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Globalization, postmodernism, and fascism :Reflections on ideology, urban space, and the cultural politics of global capital from Colombo and Los Angeles (Sri Lanka, California).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Globalization, postmodernism, and fascism :
Reminder of title:	Reflections on ideology, urban space, and the cultural politics of global capital from Colombo and Los Angeles (Sri Lanka, California).
Author:	Goonewardena, Kanishka N. S.
Description:	389 p.
Notes:	Adviser: William W. Goldsmith.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2751.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-07A.
Subject:	Urban and Regional Planning.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9900049
ISBN:	059196953X

Globalization, postmodernism, and fascism :Reflections on ideology, urban space, and the cultural politics of global capital from Colombo and Los Angeles (Sri Lanka, California).
Goonewardena, Kanishka N. S.

Globalization, postmodernism, and fascism :Reflections on ideology, urban space, and the cultural politics of global capital from Colombo and Los Angeles (Sri Lanka, California). [electronic resource] - 389 p.

Adviser: William W. Goldsmith.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1998.

As a contribution to the critique of globalization, this dissertation takes up the exemplary cultural and political consequences of rapid capitalist development in two distinct places: Los Angeles and Colombo, Sri Lanka. Its analysis of the role played by urban space in mediating between ideology and social totality in Los Angeles--informed by the history of her urban development, "cognitive mapping" research (a la Kevin Lynch and Fredric Jameson), and a theorization, with the proposed concept "urban sensorium," of how urban space produces hegemony and aestheticizes politics--furnishes an assessment of postmodern urbanism and its discontents. In Colombo, a symptomatic reading of the Jathika Chinthanaya (National Ideology) movement's recent ascent as the leading "Sri Lankan" (Sinhala-Buddhist) opposition to globalization--to the colonization of Sri Lanka by the commodity form (ushered in by the "urban sensorium" as much as the popular media)--highlights its fascist-nationalist aspects. A juxtaposition of the latter to those of the "Ecology of Fear" (Mike Davis) in Los Angeles then points to a deep structural similarity between these two contexts: socio-cultural anomie amid radical political-economic upheaval.

ISBN: 059196953XSubjects--Topical Terms:

212416
Urban and Regional Planning.

Globalization, postmodernism, and fascism :Reflections on ideology, urban space, and the cultural politics of global capital from Colombo and Los Angeles (Sri Lanka, California).
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