Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : tracking the global/local / Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake -- The global in the local / Arif Dirlik -- Localism, globalism, and cultural identity / Mike Featherstone -- A borderless world? From colonialism to transnationalism and the decline of the nation-state / Masao Miyoshi -- Real virtuality / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Phobic spaces and liminal panics : independent transnational film genre / Hamid Naficy -- From the imperial family to the transnational imaginary : media spectatorship in the age of globalization / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam -- Flirting with the foreign : interracial sex in Japan's "international" age / Karen Kelsky -- Desiring the involuntary : machinic assemblage and transnationalism in Deleuze and Robocop 2 / Jonathan L. Beller -- In whose interest? Transnational capital and the production of multiculturalism in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell -- Globalism's localisms / Dana Polan -- The oceanic feeling and the regional imaginary / Christopher L. Connery -- Goodbye Paradise : global/localism in the American Pacific / Rob Wilson -- The case of the emergent cultural criticism columns in Taiwan's newspaper literary supplements : global/local dialectics in contemporary Taiwanese public culture / Ping-hui Liao -- South Korea as social space / Fredric Jameson interviewed by Paik Nak-chung -- Afterword : "global/local" memory and thought / Paul A. Bove.