{"product_id":"9780803976061","title":"Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUndoing Culture\u003c\/b\u003e is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. Against many orthodox postmodernist accounts, the author argues that it is wrong to regard our present state of fragmentation and dislocation as an epochal break. Existing interdependencies and power balances are not so easily broken down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNonetheless some important cultural changes \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c\/i\u003e occurred since World War II. In particular, the book examines some of the processes which have uncoupled culture from the social; the erosion of the ideal of the heroic life in the face of the onslaught from consumerism and the deformation of culture; and the rise of new forms of identity development. It explains why culture has gained a more significant role in everyday life and also why it has come to preoccupy the Academy in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMike Featherstone looks at the effects of the multiplication of cultural goods and images on our ability to read culture and develop fixed meanings and relationships. He highlights the importance of the global in attempting to cope with the objective difficulties of cultural overproduction. The book concludes that the rise of non-Western nation-states with different cultural frames produces different reactions of modernity, making it more appropriate to refer to global modernities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone, \u003cb\u003eUndoing Culture\u003c\/b\u003e will be essential reading for students in the sociology of culture and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011430990064,"sku":"9780803976061","price":71.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803976061_p0.jpg?v=1763723425","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803976061","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}