Debating Cultural Hybridity [[electronic resource] ] : Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism

• Autore: Werbner Pnina
• Pubblicazione: London, : Zed Books, 2015
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetto topico: Anti-racism -- Europe -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Europe -- Congresses; Multiculturalism -- Europe -- Congresses; Racism -- Political aspects -- Europe -- Congresses; Multiculturalism - Political aspects - Europe; Racism - Political aspects - Europe; Anti-racism - Europe; Ethnicity - Europe; Communication and culture - Europe; Cultural fusion; Sociology & Social History; Social Sciences; Social Change
• Altri autori: ModoodTariq
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; critique influence change; More Critical Praise for Debating Cultural Hybridity; About the Editors; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the critique influence change edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; 1: Introduction: The Dialectics of Cultural Hybridity; The Power of Cultural Hybridity; Intentional Hybridities; Cyborg Politics; The Politics of Hybridity: Cosmopolitans and Transnationals; The Power to Name: Hybridity versus Essentialism; Mimesis, Crossover and Creativity ; Conclusion: The Process of Hybridity ; Notes; References ; Part One: Hybridity, Globalisation and the Practice of Cultural Complexity2: From Complex Culture to Cultural Complexity; Introduction ; Culture as a Complex Whole; Criticism of the Complex Whole ; Prerequisites for a Modified Concept of Culture; Culture as the Ability to take Meaningful Intersubjective Action; Conclusion; Notes ; References; 3: The Making and Unmaking of Strangers; Disemdedding Into Setting Afloat; Dimensions of the Present Uncertainty; The Twisting Road to Shared Humanity ; References; 4: Identity and Difference in a Globalised World ; Subjects of Action in a Planetary SocietyBecoming Individuals; The Multiple Self and Responsibility; Social Movements as Messages in a Globalized World; References; 5: Global Crises, the Struggle for Cultural Identity and Intellectual Porkbarrelling: Cosmopolitans versus Locals, Ethnics and Nationals in an Era of De-Hegemonisation; Introduction; Hybridisation and the Culture of Global Elite Formation; The Logics of Identity and Identification; Global Classes and the Ideology of Hybridity; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6: 'The Enigma of Arrival': Hybridity and Authenticity in the Global Space ; References7: Adorno at Womad: South Asian Crossovers and the Limits of Hybridity-Talk; Womad; Popular Culture; Hybridity-Talk; Technology and Hybridity; Musical Alliances; Notes; References; Part Two: Essentialism versus Hybridity: Negotiating Difference; 8: Is It So Difficult to be an Anti-Racist?; What is Racism?; Is Racism on the Increase?; Universalism and Differentialism; The Sources of Contemporary Racism and Affirmative Action; Racism and Integration; Notes; References; 9: 'Difference', Cultural Racism and Anti-Racism; A New Racism?; Anti-Racisms and Asian Identities ; The Complexities of RacismThe Rise of Cultural Racism; Indirect Discrimination; A More Plural Anti-Racism; References; 10: Constructions of Whiteness in European and American Anti-Racism; Introduction; The Creation of a White 'Racial' Identity; Anti-Racism and the Reification of Whiteness; Challenges and Reaffirmations of Anti-Racist Orthodoxy within 'White Studies'; Conclusions: Engaging Whiteness; Notes; References; 11: Ethnicity, Gender Relations and Multiculturalism; Racist Discourse, Ethnic Projects and Cultural Resources; Woman and Culture; Multiculturalism ; Feminism, Multiculturalism and Identity Politics
• Sommario/riassunto: A classic collection on the fluid nature of culture and identity from some of the world's greatest post-colonial thinkers.
• Titolo autorizzato: Debating Cultural Hybridity
• ISBN: 1-78360-188-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813259303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critique. Influence. Change