Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places.

Abstract

This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of the local, community, nation and modernity Hannerz not only engages with theoretical debates about culture and globalization but raises issues of how we think and live today. His account of experience of global culture encompasses a shouting match in a New York street about Salman Rushdie, a papal visit to Maya Indians; kung-fu dancers in Nigeria and Rastafarians in Amsterdam; nostalgia of foreign correspondents; and surprising experiences of tourists in a world city or on a Borneo photo safari.