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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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.