Globalization

• Bruner and Kirschenblatt-Gimblett
• Mayers Ranch "imperialist nostalgia"
• Bomas performances "aim to preserve and exhibit"
• Out of Africa Sundance party "Hollywood!"

• Chungking mansions - low end globalization
• Traders from SSA Africa, Bhutan, Yemen
• Harvey's "time space compression"

• Hk freest economy in world
• free borders
• benign law enforcement
• = non violence in the pursuit of profit
• neoliberalism as the creator of global peace

• 16 channels broadcasting around the world
• retrenches cultural difference
• "reterritorialization of culture" individuals reinserted into own society

• different scapes have different embodiments
• social globalization not an isomorphic process but has multiple trajectories

• Tai Pau in Shatin region of HK
• Village represents "traditional" and HK - modernity, cosmopolitanism, capitalism

• people always been travelling, cultures fluctuating
• challenged notion of the bounded, homogeneous village
• argues RS between modernity and tradition is not oppositional but symbiotic

• discusses trope setting in anthro - problem with equating village life with traditional
• village fieldwork seen as natural for ethnographic inquiry e.g. Malinowski

• Japanese style stores at mall despite historic relations
• desire for Japanese goods/lifestyles (like Pokemon)

• different religions
• language - young people spoke English and moved through borders
• opposition to cell phones but selective

open to global influences, growing connections of HK into China

• multi-sited ethnography requires understanding of how local and global proccess embedded into larger systems
• world as a network of relations

• Hallyu - Korean flows especially in media, tech, economic flows
• Korean largest minority group in Japan

• 1997
• Resident Koreans part of soc but do not have same rights 
• citizenship not on birth but bio descendence

• helped foster positive relations
• 2005 Friendship Year
• Cultural understanding
• Increased travel

• Winter Sonata 
• hegemonic gender reflections
• inverting Japanese hierarchies
• reimagining of gender in advertising

• areas that present, visually highlight and represent Koreans in Japan
• Koreatown, markets, theme parks

• that the shorter the spatial distance between two cultures, the greater the cultural proximity
• HK as a hub through which Pokemon passes through China, other Asian countries, West
• double capacity
• HK dimension  of Western values from colonialism

capitalist and Western values and similar social imaginations - cuteness

• Japan as a more immediate and realizable resource of modernity
• affordable appliances and electronics

for parachuted foreign cultural product to succeed it must be domesticated and culturally compatible

• not just on TV - games, books
• advertising
• Local commerical booster
• teaching material

• Peterson
• struggles, negotiations, challenges that elite men and women face in attempts to materialise specific tastes, visions, ways of being

• "cultural brokers between East and West, global and local, cultural and modern"
• "balance between fully Egyptian and fully modern"

modern through education and conventional consumption "style"

• anxieties in retaining values of culture and ethics
• appropriate and cultivated behavior
• modernity as a constructionof style
• Preacher Amir Khaled - Western dress and theological conservatism

• try to construct regional idenity
• locally created often carry religious moral lessions - Arab/Islamic identity
• - little interest to children of upper class
• "foreign" books too expensive

• renounces the right of the State to War
• rejects concept on militarism
• International culture of peace

• 1999 Hague Appeal for Peace
• example for all countries to follow

• Liberal Democratic Party
• drafted by American - irony
• "normal" country needs to militarised
• but people are largely for it

• save article 9 grassroots groups
• 2008 - 7,000
• dispersed globally

• cultures of peace necesary conditions of a just global society
• war = injustices

• represents Japan's recognitions of pre-war militarism
• and colonialism
• promise not to allow it again
• abolishing could be threat

• presumed dying out, "vanishing" 
• languages, intermarrying
• Hilger "salvage anthropology"
• "timeless prisons"

• modern renaissance
• resurgence of languages and pride
• traditions
• however, conflict with Japans national identity

• Nibutani village - largest Ainu village
• important for Ainu mythology
• Dam development
• reveals Japan's inability and unwillingness to consider ethnic groups

• nations outside
• but have to focus on Japan's internal "others"

• Kwak'wakw'wak collaborative education project
• revitalise education for Indigenous Youth
• "We are still here"

Doxtator "indigenous ownership owing who we are"

• assert self-determination through artwork as a form of activism
• artworks as social agents
• forcibly recover FN objects - sometimes on emotional, personal level

taskforce for first peoples

• complicated geneology
• owned by lots of families
• elder sold to art dealer
• taken to court, bought back 
• but meanings/memories of these engrained 
• kept in glass box to stop arguments of who would wear it in potlatches
• sale failed to untangle dilemma of ownership