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The globalization of American law

Article Abstract:

American feel of global law and society is not merely due to American origins or influence, but to a similarity in the situation of the individual vis-a-vis large, modern, and deeply legal social matrices that are vaguely but inescapably 'global' and 'American'. As a result of the simultaneous oppositions and interpenetration between law and society, description of the relationship between law and a particular social phenomenon is difficult.

United States, Law, Political aspects, Sovereignty, Legal philosophy

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Modernism and contemporary art

Article Abstract:

Artists saw themselves at the forefront of revolutionary ideas, where modernism, as the cultural representation of modernity, promised to break from traditions that restricted creativity and to embrace the spirit of progress in the beginning of the 21st century. A study draws from the diverse tendencies within modernism to highlight the sources that inspired contemporary ideas of community and identity.

History, Social change, Art, Modern, Modern art, Modernism (Art), Modernism

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Hybridity and ambivalence: Places and flows in contemporary art and culture

Article Abstract:

The culture dynamics of globalization that have presented challenges to the existing models for explaining the forms of belonging and the patterns of exchange that are occurring in the world are discussed. The conceptual viability of the term hybridity in light of the new debates on creolization and globalization are re-examined.

Culture diffusion, Cultural identity

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