Critical Practice

I wanted to briefly engage the question of the consequences of a   global consciousness on the study of the arts, particularly the critical practice of meaningful inclusion of extra-Western European traditions. The contemporary moment is not the only one to…

— Brian Culver The touchstone passage from Jan Nederveen Pieterse’s Globalization and Culture highlights three of the reasons that the humanistic disciplines have been largely reluctant to adopt the insights of Global Studies. First, the isomorphism of place, people, and…