Introduction

• Autores: Arjun Appadurai
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 3, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The future of higher education), págs. 637-638
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The following papers, by Ahmed Bawa and John Douglass, on South Africa and China respectively, offer cross-sectional looks at two important and rapidly changing societies that enter the twenty-first century with radically different histories, politics, and cultural profiles. It is thus neither easy nor necessarily appropriate to treat them as especially useful for a narrow comparison. Nonetheless, it is clear that both national societies and governments face similar challenges posed by the rapid globalization of the last few decades of the twentieth century.