...Richard Terdiman Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Globalization and Cultural Studies: Conceptualization, Convergence, and Complication Richard Terdiman To many people, globalization means the ubiquitous impo- counts, from the voyages of Europeans...

... of a social un- Richard Terdiman has called “our current confusion over conscious.” “Not only do these global foreigners remain globalization” provides an apt way of introducing the articles largely unacknowledged in global media, national economies, in this issue, which all reject simple definitions...

... University at St. Louis. She is the author of Pro- Richard Terdiman teaches in the Departments of Literature vincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siecle and the History of Consciousness at the University of Cali- Hamburg (Cornell, 2002). She is currently working on German fornia...