Theorist

Arjun Appadurai

1949–present Sociocultural anthropology / globalisation studies

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Migration Sign Exchange

Details

Nationality: Indian-American

Classifications

Holder: Communal intergenerational
Source of authority: ObservationReason
Subject: Human centred
Political position: Subaltern resistant
Mode of transmission: Text drawing
Knowledge type: Propositional
Epistemic cluster: Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] Indian-American anthropologist of globalisation. In Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996) he theorises the global cultural economy as a set of disjunctive, overlapping flows he calls 'scapes' — ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes and ideoscapes — and gives the imagination a central, collective and constitutive role in social life rather than treating it as mere fantasy or escape.

Connections

associated with Diasporic Publics
proposed Ethnoscape
proposed Mediascape
proposed Technoscape
proposed Financescape
proposed Ideoscape
articulates Ethnoscape

Sources

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Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Arjun Appadurai." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/arjun-appadurai/. Accessed July 17, 2026.