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As we have noted in Chapter 2, the contemporary period is often viewed as marked by a ‘cultural turn’. Meanings, language, identity, and the proliferation of media are all seen as crucial issues that mark our postmodern, global condition. This cultural turn is signalled by Marxist Fredric Jameson’s (2000) claim that today even the economic has become cultural. Clearly, cultural questions are central and pressing in discussions of globalization: as Tomlinson (1999: 1) argues, ‘Globalization lies at the heart of modern culture; cultural practices lie at the heart of globalization’.
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el-Ojeili, C., Hayden, P. (2006). Cultural Globalization. In: Critical Theories of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626454_5
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