Globalization and Culture - Global Melange

Informationen zum Autor Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California! Santa Barbara. Klappentext Now fully revised and updated! this seminal text asks if there is cultural life after the 'clash of civilizations' and global McDonaldization. Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that what is taking place is a global culture of hybridization. In a new chapter! the author explores East-West hybridities_the idea that globalization is a process of braiding rather than simply a diffusion from developed to developing countries. His historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Globalization: Consensus and Controversies Chapter 2: Globalization and Human Integration: We Are All Migrants Chapter 3: Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms Chapter 4: Globalization as Hybridization Chapter 5: Hybridity! So What? The Anti-hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition Chapter 6: Globalization is Braided: East-West Osmosis Chapter 7: Global Melange

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Jan Nederveen Pieterse
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.03.2009
• EAN: 9780742556058
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5605-8
• Pagine: 196
• Serie: Globalization; Globalization
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva