Consumption is good for thinking -- Mexico : cultural globalization in a disintegrating city -- Urban cultural policies in Latin America -- Narrating the multicultural -- Identities as a multimedia spectacle -- Latin America and Europe as suburbs of Hollywood -- From the public to the private : the "Americanization" of spectators -- Multicultural policies and integration via the market -- Negotiation of identity in popular classes? -- How civil society speaks today
Summary
The best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens--and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-182) and index
