Summary Of Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy

In the article “ Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”, the author Arjun Appadurai mainly concerning on the global culture issues from two perspectives. In the first part, Appadurai reconstructs the history of cultural interactions and comes to the cultural globalization. Then he focuses on the current central problem of global culture in the second part by describing the complicated relationship between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization. And as well in the second part, Appadurai builds his own model to explore cultural disjuncture among five dimensions of global cultural flows: ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes and ideoscapes (Appadurai, 2012, p.98).

In the history part, Appadurai starts with two main obstacles against the cultural

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