Arjun Appadurai

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Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai (* 1949 in Bombay , India ) is an ethnologist and teaches at the New School in New York City . In his works he mainly focuses on modernity, globalization and the anthropology of the space-time relationship.

Life

Appadurai attended St. Xavier's High School and Elphinstone College in Bombay before emigrating to the United States . He received his BA from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1970 . He received his MA from the University of Chicago in 1973 and his Ph.D. He then taught at the University of Chicago, Yale University and finally moved to the New School. He also held numerous teaching positions at other universities in the USA, Europe ( Paris ), Latin America and India. In 1997 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

One of his most important scientific theories is his pragmatic approach to cultural globalization. He divides processes of globalization into the following dimensions: “Ethnoscape”, “Technoscape”, “Financescape”, “Mediascape” and “Ideoscape”. The individual scapes are disjoint , follow their own rules and constraints, are fluid and have to be viewed in detail in order to understand the complexity of the modern world.

Fonts (selection)

  • Democracy fatigue . Translated from the English by Bettina Engels. In: Heinrich Geiselberger (Ed.): The great regression. An international debate about the intellectual situation of the time . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-07291-2 , pp. 17-35.
  • Banking on words. The failure of language in the age of derivative finance . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 2016, ISBN 978-0-226-31863-9
  • Fear of small numbers. An essay on the geography of anger . Duke University Press, Durham 2006, ISBN 978-0-822-33863-5 .
    • In German translation: Die Geographie des Zorns . Translated from the English by Bettina Engels, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12541-0 .
  • Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. 1996, ISBN 0-8166-2792-4 .
  • Worship and conflict under colonial rule. A South Indian case . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1981, ISBN 0-5212-3122-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arjun Appadurai: Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy, in: Theory, Culture and Society 7 (1990), 295-310. ( Online )
personal data
SURNAME Appadurai, Arjun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay , India