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Book SynopsisNow updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, this seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as well as the idea that globalization leads to cultural homogenization. Instead, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global mélange culture through processes of cultural mixing or hybridization. From this perspective on globalization, conflict may be mitigated and identity preserved, albeit transformed. In a new chapter on China, the author focuses on the key issue of agency and power in hybridization. Throughout, the book offers a comprehensive treatment of hybridization arguments, and in discussing globalization and culture, problematizes the meaning of culture. This historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the increasing spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding.
Trade ReviewAn excellent introduction to the complex questions raised by globalization, culture, and hybridity. This book dismantles some of the dominant myths, offers the reader a clear vision of what is currently going on, and shows the author at the height of his powers. -- The Right Honourable Lord Parekh, Member of the House of Lords
In our politically challenging times, the new and extended edition of this classic book represents a powerful antidote against apologists of national cultures. Drawing on extensive theoretical and empirical research, Jan Nederveen Pieterse develops a relational conception of culture as a dynamic and continuing work in progress that cannot be circumscribed by national borders. -- Sérgio Costa, Freie Universität Berlin
Table of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1 What Is Culture? Nation and Culture Culture Sprawl Disentangling Threads of Culture 2 Globalization: Consensus and Controversies Consensus Controversies Twenty-First-Century Globalization 3 Globalization and Human Integration: We Are All Migrants Globalization as a Deep Historical Process Utopian Visions: Human Unity as a Theme Uneven Globalization We Are All Migrants: Migration and Human Integration 4 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms Clash of Civilizations McDonaldization Hybridization: Rhizomes of Culture Futures 5 Globalization as Hybridization Globalization and Modernity Structural Hybridization Global Mélange Politics of Hybridity Post-hybridity? Forward Moves 6 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-hybridity Backlash Varieties of Hybridity The Anti-hybridity Backlash Hybridity and the longue durée Different Cultural Takes on Hybridity Patterns of Hybridity So What? 7 Globalization Is Braided: East-West Osmosis East-West Islam-West Easternization, Westernization, and Back Again 8 Hybrid China Silk Roads New Silk Roads Hybridity with Chinese Characteristics Globalized, Globalizing 9 Populism, Globalization, and Culture Meridians of Populism Populism and Globalization Populism and Culture 10 Global Mélange Bibliography Index About the Author
