Arjun Appadurai uses “scapes” to capture the nature of global cultural flows. Similar to landscape, global culture is not static—it is constantly changing. What are Appadurai’s five scapes? List and describe each one.
What will be an ideal response?
The five scapes are ethnoscapes—the flow of people for migration, recreational travel, business, and to give assistance as part of NGOs or governmental organization, or for any other reason; mediascapes—produced by mass and social media, the influence how people view other people and understand their situations; ideoscapes—images of ideologies; technoscapes—the flows of technology, high and low tech, mechanical and informational; and financescapes—the flow of currency and stock markets and of investment into and out of countries.
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