy and coeditor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture.

Reviews

“George Yúdice’s book demonstrates more clearly than any other I know how deeply and inextricably culture is today, in the era of globalization, embedded in economic circuits and political regimes. His provocative analyses of the function of culture in contexts throughout the Americas give us a new and powerful model for cultural studies.”—Michael Hardt, coauthor of Empire

“The Expediency of Culture is a groundbreaking book destined to become a necessary reference throughout the Americas. It will serve scholars in a wide range of disciplines, as well as groups and individuals working in the areas of culture promotion, social activism, and policy making and those who are involved in educational and cultural institutions, non-governmental organizations, research foundations, the entertainment industries, museums, and the arts. . . . The Expediency of Culture will revolutionize our interpretations of the significance of the notion of culture, its social uses (in the sense of its value or worth to societies), and the actual ways culture is ‘used.’”

-- Daniel Mato Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

"Expediency of Culture represents a major contribution to the field. It is crossdisciplinary in its scope and manages to provide a sober and balanced assessment of the challenges confronting cultural activists and reformers. The issues raised are important in the age of terrorism and governmental spin-doctoring, a theme dealt with in the final chapter. What might advocates of culture as resource offer to the war on terror? Will appeals to community prevail? Where does the anti-globalization go from here? These are important issues and Yudice is challenging us to reassess our understandings of how culture works on the social. I hope that this timely publication will bring Yudice's work to a wider readership."

-- Michael Keane Continuum

"The present substantial book . . . confirms the nuanced complexity and importance of Yúdice's work. . . . This learned volume offers a coherent perspective on the links between urban locality, national territory, transnational and global commerce in culture, and mobile group identities. Highly recommended."

-- Khachig Tololyan Choice

"Yúdice monitors an ethical pulse to culture's utilization. Through careful analysis of cultural events and collaborations (including the national politics of samba, Afro reggae, and funk music in Brazil; Rio de Janeirian citizen initiatives of Viva Rio and the Associação Internacional Arte Sem Fronteiras; the Zapatista movement in Mexico; Miami-based media production targeting a hemisphere of Latin consumers; and the triennial inSITE art exhibition on the border between San Diego and Tijuana), Yúdice avers that cultural policy is influenced not only by 'corporations, the media, foundations, politicians' but 'sometimes even citizens' (286). . . . Nuanced. . . ."

-- Kendall Johnson American Literature

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The Expediency of Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 The Social Imperative to Perform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3 The Globalization of Culture and the New Civil Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
4 The Funkification of Rio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5 Parlaying Culture into Social Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
6 Consumption and Citizenship? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
7 The Globalization of Latin America: Miami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
8 Free Trade and Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
9 Producing the Cultural Economy: The Collaborative Art of inSite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 480
Illustrations
- Other: 27 b&w photos

eBook

Published: January 23, 2004
ISBN: 9780822385370