When I read the title of this anthology, Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall, I assumed that it was published after his death in 2014. However, when I looked further in order to properly contextualize the viewpoint that Canclini was coming from in “The State of War and the State of Hybridization,” I realized that this anthology was published in 2000 to honor Hall’s retirement. This influences my reading of Canclini since answering the questions that the 21st century is purported to bring through globalization is more speculative than retrospective. My question is: when Canclini says that “there is no agreement concerning whether the growing interdependence among nations is leading towards the integration of markets and communications, homogenizing ways of life and modes of thinking, or if it generates new forms of diversity and makes confrontations between distant cultures more complex,” (39), have we lived in the 21st century long enough to definitively assert one way or the other? Or are we still in that middle ground where both are true?
Media example of globalization: McDonald's spreading internationally, with special menu items for each country
In du Gay’s “Representing ‘Globalization,’” he states that the changes affecting schools, hospitals, government departments and so on, in the United Kingdom, have often involved the reconstituting of institutional roles in terms of contracts strictly defined, and even more frequently have involved a contract-like way of representing relationships between institutions, and between individuals and institutions” (118), and then uses the NHS as an example. Would this be a comparable equation to what was going on in the US at the time? Why or why not?
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