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- Title: Globalization, Pedagogical Imagination, And Transnational Literacy (Critical Essay)
- Author : CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 108 KB
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In this article I discuss how creative writers, literary critics, and cultural theorists respond to "globalization" and its relevant challenges (for recent studies on globalization and literary studies, see, e.g., Gunn; Kadir; Krishnaswamy, Li; O'Brien; Szeman; Spivak, Death of a Discipline). In "Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination," Arjun Appadurai exposes the two opposing sides of globalization: globalization from above and globalization from below. According to Appadurai, globalization as a colonizing force, or globalization from above, colonizes our imagination. Alternatively, globalization from below can serve to decolonize the mind. Appadurai gives particular attention to the role of the imagination in social life that can lead to an emancipatory politics of globalization, i.e. globalization from below. Appadurai explains that imagination is no longer a matter of individual genius, escapism from ordinary life, or just a dimension of aesthetics. It is a faculty that informs the daily lives of ordinary people in myriad ways: It allows people to consider migration, resist state violence, seek social redress, and design new forms of civic association and collaboration, often across national boundaries. This view of the role of the imagination as a popular, social, collective fact in the era of globalization recognises its split character. On the one hand, it is in and through the imagination that modern citizens are disciplined and controlled--by states, markets, and other powerful interests. But it is also the faculty through which collective patterns of dissent and new designs for collective life emerge. As the imagination as a social force itself works across national lines to produce locality as a spatial fact and as a sensibility, we see the beginnings of social forms without either the predatory mobility of unregulated capital or the predatory stability of many states. (6)
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