Escaping the Global Village

This is a fine read. The analysis is comparative in the best sense—combining detailed and subtly nuanced accounts of particular 'national' stories with an overview of how the question of minority language issues is now changed, in the broader context of the new European mediascape. The book offers a sophisticated account of the contradictory effects of globalisation in the sphere of culture. In doing so it also illuminates the ways in which social movements have been able, in some instances, to take good advantage of the changing 'political opportunity structure' created by the relative decline in the regulatory powers of the nation-state. -- David Morley, Goldsmiths College, London University
Even those concerned with minority television in other regions-or other languages-will find this a very useful study. * Catholic Biblical Quarterly *
Hourigan's attempt to fuse elements from competing paradigms is both interesting and useful. * Sociology *
For all the recent hype on the role of media, social movements, language, and national and minority identities in contemporary society, works explicitly integrating all these different dimensions are still in short supply. Escaping the Global Village nicely contributes to filling this gap. It will be widely read—and well received—by social scientists across a range of disciplinary fields. -- Mario Diani, University of Trento; European Editor of Mobilization