Debating cultural hybridity : multi-cultural identities and the politics of anti-racism
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Debating cultural hybridity : multi-cultural identities and the politics of anti-racism
（Postcolonial encounters）
Zed Books, 1997
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Based on a European workshop convened in Dec. 1994, at Holly Royde Conference Center, Univ. of Manchester
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The aim of this volume is to shed some light on the essentially hybrid nature, the complexity and the flexibility of "culture" and identity, their potential openness as well as their closures. Starting from the reality that postmodern personal identities are multicultural identities, it tries to define the limits of cultural hybridity. Why is it so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? The contributors, UK and European social scientists and anthropologists, deconstruct established approaches and disclose why anti-racism and multiculturalism are hard roads to travel.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Dialectics Of Cultural Hybridity
Pnina Werbner
Part One: Hybridity, Globalisation and the Practice of Cultural Complexity
1. From Complex Culture To Cultural Complexity
Hans-Rudolf Wicker
2. The Making And Unmaking Of Strangers
Zygmunt Bauman
3. Identity And Difference In A Globalized World
Alberto Melucci
4. Global Crises, The Struggle For Cultural Identity And Intellectual Porkbarrelling
Jonathan Friedman
5. 'The Enigma Of Arrival': Hybridity And Authenticity In The Global Space
Peter Van Der Veer
6. Adorno At Womad: South Asian Crossovers And The Limits Of Hybridity-Talk
John Hutnyk
Part Two : Essentialism versus Hybridity: Negotiating Difference
7. Is It So Diffcult To Be An Anti-Racist?
Michel Wieviorka
8. 'Difference', Cultural Racism And Anti-Racism
Tariq Modood
9. Constructions Of Whiteness In European And American Anti?Racism
Alastair Bonnett
10. Ethnicity, Gender Relations And Multiculturalism
Nira Yuval-Davis
13. Dominant And Demotic Discourses Of Culture:
Their Relevance To Multi-Ethnic Alliances
Gerd Baumann
14. Essentialising Essentialism, Essentialising Silence: Ambivalence And Multiplicity In The Constructions Of Racism And Ethnicity
Pnina Werbner
Part Three: Mapping Hybridity
15. Tracing Hybridity In Theory
Nikos Papastergiadis
Notes On The Contributors
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