Southern California and the World

by Eric J. Heikkila (Editor), Rafael Pizarro (Editor)

Overview

As underscored by the emergence of the Los Angeles school of contemporary urban studies, the Southern California experience—its popular culture, politics, economics, spatial structure, ethnic diversity, technologies, and lifestyles—has an impact and relevance well beyond it own immediate geographic setting. This book explores the parallel and interlinked constructions of identities, imaginations, and activities in and between Southern California and the world beyond. In particular, the volume shows how the local and global are interfused with one another, making it evident that the connections involve more than a process of globalization.

Approaching the subject from three perspectives, the volume considers how the Southern Californian way of life—as reflected through entertainment, politics, legal institutions, technology, cultural trends—influences the lifestyles of other parts of the world; how Southern California, as a primary repository of peoples and cultures from throughout the world, absorbs and transforms this living diaspora of foreign cultures into something that is uniquely Southern Californian; and how Southern California functions as a major nexus within a global network of linked activities and the special roles of Southern California within the context of these global networks. The book provides a panoramic and stimulating perspective on the multiplexed connectivities between global phenomena and the Southern California experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275971120
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/2002
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1580L (what's this?)

About the Author

ERIC J. HEIKKILA is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning, and Development.

RAFAEL PIZARRO is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Eric Heikkila and Rafael Pizarro
Southern California as a Nexus to the World
Globalization, Digitalization, and Hollywood by Michael Clough
The Wolf at the Door: Hollywood and the Film Market in China by Stanley Rosen
Making the Most of Southern California's Global Engagement by Gregory F. Treverton
Southern California as a Microcosm of the World
Religious Dimensions of the Immigrant Experience in Southern California by Donald E. Miller, John Miller, and Grace Dyrness
The Third World in Los Angeles; A Metaphor Within a Metaphor by Tridib Banerjee and Niraj Verma
Southern California's Projection into the World
Global Networks, Civil Society, and the Transformation of the Urban Core in Quanzhou, China by Michael Leaf and Daniel Abramson
Exporting the Dream: Hollywood Cinema and Latin American Suburbia by Rafael
Orange County, Java: Hybridity, Social Darwinism, and an Imagined West by Robert Cowherd and Eric Heikkila