Globalization and culture : global mélange / Jan Nederveen Pieterse.

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Nederveen Pieterse, Jan

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TextSeries: GlobalizationPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009.Description: 181 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780742556065

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Contents:

Ch. 1. Globalization: consensus and controversies -- Ch. 2. Globalization and human integration: we are all migrants -- Ch. 3. Globalization and culture: three paradigms -- Ch. 4. Globalization as hybridization -- Ch. 5. Hybridity, so what? The anti-hybridity backlash and the riddles of recognition -- Ch. 6. Globalization is braided: east-west osmosis.

Summary: It wonders if there is a cultural life after the "clash of civilizations" and global McDonaldization arguing that what is taking place is a global culture of hybridization and then that process is one of braiding rather than simply a diffusion from developed to developing countries.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ch. 1. Globalization: consensus and controversies --
Ch. 2. Globalization and human integration: we are all migrants --
Ch. 3. Globalization and culture: three paradigms --
Ch. 4. Globalization as hybridization --
Ch. 5. Hybridity, so what? The anti-hybridity backlash and the riddles of recognition --
Ch. 6. Globalization is braided: east-west osmosis.

It wonders if there is a cultural life after the "clash of civilizations" and global McDonaldization arguing that what is taking place is a global culture of hybridization and then that process is one of braiding rather than simply a diffusion from developed to developing countries.

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