Real Love : In Pursuit of Cultural Justice

ISBN-13: 9780415187589 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 262 str.

Andrew Ross;Andrew Ross

Opis

In a world increasingly beset by ethnocultural conflicts, the pursuit of cultural rights has taken on new urgency. Claims for cultural justice affect economic distribution as much as they address demands for recognition from marginalized groups. It is this vital connection between economic life and cultural expression that Andrew Ross explores in this text. From the consequences of cyberspace for work and play to the uses and abuses of genetics in the O.J. trial, from world scarcity to world music, Ross interrogates the cultural forms through which economic forces take their daily toll upon our communities and environment.

In a world increasingly beset by ethnocultural conflicts, the pursuit of cultural rights has taken on new urgency. Claims for cultural justice affect economic distribution as much as they address demands for recognition from marginalized groups. It is this vital connection between economic life and cultural expression that Andrew Ross, one of our pre-eminent social critics, explores in Real Love. Examining the effects of debates about race, technology, ecology, and the arts on social and legal change, Ross focuses in particular on how demands for certain forms of cultural justice often go hand in hand with injustices of other sorts, and shows why cultural politics are a real and inescapable part of any argument for social change.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Jobs in Cyberspace; Chapter 2 Mr. Reggae DJ, Meet the International Monetary Fund; Chapter 3 The Gangsta and the Diva; Chapter 4 The Private Parts of Justice; Chapter 5 If the Genes Fit, How Do You Acquit?; Chapter 6 The Great Un-American Numbers Game; Chapter 7 What the People Want from Art?; Chapter 8 The Lonely Hour of Scarcity; Chapter 9 Claims for Cultural Justice;

O autorze

Andrew Ross is Professor and Director of the Graduate Programme in American Studies at New York University. His book include The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life, Strange Weather, and No Respect. He has also edited several collections, the latest of which is No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers.