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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.

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Author:   Professor Pnina Werbner ,  Tariq Modood
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Edition:   Reprinted edition
Volume:   Vol. 2
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 13.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9781856494243

ISBN 10:   1856494241
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9781783601615
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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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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Pnina Werbner is professor emerita in social anthropology at Keele University. She is an urban anthropologist who has studied Muslim South Asians in Britain and Pakistan and, more recently, the women’s movement and the Manual Workers Union in Botswana.

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