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" In the last two decades, as the deterritorialization of persons, images, and ideas has taken on new force . . . more persons throughout the world see their lives through the prisms of the possible lives offered by mass media in all their forms. That is,... "
Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams - Page 13
by Karen Kelsky - 2001 - 294 pages
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World Cities in a World-System

Paul L. Knox, Peter James Taylor, Peter J. Taylor - Political Science - 1995 - 356 pages
...their lives through the prisms of the possible lives offered by mass media in all their forms. That is, fantasy is now a social practice. It enters, in a...of social lives for many people in many societies.' Appadurai's work focuses largely, though not entirely, on the more positive possibilities of human...
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Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World

Carol Appadurai Breckenridge - Social Science - 1995 - 276 pages
...their lives through the prisms of the possible lives offered by mass media in all their forms. That is, fantasy is now a social practice; it enters in a host...fabrication of social lives for many people in many societies.57 Thus tourists are able to construct multiple lives for themselves in places that make...
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Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Arjun Appadurai - Civilization, Modern - 1996 - 252 pages
...their lives through the prisms of the possible lives offered by mass media in all their forms. That is, fantasy is now a social practice, it enters, in a...of social lives for many people in many societies. 1 should be quick to note that this is not a cheerful observation, intended to imply that the world...
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Doing Science + Culture

Roddey Reid, Sharon Traweek - Art - 2000 - 356 pages
...social actors and the worlds they are imagining. Fantasy is now a social practice, it enters . . . into the fabrication of social lives for many people in many societies. . . . This is not a cheerful observation, intended to imply that the world is now a happier place with...
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Whither China?: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China

Xudong Zhang - History - 2001 - 412 pages
...their lives through the prisms of the possible lives offered by mass media in all their forms. That is, fantasy is now a social practice; it enters, in a...of social lives for many people in many societies." 33 I suggest here that not only do people imagine themselves transposed into "other" lives—those...
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The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas

Patricia C. Márquez - Social Science - 2002 - 300 pages
...through the prism of possible lives offered by mass media, communications, and commodities: "That is, fantasy is now a social practice; it enters in a host of ways, into the fabrication of social life many people form in many societies" (Appadurai 1990, 197). But this fantasy world, Appadurai cautions,...
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Readings in African Popular Fiction

Stephanie Newell - Literary Collections - 2002 - 220 pages
...ethnography innst now expand to find ways of nnderstanding the social reahty ot iinagination: '1antasy is now a social practice; it enters, in a host of ways, into the fabrication of social hves' (Appadnrai, 1991: 198). The concept ot iinagination as oothned by Appadnrai is helpfnl in gaining...
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Migration, Religion und Raum: ghanaische Kirchen in Accra, Kumasi und ...

Regina Jach - Ghana - 2005 - 402 pages
...in Deutschland, Europa oder den USA spielt die Konstruktion dieser Figur eine Rolle.18 „That is, fantasy is now a social practice; it enters, in a...of social lives for many people in many societies" (Appadurai 1991: 198). Mit der Figur des Burgers, die jene des (kolonialzeitlichen) ,Been To' ablöst,...
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Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment

Maiken Umbach, Bernd-Rüdiger Hüppauf - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...their lives through the prisms of possible lives offered by the mass media in all their forms. That is, fantasy is now a social practice; it enters, in a...fabrication of social lives for many people in many societies.29 The historically specif1c ways in which these enchanted secondary worlds have intersected...
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Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community

Daniel Robert DeChaine - Political Science - 2005 - 200 pages
...their lives through the prisms of the possible lives offered by mass media in all their forms. That is, fantasy is now a social practice; it enters, in a...fabrication of social lives for many people in many societies.124 Appadurai isn't claiming that the world is a more cheerful place as a result of the expanded...
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