Globalization and Culture: Global Melange / Edition 3

by Jan Nederveen Pieterse Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology

Overview

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as well as the idea that globalization leads to cultural homogenization. Instead, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global mélange culture through processes of cultural mixing or hybridization. From this perspective on globalization, conflict may be mitigated and identity preserved, albeit transformed. In a new chapter on China, the author focuses on the key issue of agency and power in hybridization, which is important in emerging economies generally, with China a particularly momentous case. Here he draws a key distinction between passive and active forms of globalization (globalized and globalizing) and hybridity (being hybridized and hybridizing). Throughout, the book offers a comprehensive treatment of hybridization arguments, and, in discussing globalization and culture, unbundles the meaning of culture. This historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the increasing spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442222557
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/01/2015
Series:	Globalization Series
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jan Nederveen Pieterseis Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second and Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1.  Globalization: Consensus and Controversies
Consensus
Controversies
Twenty-First-Century Globalization

2.  Globalization and Human Integration: We Are All Migrants
Globalization as a Deep Historical Process
Utopian Visions: Human Unity as a Theme
Uneven Globalization
We Are All Migrants: Migration and Human Integration

3.  Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms
Clash of Civilizations
McDonaldization
Hybridization: Rhizomes of Culture
Futures

4.  Globalization as Hybridization
Globalizations Plural
Globalization and Modernity
Structural Hybridization
Global Mélange
Theorizing Hybridity
Politics of Hybridity
Post-hybridity?
Forward Moves

5.  Hybridity, So What? The Anti-hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition
Varieties of Hybridity
The Anti-hybridity Backlash
Hybridity and the longue durée
Boundary Fetishism and Life and Death
Different Cultural Takes on Hybridity
Patterns of Hybridity
So What?

6.  Globalization Is Braided: East-West 'smosis
East -West
Islam-West
Easternization, Westernization, and Back Again

7.  Hybrid China
Silk Roads
New Silk Roads
Hybridity with Chinese Characteristics
Globalized, Globalizing

8. Global Mélange

Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Globalization and Culture: Global Melange discusses issues of race which are often overlooked in wider-ranging surveys of globalization and its possibilities, offering a more complex analysis that should be considered key to any political studies course. Cultural challenges involved in blending perspectives, worldviews and political structures are too often tagged onto the end of a political survey: here, it's at the forefront, offering an argument that cultural mixing is resulting in a global melange culture and considering common arguments surrounding hybridization. The result is a 'must' for any considering political and social global issues.

Midwest Book Review