Between the Global and the Local There are Regions, Culture Areas and National States: A Review Article
Author(s)
Evans, Grant
Abstract
The meteoric rise of ‘globalisation’ studies has perhaps made his scope seem timid, and post-modernism made his analysis of culture seem passe. Regional analysis has been bypassed by the ‘global’ or outflanked by the ‘local’, and culture — we are told — is always ‘hybrid’. In his Revised Edition Wolters faces the challenge calmly, and maintains his focus on Southeast Asia as a region and as a culture area. There are good reasons for doing so too. In this review article of Edition Wolters, the author discusses globalisation’s social aspects.
