Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange

Author:   Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Edition:   Fourth Edition
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Pages:   260
Publication Date:   17 May 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Now updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, 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. Throughout, the book offers a comprehensive treatment of hybridization arguments, and in discussing globalization and culture, problematizes 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.

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Author:   Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Edition:   Fourth Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781538115237


ISBN 10:   1538115239
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   17 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1 What Is Culture? Nation and Culture Culture Sprawl Disentangling Threads of Culture 2 Globalization: Consensus and Controversies Consensus Controversies Twenty-First-Century Globalization 3 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 4 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms Clash of Civilizations McDonaldization Hybridization: Rhizomes of Culture Futures 5 Globalization as Hybridization Globalization and Modernity Structural Hybridization Global Mélange Politics of Hybridity Post-hybridity? Forward Moves 6 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-hybridity Backlash Varieties of Hybridity The Anti-hybridity Backlash Hybridity and the longue durée Different Cultural Takes on Hybridity Patterns of Hybridity So What? 7 Globalization Is Braided: East-West Osmosis East-West Islam-West Easternization, Westernization, and Back Again 8 Hybrid China Silk Roads New Silk Roads Hybridity with Chinese Characteristics Globalized, Globalizing 9 Populism, Globalization, and Culture Meridians of Populism Populism and Globalization Populism and Culture 10 Global Mélange Bibliography Index About the Author

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An excellent introduction to the complex questions raised by globalization, culture, and hybridity. This book dismantles some of the dominant myths, offers the reader a clear vision of what is currently going on, and shows the author at the height of his powers. -- The Right Honourable Lord Parekh


Praise for previous editions Pieterse takes a historically deep approach, developing the perspective of global m lange or hybridization of both territorial culture and translocal culture. -- Future Survey Globalization and Culture launches a succinct attack on the 'anti-hybridity backlash' with a withering critique of its paradigmatic exemplar. -- Global Media and Communication The discourse on cultural globalization is one of the best examples of itself: it is confusingly globalized. So we urgently need this enlightened unpacking of globalization by one of the pioneers of the debate--Jan Nederveen Pieterse. -- Ulrich Beck, Institut f r Soziologie, Germany Critical, creative, and committed, Jan Nederveen Pieterse's Globalization and Culture is a work of highly impressive scholarship and rich imagination. Historically informed and theoretically wide-ranging, this is a reader-friendly must read for all interested in this immensely topical subject. The author's deep personal engagement with the notion of hybridization makes a substantial contribution to the literature. -- Anthony D. King, State University of New York, Binghamton Cultural change is all too frequently either overlooked entirely in discussions of globalization or dismissed with glib and misleading generalities about homogenization or clashing civilizations. Jan Nederveen Pieterse offers a perspective that is more complex, truer to the ever-shifting realities of twenty first-century life, and far more interesting. With this book, he establishes himself as a world-class thinker about the world. -- Walter Truett Anderson, president, World Academy of Art and Science Globalization and Culture is a significant contribution to a debate that is interdisciplinary, heated, and concerned with contemporary issues. Globalization produces cultural interaction, new permutations, and new differences which Nederveen Pieterse persuasively defends as part of the hybridization thesis. Whether one agrees with him or not (and I do), this book is essential reading for those who want an intelligent and lively guide to the debate about the effects of globalization on culture. -- Keith Griffin, University of California, Riverside Globalization and Culture: Global M lange has been an excellent book for usage in my interdisciplinary, introductory culture and politics course. Cultural Studies is an emerging field and it is difficult to find books that ground students in the fundamental principles and precepts of the 'discipline'. This book like no other achieves this goal. The book is interesting, written in an accessible style for undergraduates and especially targets the relationship between globalization and culture in ways that I have found in no other book. I highly recommend this book for both the international relations and the cultural studies classrooms. -- Rita Kiki Edozie, Michigan State University


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

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