FAMST 70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Arjun Appadurai, News
Document Summary
Arjun appadurai, disjunction and difference in the global cultural. Thinking about how nationalism comes to fruition and how it works. Imagining such a strong community so much so that people are willing to go to war (nationalism) There is the vague belief that a large group has something in common, whether it be a shared set of principles or shared landscape. Seemingly mutual understanding between people to form a community. Trying to figure out how people who don"t agree on anything can still feel a part of the same community. Print capitalism: the focus in this is on the circulation of newspapers. Argues that communities are not inherent stable identities. Community is a process that is always reinventing itself. An event might affect a large group and then they are bound by having that shared experience. Sense of space in the sections that newspapers are divided into. The circulation of media creates a sense of community.
