During, "Space"

During, Simon. “Space.” Cultural Studies: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2005. 81-106.

• Consider During's overview of globalization in the chapter on "Space." Is Disney a global culture?
  
• During comments that, in one sense, "globalisation needs to be regarded as the outcome of a history of Western expansionism" (83). How do you understand Disney's relationship to globalisation in this sense?
  
• "Technological factors in the process of globalisation include the development of new communications technologies, especially the Internet..." (85).
  
• Consider During's comments on the more negative sense of "vernacular globalism" (87) as a "dislocat[ing]" force tending to the "Americanisation of the world." How do you understand Disney's relationship to these facets of globalisation? To the spectre of "global uniformity" under capitalism?
  
• Consider the way During speaks of "nation" in this chapter. In what ways might we think of Disney as a nation? Disney culture as a national culture? Disney subjects as patriotic? What about the way Disney represents other cultures?
• As above, Anderson's concept of "imagined communties"-- religion, like nation, an "ideological formation based on the organised imagination" (99).Balibar on nationalism (100)? Disney and tourism, the "tourist gaze" (101)?