Arjun Appadurai

Aspiration is the bridge between culture and development.

Technologies reshape the human capacity to imagine community.

In a world of flows, identity is fluid and multiple.

The ethics of the future demand we cultivate diverse imaginaries.

Commodities exchange meanings as they travel.

Globalization is a story of uneven development and cultural contestation.

Locality persists as a structure amid global disjunctures.

The imagination is the site of agency in the global order.

Anthropology must theorize the production of cultural futures.

Violence emerges from the anxiety of majorities facing minorities.

Cultural flows challenge the sovereignty of the nation-state.

Things are not just objects; they are actors in social dramas.

Development requires nurturing the capacity to aspire.

Media landscapes enable new forms of collective dreaming.

Global capital creates landscapes of inequality.

The future is a cultural fact, shaped by ethical choices.

Anthropology reveals the hidden scripts of globalization.

Imagination is the battleground of cultural politics.

Objects' biographies uncover the textures of history.

In globalization, culture is both resource and battleground.