{"product_id":"against-hybridity-9780745690698","title":"Against Hybridity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price for this celebration of hybridity: the non-hybrid figures in our societies are ignored, rejected, silenced or exterminated. This book tells the story of these non-hybrid figures Ð the anti-heroes of our pop culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe main example of non-hybrids in an otherwise hybridized world is that of deep old age. Hazan shows how we fervently distance ourselves from old age by grading and sequencing it into stages such as the third age', the fourth age' and so on. Aging bodies are manipulated through anti-aging techniques until it is no longer possible to do it anymore, at which point they become un-transformable and non-marketable objects and hence commercially and socially invisible or masked. Other examples are used to \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening new vistas, blazing new trails, drawing out from invisibility the forcibly fixed - that other, murky side of the glittering world of self-defining and self-asserting, as well as self-congratulating, hybrids: the collateral victims of the universal duty of market-inspired, market-promoted and market-mediated self-creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intellectual tour de force. Hazan describes how postmodernity esteems hybridization, networking and assimilation, but at the expense of irreducible, irreconcilable and pure forms of life. He brings an ethnographer's eye to our contemporary aversion towards, and discounting of, essential objects such as the savage, the old and autistic, pain and the Holocaust. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNigel Rapport, University of St Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Zones and Discourses of Cultural Sturdiness 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Terms of Hybridity: (Non-)Hybridization and (Anti-)Globalization 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Becoming a Non-hybrid: The Very Old as Deadly Others 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Impasses of Hybridity: From Liquidity to Quiddity 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Bringing the Extra-Cultural Back In 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 165\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404431696215,"sku":"9780745690698","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745690698.jpg?v=1730486442","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/against-hybridity-9780745690698","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}