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13.2: The Five "Scapes" of Globalization

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As we have already established, globalization refers to the increasing pace and scope of interconnections crisscrossing the globe. Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has discussed this in terms of five specific “scapes” or flows: ethnoscapes, technoscapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, and mediascapes. Thinking of globalization in terms of the people, things, and ideas that flow across national boundaries is a productive framework for understanding the shifting social landscapes in which contemporary people are often embedded in their daily lives. Questions about where people migrate, their reasons for migration, the pace at which they travel, the ways their lives change as a result of their travels, and how their original communities change can all be addressed within this framework. Questions about goods and ideas that travel without the accompaniment of human agents can also be answered using Appadurai’s notion of scapes.

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Ethnoscape refers to the flow of people

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Bio:(1949-)Indian-American socio-cultural anthropologist. Arjun Appadurai was born in India and received his doctorate in 1976 from the University of Chicago, after which he continued to teach at the American universities of Yale, Chicago, and Pennsylvania, New School of Social Research, and New York.

He and his wife, the historian, and anthropologist Carol Breckenridge, in 1988 founded the academic journal Public Culture, which is still being published. Appadurai is the founder of several institutions: Chicago Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago, the non-profit organization Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research, based in Mumbai, and co-founder and co-director of Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization. He was also a director of the Center for Cities and Globalization at Yale University.

In his first book, Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: a South Asian Case (1981), which is based on his dissertation, Appadurai presents the results of his research on a Hindu temple in India. In this research, he used a combination of ethnographic met

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Arjun Appadurai

Indian-American anthropologist (born 1949)

Arjun Appadurai FRAI (born 4 February 1949) is an Indian-American anthropologist who has been recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.^[1] In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation-states and globalization.^[2] He is the former professor of anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, Humanities Dean at the University of Chicago, director of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at The New School, and professor of education and human development studies at New York University's Steinhardt School.^[3]^[4] He is currently professor emeritus of the Media, Culture, and Communication Department in the Steinhardt School.^[5]^[6]

Some of his notable works include Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule