Introductory: Tracking the Global/Local / Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake -- The Global in the Local /Arif Dirlik -- Localism, Globalism, and Cultural Identity / Mike Featherstone -- A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State / Masao Miyoshi -- Real Virtuality / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Phobic Spaces and Liminal Panics: Independent Transnational Film Genre / Hamid Naficy -- From the Imperial Family to the Transnational Imaginary: Media Spectatorship in the Age of Globalization / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam --Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial Sex in Japan's "International" Age / Karen Kelsky -- Desiring the Involuntary: Machinic Assemblage and Transnationalism in Deleuze and Robocop 2 / Jonathan L. Beller -- In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell -- Globalism's Localisms / Dana Polan.

The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional Imaginary /Christopher L. Connery -- Goodbye Paradise: Global/Localism in the American Pacific / Rob Wilson -- The Case of the Emergent Cultural Criticism Columns in Taiwan's Newspaper Literary Supplements: Global/Local Dialectics in Contemporary Taiwanese Public Culture /Ping-hui Liao -- South Korea as Social Space / Fredric Jameson and Paik Nak-chung -- Afterword: "Global/Local" Memory and Thought / Paul A. Bove.