Against hybridity : social impasses in a globalizing world /

One 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 hybridit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hazan, Haim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Massachusetts : Polity Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Zones and Discourses of Cultural Sturdiness
  • Terms of Hybridity : (Non-)hybridization and (Anti-)globalization
  • Becoming a Non-hybrid : The Very Old and the Deadly Others
  • Impasses of Hybridity : From Liquidity to Quiddity
  • Conclusion: Bringing the Extra-Cultural Back In.